“Vanity”

this song was written originally on my acoustic. our piano at home is about 125 years old and is a beautiful instrument and has been passed thru generations. it even has candleholders for the times when electricity wasn’t widespread thru Ireland. the piano hasn’t been tuned in a few years so it was tuned down two semi-tones. so then I started to tune the guitar down two semi tones and that’s why most of the songs on “Steady State” are tuned down this way. this is also a song I frequently played in clubs in LA.

anyways I started to play this song on the piano, I had all the parts written but it still sounded “empty” and because I used all my piano tricks on “7 interludes….” I then knew I wasn’t able for the task of playing the song myself.

I got onto emer, who knew of eamon, who was the keyboardist in her band. I wrote down the music and format on paper and went to his house. eamon’s about 16 years old and looks like he should be in pearl jam. he took one look at the chords, I showed him the riff, and he started to play. what he played was amazing! he is one of these people when he plays, he make it look so easy and graceful, whilst someone like me looks like he’s in pain when he plays! he is also one of these people who is like: “I think ill learn the bass guitar today” and have it mastered in a week!

we recorded the piano and I went home and put strings on it, recorded the vocals, put reverb on “max” to give the song a more “epic” feel. anyone who hears this song now cant believe how well the piano sounds. Thank you eamon for playing the piano and making my song sound like a real song!