Word: baerwald
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Picture this. A small, comfortable apartment in Los Angeles. Three people, all trying to work, trying to write and make music, but not necessarily together. In the living room: David Baerwald and David Ricketts, trying to come up with an appropriate follow-up to Boomtown. Pressure enough right there; not only the normal, friendly collaborative pressure but the burden of trying to equal or even top one of the best albums of the 1980s. In the bedroom: Toni Childs, who was living with Ricketts and laboring over her own lyrics besides...
...year," Baerwald remembers, "she'd been working with one line of a song: 'Where's the ocean?' We would be working, and she'd be in the bedroom singing this one line, 'Where's the ocean?' After a year, I answered her, 'Take a right on Sunset.' She never spoke to me again...
...story is so typically Baerwald that it could almost be one of his lyrics: rueful, nasty, funny. The collaboration with Ricketts collapsed shortly after this incident, and it took Baerwald two years to get himself back in working order. But then -- and here life takes a sharp left away from art -- things started to come around. In 1988 Childs made a smash debut album, co-produced by Ricketts and featuring a beautiful, spooky ballad called Where's the Ocean. And Baerwald finished a solo project, his just released Bedtime Stories, that makes a worthy companion piece to Boomtown. That...