Riding Around Nowhere from Dimension Ten E.P.
These pages I am issuing are my “rough draft.”
We have about another 800 or 900 tracks to go through for
consideration on Spotify and the 23 stores. 250 uploaded so far.
Probably more as I go through the reel-to-reels and cassettes.
Riding Around Nowhere Time: 4:06
Producer Joe Viglione
Band: Jeff Hill drums, Todd Carnes bass Francis “Fudge” Keegan guitar
https://youtu.be/HeFtQlVc93U?list=OLAK5uy_lcLRyw3J9VYOw-kgE4t7-wmdwk8DjPxc4
Bruce Alger guest on keys (I played them live)
Edits by Kenny Selcer
Pretty sure Joe Cuneo on engineering
I like the lyrics quite a bit. They are below.
This was the final music with bassist Todd Carnes and guitarist Fudge Keegan.
They both, regrettably, passed away, as have guitarist Eric Brown and
bassist Ted Rodden from the previous band.
Jeff Hill and I are still here, Jeff playing April 8, 2023 at the CNOTE
with Larry Newman, Lady Carolyn, Kenne Highland, Dalia Davis…
Jeff and I also recording in April/May 2022 out in Westboro.
We would go on to play in 1984 with Chris Sanzo on guitar and Jeff Ayres
on bass, Alive 1984 the re-discovered album I just posted on YouTube and
Spotify. Jeff and I then worked with New Generation out of Newton and
opened two shows for Pat Travers. There were 40 years in between or so
until now with me uploading this vast repertoire of sound.
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We had worked with Jimmy Miller on the Intuition Element album
(I, of course, worked with Jimmy beyond the band for some years
with lots of recording at Normandy, etc.) Jimmy did some great
tracks for Johnny Barnes, Gary Shane, the band Gear, Exact
(on the Massachusetts Metal LP,) singing background on Mace
(Rocking to the Top, tune by Gary Hoey,) Riddler, the Present
and more. The Miller album “deluxe” version will be on Spotify,
many of the tracks already there.
With the tracks up the albums will start appearing
Secret Little Tangents in Violet “e” Motions (titled by the record label I’m a Star)
Love and Flame deluxe
Love and Flame featuring Lady Carolyn
The Intuition Element (1983)
Dimension Ten (ep, 1984)
Alive 1984
New Changes (1985)
Love Songs Just for You (1985)
Secret Things (1986)
Life’s Work (best of) 2005
Fetches and Sketches (Demos 2022, 2023)
Revisionist History Retrospective (2024)
On the Amtrak train one year to speak at the Intercollegiate
Broadcasting System’s college radio event (must have spoke
at these for at least 24 years) I filmed the ride and set to the
soundtrack RIDING AROUND NOWHERE. The film was to
debut at the Regent Theater but the owner forgot to open the
doors. Me and Steven Paul Perry and others were there
at the time I remember. We got a raincheck but I never took
the theater up on the offer. Maybe we’ll screen the Salt Water
Summers 2024 there, who knows?
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Riding Around Nowhere
Here I am again/ wandering back from the who knows when
the red light I find disturbing, my heart wants to fly through the galaxy
the blue light comes in phases / we indulge in all those strangers
Riding around nowhere
here there I disappear
riding around nowhere
without a
out a care
Can you feel the flash inside
and all the emotion you tried to hide?
the red light fades to blue
memories when I’m not with you
OK, I was on my author John Rechy kick, he who wrote
City of Night. Jim Morrison leaned heavily on Rechy’s
material for L.A. Woman, the song. Too funny as the book
is about homosexual cruising and L.A. being the woman kinda
sorta.
Now I am hardly a cruiser…ha ha….living vicariously through
Rechy’s writings or the Al Pacino film Cruising (to me it is a
rather sad and creepy world) but I did dip into the world (as an
observer only, thank you very much) with people who shall
remain nameless as they were into it. A dangerous game,
indeed, for many reasons. But the line “we indulge in all
those strangers” is definitely about that.
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So last evening I uploaded the unfinished basement tape.
You can hear me making up “placeholder” lyrics, which I
do all the time. Y’know, Paul McCartney’s “Scrambled Eggs”
turning into “Yesterday”
Riding Around Nowhere (Special Version Unfinished Demo)
https://youtu.be/uPK9HSR54Tw
It is unique to hear the words I pull out of thin air while writing
this song, and then the finished version that I am very happy with.
