Several people have requested that I remix something from the Crazy Nights album and at least one suggested this song. I thought it would be a good one to do since there is an official video for it.
I decided to have a little fun and rather than do a straight remix, I decided to play around with the arrangement a bit. I've added a bass intro and a chorus breakdown after the solo. I also added a build up to a hard ending instead of the fade. I took Bruce's "fade out" solo and instead joined it with his main solo to extend it using a half-time drum beat under the main part. I also made quite a few changes to the drum parts to accent the vocal grooves a bit more. I'm not sure if Eric was on this or if Paul used a drum machine, but I'd like to think Eric would have put a lot more fills in instead of the fairly straight-ahead patterns used on the album. I added a bit of grit (not much, just a bit for "color") to the bass guitar and blended the original guitars with tracks that were run through an amp modeler for more of a mid-range tone since they are a bit bright on the album. Per usual, the drums were re-sampled using the album track for the main "body" with cymbals, snare and kick enhanced using custom samples. The fills were also all replaced using toms from Dynasty.
I also left keyboards out completely. I didn't feel like they were really necessary and only made the main riff sound even more like JBJ's "She Don't Know Me" than it already does *wink* (a lot of "Panama" in that pre-chorus bridge as well). I also changed up the guitar rhythm parts in the verses to make them a little less RATT-like and a more straight-forward.
Although I was a much bigger makeup-era fan, I did follow the band all the way up to the Reunion-era and do like some of the mid-late '80s material. This is a good, catchy pop song and the video is pretty much a time-capsule of the MTV "hair-metal" era at its peak.
Speaking of the video, since this remix was quite a bit longer than the original video version, I borrowed a lot of the "Crazy, Crazy Nights" video to fill in the rest of the song (upscaled from the 480p version I grabbed from iTunes). Together, these videos give a great overview of that tour and stage show. I also moved shots around to match Eric's drumming better.
If you guys like the sound of this, I could always do a version with the original arrangement. I know some fans hate changes to the original material, but like I always say these are done by a huge fan as a creative outlet and not for the purists among us.
You can download the HD video or audio files here...
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Enjoy!
