Been quiet lately but so busy… compiling my life’s work into a folder with each song… finished, unfinished, released or unreleased compact with mp3, wav, lyrics… altogether for quick access.  Also any alternative version gets put into a separate folder.  It’s taken so much of my focus i’ve barely been able to do anything else.  But I do have some good news.

I’m going to print CD’s and vinyl of both Coup De Main and Coolerator, as well as release later this year a new album full of all the singles or one-offs that have been recorded and never made a record.  Maybe even some of the more quality demos.  They will all be for sale in physical copy, and yeah, well…. it’s about time!

Happy Easter to all, belated Passover etc.

Love, Jude

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It’s like AOC had a daughter and she became an actress.  And sure enough, she’s abhorrent.  But let’s not blame her entirely.  This is what American universities and Hollywood have been producing for years now.  Moms and Dads everywhere have been remorse to save all that money for their sons and daughters education, only to have them come home after one semester and accuse them of racism and white privilege.

Hollywood and entertainment works more covertly than universities.  They control it with innuendo.  There are no memos sent out.  You get it real fast what can be said and what can’t.  A smile, a frown, a returned call, an unreturned call… Rachel was just following the script that worked for Mark Ruffalo, Seth Rogan, Chelsea Handler and actors and musicians far too many to mention.  She probably thought she was going to get a pat on the head with a vegan treat, but she made a mistake.  She forgot it was a universal and children’s release, where you have to pretend to be all-loving, all-accepting, and you know… play the game.

If the major execs of these film and record companies switched gears politically, you’d see the rhetoric of these various entertainers change with light speed.  They are professional readers and chameleons.  They really don’t stand for the things you think they do.  They’re looking for those sweet treats…

Agree or disagree… I’ve lived here my entire adult life and have seen first-hand how it works.

Regardless, RIP to Rachel’s career for a good long while.  It was fun while it lasted!

https://soundcloud.com/jude-cole-music/dreams-like-this-demo

I came across this one today.  Having almost forgotten about it, it was written for 14 year old Lindsay Pagano.  Her record was abandoned by Warner Brothers for internal changes, and they didn’t care Paul McCartney guested on one of the tracks.  Heartbreaking really, but C’est La Vie…

I wrote this in a bedroom studio in Calabasas in 1999 while my kids were in grade school just a block away.  They were some great times days.  I’d work most of the day, then walk up and meet them after school and we’d walk back to play basketball or i’d let them ride their bikes around.  Hard to believe how young I was, thinking I was so old!

Anyway, I recorded this just as a demo.  It was done on MOTU… anyone remember that DAW?  Pretty much how I learned digital recording.  Pretty soulful too.  Gonna try to just get my life in music up online because so much of it has lived in boxes, unheard.

This track was completely rearranged for Lindsay’s version, which is up on all the streaming platforms.

Hope you all are doing well out there and hope all the winners have received their items.  Another coming soon!

PS the photo above is me as a 14 yr old in the Quad Cities of Illinois… Silvis to be exact, with some high school girl-friends Cindy Lundeen, Kelly Honn, Mindee Ruthey and Kim Dorbek in the background..  Gary, of Gary’s Music Mart is seated playing bass.  He was a good guy.
Cheers, -Jude