When Axis Annie ruled Cleveland
Axis Annie, 1997
I mentioned in an earlier post that I used to be in a band called Axis Annie. Here’s one of our better songs: Water, which has a nice semi-acoustic intro before launching into all-out rock and roll.
Lifeline is another song I’m proud of. I came up with the music one night, a few months after graduating from college, while I was plinking around on a piano. For ten years I didn’t know what to do with it. Then I found myself in a band, and I eventually played the music for them. They liked it. Our singer Lila put words and a melody to it, and it became something pretty special, although I wasn’t 100% happy with the way the recording turned out. Here’s another version of it, recorded onto a boom box during practice. The fidelity is poor, but it’s more powerful than the studio version.
(Oh, and by the way, I realize the band name isn’t the most politically correct in the world, but they were already calling themselves that when I joined, so please don’t call me a Nazi if you choose to comment.)
Dave,
Nice to see ya.
Tony