SIDE ONE: ROCK AND ROLL STRATEGY
WHAT'S IT TO YA?
LITTLE SHEBA
COMIN' DOWN TONIGHT
MIDNIGHT MAGIC
SECOND CHANCE
SIDE TWO: HOT 'LANTA
NEVER BE LONELY
CHATTAHOCHEE
INNOCENT EYES
LOVE STRIKES
DONNIE VAN ZANT (A.K.A. THE FIRECRACKER, THE BADGER, THE BERSERK RIVERBOAT GAMBLER, THE MANIAC, THE MISCHIEVOUS GREMLIN) – VOCALS
MAX CARL (A.K.A. BILLY JACK MACK, MAXWELL, MR GROPHENAWLL, BOX CAR KIMOSABE) – VOCALS AND KEYBOARDS
JEFF CARLISI (A.K.A. TURBO “V.” THE GREASE, WAZ, JETHRO, TURBOVSKI, BODINE) – GUITARS
DANNY CHAUNCEY (A.K.A. PROTO “V” THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THE COUNT, THE PRINCE, COHONG CHONG, PROTO VEE SKI) – GUITARS
LARRY JUNSTROM (A.K.A. E.B., L. WOOD, L. ROD, L WOODY, THE FOOT) – BASS
JACK GRONDIN (A.K.A. MEGA “V” T-BOONE GRODIN, GRO-DAN, GRONDINI, “THE ANIMAL”)- DRUMS
PRODUCED ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY RODNEY MILLS
BACKGROUND VOCALS – THE”SIX GROOMERS”
HORNS – THE “NOISE GATOR” HORNS
BACKGROUND VOCALS AND PERCUSSION – ROBERT WHITE JOHNSON
VIBRA SLAP – EDDDDDDD MILLER
THANKS TO – KEVIN ELSON, BILL SIDDONS, BOBBY BROOKS, PAUL RIVERS, MARKE “JELLYROLL” BURGSTAHLER, MICHAEL BURTON, ALAMEDA ALL-STARS, PJ MARX, EDDIE HORST, SUE LUNN, MARY AND THE KIDS, “THE GATE”, LEN MCRAE, ALLEN CHESTER, B FOR THE “B” TIM AND MARTHA NORTON, DAPHNE KELLY, MIKE POWERS, BOB MACISAAC, JONI GOSNEY, JON MARETT AND EVERYONE AT SOUNDSCAPE STUDIOS, FERN?, TOM WRIGHT AND EVERYONE AT CHESHIRE, SOUND STUDIOS
NEIL GRAHAM AND EVERYONE AT THE PERCUSSION CENTER AND ALL OUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS.
SPECIAL THANKS TO MARK ROGERS FOR HAVING “NEVER LET US DOWN”
CO-ENGINEERED BY EDD MILLER (TOO WILD)
ASSISTANT MIX ENGINEER – THOM KIDD
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR – MARK ROGERS
(A.K.A. “V” GUS, THE RAT, GU, GRASSHOPPER)
MASTERED BY BOB LUDWIG AT MASTERDISK.
.38 SPECIAL IS POWERED BY PEAVEY, TAMA DRUMS, PAISTE CYMBALS, DIMARZIO AND ERNIE BALL STRINGS.
RECORDED AT SOUNDSCAPE STUDIOS, ATLANTA, GA.
MIXED AT CHESHIRE SOUND STUDIOS, ATLANTA, GA
DIRECTION: THE MARK SPECTOR CO. INC
AGENCY: ICM/TERRY RHODES
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: JOSEPH RASCOFF AND COMPANY/RZO
ART DIRECTION AND DESIGN: NORMAN MOORE
PHOTOGRAPHY: CHRIS CUFFARO
WARDROBE: JUDY B
HAIR AND MAKEUP: JUDY PONDER-PATTON
LOCATION SCOUTING: L. J.
