Singled Out: The Dead Daisies' Long Way To Go

Rock supergroup The Dead Daisies released their brand new "Long Way To Go" video today and to celebrate we asked David Lowy and John Corabi to tell us about the song. The track comes from their new album "Make Some Noise" (out Aug 5th). Here are the stories:

David Lowy: I was going through my pre-gig routine on my guitar before a show about 12 months ago and this riff just came to me that reminded me of my really good friend Doc Neeson, the front man for the Australian band The Angels, who passed away about one year earlier. I grew up in Australia and The Angels had a really huge influence on me and I was fortunate enough to write, record and perform with Doc in a band called Red Phoenix.

What's really interesting about the riff is the first two bars are 4/4 and the third bar is 2/4 which gives it a really interesting feel. I played the riff to my band mates and they dug it and so did Marti Frederiksen, the producer who worked with us on our forthcoming album Make Some Noise. The band collectively sat down and worked out a song around the riff which has special significance to me and the relationship I had with Doc and also the influence that Rick and John Brewster, the two guitarists from The Angels had on me.

We completed the verse, chorus and melody before we had any lyrics. Then John Corabi and I were talking about the song and what it means to me and I just said to him "It's like all things in life, you've got a long way to go and no time to get there" and when John heard this, he took it and ran with it. John writes about things that are really relevant to the world today, if you listen to our track "With You And I" from our album "Revoluci�n" it's about the turmoil in the world and so is "Long Way To Go", it's a very meaningful track to us as the music is an ode to my friend Doc Neeson and the lyrics that John came up with are very poignant with what's going on in the world today.

John Corabi: Well, David Lowy actually came up with the title "Long Way To Go (and no time to get there)", and I think he was basically jokingly referring to our schedule of getting "Make Some Noise" finished in the allotted amount of time. I thought it was a great title, and when I sat down with Marti (Frederiksen), we just came up with a concept lyrically about the things we see in the news everyday. The "race" issues here in America, all of the things that are going on with Terrorism, and just the political landscape all over the world... So, if you listen to the lyrics it describes all of this, then says..."We've got a LONG WAY TO GO...and NO TIME to get there!!!" In other words, straighten our act together FAST!!!!!

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album right here!

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