So, I wanted to resurrect another old number, this one from the age of 19, I think it was.

I wanted to bring out the pros and recreate the sound of thunder I had with my first band, so I pulled in Scott Collingwood on the electrics because he brings the big guns, and my friend and collaborator Jon Healey from LA on Sax.

https://www.reverbnation.com/davidpsnyder/song/29692241-dead-end-road

https://soundcloud.com/david-snyder-gigs2/dead-end-road

The C in Street stands for Collingwood and Canada. Here are some guitar-worthy notes, because Scott is one awesome player.

Scott is playing four guitar parts. He is doing a clean and gritty Les Paul, with a really muscular rhythm left and right channels, and when his astonishing guitar solo comes in at the 5 minute mark (a minute and a half solo) he is playing in freakin’ stereo with himself on two separate tracks, one clean and one dirty, again, left and right. You can’t miss this moment. He blows your socks off. Then Jon comes in on sax. Whoaaah. Dudes!!! That's what I'm talking about.

Hope you have fun and enjoy the ride.

Dead End Road
By David Snyder

V1

Johnny pumps gas near an overpass
At a Union 76
He feeds his dreams to a coin machine
He’s got a toolbox full of tricks
He married his high school sweetheart
On graduation night
They made love in the parking lot
Under some neon lights
Now she works at a grocery on the boulevard
And she says
Life would be so easy Johnny
But it’s gotten
So damned hard
So damned hard

CH:

And we’ve been driving down a dead end road
Driving down a dead end road
Driving down a dead end road
Just driving down a dead end road

V2

We got little kid brother sittin’ dirty faced
By the side of the road, by the side of the road
Smokin’ cigarettes, smokin’ cigarettes
And acting real slow, acting real slow
Stealin’ quarters, just to play some foosball
All night long, down at Nicky’s pool hall
Sayin’ brother drive me to the county line
We’ll buy a sixpack of beer and we’ll feel real fine
Then we’ll go home
And mama will ask where we been
But daddy’s at work at the factory
He sleeps all day, goes to work at three
And I think she knows, I think our mama knows


CH:

That we been driving, just surviving
Making our plans, but never arriving
On our own
Cause we’re all alone
We’re all alone
On this dead end road

Words and music copyright David Snyder, ASCAP/Day of Faith Records

David Springsteen and the C-Street Band is:

David Snyder, Acoustic guitars, piano, B-3, synth, Vocals
Little Scottie Collingwood, electric guitars and guitar solo
Jon “Skinny Man” Healey, Saxophone

RealTracks in style: 1522:Bass, Electric, PopPower8s Ev 120
RealDrums in style: MetalSlowBigTomGroove: a: Toms, Snare b: Busy Big Toms, Snare



David Snyder
Songwriter/Renaissance Man
Studio + Fingers

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