SIDE ONE:
ROCK & ROLL STRATEGY WRITTEN BY MAX CARL AND DONNIE VAN ZANT
Men like me ‘cause I speak my mind
And women like me ‘cause I take my time
Try not to take life too serious
I might get burned
If you’ve got somethin’ to show me
I’m willing to learn
Got enough trouble just making it day to day
And when the world starts spinnin’
“N I feel like I’m going insane
Chorus:
I got a system that’s guaranteed
I got a rock “n roll strategy
It ain’t no science but it works for me
It’s just a rock “n roll strategy
Get in my car
Head downtown
Turn up the radio roll the windows down
It ain’t no science but it gets me around
It’s just a rock ‘n roll strategy
Turn it up
If you walk down the middle people criticize you for
Sitting on a fence
And if you walk on the right
Or you walk on the left
They say you’re much too radical to make any sense
Can’t win for losin’
Might as well be yourself
And when it gets so confusin’
You feel like checkin’ out
Chorus:
Can’t win for losin’
Might as well be yourself
And when it gets so confusin’
You feel like checkin’ out
I got a system that’s guaranteed
I got a rock ‘n roll strategy
It ain’t no science but it works for me
It’s just a rock ‘n roll strategy
Get in my car
Head downtown
Turn up the radio roll the windows down
It ain’t no science but it gets me around
It’s just a rock ‘n roll strategy
I got a system that’s bonafide
Works for me every time I try
It ain’t no science but it gets me by
It’s just a rock ‘n roll strategy
Turn it up
1988 Too Tall Tunes (BMI)/Rocknocker Music Company (ASCAP)
WHAT'S IT TO YA? Written by Robert W. Johnson, Michael Lunn and Donnie Van Zant
Billy’s got a fast car
You know he works it so hard, cause he
Knows it’s gonna take him real far tonight
Betty wears her short dress
Loves to be the actress
Lord, it could get reckless tonight
But then a cop pulls ‘em over to interrogate
He flashes his lights and gets it in their face
And says, “Where do you think you’re goin’?”
Chorus:
What’s it to ya
We were only takin’ in the sights
What’s it to ya
Can’t a couple of kids have fun tonight?
Johnny plays it so loud
Hangs out with the wrong crowd
Well he plans to make his guitar his life
Judy’s actin’ so sweet
But like little Miss Molly
Ya know she loves to dance and shake it all night
But when he brings her home she’s four hours late
Her parents scream it’s your last mistake
What have you been doin’?
1988 Hitlist Music Inc./WB Music Corp./Rocknocker Music Company (ASCAP)
LITTLE SHEBA
Written by Max Carl.
I took a business trip
Down to Florida
I got a room at a Holiday Inn
There was an earthquake in California
Must be the reason why this place was shakin’
Down in the barroom it was
Loaded with servicemen
That’s loaded servicemen
Elbow to elbow
I said, “ ‘Scuze me blood,
Just what is shakin’ ?”
He say, “Girls on the dance floor
Wrestling in jello”
And the joint was jammin’
From the pumpin’ by the D.J.
They were rappin’ and clappin’
When up steps Little Sheba
Chorus:
Little Sheba she’s as tough as you find
She’s the local color burnin’ like a Florida Pine
They raise the girls on gator down here
Doncha know
Little Sheba she’s the favorite one
Everybody’s got money on her 9 to 1
They raise the girls on gator down here
Doncha know
Into the ring steps worthy opponent
A nasty little vixen with a New York vibe
Before Little Sheba could say,
“Welcome to Dixie”
She’d kicked all her buttons
And punched out her headlights
And the crowd was reelin’
They were chomping and chanting
They can’t believe what they’re seein’
Didn’t look good for Little Sheba
Chorus:
Now to make a long story
Just a little bit longer
Little Sheba was humbled on that humid night
She returned from emergency
With a fistful of fractures
Our fabled femme fatale
Spoilin’ for another fightChorus:
1988 Too Tall Tunes (BMI)
COMIN' DOWN TONIGHT Written by Jeff Carlisi, Robert W. Johnson, Donnie Van Zant And Max Carl.
