Chris Caffery - May Day Chris Caffery - All guitars and vocals, keyboards/synthesizers Brian Tichy - Drums Sean McNabb - Bass Produced, engineered and mixed by Chris Caffery @ Face the Music Studios, NY Drums recorded by Brian Tichy Additional drum engineering Aldo Linoble Bass recorded by Sean McNabb Video produced by Wayne Joyner Music and lyrics written by Chris Caffery “We all have times in our lives when we may need to call for help. This help may need to come from friends or family. From the lord or from within yourself. The world has gotten darker and more evil as we enter deeper into cyber space and the future. People and things are not always as they may seem. Images of yourself can even have the mirror show you as a stranger. You may feel at times like you are living a nightmare and the only place you are safe is in your dreams. A role reversal from living the dream and falling asleep into the nightmares. Dark and evil shapes can rise into your life. Ones you never saw coming. They can be demons inside friends, strangers or even yourself. Time to exorcise the demons and reach to the sky for the power within. The only true way to move forward is to give that final goodbye. Not to yourself, or your friends, but the evil inside of all of us. Ignoring the darkness and being saved by the light is the true meaning and message of my May Day…a call for help within myself…because in the end only I can determine whether or not I will live the dream or the nightmare! Peace! Chris Caffery
It's a great song. It's complex musically and genius as well. Complex as our dark mind (mine anyway) and genius as the hidden light inside our heart and soul. It's a day to day challenge. Thank you for your music and beyond 🙏✨🌟
Even a year later, this song still energizes, it’s killer riffs continues to thrill, vocal prowess from growls to high notes, a song that remains an ultimate head banging classic.
Love it ! Hope to see ya soon, TSO and then I can't believe I'm saying it, SAVATAGE, I'd love to see all members tour. 🎸🎸🎸 RIP Criss and Paul greatly missed!
This is an awesome kick ass metal song!!! The music, the lyrics, the message all come together to make one incredible song!! And the video is so powerful! Maybe this’ll be the song that proves to everyone that you’re more than just an amazing guitarist! Congratulations Chris! 😎🎤🎸🖤🤘🎶
Wow! Hey Jon "Moutain King" Oliva! Let Chris sing a song from the next Savatage album. That would be very interesting! Congratulations Chris! Great voice!!!!
For some odd reason Blabbermouth posts this long interview with you and doesn't bother to put the youtube video on there. So I rolled up my sleeves and went to work. I opened a new tab for youtube. Then I copy and pasted your name from Blabbermouth article into the search window, hand typed the words May Day and hit 'Enter'. Not as easy as clicking a link, I assure you. But I did it because I am a long time fan and these are the sacrifices I must endure to support the artists I love. I hope you are proud of me! Alas, all my hard work and psychological trauma paid off. Cool song, I really dig it!
You did it!!! I knew this song would do it!!! You a thought and made it come alive for all of us to enjoy!!! Nothing out there even compares!! Enjoy this success!! So very proud of you!! Yyyeeaa!! You did it!!! 😝😇
We love your lyrics and especially the A10 Warthogs, my husband’s all time favorite bad ass plane congratulations Chris, keep soaring high, we love you, Mom , Major and Wilbs ❣️
I love you explained your lyrics. Im a lyrics person. Completely agree! Awesome song congrats on the release! 👏👏👏👏👏(those are suppose to be claps I can't see them so you probably cant either but they are youtube claps!) lol. Best wishes for success with your new song Caffery xoxoxo.
Listened to it, love it, watched the video, love that too. Another fricking AWESOME record added to my Playlist. Thank you Chris Caffery/Christopher Caffery you are the best 😎😜😘🤘🎸🎤🎶
🔥May Day. Really great tune, great lyrics! Interesting because throughout history the world's greatest cataclysms, such as the "Floods of Noah's day," have occurred cyclically mid May. 🩸🗝😎
Outstanding tune! Great riffs peppered throughout, very progressive sounding too! At times it gets frantic which helps the mood of the song match the title! Nice vocal work as well. You should be proud of a job well done, Chris! ~Mark G David
This song rocks Chris. Your voice sounds awesome. I wish I could see you at some of your gigs in the off season and I wish you would sing at the TSO shows. 💜💜💜
Great song , I am a big fan since the early '90 with savatage . I am writing this looking at one of my favourite metal albums," The Wake of Magellan" . Morphine Child is between my favourite songs of all times . I hope you will work alongside Johnny Lee Middleton in the future .
