The Story of "I Remember"

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  • Опубліковано 24 бер 2022
  • This is a long story because the history of this song spans from my late teen years, and has traveled with me on my journey into Psychotic Waltz.

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  • @MorbidGeorge1
    @MorbidGeorge1 2 роки тому +5

    23 years after dicovering this MASTERPIECE,still crying like the first time I listened to it...that's why Psychotic Waltz will be one of my favorite bands FOREVER and you Devon...an ispiring musician and person.Thank you for all!!! Greeting from Greece!

  • @thomaskallweit1665
    @thomaskallweit1665 2 роки тому +3

    By the time I was 16 years old, my best friend introduced me to Psychotic Waltz. I remember was the first song. That was in 1995 and I was normally listening to more harder and faster music. I didn't even know about progressive metal. But I was in love immediately. In 1996 we went to a concert in Salzgitter, tour for Bleeding (awesome hanging out with you guys after the show), we went to Hamburg for Dead Soul Tribe but I had to wait until 2017 to see Psychotic Waltz again in Wacken. I had tears in my eyes, it was about 2am, my best friend by my side with tears in his eyes, my wife didn't understand what was going on. Thank you for the magic.

  • @TheAirobo
    @TheAirobo 2 роки тому +4

    In my 18 I thought this is best song ever, and in my 47 now I agree with it!

    • @yayamii
      @yayamii 2 роки тому

      ...I have part of the lyrics tattooed on my hand! I think we are in the same boat...17 then, almost 49 now...

  • @tw0877
    @tw0877 2 роки тому +1

    Der Song ist so der Hammer, da bekomm ich immer Gänsehaut.
    Psychotic Waltz die Heros meiner Jugend und jetzt laufen die CDs auch noch regelmäßig... Love it...

  • @iordanisgrigoriou
    @iordanisgrigoriou 2 роки тому +13

    That was amazing Devon! What about some background story on Ashes/The Keeper? I'd be really interested to know how you guys arrived at the version that is on the studio album!

  • @cosmidual1191
    @cosmidual1191 2 роки тому +6

    It's a very precious thing to hear the stories behind songs that defined us. And especially when they come from the creators themselves. Don't stop doing what you do Devon, I and for sure many others appreciate deeply what you do. There's no song without a story and there's no story that cannot become a song. I would love it if you talked a bit about "Some things you can't return" or just say stories from being on the road with PW and Deadsoul Tribe. Cheers!

  • @klauth_Yksyn
    @klauth_Yksyn 2 роки тому

    I remember hearing this on ROCK 105.3 ! Then raced off to BLUE MEANIE to buy it from Norm. Still have the CD and still listen to it, to this day. One of the greatest songs I've ever heard! - Bravo Sir...for keeping the sacred candle of metal burning.

  • @giorgoskb5002
    @giorgoskb5002 2 роки тому +5

    Many thanks for the story and the new acoustic version of "I Remember" Devon; truly brilliant! Would love to hear the story of the album "The Strange Mind of Buddy Lackey"
    and especially the "Windsong", which is my favourite song in that album. I remember hearing you play this with an acoustic guitar in Larisa/Greece, after your set had concluded, and this was truly special.

  • @308scoutrfl
    @308scoutrfl Рік тому

    RIP Michael Clift. Best artwork ever! Miss you cuz

  • @soc_soc
    @soc_soc 2 роки тому +4

    We definitely need more of these videos Devon! I could watch them all day!

  • @ggoudey-photo
    @ggoudey-photo Рік тому

    Phenomenal song from a timeless and phenomenal album. I had no idea Devon wrote it. I’m proud of Psychotic Waltz as they are from my hometown of San Diego, California.

  • @andremathibe7788
    @andremathibe7788 2 роки тому

    Thanks, Devon, for telling the story and background to my all time most favorite ballad song. I always get cold chills down my spine at this masterpiece.

  • @stbanos
    @stbanos 2 роки тому

    Tell me why every time i hear this song i start cying?One of the most beautiful songs of the 20th century! Well done Devon thank you once again!

