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HEART ON FIRE

from INSANE - Strip Tease by Eloha

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The first verse is sung by Travis, then I come in for the rest of the tune. My voice wasn't yet formed and mature. It was a challenge for me to sing it then. I didn't know about transposing the music to a different key which could have made it easier for me to sing...I wrote that at age 15. I still think it had something about it... The drums are almost ridiculously complex as the song progresses. I lead on the bass a few times. Overkill but a very catchy song. I played it in the car on our way to a business meeting, for ex-Kiss manager Bill Aucoin. The man who is responsible for the Village People and Billy Idol. He flipped and told me that THAT was a hit! He could hear it... He almost began to manage me but he couldn't believe we had fired our band and left them behind in Montreal. We had one of the largest shows in Canada at the time and we had a full functioning band. Maybe not perfect but we could get our message across. He said It must have taken a great deal of courage to do this, or we were completely nuts... I think the second statement was right. It was a very bad strategic mistake which cost me my dream at the time... At least I got to party at Kevin Dubrow's house; I got to meet Bill Aucoin and Paul Stanley; Watched Bill Aucoin smoke crack, then search for crumbs in the carpet of the hotel; Had Paul Stanley if I was "spontaneous" if I came to a special party he was having... Dated some starlets; Dated some better girls; Saw Warrant get signed out of the L.A. clubs and become the laughingstock of all hair bands. Saw them destroy the music scene; saw Guns N Roses in clubs before they exploded; fucked some porn stars; fucked Dave Lee Roth's girlfriend; impressed Blackie Lawless; picked up a movie producer gal; was almost shot; saw Vinnie Vincent Invasion's last show together and auditioned on bass for Vinnie Vincent; Saw Kimo the night before he died; did some crank with a hot redhead I picked up at a pool bar; met Jennifer Batten when she was still in school at GIT; Saw Michael Jackson's last show of his BAD Tour; partied with Black N Blue's singer when he was teaching Gene Simmons how to drive; Fell in love with another drifter from Amarillo Texas; ditched a limo after some partying movie execs ran out of their stash of coke; Partied with Motley Crue at the Rainbow; Discovered Janes Addiction when they just got signed and heard the acetate of the album before its release; Shook hands with Rambo/Rocky; Asked Schwartzenegger how to pronounce his name; (It's schwartzen-egger not Schwartze-negger...);Went on tour with Aerosmith in New Mexico, then Tucson and Phoenix Arizona; drove through the desert and saw some of the most beautiful country in America...

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from INSANE - Strip Tease, released January 6, 1987
Produced by: Chriss Lee (Eloha)
Engineered by Rene Beaudry
Recorded at Studio Jacasson, Montreal. 1987
Additional engineers: Jean-Jacques Bourdeau, Eric Tourangeau
Mastered by: Disques SNB
Distribution: Urantia
Cover design & Concept: Chriss Lee
Cover Photography: Sternfeld-Kirsch
Ministere des Loisirs, Chasse et Peche, Quebec

INSANE:
Chriss Lee (Eloha): Bass, vocals
Richie Brazz: Guitars, Backing vocals
Mark Dyer: Guitars, Backing vocals
Ross Gabriel: Drums, vocals
Travis Mitchell: Lead Vocals

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Eloha Toronto, Ontario

Canadian singer and founder of Montreal heavy metal sensation INSANE (1985-'89), Montreal bloody gothic hard rock vampire stalkers TALAMASCA (1993-'99), Toronto diamond hard rockers
THE SEVENATE (2005-'13), then went solo after a move to Paris with
ELOHA & THE VELVETTES (2013-'14) and finally founded diamond rock aliens of
ELEV8 (2017- present)...
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