DEAD OR ALIVE (the back story) - Rick Page

Working with artists I not only love hearing their work go through the many stages to what you the listener finally gets to hear. I also love to hear the back story of where the very idea or meaning of the lyrics started from.
Below is in Rick's own words how the track 'DEAD OR ALIVE' taken from the album 'The Fence' first came to be.

Dead or Alive - Rick Page


Was originally called 'White Steed' but after recording it me and James Marshall Black had a think about the title and as dead or alive was mentioned more times than white steed I decided to change it.

The original idea behind this song was just before 'Iron Man' the movie was released I was trying to come up with what I was hoping might be picked as a soundtrack for the movie. Thinking of a hero in a metal suit another movie 'Robocop' came to mind, hence the line from the movie "dead or alive your coming with me" the lyrics then flowed along the lines what a hero would be doing for a town and of course a hero always rides a white horse or in robocop's case driving a silver patrol car.
I asked James when putting the music to it to add sound effects of guns etc to make it sound like a gunfight in a street for the hero to come and save the day. What he did was brilliant and just what I wanted.

Unfortunately we missed the time limit for putting in the sound tracks for putting songs in for the movie because the production took longer than we thought - Rick

Yes may of missed the date but many agree we have an awesome rock song best played LOUD.

I asked James Marshall Black about the track & Rick's ideas & he replied...

'Dead Or Alive' Rick asked me to add all the sound effects, and personally I think it was a stroke of genius. We now have this rather interesting super hero who wears a mixture of Iron man clothes and Knight's armour, carries a gun and a sword and charges around on a horse !!! I am considering re-visiting this song - James

Below is a video made by Rick himself