At the moment it’s easier for me to do releases like this. And to be honest more fun because each song gets attention individually. Thank you for listening and that kind words
How cool to actually release a brand new song titled "May Day", on May Day! That is so cool Chris! And it sounds awesome! What a fantastic job on production you did, and of course on guitars and vocals too! It all sounds killer! Very Powerful and Very Striking!
Chris, this song kicks ass!!! Excellent vocals, excellent guitar work, and an awesome video!! Will this be a surprise number on the upcoming TSO Winter Tour? 😁😁😁😁!!
Hey Chris, last year in December I went to your TSO concert and OH MY GOSH. It was amazing. You are a super awesome player. You are so freaking talented and even though I don’t plan to be a player in a rock band like you are with TSO, you inspire me so much as a 13 year old with performing for someone who aspires to become an actress someday. You are honestly the coolest rock player that I know in this entire world. You put in so much work for everything and anything you do and I love that. I cant wait to see you next year for the TSO Christmas concert! Hope your doing well.❤️❤️ -Audrena :)
Awesome song! Chris your singing is amazing. It would be great if you could sing lead on a song in a Trans-Siberian Orchestra show. I also loved the posts on the making of this song.
Thank you I wish I could sing on that tour it would be fun! Being known as a guitarist always makes the powers that be look over your other abilities. Kinda sucks. Is what it is. Thank you!
@@christophercaffery6029 I love your tone on Poets and Madmen too. I’ve been jamming that all weekend on the guitar you signed for me at the Metal Church show in WI. ! That’s cool on the 1101. I’m using a Eleven Rack, similar type of processor.
Greetings from Germany! Great Song Chris, will there follow a Full new solo record? Can you also Tell something if there is a new doctor butcher record coming, just After oliva confirmed there will be a Last Savatage Album? that would be Great News to hear of 3 Great Bands you Play for to release Albums in the follwing years.
if picasso crafted a painting but used a different name ..then we have the same here so for me this is savatage dr butcher all rolled into one and i can so easily just hear jon singing all these parts like when i listen to black label society with zakk wylde i imagine ozzy singing them it makes it epic over the top same thing happens here for me
Hi Chris, I really like your music. but I don’t want complexity and some kind of confusion of pitfalls, but sincerity. You were beautiful precisely in the sincerity of progressive metal. give him warmth, give him pain, hatred and love, many shades of life. good luck Chris. Complexity is not always good, just like promiscuity, apart from sincerity.
Thank you. I only write and record my music as art. It’s always sincere. It’s why I do the solo music. They are my paintings. My influences were purposely placed in this song as well as all of my different vocal styles. The lyrics were written about a seriously messed up situation that happened to me with an online abuse situation. I used all the complexity to represent the complexity of this situation. Thanks for listening!
There are many meanings of the name! Mayday is an internationally recognized radio word to signal distress. It's used mostly by aircraft and boats, and most of us are happily only familiar with it through TV and fiction. It appears as both an interjection (“Mayday! Mayday!”)
I’m sorry my friend the delay of Savatage has zero to do with me. If I had my way Savatage never would have stopped. No need to whatever me. Have a good day..,
Chris Caffery - May Day
Chris Caffery - All guitars and vocals, keyboards/synthesizers
Brian Tichy - Drums
Sean McNabb - Bass
Produced, engineered and mixed by Chris Caffery @ Face the Music Studios, NY
Drums recorded by Brian Tichy Additional drum engineering Aldo Linoble
Bass recorded by Sean McNabb
Video produced by Wayne Joyner
Music and lyrics written by Chris Caffery
“We all have times in our lives when we may need to call for help. This help may need to come from friends or family. From the lord or from within yourself.
The world has gotten darker and more evil as we enter deeper into cyber space and the future. People and things are not always as they may seem. Images of yourself can even have the mirror show you as a stranger. You may feel at times like you are living a nightmare and the only place you are safe is in your dreams. A role reversal from living the dream and falling asleep into the nightmares.
Dark and evil shapes can rise into your life. Ones you never saw coming. They can be demons inside friends, strangers or even yourself.
Time to exorcise the demons and reach to the sky for the power within. The only true way to move forward is to give that final goodbye. Not to yourself, or your friends, but the evil inside of all of us.
