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Hot 1989 [Featuring Lead Vocal of Ted Francis]

by Missing Link Us

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Until We're Home [Ted Francis Vocal] 04:30
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Say Hello [Ted Francis Vocal] 03:38
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So Hard [Ted Francis Vocal] 04:31
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Ask For [Ted Francis Vocal] 02:54
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Irish Girl [Ted Francis Vocal] 02:54
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Our Generation [Ted Francis Vocal] 02:54
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I Looked Away [The Catholic Quest] 02:54
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Inside [The Catholic Quest] 02:54
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Secret [The Catholic Quest] 02:54
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Someone [The Catholic Quest] 02:54
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Replay [The Catholic Quest] 02:54
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Have We No Shame [Ted Francis] 02:54
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Red Lights Green Lights [Ted Francis] 02:54
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"My Tears Will Never Die"

In nineteen eighty-six Ted Francis joined the singing duties in Missing Link Us. He had brought along his nineteen eighty-six tapes from his own local Cleveland Flats band, The Catholic Quest with a total of two fantastic songs, I Looked Away, and, Inside. The Catholic Quest from Cleveland was the other band that Ted Francis sang lead vocal with.

In nineteen eighty-eight...

Ted Francis was then invited back to Cleveland his home town where a local music industry gathering including Little Steven Van Zandt, MTV Executives, Bob Guccione Jr., among other Rock & Roll Professionals was planned. It was then decided also that The Catholic Quest will record a CD of four new songs, in likely succession to the Missing Link Us four song CD, Since, recorded about a year previous. I traveled to Cleveland, staying in Ted's attic.

While in Cleveland Jimi Jamison of the rock band Survivor personally approached me after hearing my song Say Hello To Something New, saying to me he liked what I was doing in my songs. Such as, long lead guitar solo's etc, that at the time, especially because there was no Grunge resurgence yet toward nineteen sixties styled festivals and jam band music were not commonly being recorded or done.

The four songs were completed in a Cleveland music studio and were shopped by Ted Francis & Jimmy Stokes to the major labels, listened to by major labels and issued official label stamped refusal letters. The gasoline in the perpetual motion machine was running out quickly.

After the major label refusals, arguments ensued about whether or not the band buying new recording gear paid for from their full time construction careers, will be what the The Catholic Quest needs to succeed professionally? I said it was the structure & arrangements of some of the songs that was preventing the band from getting signed to any major labels, sending them other new songs. Simultaneously, a few songs of mine, Be What You've Got To Be, That Man Acts Like A Spoiled Little Boy, Two Wills, which I committed those songs to having lyrics with anti-Cheavanistic attitude, were hated by everyone I played them for, bands, friends, everyone, because of the song's content, they hated the words. The Quest agreed with everyone about my Liberal non-chivalrous musings & conveniently told me they misplaced the songwriting tapes I had given to them, whilst I started to lose friends and did my best version of Rodney Dangerfield's, "It looks good on you though." The Catholic Quest were not interested in my songs after that time, and were offended by the unbrotherly non-chivalrous subject matter within them. The songs were general but I had x-husbands, band members, close friends, act like I wrote those songs about them, specifically? Additionally, I had also made fun of what was then called, "male bonding" the "masturbative Hollywood Buzz Word of the Week," which I hadn't fell for. So if I didn't sing songs about "loving thy brother then I must of been vile" and all people I encountered musically played this to the hilt. I felt like "JoJo Dancer dialing friends for a Saturday Wingding!" The final fact of this rejection is when I left a friend's new condominium in the middle of when they put on the television satire show, Married With Children. I would not watch that show with them and that reflected everything.


I forever, never again saw friend's I had for decades, which were also affiliated to Brian Slagel & Metal Blade Records.

So after The Catholic Quest refused these songs and all other interaction with me, that was when the words, "Brent Alan Beck - Live Solo," started being seen on recording's and at shows, such as at The Central, The Natural Fudge Company, The Music Machine, etc.

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released July 29, 1988

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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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