User:Toddgbrown

TODD G. BROWN - SONGWRITER Born in Winnipeg, MB Canada Lived in Calgary for 15 years, now living in the Vancouver area, BC, CANADA A creative person and songwriter based out of the Vancouver area, BC, Canada. You may be found playing around the Greater Vacouver area and lower mainland of BC. Writing songs mainly in the Folk/Pop genre. I tend to write songs about the “Human Dynamic”. After being in sales all my working career I came up with that description many years ago. I find that almost everything in relationships (be it in the selling process, our love lives or otherwise) comes down to the Human Dynamic. People communicating and getting what they want. So at the end of the day, everything is about our interaction with each other.

I usually write the music first. Then after I find a musical hook that I like, I work on the melody without words. Then I put the words into the melody. To me the phonetics are the most important thing in a song. How the music, melody and lyrics fit together in a natural way. That’s my theory on songwriting. I started my musical career in Winnipeg in the early 1980's. I had my 15 minutes of fame when I made it into BILLBOARD MAGAZINE back in March 19, 1983 with the band ONE LIFE (Members over those years: BILL HODGSON (founder), RON TORPEY (drums), GRANT JONES (bass), RICK MCGHEE (bass), RON MYMRYK (percussionist), PETER WALKER (original keyboard player) and ERIC WEBSTER (keyboards). Our fame came from our Manager BRIAN HASSETT. Without him we would have never gotten out of Wpg. Brian got to the editor of Billboard Magazine in NYC and we were chosen as a "PICK OF THE WEEK" with our then new single 45 that we released in New York City that month. the A Side, WATERSHINE (by Bill Hodgson) did very well and got airplay in the USA and Cda. "GOIN CRAZY” was my offering and the B Side.

There is a batch of songs posted produced by DARREN DUKE in his Calgary studio. “IN THE BAND”, “YELLOWHEAD HIGHWAY”, “PLAYIN DOWNTOWN” and “WINDOWS OF LIFE” were all recorded in 2009-2010. “SHEDDING MY SKIN”, “MEET MY FRIENDS” and “HEALER” were all produced by DAMON RONDEAU in Winnipeg back in 2006 - 2007. I had just written these and asked Damon to give me a hand recording them and he did an awesome job producing these demos. Damon and I played together back in 1984 when we were young in my first band SIX MAN SEDAN so he knows my style and can effectively add his jazz influences to the songs. His co-writing (the ‘email meeee’ ending on “SHEDDING MY SKIN” was his idea – I think it makes the song) and his distinctive double bass gives the songs a Folky Jazzy Wooden Rocky sound which I love. These songs represent exactly what I have wanted to sound like since I started writing and recording.

“SHEDDING MY SKIN” was picked by Acid Planet's KIMBERLY STREIBLE as the #3 best song of 2006 on "10 BEST SONGS ON ACID PLANET 2006" so that was quite an accomplishment for Damon and I. Here we were with 9 heavy rock songs and our little Folk / Pop song was number 3.