If you've made it this far, thank you so much for listening to me ramble. The movement toward more personal, relatable, and less obtuse lyrics, combined with Cuccurullo pushing the band to be more adventurous musically in the '90s were equally important factors in gaining the band at least a smidge more credit from the closed minded ranks of rock critics. He wrote a trilogy of songs about Miles: Do You Believe in Shame (1988), Ordinary World (1992) and Out of My Mind (1995). Those deep and moving lyrics are actually about lead singer Simon Le Bon trying to reconcile the death of his childhood best friend David Miles. He frequently played with Duran Duran, both in the studio ('86-'95) and on stage (the entire '87-'88 Strange Behaviour tour).Ĥ. ![]() ![]() Those "caveman" drum fills were played by the great Steve Ferrone of the Average White Band & later Tom Petty's band (for 30 years). The huge comeback self titled 1993 album (known as "The Wedding Album") was actually recorded in the living room of Warren's London apartment.ģ. I love original Duran guitarist Andy Taylor, who was/is an underrated rock player and without whom they never would've broken in America, but Warren is a straight up virtuoso.Ģ. He had previously been Frank Zappa's guitar player (a job he got by following Frank around on tour and driving him nuts until he realized Warren knew how to play every one of his songs) before leaving Zappa's band with Terry Bozzio to form Missing Persons. While the rest of the band most likely just have good ears, Warren Cuccurullo, who came up with the chords for the song on guitar, absolutely knew the theory behind what he was doing and why. A few notes about the song, some of which reflect on points you made in the video, that I think you'll enjoy knowing:ġ. It might actually be the single most important song they ever wrote, much like One by U2, because without it, they might well have folded the tent after a rough period of uncertainty, and likely wouldn't still be around today, let alone having (rightly) finally made it into the R&R Hall of Fame. With this song, Duran Duran managed to transcend the '80s lockbox that the critics had put them in (and thrown away the key). Rick, I'm sky-high thrilled to be able to say that you've now done a video about a song by my favorite band of all time, and rounded out a 5 for 5 of my top 5 (Duran Duran, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, U2, & R.E.M.). Although he's clearly not as big a fan of Duran as other bands (he never mentioned a single member by name even when singing their praises), he literally said that "there's a lot of great Duran Duran songs". Well, I'm overjoyed to be wrong, and maybe I'm losing it and imagined his perceived slight of Duran. I was always ignored and I swear he made some comment in a video at some point that gave me the impression that he, sadly, fell in with the critic group that dismissed Duran, which made me sad because he loves every other in my "big 5" (those four being Pink Floyd, Van Halen, U2, & R.E.M.) as well as Radiohead who are probably in my "next 5"). I had asked him a few times over the years to do a What Makes This Song Great episode on either GOF, HLTW, or RIO (because all three of those songs have the official original multitrack stems floating around due to their having been used in the Guitar Hero video game, and I know Beato normally only does those in depth videos if he can isolate the various instruments and vocals). He's also an excellent interviewer that asks the kind of questions that get even the most guarded & jaded of musicians (like Sting, Billy Corgan, & Maynard of Tool) to open up, relax, and interact, and after Beato asks these good music questions, he shuts the hell up and lets the artists TALK, unlike so many controlling interviewers.Īnyway, back to his Ordinary World video. ![]() At times he can be overbearing, but more often brilliant and seemingly humble. ![]() Was just coming here to post that same video! I'm a casual Beato fan.
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