TRACK BY TRACK “FOR A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS”
TOMMY HEART/ SOUL DOCTOR
Eating On Me: We thought this is the right opener for "FOR A FI$TFUL OF DOLLAR$", because nobody would expect this kind of song from SOUL DOCTOR. Drum & Bass groove oriented high class hard rock music with a powerful modern guitar arrangement and a shot of political sung statements against the real men of evil and their fog of lies. This is the first time that we make an political statement. This is a song about all the rules, the family and the government closing in on you. And you have to shut up and you do not have any room for your life and yourself. Another point is how people play along with it. They believe everything they are told. Turn it up and enjoy!
Best Way To Fade: This one is a real rocker. If you are listening to the intro, you would never expect what will follow. This song is starting with acoustic guitar, vocals, drums and blues harp. This is the second time that we asked a good friend of ours to join us on some songs with his blues harp for this album. We did it for the first time on "You´re All That I Want" from the first Soul Doctor album. This song is a leg shaker. „Best Way To Fade". A rock song a la THE WHO and AC/DC with a great intro blues harp performance by Igor Flach. Mario proves on „Best Way To Fade“ again what a kind of classy rock drummer he is. And so did Chris and Jogy , they gave me exactly everything what I wanted. This song will kick you out of every mess. If you are in the mess up to your nose and you are fed up, this song will get you out of it easily. I am sure everybody got sometimes this kind of feeling to leave everything and make a new start. When you get fed up, it is like the sky is falling on you and everything is down on you. You just become a slave to all of it. This is a song about just getting up on you feet, kicking out everything and saying "No". Than getting out to something else and somewhere else.
Here you got some good advise and do not forget to tell your friends about the best way to fade.
Under Your Skin: “Under Your Skin" a screaming statement about being a real Rock ´N Roller through and through. If you got Rock’n’Roll in your blood, this is a hell of a ride for you. You only get older and it starts that nothing works out very well anymore but than you remember your old roots in Rock `N Roll and it starts getting back under your skin. And than you take off again. A song with catchy hook lines and some incredible power which will move your body until you drop. 1A Bass and drums. It really took some time to get this one groovin’. Satisfaction guaranteed!!! Soul Doctor at its best I would say.
Remember: Here we got a beautiful ballad about breaking up some time before. Not letting yourself remember again, but it happens over and over. I really love the piano and the Hammond performance on this song. It took us a while to find the right arrangement and the right keyboard player for this one but it was worthwhile. Especially on the second verse. We cancelled the idea to start with the drums for the 2nd verse again. I think it was good to do it like this. With drums in the 2nd verse the song would be so predictable, so typical. Actually we wanted to write a different ballad as we did on the first and on the second album and I think we did it.
Where Do We Go: Everybody waits for the right time or the good time to do something or to get out of a bad situation. The song says just do it and think about the future, like where do we go from here. I nice rock song with a catchy chorus. I am sure all the Melodic Rock fans will love this one.
Ten Seconds Of Love: On Ten seconds of love we worked for the first time with a brass section. Trumpet, Trombone and Tenor Sax. These guys where unbelievable. It was so much fun to work with them. At the beginning I was a bit sceptical but as they started to play, I could feel that this is right way. I hope they can join us someday on tour. We recorded three songs with them. This song is one of my favourite because it was a first take and I love this groove. We played and there was magic in the air. We recorded three versions of the songs and kept the first one, because it was perfect. We caught some kind of 70ties groove and I am really proud about it. I am sure even Elvis Presley would love it. A great guitar solo by Chris!!! About the lyrics: You go to work, do everything everybody wants, try to make your girlfriend happy but nobody gives a damn. So at the end of it all, you beg your girlfriend for 10 seconds of love.
She's Mine: This was the first song we wrote for the new album. Chris came up with the intro idea and here we got the brass section for the second time. This is a story about a woman who gets around with all the guy and each one of them thinks she is only for him but at least I know about all the others in the song. This song is really groovy and full of little gimmicks. I think with this song we start changing a lot. Goodbye past.
The Trigger (Goin Downhill): Soul Doctor was a band who had to fight always for being excepted. After we had these problems in Soul Doctor, many jealous people started talking behind our backs. Words like: "You’re going down hill" or " You will not make it" we could here a thousand times. And this idea for the song was born. This song is about just taking the step and pulling the trigger to let everything out that has been building up in you, like frustrations and problems. But when you are a fighter, words like these keep you going. Is not it sometimes fun to go down? Again a real rocker.
Give Me A Ride (The Ride): This is a break out song. You stand at the side of the road and do not care about the direction. You hitchhike out on the first best offer. It is just to get over the next horizon and leave everything behind.
Cheap, Down 'n Dirty: Here is the last song we recorded for the album. We just used acoustic guitars, bass, drums and blues harp. First we had a guitar solo in the middle of this song but than Chris came up with the great idea to let Igor Flach play a solo with his blues harp and it sounded perfect. I think he is one of the best blues harp performer on this planet. The lyrics telling a funny story about falling in love. Love can make so you blind even if good friends of yours trying to warn you about it. This is the reason why the Choir in this verse (you better get out of her way/ you better not look in her face) trying to warn you all the time. Unbelievable, what kind of funny things we are doing if we are falling in love. Especially when it is love at first sight. An old country and western theme, you see the girl and lightning strikes but your friends warn you about her. Than it becomes too late and the warning were all right. Cheers!!!
And… if you are a real Rock maniac, listen to the album real close, then you maybe might discover something what will be only available on the next album (the fourth). Not only DVD has hidden tracks!!! Thus the album has got really a lot to offer and all that "FOR A FI$TFUL OF DOLLAR” only!!!! Doctor Soul is in!!!!!!
Hopefully we see us soon on one of our concerts. Stay hard!!!