So why put up the unfinished demo?
Because Todd, Jeff and Fudge were such a great band.
Jimmy Miller called Francis Keegan (Fudge) in the upper
third of guitarists he worked with. “The lower part of the
upper third,” Jimmy said with a smile, “You understand!)
That’s Clapton, Dave Mason, Denny Laine, Keith Richards,
Parliament Funkadelic, unique league indeed.
That’s what makes the music, and this story, so important.
FROM: THE UNIQUE SONGWRITING OF JOE VIGLIONE
Compositions and Copyrights | JoeViglione.com
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Compositions and Copyrights | JoeViglione.com
Riding Around Nowhere (Special Version Unfinished Demo)
https://youtu.be/uPK9HSR54Tw
Riding Around Nowhere (Special Version Unfinished Demo)
Joe Viglione / Varulven Records
https://www.discogs.com/Count-Viglione-Band-Cat-In-The-Dark/release/10050092
1.GO ONE
2)Dreams in Reverse
3)Hide Inside Your Dreams
4)Two Spaces to You
5)Cat in the Dark
The Night Will Be Insane from New Rose Anthology Eric Brown Guitar, Jeff Hill Drums Teddy Rodden bass Joe Viglione vocals – a rearrangement of Love and Flame’s Tonight Will Be Insane
Song of the Day #2 Sept 5, 2023 THE NIGHT WILL BE INSANE, a rearrangement of the Love and Flame song TONIGHT WILL BE INSANE, CVB Band 1982.. .
https://youtu.be/xDmnqwrfgRM?list=TLPQMDQwOTIwMjN21-xSqgHN-A Eric Brown on guitar, Joe Viglione on vocals, Jeff Hill on drums, Teddy Rodden on bass… from the CAT IN THE DARK sessions and New Rose Records compilation New Rose 17
https://www.discogs.com/release/1235323-Various-New-Rose-Records along with the Outcasts, Johnny Thunders, Willie Loco Alexander and others. Compositions and Copyrights | JoeViglione.com
Lyrics, Joe Viglione (ASCAP)
Var Music Publishing, BMICo-writer Eric Brown
https://youtu.be/xDmnqwrfgRM?list=TLPQMDQwOTIwMjN21-xSqgHN-A
I got a funny feeling, something about today
Not in your words, not in the things you say
I got a funny feeling what it’s dealing has got me at bay
Perhaps an hour or so the night is going to be insane
tonight will be insane
tonight will be insane
tonight will be insanet
onight will be in jane
tonight will be insane
Crrrrumbling columns falling one by one
IF THERE’S a way into your heart then surely I will run
once again my soul is under such a strain
an hour or so the night is gonna be insane
tonight will be insane
tonight will be insane
tonight will be insane
tonight will be in jane
tonight will be insane
are you distraught?
disembodied?
I’m
I’m
totally
INSAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNE
INSAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNE
tonight will be
insane
tonight will be insane
tonight will be insane
tonight will be in SANE
tonight will be insane
from the French release on New Rose Records NEW CHANGES
YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO
Joe Viglione Song Catalog Song of the Day #1 : You Know What To Do https://youtu.be/XTQTws1Y2TI This song I wrote on the spot in the studio in 1985, Euphoria Sound in Revere. It isn’t about anyone in particular, it was just spontaneous to add to the French album and have some fun with the band doing something like the Stones or James Brown would, live in the studio. The tape ran out, so I did a monologue and started it up again from the start and did new lyrics and faded out. 3 minutes 40 seconds Var Music Publishing BMI, Joe Viglione ASCAP (Copyright C 1985)
When you left without a word / I was wonderin’ what occurred?
When You Left Without a Clue / I was wonderin’ what to do
You called me within the night / we took it up and we took to flight
Flying solo is no go / I’ve been wandering to and fro
I got something to tell you
and you, you know just what to do
I got something, something to tell you
And you, you know what to do
(1:34 the tape runs out, so I do a monologue)
“Oh, let me guess, in your confusion today you took a wrong turn to this exit and ended up here? Right? Oh,you’ve lost my telephone number and you’ve been real busy? Oh – you wanted to see me tonight? Really? Well, where’s your little tramp?” (Tape rolls again at 2:01)
Oh I’m strung out over you
but you know what to do
Oh I need to know right now
Say we are someway somehow
Oh I’m stranded once again
Round in circles from the who knows when?
