{"id":149070,"date":"2012-06-21T17:54:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socancom100stg.wpenginepowered.com\/canadian-classics-i-will-give-you-everything-1990\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T17:54:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:54:31","slug":"canadian-classics-i-will-give-you-everything-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/canadian-classics-i-will-give-you-everything-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Classics: \u00ab\u00a0I Will Give You Everything\u00a0\u00bb (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les traductions pour les articles avant l\u2019automne 2013 ne sont pas disponibles pour le moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toronto roots-rockers The Skydiggers emerged from the city\u2019s vibrant club scene of the late 1980s, when Queen Street West and its environs were bursting with young performers packing acoustic guitars and great songs. The band\u2019s 1990 self-titled debut included the ballad \u201cI Will Give You Everything,\u201d the video for which earned them heavy rotation on MuchMusic and led the way for the breakthrough album Restless and a Most Promising Artist Juno Award. While many groups from Queen Street\u2019s heyday have since disbanded, The Skydiggers continue to write and perform: their eighth studio album Northern Shore was released in April, with a national tour that followed. Singer Andy Maize tells Words + Music about the vocal and songwriting inspirations that produced the Skydiggers’ first radio hit.<\/p>\n

Take me back to when the song was written: where were you in your career?<\/strong>
\nIt was pretty much the first song I ever wrote, before the Skydiggers existed actually, around 1985. I had been singing with Andrew Cash and I remember he had one of the first portastudios, a cassette four-track studio. So I went over to his house with an idea for this song. That\u2019s where it started. Later, when [guitarist] Josh Finlayson and I were playing as a duo called West Montrose, I showed it to him and we worked on the arrangement together. The Skydiggers formed shortly after and that was a song we were always working on.<\/p>\n

The song has an unconventional structure, with only a few lines repeated throughout, almost prayer-like. What inspired you to write in that way?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s true there are only about 16 words in the whole song! I didn\u2019t really think of it as unconventional. At the time I was a big R.E.M. fan. I loved the way they used counter-melodies and I realized that as a kid I would love singing rounds, like \u201cFr\u00e8re Jacques,\u201d when you\u2019d have two or three different parts of a song going. I guess that was something always inside of me. So when I used Andrew\u2019s portastudio I got to try out all the counter-vocals and harmonies and I could see that they would work together. I didn\u2019t have any proof before that.<\/p>\n

How did a ballad become the Skydiggers first-ever single?<\/strong>
\nThe fellow who first spotted us was Mark Smith, who saw us play our weekly gig at the Spadina Hotel. He was working for the Canadian branch of Enigma Records, which was run by Derrick Ross, and they had been given the green light to sign domestic acts. Derrick did all the radio promotion and he always had a vision for that song, right from the first time he heard it. He said, \u201cI need some changes to take it to radio.\u201d We were young and thought we knew everything, so we were initially reluctant, but we went back into the studio with [producer] Michael Phillip Wojewoda. He sped it up slightly, and we added another chorus at the end. And Derrick was right; it did very well for us.<\/p>\n

The band will go out on tour this year with a new record. How does it feel to perform a song from 1985 in 2012?<\/strong>
\nWe sing it at every show, and it\u2019s a pleasure to do it. We\u2019ve even played it at several weddings. The great thing about music is that we all have moments in our lives associated with certain songs, so when people come to see us we want to make sure we\u2019re not only playing new material but we\u2019re playing people\u2019s memories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Andy Maize and Josh Finlayson
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