GALLERIES – EVERYTHING BRET MICHAELS
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Released: 1998
Track Listing:
Party Rock Band (featuring C.C. DeVille)
Human Zoo
The Last Breath (featuring Rikki Rockett)
I'd Die For You (featuring Randy Castillo)
Times Like These
Little Willy
The Devil Inside
A Letter From Death Row
Sounds Of Sex* (featuring The Hines Bros.)
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Angst Mary
Steel Bar Blues
Violent Endings
Album Credits:
Production Information:
All songs written and produced by Bret Michaels.
Co-produced by Jim Faraci.
* Produced by Bret Michaels and The Hines Bros.
Musicians:
Drums: Matt Green, Matt Mahaffey, Randy Castillo, Rikki Rockett
Bass: Don Kerce, Mike Mahaffey, Andra Hines
Guitar: Greg Foresman, Bret Michaels, Dez Dickerson, Mike Mahaffey, Travis Henson, Gabriel Moses, C.C. DeVille, Bart Walsh, Christy Calabro
Lead Vocals: (Guitars, Harmonica, Hand claps, Foot stomps & all Lip-induced percussion) Bret Michaels
Background Vocals: Jody Nardone, Larry O'Brien, Chris Connell, Kyle Level, Lorenzo Pryor, the almost all girl Alan Ett Choir, Teddy Bear
Piano: Jody Nardone, Lorenzo Pryor, Kyle Level
Drum Programming & Sequencing: Jim Faraci, Byron Gather, Lorenzo Pryor
© 1998 Poor Boy Records Inc
Released: 2001
Track Listing:
Every Rose Has It's Thorn story
Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Steel Bar Blues story
Steel Bar Blues
Walk Away story
Walk Away
Devil Inside story
Devil Inside
Stay With Me story
Stay With Me
Something to Believe In story
Something to Believe In
Times Like These story
Times Like These
It's Only Me Your Talking To story
It's Only Me Your Talking To
The Other Side of Me story
The Other Side of Me
The Last Breath story
The Last Breath
© 2001 Poor Boy Records
Ballads Blues and Stories - The Stories Behind The Songs
Every Rose Has Its Thorn (Michaels, Dall, DeVille, Rockett)
When I wrote the lyrics to Every Rose Has It's Thorn, it truly was about heartache and heartbreak, and there is no friend, no family member, you know, anybody, that can help you work your way through that--you have to do it yourself, and I've been able to do that fortunately through my music and through my lyrics and um, uh, I wrote this in about '86; I was in Dallas, Texas and we were as Poison out on the road struggling to become successful and I could not fly my girlfriend out at the time and, uh, we parted ways and as she started to see other people, it broke my heart and that was truly it, and that truly was every rose had its thorn.
Steel Bar Blues (Michaels)
When we recorded Steel Bar Blues, we were in Nashville, Tennessee and I truly must say this was one of the most enjoyable songs I've ever written and one of the ones I truly did live in the studio. I was down there and I'd come up with this riff and I was looking for something to put into the film, A Letter from Death Row which I was just finishing up and so I set the microphone down on the floor of the studio I said "guys, just go with me on this" and I started stomping my foot, "bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp" and you can hear my feet just stepping on the floor and just stomping and the band just all of a sudden started coming in and I had the harp and we're playing it and I'm clapping and it's live and you can hear stuff going in and stuff going out and people talking in the background, but it's what made the song unique because then we went back in and tried to rerecord it like that and it never had the feel so we just used the original demo version of the song which sounded better than anything we did after that.
Walk Away (Michaels, Level)
Walk Away, I truly must give credit to Kyle Level on this song because he came to me with this, uh, this beautiful musical piece, and this great melody for this song, Walk Away and when we were doing this song, it was one of those ones that, I truly probably would not have written a song like this, but Kyle pushed me, and when we finished it I felt it was such a beautiful song, and I went in and I produced it and I really got into the lyrics of it and it was a song then that we had made for the film, No Code of Conduct to end the movie; to give this uplifting tremendous ending to the movie and that's what Walk Away is about.