  • @yayamii
    @yayamii 2 роки тому +1

    Best thing ever happened to music and me - Psychotic Waltz! I remember ( :) ) back in the days buying a music magazines just to read the reviews of the albums, so I can choose which one I would like the listen. It was somewhere in 90`s or early 91 when I read one review of Psychotic Waltz`s "A Social Grace" and I was obsessed to find it. But back then was not easy to find it here in Bulgaria, so I almost lost my faith to find it - when I went to the local music stores (not exactly authorized, but 100 % pirates) they never heard of band with name I was forced to repeat, so they can try to pronounce it right...Then I asked my big brother, who was a student in our capital Sofia that time and couple of months latter he brought me a cassette tape with the album. I cannot lie, first listening of the album was a shock for me and the only full song, which stayed in my mind after was "I Remember". Then I gave the album second try...And third...And then I find out my self, trying to convince all of my metalhead friends listen to the album...And then their second, third, fourth album...I remember also chatting with Devon on messenger, beging him for faster release of Psychotic Waltz fifth diamond and he joking, that they have a bet with Tool which album gonna take longer time to come out.
    I can just tell you, that watching you now singing "I Remember", I realized after a minute or so, that my lips are following the lyrics together with you and I had something stuck in my throat and tears in my eyes...Love you Devon! Psychotic Waltz forever and ever - Amen!
    P.S: What about the concert scheduled for Budapest in May? Moved to 2023, or?

  • @surturslohe9870
    @surturslohe9870 2 роки тому

    This song is my alltime fave since 30 years ago! Thanks for that!!!

  • @JohnKruidhof
    @JohnKruidhof 2 роки тому

    Thanks Devon! This brings back a lot of memories. You guys were so unique. Not related to the I remember song but I remember you guys playing on the Waldrock festival with Death headlining and you guys were programmed way to early, I think right after the opener, and while you were playing Into The Everflow Chuck Schuldiner was sitting on the side of the stage and just like us enjoying the awesome performance. He actually wanted you guys to continue playing when the organization wanted you to stop as scheduled.

  • @Friday13thMetal
    @Friday13thMetal 2 роки тому

    outstanding song, totally underrated prog band and song . total respect \M/ I'd love to hear an acoustic unplugged Psychotic Waltz album with this song included, who agrees?

  • @MichaelStavrakakis
    @MichaelStavrakakis 2 роки тому +1

    Incredible video and a beautiful version of one of my favorite songs.
    Can you please give us the story behind the song Butterfly ? It's my all time favorite Psychotic Waltz song. I'd love to know the story behind the middle music percussion part! Also the idea behind the use of lyrics and melodies from beautiful rock songs of the past.
    Close to the ground brings no further the sky....
    Love your voice and music Devon.

  • @SanitysVoid
    @SanitysVoid 2 роки тому

    Who knew you played guitar so well. When I hear the song I am reminded of historcial events liek the Alamo, Lexington Green Etc.

  • @Osi-ok8qs
    @Osi-ok8qs 2 роки тому

    That definitely was the most beautiful "da-da-da-da's" I've ever heard in life! ^^

  • @KaHa6uc
    @KaHa6uc 2 роки тому +2

    Amazing! That particular song was on repeat on my player a couple of days ago (as it often is) and I was thrilled to learn the story behind it. And by the man himself, at that! Thank you, Devon! Keep it up! In the future, if you would like to talk about Hanging on a String, it would be a welcome treat for me :) Greetings from Bulgaria!

  • @henrikkurka2681
    @henrikkurka2681 2 роки тому

    I just discovered this channel and what a treasure! I have been in love with A Social Grace literaly since the first time I heard it. In the pre-internet era, this album become a kind of myth for my and a friend since we have read about it and it took us about a year of searching (and going twice a week to a local record store to ask if they had got it yet) until we finally got it. Myths rarely live up to their status, but this album surely did. And it is till as magical today as it was back then. Probably impossible, but as a suggestion to a live-in-studio song, it would be amazing to hear an accosting version of Into the everflow. Love to see more videos - both music-only and stories! Who wouldn't love both?

