JESSE HARMS – All Sides [6xCD Songwriter Demo Collection feat Sammy Hagar, J. Waite, Kevin Cronin, Robin McAuley & more] (2022)

”All Sides” is a Limited Edition (500 units worldwide), career spanning 6-CD box set from American musician, songwriter and singer JESSE HARMS who has spent a lifetime writing and recording songs for some of Rock Music biggest names, as well as playing live with many of them.
Featuring vocals from Sammy Hagar, Kevin Cronin, Robin McAuley, Patty Smyth, Adrian Gurvitz, John Waite, Richard Black, Don Barnes, Tommy Funderburk, Johnny Van Zant, Robin McAuley, and many more, ”All Sides” is a fantastic testimony of the ’80s rock music creativity.
A deep dive into the writing career of Harms, the box feature 3 discs of material featuring his own lead vocals, plus 3 discs of collaborative work with an array of well-known voices from the Eighties scene.

Born in Massachusetts and raised in Berkeley, California, Jesse began playing the piano at 8 years old and studied classical music until he was 15. His first band Rags featured a young Pat Thrall and Kelly Keagy (Night Ranger).
Following that, with Thrall’s help, Jesse met Alphonso Johnson (Weather Report) who was trying to form a progressive rock band for Electra/Asylum Records. After moving to L.A. Jesse spent the next year writing songs with Alphonso, forming a band that included Vinnie Appice (Dio, Black Sabbath) and Joe Turano (Michael Bolton) and making a record for Electra/Asylum which the label then dropped before its release.

A stint recording and touring with John Hiatt followed, before joining Pat Thrall again for the Hughes/Thrall album tour, playing arenas as the opening act for Santana.
Shortly after that tour, producer Keith Olsen called Jesse to do some additional recording on a single from ‘Three Lock Box’ an album he had made for Sammy Hagar. Sammy had been hiring a studio keyboard player and a studio backup singer to make his last two records and he had nobody in his band to reproduce the parts on tour, so in late 1982 Jesse joined his band.

From there Jesse co-wrote, recorded and toured with Sammy through to and including his ultra-successful ‘VOA’ album, reuniting again for ‘I Never said Goodbye’ CD with Eddie Van Halen on bass. The album included one of Jesse’s songs ‘Back Into You’.
During that time Jesse got a call from Ted Templeman again to work on David Lee Roth’s platinum ‘Eat ‘Em and Smile’ album. Jesse turned down Roth’s offer to join his band in order to work on his own songwriting. Most of 1986 was spent trying to form his own band under the guidance of John Kalodner at Geffen Records.

In 1988 one of Jesse’s songs, ‘Walk On Water’ was recorded by Eddie Money and went on to reach #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was a number one Rock track as well as a number one MTV video. That lead to Jesse touring with Money which lead directly to time writing songs with Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon).
At the time REO was inactive but with the support of management the band was reformed. Jesse’s friend Dave Amato (Ted Nugent, Cher) was added on guitar and Brian Hitt (Wang Chung) on drums. The subsequent album ‘The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog And A Chicken’, was co-produced by Jesse and included ‘Live It Up’, which reached #6 on the Rock Chart and 5 more of his songs.

During 1990 Jesse also wrote a song with Sammy Hagar, ‘Fallen From Grace’ that appeared on Heart’s Double Platinum CD ‘Brigade’.
Jesse left REO in 1991 to get married and focus on Songwriting for MCA Music. 1991 through 1995 were spent in L.A. as a staff writer producing songs that appeared on CD’s by Patty Smyth (Gold Record), Bad English (European #1), MSG, Johnny Van Zant, etc.

In 1996 Jesse co-wrote a song (‘Both Sides Now’) with Sammy Hagar, which brought them back together. In 1997 Jesse worked on Sammy’s ‘Marching To Mars’ CD playing keyboards and co-writing on that and the three additional studio albums that followed as well as touring constantly with the Waboritas.

More recently, Jesse produced and wrote with acclaimed blues artist Guitar Shorty on two albums, the latter of which won the Handy Blues Award.
In 2005 Jesse purchased a Marin Music Center in Novato, California which he operated until he sold it in 2019.

