Reply To: Cover of Tears for Fears “Mad World” Largely Based on Gary Jules Version

[peter]

A song that I didn’t double track the vocal, which always seems to result in people comparing my voice to that of John Lennon. In my working musician days, I mostly –with few exceptions — did background vocals. I never wanted to sing, nor do I have a voice good enough for lead vocals. As I started working as a drummer at 18, doing background vocals helped me get more work as drummer. While piano was my first instrument, I only worked professionally as a drummer,. I occasionally played keyboards at rehearsals or jam sessions — which I held a few times a month back in the day. I once played keyboards with a band rehearsing for a recording session at Pumpkin Studios (where Styx and REO recorded a lot of their albums), which resulted in my being asked to play keyboards with a working band someone there was a part of, but I really got the most joy out of playing drums in a band context and turned down the offer. I was a very good drummer and a very mediocre keyboardist — far below the level of my mother and sisters, who were superb pianists and organists.

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