Waiting on the edge of my life
waiting waiting.,…once again
but I got something something to tell you
now you know what to do
something something i got something i got something to tell you
yeah yeah yeah (fade)
Liner Notes on Discogs https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/1798870135
Interrecords has a copy, 8 of them on eBay as of 9-4-23
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Song: TONIGHT WILL BE INSANE (original version)Writer: Joe Viglione (ASCAP) Var Music Publishing BMI Varulven Records
9/6/23 Song of the Day
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Original 1979 Lyrics, Electro Acoustic Sessions, Piedmont St., Boston
Oh I got a funny feeling/something about today, hey-eyNot in your voice, Not in the things you sayBut I got a funny feeling and what it’s dealing got me at bay
Pardon me, but something chipped away at my brainYou gotta forgive me but I’m going against the grain
If I look dejected, well my soul is under such a strainin my heart I know TONIGHT IS GOING TO BE INSANE
- TONIGHT WILL BE INSANE
- TONIGHT WILL BE INSANE
- TONIGHT WILL BE, TONIGHT WILL BE
- TONIGHT WILL BE INSANE
- Crumbling columns falling one by one
- if there’s a way into your heart oh surely I will run
- oh once again all my love is dripping down the drain
- in just an hour or so I know the night will be insane
- TONIGHT WILL BE INSANE
- TONIGHT WILL BE INSANE
- TONIGHT WILL BE, TONIGHT WILL BE
- TONIGHT WILL BE INSANE
i feel distraught disembodied something like/ being caught in a bog
the morning mist may rise and clear, oh honey I’m still here I’m in a fog
since I went crazy I’ve never had so much fun
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“One of Boston’s Five Best Bands”
Playboy Magazine, 1978First album artist signed to New Rose Records,critically acclaimed with fans from around the worldposting great comments on YouTube! Legendary Count Viglione
Again You Rock on YouTube
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51 songs from Legendary Count Viglione now on Spotify
first album artist signed to Flamingo/Carrere (New
Rose Records) in 1978, Paris France where I became A & R
Signed Willie Alexander to New Rose/RCA and Johnny Thunders
of NY Dolls to New Rose/Musidisc – how I met Jimmy Miller
who introduced me to Keith Richards who introduced me to
Rob Fraboni in 1988, with Rob and I working together 35 years solid
ever since Keith made the introduction.
1978 Playboy Magazine one of Boston’s 5 Best Bands
(Fox Pass, Willie Loco, Marc Thor, Reddy Teddy, honorable
mention Thundertrain)
First local Boston artist in CREEM MAGAZINE (on a page
with the Who, with the band Boston in the same Sex Pistols
cover issue)
Again You Rock on YouTube
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Again You Rock, of the 3 demos for the Jimmy Miller sessions
(Demos produced by Joe Viglione for Jimmy before we went
in for the Miller produced The Intuition Element,)
on Danny Rybar’s advice we went to
Larry Lessard’s Active Sound in South Boston.
40 years later Mr. Lessard is my main engineer
doing incredible work last summer
on the Peter Calo rendition of my Salt Water Summers,
mastered by Rob Fraboni, of course.
These demos stood the test of time – the Minute Impression,
Million Miles a Minute and Again You Rock.
Minute Impression and Again You Rock appeared on my 4th album
for New Rose, New Changes.
Pictured in this photo (Barbara Martin photgraph?
was in Robert Barry Francos’ Ffanzeen Magazine)
Left to right Joe Viglione, Francis “Fudge” Keegan,
Rich Santapaga (replaced bv Todd Carnes from the First on this track,)
Jeff Hill on drums.
Song of the Day for Sep 7 2023
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Music and Lyrics Joe Viglione (ASCAP)
Var Music Publishing BMI
Time 2:20
I feel that rain descend
in buckets from the sky
it forms a dazzling display of want at my door
your love comes rushing back to me, just like before
I want to hold you in the morning light
we’ll watch the sunrise in love
oh, I want to rock you again
you’ve never been rocked before
I’m going to take you in my arms and
hold you so tight
take you in my arms all through the night
(amazing Fudge Keegan guitar solo)
oh, i’m going to rock you again
you’ve never been rocked before
I’m gonna hold you and squeeze you and kiss you
and love you
a display so refined
the second time around
rock you again and again
rock you again and again and againin and again
rock you again and again and again
rock you again and again and again
Again You Rock
Again You Rock
Again You Rock
Again
p.s. we may have a tape of this with
Lady Carolyn singing an earlier version called
“Again.”