Jesse compiled 11 of his songs onto his one and only solo record ‘Best Of What I Got’, which was released independently in 2004.
He continues to write and record new music and a couple of new songs are included as part of his career spanning box set ‘All Sides’.
HIGHLY Recommended

Disc 1 | 68:21
01. I Believe (4:16)
02. Let It Rain (4:42)
03. Nine Eleven (3:50)
04. Home Sweet Homicide (4:15)
05. After Midnight (4:24)
06. All Heaven Broke Loose (4:29)
07. Walk On Water (4:38)
08. Fear Of Flying (4:44)
09. All I Want Is You (5:38)
10. Gypsy Road (5:01)
11. Live It Up (3:45)
12. Make A Wish (4:39)
13. Love To Hate (4:28)
14. Let It Come To You (4:34)
15. Just To Be Loved By You (4:58)

Disc 2 | 63:55
01. Crash The Party (3:43)
02. Dance With Emotion (5:17)
03. Both Sides Now (Written By Harms/Hagar) (4:11)
04. Life Is Too Short (4:55)
05. Don’t Look Back (Written For Meatloaf) (5:58)
06. I Can’t Stop The Rain (4:53)
07. You Got A Hold Of Me (4:07)
08. The River Runs Deep (5:02)
09. Let It Go (4:53)
10. Things’ve Changed (Written By Harms/Hagar) (4:09)
11. Down On The Beach (3:29)
12. Disconnected (4:38)
13. Blood In The Water (3:56)
14. Until The End Of Time (4:46)

Disc 3 | 68:38
01. A Good Place To Start (5:27)
02. Waiting On A Miricle (4:14)
03. What Was I Thinking (5:32)
04. Sonic Boom (3:28)
05. Dusty Dreams (4:21)
06. One More To Love (3:55)
07. Field Of Stones (4:23)
08. Topless Women And Bottomless Drinks (2:50)
09. Nobody But Yours (2:52)
10. Doing Time (4:33)
11. Cadillac Ranch (4:27)
12. One House (4:11)
13. Voodoo Doll (4:12)
14. Moon (Instrumental) (5:06)
15. The Southern Cross (Instrumental) (4:04)
16. Don’t Promise Me The Moon (5:03)

Disc 4 | 77:20
01. Fallen From Grace (Sammy Hagar) (4:28)
02. Dangerous Curves (Sammy Hagar) (4:47)
03. Maybe Wrong (Sammy Hagar) (4:35)
04. This Time (Sammy Hagar) (3:24)
05. Deep In The Heart Of XMas (Sammy Hagar) (3:12)
06. Shake It Up (Kevin Cronin) (3:55)
07. Halfway (Kevin Cronin) (3:57)
08. I Want You Back (Kevin Cronin) (3:31)
09. When It’s Love, You Know (Kevin Cronin) (4:20)
10. The Heart Survives (Kevin Cronin) (5:33)
11. When I’m Gone (Robin McAuley) (5:20)
12. I’d Be Lost Without You (Robin McAuley) (4:59)
13. How Fast Can We Fall (Robin McAuley) (4:53)
14. Chasing Down The Wind (Robin McAuley) (4:20)
15. All I Want Is You (Robin McAuley) (4:51)
16. Love Is Strong (Robin McAuley) (5:12)
17. Don’t Promise Me The Moon (Robin McAuley) (5:04)

Disc 5 | 75:19
01. Make Me A Believer (Patty Smyth & Jesse Harms) (4:37)
02. I Won’t Be Home Tonight (Patty Smyth) (5:33)
03. The Well Ran Dry (Teresa James) (3:58)
04. Body And Soul (Teresa James) (3:59)
05. Can’t Stop The Fire (Der Strasse) (4:45)
06. Shelter For The Night (Gina Shock) (5:19)
07. The Heart Of A Stranger (Tommy Gervin) (4:10)
08. The Man Inside (Teresa James) (3:46)
09. She Needs You More (Shaun Murphy) (5:22)
10. Let Your Heart Decide (Richard Black) (3:57)
11. The Way I Feel About You (Kee Marcello) (5:07)
12. The Day After Forever (Joe Turano) (4:59)
13. I Never Let You Down (Joe Turano) (5:31)
14. Let My Guitar Do The Talkin’ (Mike Finnegan) (5:08)
15. Dig A Little Deeper (Rick Barron) (5:25)
16. Once In A Lifetime (Bill Champlin) (3:44)

Disc 6 | 74:57
01. Run Wild (Adrian Gervitz) (4:43)
02. Rain On The Rooftop (Adrian Gurvitz) (4:55)
03. Don’t Look Down (Don Barnes) (3:55)
04. Chasing Down The Wind (John Waite) (4:23)
05. Searching For A Love (Tommy Funderburk) (4:32)
06. Last Night (Max Merritt) (5:01)
07. More Bad Than Good (Greg Sutton) (4:28)
08. Walk It Like Ya Talk It (Greg Sutton) (3:48)
09. More Than Words Can Say (Johnny Van Zant) (4:34)
10. Love Can Be Cruel (Johnny Van Zant) (4:11)
11. Pretty Things (Danny Tate) (4:36)
12. My Wildest Dream (Danny Tate) (4:21)
13. Life’s Too Short (Billy Valentine) (4:58)
14. Together (Billy Valentine) (4:12)
15. Money Can’t Buy It (Jeff Wilson) (3:52)
16. Talkin’ Loud Sayin’ Nothing (Jeff Wilson) (3:25)
17. The First Step (Jeff Wilson) (5:01)

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