Devil Inside (Michaels)
When I wrote the Devil Inside, I took the approach of this girl who was going through a horrible domestic situation; a very violent domestic situation that she's trying to escape out of but she keeps falling back into; and I take it from the approach that I am this sort of angel or spirit that's on the outside looking down at this person and I'm trying to save them; I'm trying to help them, and I'm taking it from the perspective, when I wrote the lyrics, of what this girl must have been feeling inside; and yet the love and the hate that happens in a domestic violence situation like that.
Stay With Me (Michaels, Level)
Stay With Me is truly a unique song in the way that it's written and the way that it's structured. It's a chronological order of a girl's life; and I had did this originally for a film I had entitled and written called Stay With Me in which the movie opens up with this beautiful song and the chronological order of this girl's life bringing her up to the present day, and I wrote this with a great songwriter named Kyle Level, and we wrote this down in Nashville, Tennessee, and I feel it's really a great, great opening to a movie that one day the world will get to see.
Something To Believe In (Michaels, Dall, DeVille, Rockett)
When I wrote the lyrics to Something to Believe In it truly was the hardest lyrics I ever had to write. It was a time in my life that, uh, when Kimo passed away it was just such a devastating time and I remember being home at the Christmas break and I went upstairs into my sister Nicole's room and I just wrote these lyrics and they just poured out of me and it turned into many different things and it was my way of releasing all that pain. Rikki and Bobby and C.C. allowed me to just keep the song the way it was which I'm very thankful for and a very good friend of ours, Bruce Fairburn, who produced this song just let it the way it was. He loved it and it was beautiful and also, Bruce Fairburn had recently passed away, so this song, while doing this really, really means a lot to me.
Times Like These (Michaels)
Times Like These, to me, is truly one of the best feel-good songs there is. I mean, uh, you know, it has that feeling that if you close your eyes you're just escaping; you're going to a place where there's no more pain, no more violence, and in the silence, you can just feel everything; if you just let it all go, you can feel that inner peace that comes every once in a while that you get inside of you and everyone really grasps for, especially me, I always am looking for that inner peace someplace and that's what Times Like These is all about.
It's Me You're Talking To (Michaels)
When I wrote the lyrics to It's Me You're Talking To, that phrase says it all. In other words, it's just me you're talking to. You don't have to put on any airs, you don't have to pretend to be anybody. You can look at me, you can look me in the eyes, I can look you in the eyes and we're talking to each other we don't need to lie. It's all right there in your face and in what you say and to me, um, that's why this song is so important to write.
The Other Side of Me (Michaels, Baker, Myers)
The Other Side of Me is one of the first songs I had got to write when I was down in Nashville, and I wrote this song with two unbelievably great writers at Zomba in Nashville; I wrote this with Gary Baker and Frank Myers, and these are the guys that wrote I Swear, and I'll never forget going into Zomba Music down there and they have these real kind of cool little rooms that you can sit down and write and have guitars and keyboards in there, and Frank and Gary were down there and we just started talking and we went out and got a bite to eat and we walked back and I said, "hey, I just got this idea for a song that just (humming)" And I just stated to kind of hum this out and all of a sudden, you know, they just picked up the guitar and started playing, and we just went through the song and I put the lyrics down, and if you really listen to The Other Side of Me, I truly feel that one day this will be one of the biggest hits, especially for a country artist, I mean, for me, I just needed to record it because I thought it was great, but I truly think that one day this will be a tremendous country smash.
The Last Breath (Michaels)
The Last Breath, when I wrote this, again for the film, A Letter From Death Row, and for the soundtrack, A Letter From Death Row, I wrote this with the feeling of something you would say to somebody if this was to be your last breath; something you needed to get across to somebody if you only had so much time left, and you needed to tell somebody how you felt, and we all play games, we all sort of figure out how we're going to make someone feel, or we do this or we do that; but what you would truly say if they said you have got this much time to live, and you needed to tell somebody what you felt about them and that's what The Last Breath is about.