  • @kosmiaga
    @kosmiaga 2 роки тому

    Ah, I'm 16 again. I loved that song so much and still do to this day.

  • @BenvanGeest
    @BenvanGeest 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you, Devon. This is great!
    I absolutely loved 'A Social Grace' and 'Into the Everflow'. I was addicted to you guys and these two albums are still very important to me. You might remember the three or four guys that followed you guys around in The Netherlands back in the beginning of the 90s. We have met many times during that time and went back stage with you guys, especially with Dan and Brian. Anyway, this time was almost magical to me. Thanks so much for the music and keep on doing these videos. Cheers!

  • @MaxVonStirliz
    @MaxVonStirliz Рік тому

    Hello, Devon, its great to hear from you again. Saw your DST-Show about 2008 i believe in Karlsruhe. I've told you then already "i appreciate what you doing" and i still do. Saw you also with PW in Stuttgart. Still looking forward to hear more often from you.

  • @Adrian_Weiss
    @Adrian_Weiss 2 роки тому

    Wow! I love that song! Awesome performance. Really great, very moving. It's a classic.

  • @borizh
    @borizh Рік тому

    I just discovered this channel and immediately subscribed!
    It is so interesting to hear the process of writing “I remember” when all we fans have been exposed is the (amazing) final product…
    There’s something that feels so honest about your singing that song that still gets to me to this day.
    I have bought the latest album as soon as it came out and it is a really, really good album. I like to think that I will get to see PW perform live one day…

  • @misounwf
    @misounwf 2 роки тому

    Thanks for sharing all these, Devon! I'm grateful you started this channel. I've been thinking about "Some things you can't return," and I can't stop playing in my head that verse "Houses have a memory." I feel it's somehow connected with Tom Wait's "The house where nobody lives," even though the music stye is quite different. Anyway, I just wanted to ask whether we could hear an acoustic version of the song and share (in return) the following two poems. Greetings from Thessaloniki!
    G. Seferis' "The house near the sea"
    >>>
    The houses I had they took away from me. The times
    happened to be unpropitious: war, destruction, exile;
    sometimes the hunter hits the migratory birds,
    sometimes he doesn’t hit them. Hunting
    was good in my time, many felt the pellet;
    the rest circle aimlessly or go mad in the shelters.
    Don’t talk to me about the nightingale or the lark
    or the little wagtail
    inscribing figures with his tail in the light;
    I don’t know much about houses
    I know they have their own nature, nothing else.
    New at first, like babies
    who play in gardens with the tassels of the sun.
    they embroider colored shutters and shining doors
    over the day.
    When the architect’s finished, they change,
    they frown or smile or even grow stubborn
    with those who stayed behind, with those who went away
    with others who’d come back if they could
    or others who disappeared, now that the world’s become
    an endless hotel.
    I don’t know much about houses,
    I remember their joy and their sorrow
    sometimes, when I stop to think;
    again
    sometimes, near the sea, in naked rooms
    with a single iron bed and nothing of my own,
    watching the evening spider, I imagine
    that someone is getting ready to come, that they dress
    him up
    in white and black robes, with many-colored jewels,
    and around him venerable ladies,
    gray hair and dark lace shawls, talk softly,
    that he is getting ready to come and say goodbye to me;
    or that a woman-eyelashes quivering, slim-waisted,
    returning from southern ports,
    Smyrna Rhodes Syracuse Alexandria,
    from cities closed like hot shutters,
    with perfume of golden fruit and herbs-
    climbs the stairs without seeing
    those who’ve fallen asleep under the stairs.
    Houses, you know, grow stubborn easily when you strip
    them bare.

  • @smrettpecca
    @smrettpecca Рік тому

    Still got that 45! Drum maniacs are engraved in Sandra's " Waltz Times " . ;) cheers matey.

