In 1978, director Martin Scorsese turned his camera on his friend and roommate, Steven Prince, creating the documentary 'American Boy'. Prince was best known for his role as the gun salesman in 'Taxi Driver', but to many was a true-life raconteur, actor, ex-drug addict, and road manager for Neil Diamond.
To Scorsese, Steven's life was more fascinating than what any screenwriter could dream up, it had to be captured in celluloid, and 'American Boy' did just that and became somewhat of a cult documentary amongst notable directors and movie-types - so much so that Quentin Tarantino based a famous scene from 'Pulp Fiction' on a story Prince had told of during the recording.
Three decades later, filmmaker and producer of 'A Scanner Darkly', Tommy Pallotta draws out Steven Prince to recount his days since 'American Boy' and to compose the next chapter of his story under the guise of a new documentary 'American Prince'.
Dev (aka Lightspeed Champion) is known for keeping in touch with his fans through MySpace and releasing home-made material online; and that's just what he's done today. "Here's the 'Bad Xmas E.P' For you all to criticize/enjoy.... It's just a bit of fun," Dev writes.
Here's a rundown of the track listing from the man himself with download links to follow. I've taken the liberty of tidying up the ID3 tags before re-uploading the release to keep your music library and Last.fm profile clean.
01) Intro (I Forgot To Wrap Your Present) I asked my good friend Victoria who's an amazing pianist to do interpretations of a xmas song I wrote which happens to be track 4 on this e.p,,, i sent her the rough demo and she sent me back two different tracks, this is the first one. beautiful.
02) Happy New Year This is a cover version of a famous ABBA song, which was taken off their late 80's album "Super Trouper"... I love the song, so attempted a cover.. i'm sorry to everyone that loves and to everyone that hates ABBA
03) Another Song About Being Alone I wrote this song a couple nights ago actually... came out in one take.. so i added a bit of backing vocals...in my head it's a full band power pop song.. obviously in my bedroom, i did'nt have the means to pull this off..
04) I Forgot To Wrap Your Present I don't know why all my xmas songs are coming out negative.. who knows, maybe i'm uncovering something deep down in me.. anyway.. I quite like this song, it might be my musical peak... and I blew it all on a free garageband xmas e.p... there's no hope...
05) Outro (I Forgot To Wrap Your Present) This is the second track the wonderful Victoria sent backed to me.. based on the ending of "I Forgot To Wrap Your Present."
06) Perfect Harmony I wrote all of the music for this song on the 6 hour train ride from london to glasgow i did a couple weeks back whilst on tour with patrick wolf. Whilst traveling in the van I asked my good friend Fifi Brown to do some kid noises... she did, so did patrick... then patricks violinist piggy... did the operatic vocal you can hear just before the beat kicks in.... Patrick then wanted to do a spoken word intro... so he wrote something down quickly and recorded it...
A few nights ago I did some quick take vocals to it... it..'s funny how all the vocals in the van came out better than the ones in my kitchen, go figure... I might just put the instrumental online....
As Dev said, the EP is just "a bit of fun" and you can hear more of Lightspeed Champion's music on his MySpace Profile or buy stuff from Amazon.
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