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Track Listing:
1. Riding Against The Wind [Video is available on iTunes]
2. Lie To Me
3. Nothing To Lose (featuring Miley Cyrus)
4. Wasted Time
5. What I Got
6. Every Rose (Country Version featuring Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down, Chris Cagle, Mark Wills)
7. Go That Far (Club Mix by Jason Miller of Godhead)
8. Driven (Rock Mix)
9. Open Road
10. Rock'n My Country
11. Nothing To Lose (Bret Only Demo)
12. I’d Die For You
Album Information:
Miley Cyrus appears courtesy of Hollywood Records.
All Songs Produced by Bret Michaels.
Co-Produced by Pete Evick.
All Songs Mixed By Pete Evick and Bret Michaels except “Nothing To Lose” and “Riding Against The Wind” Mixed by Jeff Juliano.
Nothing To Lose: Bret Michaels - Vocals; Miley Cyrus - Vocals; Pete Evick - Guitar; Chuck Fanslau - Drums; Ray Scheuring - Bass; Rob Jozwiak - Piano; Jim Villani - String Arrangement; Gary Smallwood - Acoustic Guitar; Ian Lafferty - Percusion; Drums recorded at HD studios by Billy Duncan Manassas, Virginia; Additional Vocals Recorded Henson Studios Los Angeles, California; Mixed by Jeff Juliano @Milestone Harbeson, Delaware; Additional Editing: Kevin Guitierrez
Wasted Time: Bret Michaels - Lead Vocals; Pete Evick - Guitar, Background Vocals; Chuck Fanslau - Drums; Ray Scheuring - Bass; Rob Jozwiak - Keys; Gary Smallwood - Aditional Acoustic Guitar
Riding Against The Wind: Bret Michaels - Lead Vocals; Pete Evick - Guitar, Background Vocals; Chuck Fanslau - Drums; Ray Scheuring - Bass; Rob Jozwiak - Keys; Gary Smallwood - Aditional Acoustic Guitar; Steve Frangadakis - Additional Vocals; Mixed by Jeff Julliano
Lie To Me: Bret Michaels - Lead Vocals; Pete Evick - Guitar, Background Vocals; Chuck Fanslau - Drums; Ray Scheuring - Bass; Rob Jozwiak - Keys; Heidi Wheeler - Additional Vocals
What I Got: Bret Michaels - Lead Vocals; Pete Evick - Guitar, Background Vocals; Chuck Fanslau - Drums; Ray Scheuring - Bass; Rob Jozwiak - Keys
“What I Got” Written by: Bradley Nowell/Eric Wilson/Floyd Gaugh/Lindon Roberts - Publishing for “What I Got”: Universal Music-Careers Obo Halfpint Music/Universal Music-Careers/Songs Of Universal, Inc/ Songs Of Universal Inc Obo Gasoline Alley Music/Songs Of Universal Inc Obo Lou Dog Publishing.
Products used in making this album: Beta Monkey (Drum Loops); Mc-Dsp; Presonus; Digidesign; AKG; M-Audio; Roland; Dean; Babics; Peavey
Digital Music Stores:
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/custom-built/id380180980
Rhapsody: http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/bret-michaels/album/custom-built
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Custom-Built-Explicit/dp/B003UJJEGE/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=
1278431496&sr=301-1
Released: 2000
Track Listing:
Future Ex-Wife
Hot Dang Mama
The Other Side Of Me (Michaels, Baker, Myers)
The One You Get
Like I Do, I Do
Play One For Me
Orignal Release Information:
This CD, an exclusive release from Bret Michaels Entertainment, contains unfinished demos of songs Bret wrote while living in Nashville, Tennessee. Bret also recorded these songs in Nashville, during the same time he was filming the movie A Letter From Death Row. These demos are from 1995.The songs on this CD were never intended for a commercial release. However, Michaels Entertainment Group, Inc. has released these songs for you to hear, after finding numerous bootlegs on the Internet. Bret worked with legendary producer Buddy Killen on these songs. Both were featured in a news story on a TNN Country News segment in late 1995 about the country recordings. Also in the segment was clips from the filming of the movie A Letter From Death Row.
Current Information:
This album is not currently available for sale. Two tracks, Future Ex-Wife and The One You Get are available on the album Freedom Of Sound, which is available as a CD and digitally.
