Watch Brent and his son Adrian perform “The High Road”
‘Look over there! Isn’t that interesting?’ phase of lyric writing,
and practically forced me to write
from the heart. And I never let that
go. As a singer, he is fearless, and
again, that is from the heart. He
doesn’t care if he fails… he just
goes for it.
“As far as Todd Rundgren and
Julian Lennon, it was a question
of writing songs that sounded
like them. I got them to sound
as though they were singing on
New Jersey Stage
top of me singing like them, as if
it was one of their songs. I’ve always been a kind of chameleon.
My wife and daughter didn’t even
realize that Julian was on the song
— and he sings the 2nd verse and
the choruses. And many people
that have heard “Poor Me” can’t
find Todd, yet he’s all over it!”
Brent compares himself to Rip
Van Winkle in the album’s liner
notes — a guy who wakes up and
discovers technology has com-
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