Girl don’t you run and hide
It’s not me you’re runnin’ from
You’ve built your walls so high
Can’t see which side you’re on
Just give your heart some rope
Let love take over, let me show ya
We’re gettin’ nowhere baby
It’s time to just let go
Chorus:
I’ll be knockin’ down your wall
It’s comin’ down tonight
I ain’t turnin’ back no more no
Stay with me baby
There’s nothin’ girl
We can’t work out in time
Well get ready
It’s comin’ down tonight, get ready
It’s comin’ down tonight
There ain’t no fortress
Gonna keep you safe tonight
You put on that red dress
And come down here lookin’ so fine
We all need a hand to hold
In celebration time is wastin’
We’re getting’ nowhere baby
It’s time to just let go
Chorus:
There’s nothin’ girl
We can’t work out in time
You better believe it
1988 Rocknocker Music Company/Hitlist Music Inc. (ASCAP)/Too Tall Tunes (BMI)
MIDNIGHT MAGIC Written by Jeff Carlisi, Cal Curtis, Robert W. Johnson, Donnie Van Zant and Mark Baker.
Out of the setting sun
You can see the red sky rising
Could she be the one
Cutting through the blue still water
I hear our voices dancing on the wind
All the words that we said would never end
As I hold you in my arms
There suddenly appears the brightest star
Well come here closer baby
Chorus:
Didn’t I tell you
Midnight magic
Would come someday, we’d sail away
If for the moment
We let our dreams take over
Midnight magic
Is waiting for us
We can sail forever in our hearts
Heaven’s not too far away
Remember Monterey
We’d sit and count the waves for hours
The ships would pass our way
In our hearts we could feel the power
I could see forever in your eyes
If you’d only let me stay tonight
Can’t you see we could have it all’
Can’t you hear the north wind call
Well come here closer baby
Chorus:
As I hold you in my arms
There suddenly appears the brightest star
Well come here closer baby
Chorus:
Didn’t I tell you, Didn’t I tell you
Oh, baby, heaven’s not too far away
1988 Rocknocker Music Company/Hitlist Music Inc. (ASCAP)/SBK Blackwood Music Inc./Cal Curtis Publishing (BMI)/Adamisa Music (PROC)
SECOND CHANCE Written by Jeff Carlisi, Cal Curtis and Max Carl.
Since you been gone
I feel my life slipping away
I look to the sky
And everything I turnin’ grey
All I made was one mistake
How much more will I have to pay
Why can’t you think it over
Why can’t you forget about the past
Chorus:
When love makes this sound babe
A heart needs a second chance
Don’t put me down babe
Can’t you see I love you
Since you been gone I’ve been in a trance
This heart needs a second chance
Don’t say it’s over I just can’t say goodbye
So this is love
Standing in the pouring rain
I fooled on you
But she never meant a thing
And I know I ain’t got no right
To ask you to sympathize
But why can’t you think it over
Why can’t you forget the past
Chorus:
I never loved her
I never needed her
She was willing and that’s all there is to say
Don’t forsake me
Please don’t leave me now
A heart needs a second chance
1988 Rocknocker Music Company/Hitlist Music Inc. (ASCAP)/SBK Blackwood Music Inc./Cal Curtis Publishing/Too Tall Tunes (BMI)
SIDE TWO:
HOT 'LANTA Written by Max Carl
I been desert hot down in Phoenix
I been smoggy hot our in L. A.
I bee high n’ dry ‘n hot in Colorado
I been charred out on the Midwest Plains
I been madhatter flattened by the heat in Manhattan
I been muggy on the Mighty Miss
I been burned like a stick on route 66
But I ain’t never been this
Chorus:
Hot ‘lanta, how come you do me this way
When you’re 99 in the noonday sun
And a hundred and one in the shade
Hot ‘lanta, I think I prefer your nights
With your cosmopolitan café women
How they do go on and on
Down in Hot ‘lanta
In a fuselage in a crowded sky
I was trying very hard not to think
But in a paranoid vision of the worst that could happen
I asked my stewardess “Just one more drink.”
The cabin temperature had me in a blur
I was shaking by the time we touched down
We hit that tarmac
Hell bent for Mary Mac’s
Back in your sizzlin’ town
1988 Too Tall Tunes (BMI)
NEVER BE LONELY
Written by Danny Chauncey and Max Carl.
