DJJD Volume 22

Created By:  Jonathan Dysart (DJJD)

Original Creation Year:  2007

Year of Re-master:  2010

Song Listing

Side A

1.    I Love Rock n' Roll:  Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

2.    Living After Midnight:  Judas Priest 

3.    Easy Livin':  Uriah Heep   

4.    Hocus Pocus:  Focus  

5.    Hush:  Deep Purple

Side B

6.    Carry on Wayward Son:  Kansas

7.    Stay with Me:  The Faces 

8.    Asshtonpark:  James Gang 

9.    Vanilla Queen:  Golden Earring

Side C

10. Come Sail Away:  Styx 

11. Foreplay / Long Time:  Boston 

12. Toad:  Cream (5:08)

[Live Version]

Side D

13. Jeff's Blues (Alternate Version):  The Yardbirds 

14. Every Little Thing:  Yes 

15. I'm Your Captain / Closer to Home:  Grand Funk Railroad

  

Origin of the Album

            This was a transition time for me when creating this album.  I finally had my own personal computer and internet so I could continue my CD collection projects (as well as other media projects) at home.  I wanted to make a straightforward Rock album, which was almost a compilation of classic rock songs that I listened to through the classic rock stations of KSHE 95 in St. Louis and 100.5 WYMG in Springfield.

            However, I was distracted at the time into producing a great rock album due to my efforts in transferring all the iTunes songs from my office computer into my home computer.  At that time, I really did not have much of the album covers I currently have, so a lot of time was spent creating them for DJJD Volume 1 to this current album.  Therefore, the quality I usually place onto an album was not present, not even with the next album DJJD Volume 23.

Concept and Theme of the Album

            Like I mentioned before, this was originally just a compilation of classic rock songs that I heard on KSHE 95 and 100.5 WYMG.  Please refer to the “Rock Reconstruction” section for how this album was remastered.

           

Concept and the Album Cover

          I already made at least a couple rock album covers with guitars as the center of attention, but I wanted to do something different.  Since “hard rock” to me symbolizes loudness and power, I decided to do a lightning motif. 

            Getting inspiration from the album cover of DJJD Volume 1 and the album cover of Electric Light Orchestra’s “A New World Record”, I found a great picture of flash lightning coming down upon a city night sky.  From there, I then added some cool custom-made speakers with pictures of lightning.  

Rock Reconstruction

I was never really satisfied with my original creation of the three albums DJJD Volume 22, DJJD Volume 23, and DJJD Volume 26.  Most of the songs were just, in my opinion, just thrown together without some form of coherency to them.  When it came time to remaster these albums, I decided to do a complete reconstruction, reshuffling the songs among each other as well as adding or removing songs, to make each album more coherent and organic in structure.

I reorganized the albums into three rock styles or motifs:  

·        DJJD Volume 22:  Hard rock, progressive rock, with some instrumental blues

·        DJJD Volume 23:  Mainstream classic rock and pop, with some blues

·        DJJD Volume 26:  Glam rock, with some progressive rock and mainstream rock

Here is how the remastered song listings were acquired.

Side A

1.     I Love Rock n’ Roll:  Joan Jett & the Blackhearts (DJJD Volume 26)

2.     Living After Midnight:  Judas Priest (DJJD Volume 22)

3.     Easy Livin’:  Uriah Heep (DJJD Volume 22)

4.     Hocus Pocus:  Focus (DJJD Volume 22)

5.     Hush:  Deep Purple (DJJD Volume 23)

Side B

6.     Carry on Wayward Son:  Kansas (DJJD Volume 26)

7.     Stay With Me:  Faces (DJJD Volume 23)

8.     Asshtonpark:  James Gang (DJJD Volume 22)

9.     Vanilla Queen:  Golden Earring (DJJD Volume 23)

Side C

10.  Come Sail Away:  Styx (DJJD Volume 23)

11.  Foreplay / Long Time:  Boston (DJJD Volume 26)

12. Toad:  Cream (DJJD Volume 22)

Side D