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