{"id":4109,"date":"2014-05-22T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregkihn.com\/blog\/?page_id=4109"},"modified":"2015-09-21T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T20:06:02","slug":"kihnspiracy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/gregkihn.com\/blog\/music\/kihnspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kihnspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Greg_Kihn_Band_-_Kihnspiracy\"<\/a>For the first time in decades you can now purchase the entire Kihnspiracy<\/i> album<\/a>.\u00a0 This was our 8<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> album and it yielded our first number-one worldwide hit Jeopardy <\/i>in 1983.<\/i>\u00a0 The RocKihnRoll<\/i> album came out two years before and featured the Break Up Song<\/i> (our first US top ten hit) in 1981.\u00a0 The Break-up song and Jeopardy put the Greg Kihn Band and<\/i> Beserkley Records on the world wide map.\u00a0 It\u2019s still one of my all-time favorite albums too.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The return of Kihnspiracy<\/i> marks a major turning point in the reissue of the entire GKB catalogue.\u00a0 But, this sounds as good today as it did in 1983 when it first came out.\u00a0 In fact it sounds even better than it did because Joel Turtle and I digitally remastered the entire catalogue before we reissued it. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Greg Douglass had just joined the band at this point and the first song he played on was Jeopardy<\/i>.\u00a0 Talk about hitting the bulls eye first time out!\u00a0 Greg nailed it in two takes.<\/span><\/p>\n

I knew Jeopardy<\/i> was a hit the day Steve and I wrote it at my house in Rockridge, Oakland.\u00a0 Steve had just bought one of the first little plastic Casio<\/i> keyboards to come out.\u00a0 It had a drum machine in it.\u00a0 Steve set the beat and said listen to this!\u00a0 He played the chords to Jeopardy<\/i>.\u00a0 I swear, the words just came to me spontaneously.\u00a0 We wrote the song in 15 minutes and we knew it was a hit from the first note.\u00a0 I wish it was always that easy.<\/span><\/p>\n

We cut Kihnspiracy at Fantasy Studios <\/i>in Berkley, CA.\u00a0 Journey was down the hall in the big Studio D while we were in the smaller, older, cheaper Studio B.\u00a0 I remember passing those guys in the hall and playing pinball together during breaks.\u00a0 One day they wheeled a cart with 20 or so boxes of multi track tape.\u00a0 I asked Neal Schon what it was.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s the new album.\u201d\u00a0 I was shocked!\u00a0 We had three boxes of tape total<\/i> for Kihnspiracy.\u00a0 Maybe it was because we recorded fast and never did more than a few takes of any one song.\u00a0 That kept everything sounding fresh.\u00a0 We learned that the more you worked on something, the less spontaneous it sounded. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The songwriting in the band had reached its commercial peak.\u00a0 We came up with a batch of great tunes like Fascination<\/i>, Tear That City Down<\/i>, and Talkin\u2019 To Myself<\/i>.\u00a0 The year was 1983 and things were really heating up for the band.\u00a0 We went on the road with Journey and played stadiums and arenas all summer long.\u00a0 During that tour Jeopardy hit #1.\u00a0 We were at the gift shop at Custer\u2019s Last Stand at the Little Big Horn.\u00a0 Our road manager called LA and spoke to the record company and we found out we just hit #1!\u00a0 By the way, it\u2019s a great gift shop and we bought lots of stuff there. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So please enjoy this reissue of the classic GKB album Kihnspiracy.<\/a>
\nIt\u2019s been a long time comin\u2019. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n