Shout It Out

Album: Red Dragon Cartel (2014)
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  • Jake E. Lee told Glide Magazine that he considers this to be the surprise song on Red Dragon Cartel's debut album. "That song is one riff from front to back," he said. "It's basically (singing) ba-dam-a-bamp, with variations on it."

    "If anybody looks at my songwriting, all my songwriting, I like to go different places, like, here's what we do for the verse and now let's come up with a bridge, that'll be different going into a chorus that's not the verse and then going to a middle eight. I kind of like it musically interesting to me whereas just playing a riff from start to finish isn't interesting at all to me," Lee added. "But we worked on it and once there was a melody in place, and you can feel that song is very energetic, once you heard the energy and I heard the melody, that surprised me that that came out as well as it did. And it's probably one of the stronger songs on the record."

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