Ignoring the darkness and being saved by the light is the true meaning and message of my May Day…a call for help within myself…because in the end only I can determine whether or not I will live the dream or the nightmare!
Peace!
Chris Caffery
People need Jesus✝️Thank you, Chris. See you Winter Tour, 2023🤘🏻
I'm jonesing for Savatage ughhh soon already please ❤ 🎸
It's a great song. It's complex musically and genius as well. Complex as our dark mind (mine anyway) and genius as the hidden light inside our heart and soul. It's a day to day challenge. Thank you for your music and beyond 🙏✨🌟
Thanks for all the kind words and for listening!
💪🏻🤘🏼😎🥳
this masterpiece deserves to be praised, dear Chris!!!
CHRIS IS AMONGST THE VERY BEST GUITARISTS ON EARTH!!! ALWAYS ONE OF MY FAVORITE AND THE MOST INSPIRING ARTISTS I KNOW OF!!! 🎯😎
Long Live Savatage 🤘
Thank you!
Even a year later, this song still energizes, it’s killer riffs continues to thrill, vocal prowess from growls to high notes, a song that remains an ultimate head banging classic.
Thank you!
This is full of bad assery! The extra bad assery is free! Chris never charges for the extra bad assery!
Man, do I miss Criss Oliva. Just think, what, could’ve been. Sorely Lost forever.
Ditto
sweet!, the mix on this is phenomenal, love the riffies!!! Can't wait for the New Dr Butcher & Brand New Savatage Curtain Call!!!
Thank you!
Awesome anything you do !!
Thank you!
This is really cool! I love the leads!
Thank you!
Chris,Totally love the message in this song! Your voice touches the soul,never stop shining!!!!
Thank you
Love it ! Hope to see ya soon, TSO and then I can't believe I'm saying it, SAVATAGE, I'd love to see all members tour. 🎸🎸🎸 RIP Criss and Paul greatly missed!
Thank you! 🙂
Another masterpeace and he is one of my best guitarist of all time chris caffery rocks
Thank you!
This is an awesome kick ass metal song!!! The music, the lyrics, the message all come together to make one incredible song!! And the video is so powerful! Maybe this’ll be the song that proves to everyone that you’re more than just an amazing guitarist! Congratulations Chris!
😎🎤🎸🖤🤘🎶
🥳🥳
Just..WOW!
😊
Wow!
Hey Jon "Moutain King" Oliva! Let Chris sing a song from the next Savatage album.
That would be very interesting!
Congratulations Chris! Great voice!!!!
🥳😎 thanks
Totally cool. Love everything about this song. It's absolutely perfect and amazing.
Thank you so much!
Holy Shit Batman this song kicks A$$
What a year for new music!!
Thank you ! 🥳
How can it be bad, ofc it is good , it is Chris Caffery! Waiting for the Dr. Butcher album,not to mention the Sava one ;)
Thank you! Hopefully you won’t wait too long for at least one of those! 🙏💪🏻😎🫢
Smoking song Chris! Chorus is gripping and solo is ripping! Perfectly done!
Thank you!
Love and respect, my friends!
🤘🏼
For some odd reason Blabbermouth posts this long interview with you and doesn't bother to put the youtube video on there. So I rolled up my sleeves and went to work. I opened a new tab for youtube. Then I copy and pasted your name from Blabbermouth article into the search window, hand typed the words May Day and hit 'Enter'. Not as easy as clicking a link, I assure you. But I did it because I am a long time fan and these are the sacrifices I must endure to support the artists I love. I hope you are proud of me!
Alas, all my hard work and psychological trauma paid off. Cool song, I really dig it!
Thank you I’ll follow that up with them!
You did it!!! I knew this song would do it!!! You a thought and made it come alive for all of us to enjoy!!! Nothing out there even compares!! Enjoy this success!! So very proud of you!! Yyyeeaa!! You did it!!! 😝😇
Thank you!
😊
I'm a little late but this song is great! Cant get the 'dark shapes are rising' part out of my head!
Thank you!
Great song! ❤️🎶
Thank you!
this keeps me happy till epic new savatage !!!
Thank you!
Cool song. Love the guitar parts. Especially the breakdown at the end.
Thank u Vulton!
Awesome song and good message...sounds killer..
Thank you!
Chris, love your voice.
