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"ILLEGAL
ALIEN"
Kevin Simnacher/©2011 SimRocker
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There is much discussion about
the controversial topic of "Illegals" infiltrating
the borders of our country these days, but not many
are paying attention to the "other" Illegals
that come and go with no apparent government oversight.
This song was inspired when I was driving home from
band rehearsal last April 2010 and saw a rare event.
A GREEN fireball with a brilliant colored tail of
sparks was seen traveling horizontally across the
sky at approximately the altitude of a small passenger
airplane. It seemed to be flying over the northern
part of Cedar Rapids toward the northeast when I lost
visual due to the trees and buildings.
If
you have only a small amount of information to begin
a song, where do you go from there to fill out the
other verses? Being a HUGE fan of the "Men in
Black" movies, I tied the story line in with
the juxtaposition of aliens from outer space and the
more "traditional" Illegal aliens.
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"TAKE
ME BACK"
Dave Calhoun,
Kevin Simnacher/©2011 SimRocker
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The lyric idea for this song
came on the back of a motorcycle from bandmate Dave
Calhoun's imagination on his way home from visiting
his terminally ill brother for the last time. He wrote
the words down as soon as re reached home, and the
next day, emailed it out to the bandmates to see if
anyone had an idea for the music.
I
read the words and picked up my acoustic guitar. The
words were great, and the notes came quickly for me.
I had the basic chords and melody down in a matter
of a few minutes. The rest of the band didn't see
this song as something they felt would fit in with
the genre of music a band named "Harvey Headbanger"
would play, so I vowed later to record it and release
it on my own album.
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"GYPSY
GIRL "
Kevin Simnacher/©2011 SimRocker
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Have you ever spotted a beautiful
someone in a crowd or at a party, gotten eye-contact
for a second, and then they disappear, never to be
seen again?
Well that's what this song is about.
I
also got the idea for the "Gypsy Girl" concept
from "Esmerelda" in Disney's animated version
of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".
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"TIME
TO REST MY BRAIN"
Kevin Simnacher/©2012 SimRocker
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I actually wrote this song back
when I was 19 years old. I was contemplating leaving
the "stable" life to leave to go on the
road with the rock band. I kind of wanted the girl
I was dating to help me make a decision to stay, but
the guys in the band wanted me to go out West to "audition"
with a booking agency out in Denver with no other
bookings in sight. Talk about crazy! Well, the girl
cut me loose and I took the gamble, but this song
is about what I was feeling when I was still in "limbo".
I guess I'm hoping someone out there will be able
to take this song and "plug in" their own
scenario they can relate to, whether it's enlisting
in military service or going off to college or whatever.
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"JOHNNIE"
Daniel J. Boddicker,
Kevin Simnacher/©2012 SimRocker
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The year was 1981, and inspired
by a new guitar I'd purchased, I came up with this
picking pattern and counter rhythm which I presented
to the band. Dan Boddicker, one of the lead singers
of our band at the time, immediately started writing
lyrics while the rest of us jammed on the idea I'd
come up with the night before. It fell together rather
quickly as I recall, and we had a brand-new song!
Our band at the time, "Ratler" eventually
did a demo recording of the song and we played it
hundreds of times over the course of our time together.
I always wished we'd taken the song further, so that's
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"SKY
IS FALLING"
Kevin Simnacher/©2012 SimRocker
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I came up with the idea for this
song after learning that Mark Pence's studio had a
tree crash though the roof during his production work
on my, "Illegal Alien" tune late one night.
I'll never forget going over to his studio to help
cover his equipment and console with rolls of plastic.
I recall thinking what a cool idea it would make for
a song. "Sky is Falling" became what would
become my 6th track on the album, thanks to that one
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"AIR,
FIRE, WATER"
Kevin Simnacher/©2012 SimRocker
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This song idea first came to
me while I was trying to come up with material for
the Harvey Headbanger album back in 2010. The music
and the choruses were all I had before the CD was
recorded, so I saved it for my own solo CD. It is
more fitting to be released in late 2012 as kind of
a prophetic "doomsday" or "end of the
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"TIME
MACHINE "
Kevin Simnacher/©2013 SimRocker
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Just imagine what you might be
able to accomplish if you had your very own Time Travel
Device! The possibilities are endless... |


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"WINDOW
OF OPPORTUNITY"
Kevin Simnacher/©2013 SimRocker
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Nothing is static. The universe
is in constant flux. Life is a series of windows of
opportunities. Now is the time to embrace YOUR window
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"ON
OUR WAY TO JUPITER"
Kevin Simnacher/©2013 SimRocker
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Imagine travelling at the speed
of light... or faster!
Now just imagine that by some freak of fate YOU got
enlisted in the United States SECRET SPACE PROGRAM,
and sent on a recon mission to Jupiter. |
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