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BONUS SONGS LIVE for Those Who Live It 1985 [In Concert]

by Missing Link Us

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1.
Guarded Eyes [Version # 2] [Live from Uncle Studios Van Nuys] 04:03
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2.
Christmas In Hawaii [Live from Uncle Studios Van Nuys] 02:57
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3.
Say Hello To Something New 04:00
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4.
Love Martyr 02:37
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5.
Stay Until the End of the Show 03:18
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6.
On That Day 03:35
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7.
Only You 02:40
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In nineteen eighty-five...

I'd been writing what is called metered verse since about the year nineteen seventy-six. Many notebooks of songs!

Because my mom the year after I graduated high school in nineteen eighty-two toughly had gotten a diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer, those next two years were gladly spent from me with my mom saying anything I had never realized or taken the time, to tell her, before that.

Going to college taking music classes the first year out of high school in nineteen eighty one, then she died in November of nineteen eighty-four, & I stuck my head out from what I thought had been a covered dome bubble where I did the needed duties for my mom.

Then all the way in Jan 1985 instead of otherwise would have been in 1982, I newly & freshly decided what I now wanted to do with my life, which largely revolved around that first year of college taking music courses and all that metered verse for songs that were still available for me to properly cultivate.

So the venture of getting a band began, my dad had moved out of our house and I was left with prime recording space with my Sunn PA system I had purchased from Greg at a San Fernando Valley store called Guitar Guitar.

Believe me, we recorded songs you now hear, in the, living room, the back bedroom, and the garage, making the best out of a situation of living alone in a house.

Great echo from off the walls to this day makes those recording's better I think.

I played with a neighborhood drummer named Arthur in his, garage for a while, but we had musical differences, as he was really looking for a metal guitarist and band which was not really going to be me.

So then, there was a great young drummer I had met from a cousin & word of mouth that I needed a drummer named Steve Doile, and we played Christmas In Hawaii the first times, a lost recording, but his mom somehow was not too enthused about him pursuing a rock band role and he was delegated to not be available so he could go study and focus on his collegiate academic goals. We'd listen to The Outfield during these recordings and Steve and I thought we were equally as talented and Christmas In Hawaii was so promising when we performed.

Then came the brother of a friend of the cousin in the same group of friends that turned out to be very exciting musically and very intellectual, son of a navy officer family and his brother was studying to become a medical doctor.

I was present one night in his living room with a band he already knew and they invited me to perform bass for the song Twist And Shout by The Beatles, and so I improvised the bass riff, which was a bit hard for never having played it, but very simple for needing to just learn quickly & keep playing the same notes from that famous bass riff of that song.

So drummer Greg Mennie, heard something from our playing together then and he decided to meet with me and do some more rehearsing which is the result here called, LIVE! For those Who Live It by Missing Link Us!

released January 22, 1985

Brent Alan Beck, Guitars Keyboards & Vocals, Ted Francis, Vocals & Guitars, Kenny Tennesen, Lead Guitar, Donna Wordan, Bass Guitar & Instruction, Greg Mennie, Drums & Rhythm Machine

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released November 2, 2019

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Missing Link Us Los Angeles, California

I handed a cassette to then Columbia Artist Walter Egan at The Lighthouse Cafe in Hermosa Beach, CA in 1985. Walter Egan proceeded to record & produce four song ep, receiving airplay on KROQ & college radio. A stronger vocalist was needed. Funding could not be obtained to entice the band members from pursuing other ambition in the; then; very strong business sector, where they remain to this day. ... more

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