Says she wants to dance real slow
Real slow
It’s getting’ late and it’s time to go
But I don’t wanna know
Feels strange to be holding on to someone new
After so long
Don’t tell me what I need to hear
Tell me what I wanna hear
And baby make me believe it
Chorus:
Say I’ll never be lonely again
I don’t need a lover tonight just a friend
I know I’m lost but maybe you found me
Tell me lies and put your arms around me
Say I’ll never be lonely again
Help me to pretend
Whisper to me it’ll be alright
And it’ll be alright
I guess it’s you ‘n me against the night
And it’s a long brutal night
‘N if I’m dragging you into my life
That’s the price of the ticket
It’s good to have you along for the ride
Now speak those words
I don’t care if you don’t mean it
Chorus:
In a world of hurt
You need someone you can bleed on
A true friend
But nothin’s ever for sure
Sometimes a friend can be
Long gone
Says she wants to dance real slow
Real slow
It’s getting’ late and it’s time to go
But just lie once more
Baby make me believe it
You know I’m lost but maybe you found me
Tell me lies and put your arms around me
Say I’ll never be lonely again
Help me to pretend
1988 Too Tall Tunes (BMI)
CHATTAHOOCHEE
Written by Robert W. Johnson, Michael Lunn and Donnie Van Zant.
I got a room where I can breathe
I got a view no one else can see
Everybody here knows just what’s right for me
Don’t have to worry, the Doctor’s always in
I’m never lonely, I’m here with all my friends
Chorus:
Who’s to say who’s crazy, It’s easy to see
All you gotta do is turn on your T.V.
All the people on the outside tryin’ to be someone else
I’m havin’ fun here just bein’ myself, in Chattahoochee
They brought me here and said, “You’re so dangerous to Yourself”
But I ain’t the one here ‘bout to blow us all to hell
Just here to have a good time, let me know how it goes
Don’t have to worry, the Doctor’s always in
I’d rather be here with all of my friends.
1988 Hitlist Music Inc./WB Music Corp./Rocknocker Music Company (ASCAP)
INNOCENT EYES Written by Danny Chauncey, Max Carl and Jeff Carlisi.
It was a coal black night
I was standing on a pier
I was thinking of a time
When you were here
We were so in love
We were blind to the world
Through the innocent eyes
Of a boy and a girl
Oh baby time goes on
But the memory won’t fade
And when I hear that old song
I can’t help thinkin’ ‘bout the love we made
Chorus:
One time I’d like to go back
To see better with not so innocent eyes
One time I’d like to do that
If I could find a way
Now that innocent eyes
One time I’d like to do that
If I could find a way
Now that innocent eyes have faded
On the night we met
We danced across the floor
From our first embrace
We were hungry for more
But baby time goes on
But the memory plays games
And when you hear that old song
Do you ever stop thinkin’ about the love we made
Chorus:
One time I’d like to go back
To see better with not so innocent eyes
One time I’d like to do that
If I could find a way
One night is all that I ask
To see better with not so innocent eyes
One night I’d like to go back
If life would play that way
Oh but innocent eyes fade
1988 Too Tall Tunes (BMI)
LOVE STRIKES Written by Jeff Carlisi, Robert W. Johnson and Donnie Van Zant.
It’s been rainin’ so hard
Been lonely so long
‘Till you reached in the dark
I never thouht you’d find me
But now I walk in the light
Wherever I go
I wanna feel the strength
Watch it unfold
Share it all with you
There’s one thing that I know, yea
Chorus:
It runs deep
When love strikes
It hits so hard, stops you dead in your tracks
It takes over from inside
When love strikes
It’s spreading like fire
My heart’s melting like ice
It’s lightning traveling on wire
Hit me straight between the eyes, yea
I wanna take it tonight
As far as it goes
I wanna feel the strength
Watch it unfold
Share it all with you
There’s one thing that I know, yea
Chorus:
You may not recover
You’ll know it’s right
When love strikes
1988 Rocknocker Music Company/Hitlist Music Inc. (ASCAP)