#52 Performance on Spotify
The Legendary Count Viglione Catalog
Love, Oh Frustrating Love,
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Catalog Song of the day Sept. 8 2023
Joe Viglione Catalogue song of the day for Friday.
#52 Performance on Spotify
The Legendary Count Viglione Catalog out-take from Love and Flame album
Co-written by Joe Viglione (Singer, music) and Nancy L. Foster (lyrics)
Originally performed by Lady Carolyn.
Written by Joe Viglione on piano with lyrics by Nancy L. Foster,
this was one of the key Love and Flame songs.
Recorded at U Mass Boston with Zed McLarnon as engineer.
(C)(P) 1978, 2020 Joe Viglione all rights reserved.
Joe Viglione (ASCAP), Var Music Publishing (BMI) and Nancy L Foster (ASCAP)
#52 Performance on Spotify The Legendary Count Viglione Catalog
Music by Joe Viglione
Lyrics by Nancy L. Foster (ASCAP)
A Clicking of ice upon the glass
I heard a voice from the past
swirling I saw your face
in the bottom of my glass
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
I wake up, your eyes are wet
you wear your hair like a coronet
you snap your fingers like castanets
to the sound of drawing bayonets
you build a wailing wall
more than a century tall
a moat that’s black and deep
one eye watches as the other weeps
oh love oh love oh frustrating love
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
you’ve no lids
you can’t sleep
you’re on guard
but still still I keep
I can span a hundred years
I can’t break through your tears
no I can’t break through those tears
A jagged tongue is your best defense
you won’t trust that secret sense
when you saw that you slashed me you felt
guilt not victory
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
you say you don’t feel human
look how I’m torn apart
I could try to break that icy wall
you’ve built around your hidden heart
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
oh love, oh love oh frustrating love
oh love, oh love oh frustrating loveoh love, oh love oh frustrating love
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Lady Carolyn’s version has an extra “oh” in front
Oh Love, Oh Love Oh Frustrating Love
and it is a different mix
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Artist: Joe Viglione (ASCAP), Var Music Publishing BMI
Title: No Regrets Today
Time 1:16
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In 1985 I was honored to be asked to write the theme to
GAY PRIDE BOSTON 1985 and released this album on cassette
for that event. Song aired on BNN TV almost 40 years ago for
the Pride event.
It was on sale during the parade for Pride 1985.
For the first time on the internet “No Regrets Today”
is launching as our Song of the Day for Monday Nov 18, 2023.
The theme of Pride ’85 was “No Regrets”
so I composed the song, by request, and by that name. #joeviglionemedia
No Regrets Today
(Commissioned by Gay Pride 1985)
Words and Music JV
It takes time, to heal
I want to tell you how I feel
It takes time, to be
everything they want from me
but I have no regrets, today
i have no regrets, today, today
I have no regrets
A new word will reveal
I have to listen to how you feel
moving in this way
All the thing you have to say
but I have no regrets, today
I have no regrets
today
today
I have no regrets
(C)1985 Joe Viglione (ASCAP)
Var Music Publishing (BMI)
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Secret Things, the Instrumental
Secret Things
Produced by Joe Viglione
Joe Viglione (ASCAP,) Var Music Publishing (BMI)
walk across the sky tonight
it’s open and the air feels so thin
walk across it thinking, how do I find you
where do I begin?
And you know there’s things I get for you
wandering, wondering
I could fall weightless through the clouds
now
you gotta give me your hand
Chorus
I have known the secret things
Now we’ve got the secret things
Here are all of the secret things
and they take me all above
I just wanna be with you
Verse 3
Oh can you feel it
just let it persuade you
as you feel it as its pouring through
every fiber of your heart now
oh and its different and it feels all so new
can you catch the spirit
now there’s nothing in the way
we have all of the secret things
and we listen to all the secret things they say
now we’ve got the secret things
now we’ve found the secret things
here are all of the secret things
and they take me all above
i just wanna be with you
now we’ve got the secret things, yeah yeah
now we’ve got our secret things
here are all of the secret things
now we’ve found the secret things
and they take me all above
I just wanna be with you
take me all above
said I just wanna be with you
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