  • @jspacone
    @jspacone 2 роки тому +1

    Goosebumps. Freaking amazing!

  • @jujutripsy9046
    @jujutripsy9046 2 роки тому

    Absolutely brilliant performance Devon! You still sound incredible and gave me chills. LONG TIME FAN. I've been a bit distracted so looking forward to catch up on your new you tube channel and the stories you're sharing and more amazing songs. LOVE PW!

  • @stefanbergenholtz2067
    @stefanbergenholtz2067 2 роки тому

    And I remember this being one of the defining songs of my youth. And I remember talking to you, Devon, after one of the gigs in Berlin, after talking to Norm two days before in Aarhus, who was so kind to gift a CD of "Bleeding" to me, for no apparent reason at all. Thank you all for getting me through those years of turmoil. 🙂

  • @sigamintobro
    @sigamintobro 2 роки тому +1

    Can't wait for the next video!!

  • @InTheFlesh9
    @InTheFlesh9 2 роки тому

    This is remarkable, Devon. Thank you for offering the history behind the song.
    I am curious if there is something similarly interesting for Just Like a Timepiece, on of my all time favorites. Those lyrics are masterpiece in it's own right.

  • @_Helm_
    @_Helm_ 2 роки тому

    Thank you so much for the candid and super-interesting background to music that has been near and dear to our hearts for many years

    • @_Helm_
      @_Helm_ 2 роки тому +1

      and the final performance of the video... this song made me cry at 14, it makes me cry at 38, and it's all because of the fragile humanity you bring to it. Thank you twice.

  • @michaels562
    @michaels562 2 роки тому +1

    Thx for the insights! I really appreciate your work. You and the other 4 have created something really magical. Wonderful Version! Would like more to know about ashes and Into the everflow.

  • @ashadesign5078
    @ashadesign5078 2 роки тому

    Such an interesting video. It is so nice to hear the story behind one of the best songs ever written.Thank you for sharing it with us :)

  • @theodorelueker5057
    @theodorelueker5057 2 роки тому

    See there is my problem when I am walking I am just trying not to trip and fall on my face. You are writing these killer songs. Truly great to hear you walk through your thinking process.

  • @jeffbarnes2596
    @jeffbarnes2596 Рік тому

    It was great to meet and speak to you at whatever that head-shop was in El Cajon :) after seeing the Aslan gig in NorthPark ~ 1983! I was a fan ever since. Life-changing really! That Tweaker Phil left town with my guitars, grrr!

    • @devon-graves-studio-D
      @devon-graves-studio-D  Рік тому +1

      It was Trip West. I think it must have been later than '83 cause we formed in '86 ;) Thanks man! I remember Phil. A "guitar builder" at that El Cajon music shop?

    • @jeffbarnes2596
      @jeffbarnes2596 Рік тому

      @@devon-graves-studio-D Yeah I kind of ran all that time-line together. "Guitar Builder" indeed...

  • @spyralofsilence2112
    @spyralofsilence2112 2 роки тому

    We effing love you!
    Love from Greece!

  • @r3dn3ckdk
    @r3dn3ckdk 2 роки тому

    Exciting to get a little "behind the scenes". Would love to hear more, both on your work with Psychotic Waltz but also The Strange Mind of... and Deadsoul Tribe.
    One song among many I really enjoy is Just Like a Timepiece - a masterpiece both in your own name but also the Deadsoul Tribe reinterpretation.

  • @davidlackey5891
    @davidlackey5891 2 роки тому

    That was an incredible performance and a remarkable story thanks bro!

  • @dnevozhay
    @dnevozhay 2 роки тому

    Just WOW!!! 😍😍😍

  • @hpmtenaja
    @hpmtenaja 7 місяців тому

    Hey Devon. I hope you remember me. My name is Herb and you and the guys stayed at my place in Dana Point years ago on your way up to play a gig in Los Angeles with Merciful Fate and King Diamond when you were still Aslan. One of the fondest memories of my life.

