Hot Off The Press

Ratz Nest Studio Presents – Hot Off The Press (J. Ratzlaff/D. Webb) 12/5 Woke up from a dream where a woman was singing that phrase. I laid there till I had captured the chords & melody in my mind. Should be sung by a woman; maybe someday it will be.

Ratz Nest Studio Presents – Hot Off The Press (J. Ratzlaff/R. Raymond) 11/19 Rudy sent me some unusual lyrics when I was listening to Future Theives. This is the result.

Ratz Nest Studio Presents – Hot Off The Press (J. Ratzlaff/D. Webb) 10/27 I had the beginnings of this rolling about for years. Doug heard it and said “That’s a party song”. Indeed!

Ratz Nest Studio Presents – Hot Off The Press (J. Ratzlaff/D. Webb) 10/14 I love harmony! Whether it’s early Lennon/McCartney or Everly Brothers it’s all good. Hope we captured some of that.

Ratz Nest Studio Presents – Hot Off The Press (J. Ratzlaff/D. Webb) 10/7 Ever since I wrote ‘Big Beach Party’ with Rudy, I wanted to do another Beach Boy type of song. I had the 1st verse, Doug & I hammered out the rest.

Ratz Nest Studio Presents – Hot Off The Press (J. Ratzlaff/S. Force) 9/22 I put Stan’s 1st verse to music years ago. He finally had some more inspiration, so we were able to finish the song.

Ratz Nest Studio Presents – Hot Off The Press (J. Ratzlaff/D. Webb) 9/2 We’d drive by this café whenever we visited my sister Sheryl, and I always said I’d write a song about it. It became an epic story!

Ratz Nest Studio Presents – Hot Off The Press (J. Ratzlaff/S. Force) 8/29 It started with Stan’s line: ‘Standing on the Sea of Tranquility, surrounded by a flood of senility’ which evoked all kinds of possible interpretations. This is one of them.

Ratz Nest Studio Presents – Hot Off The Press (J. Ratzlaff/D. Webb/R. Smith) – 8/17 – Rocke contributed ‘Dime Bag Darrel’, Doug said ‘Dime Bag Darrell packing heat, wrong way down a one way street’, I said ‘crouched down in the shotgun seat’….and we were off. The first collaboration with Doug Webb after too many