She’s Gone

Written in 1989 and 1990 / Recorded in 1996 and 1997

This might be one of the catchiest pop tunes I ever wrote but when the tune was originally written, it was meant to be a part of an unfinished Rock Opera for delivering an assigned story. The initial demo recording was made in the summer 1989 for this purpose, which was later destroyed when the Opera scheme was abandoned later in the same year. Then, attempts to rescue most of the musical ideas used in the botched Opera scheme followed and this tune was re-written as an individual pop song with a different lyric titled She’s Gone and recorded in early 1990. At this stage, I changed the arrangement not to feature any guitar instruments; bass part and solo were all played by the synthesizer.

Since then, the song was never played until I set up my personal recording scheme dubbed as The Soft Core Project, in 1996, to secure some of my well-written compositions from the past to be re-recorded in the finest way I could deliver at that time. Though She’s Gone was picked up for the Project, its Phase 1 stage was affected by my involvement to a newly formed band called School in a negative way so that -as far as this tune concerned - I could not provide the notion of ‘the finest’, in terms of its arrangement. After I was fired from School in the following year, I decided to go back to the Project and to upgrade it to the Phase 2 stage, which inevitably led the scheme to its final stage, Phase 3. She’s Gone was involved in both Phases and several demos were made during this period. The audio track of this video consists of, if my memory serves well, a couple of demo versions I made for the Phase 1 and 3.