Love this music!
Your solos...
Love the message of this song.❤
Thank you
We love your lyrics and especially the A10 Warthogs, my husband’s all time favorite bad ass plane congratulations Chris, keep soaring high, we love you, Mom , Major and Wilbs ❣️
Thank you
What an incredible song with a powerful video!!!
Thank you
Cool!
Thanks!
Thanks for carrying the torch for Cris O.
Thank you Paul!
Great video and great song!
Thank you!
I love you explained your lyrics. Im a lyrics person. Completely agree! Awesome song congrats on the release! 👏👏👏👏👏(those are suppose to be claps I can't see them so you probably cant either but they are youtube claps!) lol. Best wishes for success with your new song Caffery xoxoxo.
Thank you!
Listened to it, love it, watched the video, love that too. Another fricking AWESOME record added to my Playlist. Thank you Chris Caffery/Christopher Caffery you are the best 😎😜😘🤘🎸🎤🎶
Thank you!
Awesomeness Mr. Caffery. 🤘🔥🤘
Thank you!
Blown away by the musical arrangement and lineup of artists on this awesome single! The lyrics are classic Christopher Caffery genius 🤘🎸🎤🖤
Thank you!
Just great!!
Thank you!
Awesome tune Chris! You rule my friend! :)
Thank you Wayne!
You rule too!
From the demo comes this MASTERPIECE!!!!!!💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Thank you!
AWESOME CHRIS!!!
Thanks! 😊
Great song, going on the workout playlist
Thank you Ryan!
🔥May Day. Really great tune, great lyrics! Interesting because throughout history the world's greatest cataclysms, such as the "Floods of Noah's day," have occurred cyclically mid May. 🩸🗝😎
This is another serious hit, awesome guitars and vocals.
Thank you
This is amazing song Chris!
Thank you
Awesome song Chris always enjoy your tunes
Thanks Darren!
This made my day,thank you
Thank you!
Chris, your voice is absolutely incredible. Like, seriously perfect!
Thank you!
Killer tune!! Really well done. I hear your roots in Savatage come through but also it is very much you!!
Thank you!
Great words and great music. Thanks Chris.
Thank you!
Cool!!
Thank you
let’s go Chris. I’m gonna see you with Cobra Caff you better play this.
Outstanding tune! Great riffs peppered throughout, very progressive sounding too! At times it gets frantic which helps the mood of the song match the title! Nice vocal work as well. You should be proud of a job well done, Chris! ~Mark G David
Thank you!
This song rocks Chris. Your voice sounds awesome. I wish I could see you at some of your gigs in the off season and I wish you would sing at the TSO shows. 💜💜💜
I wish I could sing at the Tso shows too! Thank you!
WOW!
🙂
🙌🏼
Well done CC! Congrats on the release on the day of the name!
Thank you!
Really amazing evolution of your work. Love the harmonies.
Thank you Adam!
Go Chris!
🥳
Great song , I am a big fan since the early '90 with savatage . I am writing this looking at one of my favourite metal albums," The Wake of Magellan" . Morphine Child is between my favourite songs of all times . I hope you will work alongside Johnny Lee Middleton in the future .
Thank you !
🤘🤘
🥳😎
To a new album?? its great song!
At the moment it’s easier for me to do releases like this. And to be honest more fun because each song gets attention individually. Thank you for listening and that kind words
Kick-ass! Nice work, Chris!!
Thank you!
Great solo there, your solos have always been memorable.
Thank you!
Sweet.
🥳
Awesome as usual ❤
🎉
How cool to actually release a brand new song titled "May Day", on May Day!
That is so cool Chris! And it sounds awesome! What a fantastic job on production you did, and of course on guitars and vocals too! It all sounds killer! Very Powerful and Very Striking!
Yeah it’s actually why I didn’t have an even more detailed video with band footage because I couldn’t move May Day! 🤣
Awesome! 🤘🖤
Thank you sir!
Sounds killer! Love your vocals and riffs, man!
Thank you!
🤘🏼🤘🏼
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Another great song Chris!!
Thank you
Excellent 👍
🥳thank you
Epic song Chris! Awesome vocals, riffs and soloin 🤘🔥🤘🔥
Thank you
Killer track guys! Awesome.
🥳😎
Great song!
Thank you
@@christophercaffery6029Your welcome!
