RealTobacco
Once upon a time there was a band called Realto.
Once upon a time there was a band called Tobacco Road.
Put them together and what have you got? RealTobacco that’s what.
RealTobacco are
Nev - Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Percussion.
Daz – Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Percussion, Sequencer Programming.
RealTobacco is an ongoing project of both Nev and Daz writing and recording original material in their own distinctive style. The guys played together in Realto in the early 80’s and then again throughout the 90’s in Tobacco Road. The idea behind RealTobacco was to come up with a CD’s worth of songs to share with friends and family but the songs they are producing are far too good to keep on a personal basis and it looks like there may be a few gigs in the future?
The style of RealTobacco is a real mixed bag, the first song recorded was an old tune of Nev’s called Somethings Gonna Change, to Daz it sounds like something The Doors would have recorded. Rachel a friend from Holland ( A real life Dutch New Romantic) commented on the track and said it could have been a lost Eric Clapton recording.
Smile was written by Daz after playing Out Of The Blue by The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) one afternoon at work. Daz got influenced and as soon as he got home sat down in the studio and wrote the song. It does have a feel of Real Love by The Beatles which Jeff Lynne did produce. Daz’s brother Robert commented on the track saying it should be entered into the Eurovision Song Contest, he is even willing to put up the money to register it for next years competition LOL
Darkness is a remake of an old Realto favourite. As Daz was rehearsing a lot with Will for 2B40, The UB40 tribute band (Duo) he got inspired to re-record Darkness in the style of UB40.
Another Realto remake is Moonlight Girl, probably one of Realto fans favourites, it was always being shouted out for at gigs. Basically Nev and Daz have tried to keep it as close to the original as possible.
When the guys were in Tobacco Road they wrote a song called Midnight with Johnny Green, a great song about travelling home in the middle of the night. The recording of this song was never that good as it was done on an old 4 track recording studio back in 1994. Mastered onto high quality cassette tape, no matter how high the quality you still get hiss? Anyhow RealTobacco have re-done this song but think they need to poach Johnny Green to come and sing the high bits lol.
There are two versions of a song written by Nev called Truth From The Lies. One with a full sound including big drums, bass etc, the other being a more softer acoustic version. The song is about a lad getting advice from his Old Man about the sort of girl he should find, We wonder weather Nev’s Old Man ever gave him this advice?
The latest recording is another old song by Nev called Morning Blues, all about an old rocker who seems to be down on his luck, a comment was made by Dave Carter – Guitarist from Daz’s old 9 piece Funk Band Rhythm Method. He said it was like something Gary Moore would have recorded, and the Spanish feel at the end of the song is pure genious.
A beautiful classical guitar themed song called Polynesian Sunset is included in the pickings. This was a song composed by Nev and Johnny Green from their days as Casino.
There are two more songs in progress at present, Dreams a song about people who long to be doing things rather than the things they are doing at present and Setting Sails a song about a woman who is starting over. The lads are excited about these two songs and are itching to get them finished.
