Wolfgressive Perspective on Come Back To Me - ReMastered Version

Wolfgressive / Mike Wells.  I am a music producer.

My wife wrote these lyrics.  This is an important song about a Woman's unrelenting love for a child consumed with substance abuse.  She experienced this as an Aunt to a child who grew into a man and almost lost his life to alchohol.  She refused to give up on him and eventually saved him.  Many Mother's, Wives, Aunts, Sisiters... experience this and this is her story.

As a young child I discovered a battered and broken player piano in my grandmother's basement.  I had no idea what it was.  I dug it out of its tomb and started fooling around with it.  Something happened in those moments and music and I were and are forever connected.  I am currently writing a song about that and hope to release it later this year.

When I was in high school.  I played in bands then and all through college.

I think of myself as a progressive rock artist and producer.

The difference between performing and actually writing and producing music is like night and day.  You can screw up when you perform and not too many will notice.  But when you commit a song to a streaming platform, it has to be right, it has to as perfect as you can make it.  Some of my older stuff is good, and I beleive the messages they send are important.  But this latest release, Come Back To Me Remastered, is the best work I have done thus far.  I have also had the help and support of a great mixing and mastering firm in the Netherlands and vocals from and amazing artist in London.  I continue learing and doing better, and I and am hooked on the thrill and hope of being discovered.

Heartfelt.  Meaningful.  Like another of my songs (which I am also Remastering): 19.  About a woman separated from her husband during the height of the Covid epidemic as he is dying in a hospital bed and they will not allow her to be with him.  But I also like fun and whimsical - like our song Tessie.  We live in the South of the US.  There's a joke about a country music song played in reverse and the guy gets his wife, house and dog back.  So Tessie is about an electric car that unplugs itself and leaves a guy.  Clever lyrics.  Written, once again, by my wife and sung be my long time partner Bruce.  

To have a huge fanbase who loves and listens to my music.

It simply lives inside me if you can understand that.  It awakens me from my sleep with new ideas.  When I enter my studio to work, I have to be reminded to leave.

Be true to your ideas.  Absorb criticism, learn from it and keep going.

Roger Waters (all of Pink Floyd), Stephen Wilson, Keith Emerson

Music and Visual.  I have also had a rather successful career as a photgrapher in the field of envisionography.  

Photographer

It seems there are a lot of companies trying to take advantage of young producers with get rich quick schemes.  1mm streams guaranteed - right!  You get 1mm streams from real, breathing, hard working people through talent, hard work and commitment.   

As a kid I also played trumpet.  And for a while, I played in a drum and bugle corps.  The sound of 60 brass pieces pounding out something like the theme from Ben Hur was like a drug to me.  I could "scream" (play very high notes like a gentleman named Maynard Ferguson).  So we made it to Nationals in Chicago.  And part of our routine was me breaking away from the rest of the group, going out in front and playing this killer scream solo; and this was in the finals of the competition.  I marched out there, like I had done a hundred times before and absolutely blew the solo in front of about 60,000 people.  OUCH!

Creating a shared artisitic experience with my viewer or listener.  When you see or hear something you have not experiencecd before, you either reject it or embrace it.  If you embrace it, it is a shared artistic experience with the artist.  That is what I seek with you if you listen to my music.   

I have had a number of playlist curators tell me I have real talent and encouraging me to forge ahead.   

Heartfelt, Creative, Clearly Original.

I think this one, Come Back To Me, because I think its my best production thus far and because it means so much to my wife.