This weekend, Friday, October 18, through Sunday, October 20, tune in to BlowUpRadio.com for Banding Together 2024, benefiting the Spondylitis Association of America.
The benefit features a weekend of live music from over 30 artists, including a stripped-down set from Brian Kelley of Ferocious Designs on Saturday (10/19) at 4 p.m. ET. With a minimum $10 donation, listeners can get an exclusive compilation download that includes the Ferocious Designs track “Don’t Lose the Groove (feat. Christian Beach).”
“The song is something I actually started writing during a high school health class in the late 1980s,” said Kelley. “I remember scribbling some of the original lyrics in a notebook.
“When Christian Beach and I were in our synth-based rap outfit, TMC + The New Generation, with Asbury Park rapper Tariq Mohammed, we wrote an industrial song in 1990 that I thought was a perfect fit for those old lyrics,” added Kelley. “I believe it was going to make its live debut at the Green Parrot in Neptune, N.J., in August 1990, but the Parrot closed forever just a few days before the show.”
But “Don’t Lose the Groove” wasn’t originally going to be the song Kelley submitted for the compilation.
“I actually planned on fixing up an old demo of a ballad I also wrote back in the 80s called ‘Evenutally (Love is the Answer),'” said Kelley. “But then I found a version of ‘Don’t Lose the Groove’ I recorded about 14 years ago — and I have been on a nostalgic industrial kick lately — so I decided to go with that one instead.”
While Mohammed was not available to record vocals in time for this latest version of “Don’t Lose the Groove,” Beach was able to provide backing vocals in the choruses and some synth loops.
“I was hoping to get the whole band back together for this, but it didn’t quite work out this time,” said Kelley. “Maybe we’ll revisit it down the road.”
Visit BlowUpRadio.com for the full Banding Together 2024 performance schedule, details about the companion compilation download and the link to donate to the Spondylitis Association of America.
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