Released: 2000
Track Listing:
Future Ex-Wife
Hot Dang Mama
The Other Side Of Me (Michaels, Baker, Myers)
The One You Get
Like I Do, I Do
Play One For Me
Orignal Release Information:
This CD, an exclusive release from Bret Michaels Entertainment, contains unfinished demos of songs Bret wrote while living in Nashville, Tennessee. Bret also recorded these songs in Nashville, during the same time he was filming the movie A Letter From Death Row. These demos are from 1995.The songs on this CD were never intended for a commercial release. However, Michaels Entertainment Group, Inc. has released these songs for you to hear, after finding numerous bootlegs on the Internet. Bret worked with legendary producer Buddy Killen on these songs. Both were featured in a news story on a TNN Country News segment in late 1995 about the country recordings. Also in the segment was clips from the filming of the movie A Letter From Death Row.
Current Information:
This album is not currently available for sale. Two tracks, Future Ex-Wife and The One You Get are available on the album Freedom Of Sound, which is available as a CD and digitally.
Released: 2005
Track Listing:
Rock 'N' My Country (Bret Michaels / Jeffrey Steele)
Driven (Bret Michaels)
Open Road (Bret Michaels / Jeffrey Steele)
All I Ever Neede (Bret Michaels)
New Breed of American Cowboy (Bret Michaels / Jeffrey Steele / Bob DiPiero)
Right Now, Right Here (Bret Michaels / Jeremy Rubolino)
Lookin' For A Good Time (Bret Michaels / Jeffrey Steele)
It's All Good (Bret Michaels)
Every Rose "Country Version" (Dall / DeVille / Michaels / Rockett)
Bonus Tracks:
Bittersweet
Raine (W/Edwin McCain)
Menace to Society
Walk Away
Something To Believe In
Future Ex-Wife
The One You Get
Human Zoo
Last Breath
Album Credits:
Recorded At: Dog Ear Studios, Sound Stage Studios – Nashville TN
Mixed By: Billy Decker At Sound Stage Studios - Nashville TN
Assistant to Mr. Decker: Dave Bondolini
Engineered By: Jamie LaRitz
Assistant Engineer: Kim Everett
Produced By: Bret Michaels
Co-Produced By: Jamie LaRitz
Mastered By: David Donnelly - DNA Mastering, Los Angeles CA
Vocals: Bret Michaels
Background Vocals: Jeffrey Steele, Kim Everett, Darien Keith Thompson
Additional Vocals On All I Ever Needed: Jessica Andrews, Marcel
Additional Vocals On Every Rose Has It's Thorn: Mark Wills, Chris Cagle, Brad Arnold
Additional Vocals On New Breed Of American Cowboy: Mark Wills & Captains Clay Clarkson & Dan Donovan Of The Us Army 101st Airborne
Additional Vocals On Lookin' For A Good Time: Captains Clay Clarkson & Dan Donovan Of The Us Army 101st Airborne
Drums: Jamie LaRitz, Shawn Hughes
Guitars: Bret Michaels, Jamie LaRitz
Bass: Jamie LaRitz, Eric Brittingham
Steel Guitar: Rusty Danmyer
Harmonica: Bret Michaels
Mandolin/Dobro: Jamie LaRitz
Violin: Renee Truex
Keyboards: Jamie LaRitz
Jessica Andrews Appears Courtesy of DreamWorks Nashville
Mark Wills Appears Courtesy of Smith Music Group
Brad Arnold (3 Doors Down) Appears Courtesy of Universal Records
Jeffrey Steele Appears Courtesy of Lofton Creek Records
Chris Cagle Appears Courtesy of Capitol Nashville
Marcel Appears Courtesy of Mercury Nashville
Publishing:
Bret Michaels Songs (BMI)
Jeffrey Steele: Songs of Windswept Pacific (BMI)
Bob DiPiero: Love Monkey Music/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
© 2005 B*M*B Poor Boy Records
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Track Listing:
Go That Far
Driven
Fallen
Raine
Bittersweet
Start Again
Songs Of Life
Strange Sensation