    • @devon-graves-studio-D
      @devon-graves-studio-D  7 місяців тому

      Herb Messenger! Yes! the whole band and Mike Clift! We saw King Diamond on the Abigail tour. Trouble opened. I'm glad your memories are good ones cause I remember being in a bad mood cause I wanted to go home that night. Always regretted my attitude about that.

  • @johnrayer4512
    @johnrayer4512 2 роки тому

    great memory. thanks

  • @u.v.s.5583
    @u.v.s.5583 Рік тому

    That song is sooooo good!!!

  • @infinitedurr
    @infinitedurr 2 роки тому

    This is so cool, and means so much to me to learn about. What a cool thing to learn that the roots of this masterpiece lay in your high school years, as I discovered PW and ASG while in high school in San Diego, circa 1990. I remember meant a lot to me at that time, and still does. So thank you for writing it, and for sharing about it. This is a treat.

  • @samcro69mp
    @samcro69mp 2 роки тому

    I do remember you playing a house party and Lover boy's, Working for the Weekend was a song you covered. I loved it!

    • @devon-graves-studio-D
      @devon-graves-studio-D  2 роки тому +1

      We played "Only The Lucky" not "Working for the Weekend" I'd hate to have that image in peoples minds :)

  • @Justentime77
    @Justentime77 2 роки тому

    The first time I saw you sing was at a backyard party with a band called Fault Line!

  • @glanglan2687
    @glanglan2687 2 роки тому

    Bravo!! 👏🙌❤️

  • @Stefanos06
    @Stefanos06 2 роки тому

    Thank you so much for this video. Excellent content!

  • @Friday13thMetal
    @Friday13thMetal 2 роки тому

    love this song, I still say Devon it's one of my funeral songs not My grave lol still a great song.

  • @mikemetal4243
    @mikemetal4243 2 роки тому

    Devon, you cannot imagine how much i love this true work of art of a song.
    It really touches me everytime i hear it and after hearing the story behind it i love it even more.
    Hope for a new PW record soon and to see you playing live again.
    I saw you live only one time but it has been such an amazig show.
    Cheers from Italy

  • @Raemphis
    @Raemphis 2 роки тому

    "Being Devon...Malkovich". Freakin' Looooove That Wonderful Musician From Day One .
    Keep it Coming, Dev!

  • @jimmysaboter3
    @jimmysaboter3 2 роки тому +3

    Wow! Loved all those details on the story Devon! I'm quite into your storytelling!
    Still on 8th minute! (Loved the Social Grace trivia!)
    1) That Yamaha Grand Piano was used for tracking "A Psychotic Waltz" Song?
    Edit:
    Oh my God! Loved the rendition of the song, and LOVED that you kept the mistake in the video! We're human after all!
    God dammit i love you dude (no homo).
    Might i ask you just do EVERY SONG you ever released? You could even skype call Brian, Dan, Ward and Norm for some of them! WOULD LOOOOVE THAT!

    • @devon-graves-studio-D
      @devon-graves-studio-D  2 роки тому +3

      Yes, but Dan played that piano on A Psychotic Waltz :)

    • @jimmysaboter3
      @jimmysaboter3 2 роки тому +1

      @@devon-graves-studio-D Aaaah so Dan played it! Thanks for answering that, and please keep those videos coming!
      We also need to make a petition for InsideOut Music to re-release the Deadsoul Tribe and Darkstar albums! I wanna grab everything from you! (Got all PS stuff and a "red cover" version of the "Strange Mind..." album)
      Cheers Devon!

    • @devon-graves-studio-D
      @devon-graves-studio-D  7 місяців тому

      Hey Jimmy, Yes, Dan played that Yamaha Grand on A Psychotic Waltz. In played it on I Remember. Love ya back!

  • @johnrayer4512
    @johnrayer4512 2 роки тому

    this is awesome buddy. thank you so much.