Sounds Great Chris!!!
Thanks!
Chris, this song kicks ass!!! Excellent vocals, excellent guitar work, and an awesome video!! Will this be a surprise number on the upcoming TSO Winter Tour? 😁😁😁😁!!
Thanks Mike!
Fantastic! 👍🎸💖
Thank you!
Hey Chris, last year in December I went to your TSO concert and OH MY GOSH. It was amazing. You are a super awesome player. You are so freaking talented and even though I don’t plan to be a player in a rock band like you are with TSO, you inspire me so much as a 13 year old with performing for someone who aspires to become an actress someday. You are honestly the coolest rock player that I know in this entire world. You put in so much work for everything and anything you do and I love that. I cant wait to see you next year for the TSO Christmas concert! Hope your doing well.❤️❤️
-Audrena :)
Thank you for the kind words!
@@christophercaffery6029 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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I loved it! Cant wait for a full album!
Thank you!
Reminds me of vintage Stryper.
Thanks! Their early music was really cool and they were an amazing live band!
Awesome song! Chris your singing is amazing. It would be great if you could sing lead on a song in a Trans-Siberian Orchestra show. I also loved the posts on the making of this song.
Thank you I wish I could sing on that tour it would be fun! Being known as a guitarist always makes the powers that be look over your other abilities. Kinda sucks. Is what it is. Thank you!
Great job 🤘🤩🤘
Thank you
Great song. Congratz with the release. You rule.The guys of the rythm sections did a great job too 🤘
Thank you!
Great🤟 chris
& bitte, bitte hoffentlich noch nachlegen mit Savatage😊
Kann doch nicht so schwer sein
Awesome Chris! Love it
Thanks!
COOL
😎
SIIICK
Thanks!
Whats up with the new Savatage album? The world needs new Savatage!
Awesome stuff Chris! How about a rig run down? ❤
I can do that! For this actually the guitars are all an 1101. I used a v, a les paul, a Strat and an sg
Thank you.
@@christophercaffery6029 I love your tone on Poets and Madmen too. I’ve been jamming that all weekend on the guitar you signed for me at the Metal Church show in WI. ! That’s cool on the 1101. I’m using a Eleven Rack, similar type of processor.
Poets I was using Marshalls for rhythm. Jackson’s and the Criss oliva guitar
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Greetings from Germany! Great Song Chris, will there follow a Full new solo record?
Can you also Tell something if there is a new doctor butcher record coming, just After oliva confirmed there will be a Last Savatage Album? that would be Great News to hear of 3 Great Bands you Play for to release Albums in the follwing years.
Thank you. Right now I’m just recording songs one at a time it is actually more fun for me to create them this way!
Let’s just try to get one done first 🥴🙏
if picasso crafted a painting but used a different name ..then we have the same here so for me this is savatage dr butcher all rolled into one and i can so easily just hear jon singing all these parts like when i listen to black label society with zakk wylde i imagine ozzy singing them it makes it epic over the top same thing happens here for me
Thank you Paul!
Great song is there new Savatage coming?!?!!
Thank you….Savatage, I really hope so!
Hi Chris, I really like your music. but I don’t want complexity and some kind of confusion of pitfalls, but sincerity. You were beautiful precisely in the sincerity of progressive metal. give him warmth, give him pain, hatred and love, many shades of life. good luck Chris.
Complexity is not always good, just like promiscuity, apart from sincerity.
Thank you.
I only write and record my music as art. It’s always sincere. It’s why I do the solo music. They are my paintings. My influences were purposely placed in this song as well as all of my different vocal styles. The lyrics were written about a seriously messed up situation that happened to me with an online abuse situation. I used all the complexity to represent the complexity of this situation.
Thanks for listening!
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😘
🙂
The title is too misleading. Typically you refer to "International Workers' Day" as May Day.
There are many meanings of the name!
Mayday is an internationally recognized radio word to signal distress. It's used mostly by aircraft and boats, and most of us are happily only familiar with it through TV and fiction. It appears as both an interjection (“Mayday! Mayday!”)
Plus in America our Labor Day is the first Monday in Sept! 🥳
@@christophercaffery6029 Whatever. Just give us long overdue Savatage.
I’m sorry my friend the delay of Savatage has zero to do with me. If I had my way Savatage never would have stopped. No need to whatever me. Have a good day..,
hello im watching.