All I Ever Needed
Menace To Society
Right Now, Right Here
It's My Party
Album Information:
Produced By: Bret Michaels
Co-Produced By: Pete Evick, Jimmy McGorman, Jamie LaRitz, Cliff Calabro, Jeremy Rubolino
Engineered And Mixed By: Pete Evick, Cliff Calabro, Brett Chasen, Billy Decker, Jamie LaRitz, Dave Bondolini, Kim Everett, PJ James
Mastering: David Donnelly, DNA Mastering - Los Angeles, Ca
Musicians For Go That Far And Start Again:
Vocals And Guitar - Bret Michaels; Guitar And Background Vocals - Pete Evick; Bass Guitar - Ray Scheuring; Drums - Chuck Fanslau; Additional Vocals On Go That Far - Rachel Melnykovich; Keyboards On Start Again - Rob Jozwiak; Additional Musicians On Start Again - Gary Smallwood And Marco Gonzalez
Musicians For Fallen:
Lead Vocals - Bret Michaels; Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Backing Vocals - Jimmy McGorman; Drums - Dave Allen
Musicians For Driven And All I Ever Needed:
Lead Vocals - Bret Michaels; Drums - Jamie LaRitz, Shawn Hughes; Guitars - Bret Michaels, Jamie LaRitz; Bass - Jamie LaRitz, Eric Brittingham; Steel Guitar - Rusty Danmyer; Harmonica - Bret Michaels; Mandolin/Dobro - Jamie LaRitz; Violin - Renee Truex; Keyboards - Jamie LaRitz; Background Vocals - Jeffrey Steele, Kim Everett, Darien Keith Thompson; Additional Vocals On All I Ever Needed - Jessica Andrews, Marcel
Musicians For Bittersweet, Menace To Society, Songs Of Life, Raine, It’s My Party And Strange Sensation:
Vocals - Bret Michaels; Guitars - Cliff Calabro, Christy Calabro, Bret Michaels, Mark Castrillon; Bass - Cliff Calabro, Christy Calabro, Jeremy Rubolino; Drums - Cliff Calabro, Reynaldo Felico; Keyboards - Jeremy Rubolino; Harmonica - Bret Michaels; Backing Vocals - Cliff Calabro, Christy Calabro, Mark Castrillon, Jeremy Rubolino, Vanessa Calabro, Reynaldo Felico; Strings Arranged And Conducted By - Jeremy Rubolino; Strings Recorded By - Mark Kellen At Sound Asylum
Musicians For Right Now, Right Here:
Performed By: Bret Michaels, Jeremy Rubolino, Brett Chasen, Todd Santos
©2008 B*M*B/Poor Boy Records Inc. Vh1 Classic Records Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Released: 2003
Track Listing:
Menace To Society
Bittersweet
Raine
Forgiveness
Loaded Gun
Strange Sensation
Songs Of Life
One More Day
I Remember
The Chant
It's My Party
War Machine
Party Rock Band*
Stay With Me**
Produced By: Bret Michaels and Cliff Calabro
Co-Produced By: Jeremy Rubolino
Recorded At: Moonstar Music - Chatsworth, CA
Engineered and Mixed By: Cliff Calabro
Mastered By: David Donnelly at DNA Mastering
Vocals: Bret Michaels
Guitars: Cliff Calabro, Christy Calabro, Bret Michaels, Mark Castrillon
Bass: Cliff Calabro, Christy Calabro, Jeremy Rubolino
Drums: Cliff Calabro, Reynaldo Felico
Keyboards: Jeremy Rubolino
Harmonica: Bret Michaels
Backing Vocals: Cliff Calabro, Christy Calabro, Mark Castrillon, Jeremy Rublino, Vanessa Calabro, Reynaldo Felico
Additional Vocals on "War Machine": Vincent and Renee Castagna
Strings Arranged and Conducted By: Jeremy Rubolino
Strings Recorded By: Mark Kellen Recorded At: Sound Asylum
All songs recorded and mixed at Moon Star Studios - Los Angeles, CA
(Except Party Rock Band and Stay With Me - Mixed and Engineered by: Jim Faraci Recorded at Island Bound Studios - Nashville, TN)
* Party Rock Band - from the soundtrack/film A Letter From Death Row
** Stay With Me - from the album Ballads, Blues & Stories
Copyright Information: © 2003 Poor Boy Records
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