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Talking with Myself (Original 8-Track Demo)

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The first Demo of this song on an 8-Track Tape Machine. I remember us programming congas on drum machines and the guys meticolously creating keyboard sounds, trying to get a somewhat 'live' feel, or a feel that moved flowingly. And of course we took almost the entire track's inspiration from Julian Jonah's song Jealousies and Lies' which i had been obsessed with and had brought to out first meeting at the studio in Brum, along with the melody and lyrics to 'Talking'. We basically re-created most of his track because we just couldn't bring ourselves to change anything of his wonderful creation. Or you could say we ripped it off. Julian was always so gracious and said he was honoured. The guys were as inspired as I was, because they had already been experimenting with dance music and my input was a welcome starting point for them to take their ideas to the next level. The same applied to me. I was thrilled about the ease with which we all just went 'yep, we're on the same page'. And thus we started...

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