(back catalog) LIVING WITH ME (original demo 1999)
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This is a back catalog release.
When I hear this original 1999 version of "Living With Me" it makes me excited, I always smile and enjoy the pure fun of making this recording.
Equal parts Stones, Faces, Westerberg, and Johnny Thunders, fans of any of these artists will be rockin' to the loose swagger, chaos, and crackle found here.
This started out as a guitar 'n voice demo sung on a pocket cassette recorder at my dining table in Hollywood around 1998 or '99.
I loved the sound of my Gibson acoustic guitar when I'd be strumming in that dining room at home, and it permeated the cassette tape in a way that I couldn't recapture using a proper recording set up when I took this recording into the studio to finish it.
This is one of the very first recordings I'd done completely on my own, running all the mics and wires and engineering the board, all trial-and-error style, onto the 16 track 1/2 inch tape. I'd press record in the control room and have to run into the other room to play the drums and piano parts before the down beat of the song started!
That's me bashing away out of time on the drums and fouling up the bass lines, slammin' the keys on the old bar room piano and bending the Telecaster strings into oblivion. I tried to do my best soul-singer back up vocals too, which is a complete mess, and I loved it!
This song would go on to be recorded/released twice more...
FIRST in 2002 with the HUTCH trio on the "Turn It Around" album HERE:
joenormal.bandcamp.com/album/turn-it-around-cd
and HERE:
hutchworks.bandcamp.com/album/turn-it-around
and AGAIN in 2020 with THE ANYTOWN'RS HERE:
joenormal.bandcamp.com/album/from-anytown-in-the-usa
(This version of "LIVING WITH ME" is the original version and was recorded in 1999, and released in 2008 on the 'Hollylake & Silverwood' album by HUTCH.)
When I hear this original 1999 version of "Living With Me" it makes me excited, I always smile and enjoy the pure fun of making this recording.
Equal parts Stones, Faces, Westerberg, and Johnny Thunders, fans of any of these artists will be rockin' to the loose swagger, chaos, and crackle found here.
This started out as a guitar 'n voice demo sung on a pocket cassette recorder at my dining table in Hollywood around 1998 or '99.
I loved the sound of my Gibson acoustic guitar when I'd be strumming in that dining room at home, and it permeated the cassette tape in a way that I couldn't recapture using a proper recording set up when I took this recording into the studio to finish it.
This is one of the very first recordings I'd done completely on my own, running all the mics and wires and engineering the board, all trial-and-error style, onto the 16 track 1/2 inch tape. I'd press record in the control room and have to run into the other room to play the drums and piano parts before the down beat of the song started!
That's me bashing away out of time on the drums and fouling up the bass lines, slammin' the keys on the old bar room piano and bending the Telecaster strings into oblivion. I tried to do my best soul-singer back up vocals too, which is a complete mess, and I loved it!
This song would go on to be recorded/released twice more...
FIRST in 2002 with the HUTCH trio on the "Turn It Around" album HERE:
joenormal.bandcamp.com/album/turn-it-around-cd
and HERE:
hutchworks.bandcamp.com/album/turn-it-around
and AGAIN in 2020 with THE ANYTOWN'RS HERE:
joenormal.bandcamp.com/album/from-anytown-in-the-usa
(This version of "LIVING WITH ME" is the original version and was recorded in 1999, and released in 2008 on the 'Hollylake & Silverwood' album by HUTCH.)
lyrics
What’cha trying to prove now,
Well I can’t move out
Got nowhere to stay
I can’t call on my friends now
Cause they’re all out of town
When life gets this way
You keep on pushing, and I can’t take it,
Why can’t you love me just the way I am?
Living with me is such a drag,
Since I found out
That living with you is driving me mad,
Yeah, let’s work it out.
So I go to the schoolyard
Where nothing peculiar
Can get in my way.
A place with no surprises,
Well that’s how I like it
When I’m running away.
You’re wanna change me
And I can’t take it,
Why can’t you love me
For who I am?
Living with me is such a drag,
Since I found out
That living with you is driving me mad,
Let’s work it out
Living with me is such a drag,
Since I found out
That living with you is driving me mad,
Ohhh work it now!
Guitar solo
Living with me is such a drag,
Since I found out
That living with you is driving me
C’mon, let’s work it out
I said now living with me is such a drag,
Well how ‘bout living with you?
Because now living with you is driving me mad,
Oh, let’s work it out.
I’m gonna give a little bit,
Said if I could get a little bit.
Yeah.
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
Well I can’t move out
Got nowhere to stay
I can’t call on my friends now
Cause they’re all out of town
When life gets this way
You keep on pushing, and I can’t take it,
Why can’t you love me just the way I am?
Living with me is such a drag,
Since I found out
That living with you is driving me mad,
Yeah, let’s work it out.
So I go to the schoolyard
Where nothing peculiar
Can get in my way.
A place with no surprises,
Well that’s how I like it
When I’m running away.
You’re wanna change me
And I can’t take it,
Why can’t you love me
For who I am?
Living with me is such a drag,
Since I found out
That living with you is driving me mad,
Let’s work it out
Living with me is such a drag,
Since I found out
That living with you is driving me mad,
Ohhh work it now!
Guitar solo
Living with me is such a drag,
Since I found out
That living with you is driving me
C’mon, let’s work it out
I said now living with me is such a drag,
Well how ‘bout living with you?
Because now living with you is driving me mad,
Oh, let’s work it out.
I’m gonna give a little bit,
Said if I could get a little bit.
Yeah.
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
credits
released April 5, 2024
Written, Produced, Performed by Joe Normal 'HUTCH' Hutchinson
Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Piano, Percussion
Home recording June St, Hollywood, CA
Overdubs and Mixed at Remo Music Studio, Silverlake, CA
original photo by Carol Sheridan
Written, Produced, Performed by Joe Normal 'HUTCH' Hutchinson
Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Piano, Percussion
Home recording June St, Hollywood, CA
Overdubs and Mixed at Remo Music Studio, Silverlake, CA
original photo by Carol Sheridan
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Joe Normal® is a founding member of 80's Sunset Strip glam-
pop legends The Zeros. He's a co-writer on Sammy Hagar’s “Not 4 Sale” LP, and even recorded with punk icon Stiv Bators.
Compared to Cleaners From Venus, Paul Westerberg, and Jesse Malin, Joe Normal is an "Authentic underground storyteller with a Glam Rock heart." -Aquarian (NJ)
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