Dear Friend (song)
| Dear Friend | |
|---|---|
| union | |
| publication | February 21, 2000 |
| length | 5:22 |
| Genre (s) | Rock music |
| Author (s) | John Corabi / Bruce Kulick / Bob Marlette / Jamie Hunting |
| album | The Blue Room |
Dear Friend is the title of a song by the hard rock band Union , which was released in February 2000 on the album The Blue Room . The song is dedicated to Eric Carr , the drummer of the group Kiss who died in 1991 . It was sung by Bruce Kulick , who was lead guitarist for Kiss from 1984 to 1996 and who was friends with Carr. It was only the third song on which Kulick played the lead , after I Walk Alone, which Kulick wrote and recorded for Kiss's Carnival of Souls album, and For You, which was used as a bonus track on the 1998 Japanese edition of the Union debut album took over.
Emergence
According Kulicks the producer of the album was of The Blue Room, Bob Marlette, the view that the musicians in the songwriting should write about things that they knew and they actually felt. Kulick, who was also doing two other projects in memory of Eric Carr at the time, namely a DVD about him and the music album Rockology, was pretty sure he could write a song about him, and it was him very important to do this too.
Kulick was very proud of the song, especially because it succeeded in lyrically reproducing what he wanted to express when he wrote about the loss of his friend. The fact that he had little singing experience when he wrote and recorded the song also played a role.
reception
The German magazine Rock Hard wrote in a review of the album The Blue Room about the song:
“{...} But it is not only Corabi's outstanding vocals that make" The Blue Room "a pleasure to listen to, but also the numerous details that are hidden in the ten songs on the disc. 'Dear Friend', a number that Kulick sings and dedicates to the late Kiss drummer Eric Carr, is such a moment: After a sedate beginning, the song turns over and ends in a chorus underlaid with massive grooves. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Interview with Bruce Kulick on The Pure Rock Shop , accessed November 2, 2012
- ↑ Rock Hard, Volume 154