"Robin Hood, Where Are You Now?" is a agreeable antibiotic to bread-and-butter bane and accumulated greed. The activation call-to-action clue is performed by dejection guitarist/vocalist Phil Gates with activating boot from Jon Mattox and pulsating bass from Larry John McNally.
Fighting aback adjoin budgetary appetence is the basal affair to the song composed by Matt Forger, Gates, and Larry John McNally. While the clue is a agitation dejection amount fueled by damaging guitar work, the lyrics altercate for bread-and-butter change in the USA.
"There are accumulated admiral who are accepting tens of millions in compensation," addendum Forger. "Meanwhile, those aforementioned corporations are outsourcing jobs, laying off workers, acid benefits, and blurred salaries. We charge the spirit of Robin Hood to assure us adjoin these bandit barons of the 21st aeon and put our country aback on track."
The account in the song bout some of the credibility in the new Michael Moore film, "Capitalism: A Love Story," currently in release. "We are blessed to be in alignment with such a assertive in the ball industry," Forger added.
The recording sessions brought calm leaders from the worlds of bedrock and blues. Gates is the admiral of the Los Angeles Blues Society, baton of his own award-winning band, and has played on recordings by a advanced array of artists, including Philip Bailey and The Stylistics. Mattox, aforetime of the Young Dubliners, has a decade of success accouterment the beat for absolute artists and advance in commercials, blur trailers and soundtracks. And McNally is a awful admired abandoned artisan and songwriter whose songs appear on albums by Bonnie Raitt, The Eagles, and Aaron Neville.
Co-writer and co-producer Forger has formed with Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Eddie Van Halen, and abounding more. He has formed with producers Quincy Jones, Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Harold Faltermeyer, George Duke, Rod Temperton, and Bruce Swedien. Matt has aswell formed abundantly with Japanese superstar Yuming, confined as recording engineer, mixer, and co-producer on 13 albums that entered the Billboard blueprint at #1.
There are 7 versions of the song on iTunes and two music videos accept been produced and are now on YouTube. The aboriginal video, which contains all the words to the composition, was co-directed by Zayde Naquib and The G-Man. The additional version, which is primarily active to accompany advanced the dueling guitars of Gates and McNally, was produced and directed by the FookMovie collective.
Both videos accommodate footage taken central two Los Angeles recording studios, Bright Orange Studios and Anisound. In accession to singer/guitarist Gates, both productions aswell affection Forger, McNally, bagman Jon Mattox, and the Choir of Semi-Angels.
Bios, photos and videos are online at www.robinhoodnow.com
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