Los Angeles based recording artist David Isaacs
has been a successful singer/songwriter for years. He has recorded everything
from television and radio commercials to hard rock records. He has performed
with a variety of musicians ranging from members of Fleetwood Mac to Poison. As
a songwriter he has most recently won a Pixie Award for co-writing the score to
'Saving Ryan's Privates', and has also co-written a track on the upcoming
Eagles album. And then we haven't even mentioned westcoast heroes like Venice,
Robbie Patton and yeah well...
read the interview...
Rick Huisseune
Melodic.net 2001
Website note - Only the Christine McVie excerpts are contained here, for the full interview please click here
You seem to be a pretty good songwriter, did
you wrote for other bands/releases in the past ?
Who ?
Thanks. I really love songwriting. In the past couple of years, I have been
trying to write with everyone that I can. I have been really fortunate to >
work with some really fantastic people, who are both so much fun and really make
you approach music in different ways. Scott Crago, of The Eagles, is one of
those guys. We had the band "It." together and we have always found
that we're going in the same direction musically. I love working with Scotty,
but his schedule is insane these days. We wrote a song together that will
hopefully be on the upcoming Eagles record. I don't want to say anymore about it
because this business can make you superstitious and I don't want to jinx it. As
you know, I just was in England writing with Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac. I
also do a lot of writing with Chris Horvath, the producer of Timebomb.. I love
writing with Chris.. Ian Mayo, of the Kidney Thieves and countless other bands,
is another one of these guys that is just so much fun to write with. We wrote a
couple of the tunes on the Timebomb CD together. And then there is Robbie
Patton. What can I say about Robbie? He is the most ridiculously fun songwriter
I have ever met. He wrote for Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, and was an artist
himself. He comes up with great melodies and just has this unique flare for
doing things in a way that I never would. When we write, we either come up with
something incredibly fast , or we wind up writing nothing but have a great time
trying. That's my main writing team. I love to write alone as well. I plan to
start writing with some new, very talented people, including Chris Ward ( known
for working on big Movie music including Pearl Harbor ) and Ty Stevens ( now
playing with Mandy Moore ). In the past I've worked with people like Elliot
Easton of the Cars and the guys in Poison. Obviously I work with an eclectic
group of writers, but I think that's great. It keeps you looking at music from
different perspectives.
When you went to England to write with Fleetwood's Christine McVie, how was
that, tell us everything about that ?
First of all, I LOVE CHRISTINE. She is one of the warmest, sweetest, funniest,
and obviously most talented people that I can ever imagine meeting. Chris and I
have such a wonderful time whenever we are together. . .it's a joke. I met Chris
through Robbie Patton, and it was instant lifelong friendship. The first day we
hung out, we spent the entire day singing around the piano. We would take turns
playing, and eventually we played the entire Fleetwood Mac catalogue, not to
mention the Beatles and so many others. It was hysterical - we would do duets
with me singing as Sting and her as Stevie Nicks. Talk about a blast !! What
makes matters even more special is that I have it all on video tape. What an
extraordinary dream come true. Perhaps, the coolest and most surreal part was
when Chris sat at the piano and played and sung my song "Just A Little More
Time." To see her just sit down and play it without me prompting her was
unbelievable ! She's a wonderful person. I love her, and her family. They really
have made me feel at home with them, and I look forward to seeing them all again
very soon. As far as this last trip goes. . . .well, we were riddled with
problems. We had technical problems with gear and all kinds of other stuff going
on. We did get some things started and I'm certain that we will continue to work
together soon.