  • @MARIA-B
    @MARIA-B 2 роки тому

    🎼🖤 I REMEMBER 🖤🎼
    I F**** Love❤️ This Song
    Your Magical Energy Doesn't Stop
    In Your Haunting Voice And Music🎼🖤
    But Also In The Way You Speak And Share
    All These Things With Us..
    Thank You🖤🎼

  • @Amysupport
    @Amysupport Рік тому

    I'd like to hear 'Little People' played acoustic and 'Goodbye City Life' re-arranged, shortened! 'Little People 'with flute on the intro and with a flute solo as well! New and fresh! thx. in advance - 'Let's Start A War ' would be great too.

  • @landy-gyebnar
    @landy-gyebnar 2 роки тому

    Devon, you're a great storyteller too! Thank you for the goosebumbps!

  • @eddigsdiscoveries1332
    @eddigsdiscoveries1332 2 роки тому +1

    I remember that Yamaha guitar. Wasn't that the white APX-20? This is definitely one of my favorite of your songs

    • @devon-graves-studio-D
      @devon-graves-studio-D  2 роки тому

      Thanks Eddi! Yes, I believe that's right. Thanks cause that's coming up again ;)

  • @aristheodorou669
    @aristheodorou669 2 роки тому

    Tell us about the THE SHADOW THEORY. Beautiful album. Are we going to hear any more of them?

  • @lino6309
    @lino6309 2 роки тому

    You should, some day, talk about Dead Soultribe "A Murder of Crows"...that album is very special to me!!!

  • @Yiannisdryed
    @Yiannisdryed 2 роки тому

    Oh the memories

  • @brendalackey183
    @brendalackey183 2 роки тому

    I play it most everyday

  • @rhondahood2968
    @rhondahood2968 2 роки тому

    Love it. I love hearing your story as I was off doing my life I missed parts of yours. I’m going to forward this to uncle Mark. I keep in touch with him pretty regularly. I’m sure he would love to see you. Xoxo

  • @ca4129
    @ca4129 2 роки тому

    Thank you

  • @hanswiedenbreiter7652
    @hanswiedenbreiter7652 2 роки тому

    awesome! sang along to this completely. Brings back good memories, insight was pretty cool, too. Maybe some background info on a possibly follow up to the god shaped void in the next video?

  • @68ELENI
    @68ELENI 2 роки тому

    Thank you. :)

  • @imitsus
    @imitsus 2 роки тому

    ❤️

  • @69HELIAS
    @69HELIAS 2 роки тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @heroldboertjens4227
    @heroldboertjens4227 2 роки тому

    That was great. And the performance at the end was a real treat. Such a classic. Is it true that the guys from Deadsoul Tribe did not enjoy playing this song?
    I would not mind learning more about Just like a timepiece. And why did you record it again with DST? I like both versions and to me it’s another classic.

  • @johnrayer4512
    @johnrayer4512 2 роки тому

    great to see your face again

  • @sofiakoutsonika4368
    @sofiakoutsonika4368 2 роки тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @packgrog
    @packgrog 2 роки тому

    Wait, Devon was a fan of Jethro Tull?!?!? That's unpossible!!! :P :D

  • @brendalackey183
    @brendalackey183 2 роки тому

    I'm so glad our dad gave you that guitar recently our Father sent me a Taylor fat bottom

  • @samcro69mp
    @samcro69mp 2 роки тому

    Hi Devon, do you believe your heritage(Native American)has anything to do with your playing the flute or is it because of Jethro Tull, or maybe both? Love you bro, you opened my eyes early and I thank you for it.

  • @allancoffee
    @allancoffee 2 роки тому +1

    "Ask Rick Beato" 😅

  • @timothyzaleski7024
    @timothyzaleski7024 Рік тому

    I of the Storm

  • @thedreamcatalyst2112
    @thedreamcatalyst2112 2 роки тому +1

  • @andreasmerkle1011
    @andreasmerkle1011 2 роки тому

    does a tablature exist to "i remember"?

  • @johnrayer4512
    @johnrayer4512 2 роки тому

    aslan

  • @PlanetRockJesus
    @PlanetRockJesus Рік тому

    You're Debi's brother, right?