Was 1987 really twenty five years ago? The funny thing was that in L.A., today felt like a “Shade of Winter” kind of day and this Bangles post just wrote itself. Devote yourself to your craft like Hoffs and maybe you discover riches in all you will find. You need to want to have the desire and the same spirited dedication that made Susanna Hoffs learn from the legends that also have inspired you. You have to listen and rediscover the voice inside of you. Susanna’s storied rise to stardom is a lesson for any struggling artist to realize, no one is going to knock on your door and make you a star. Records like “A Hazy Shade of Winter” are the reason Susanna Hoffs became the pop songstress she still is today. The bands timeless rendition was a tribute to the spirit of Simon & Garfunkel’s genius that also help form one of the intricate pop sounds of The Bangles.
A lot of it I figured out it doing research from the music that I loved.”Ī Hazy Shade of Winter” was more than just a cover song single for Top 40 radio’s sake. I went out and got a twelve string Rickenbacker and I figured out you could pick and kind of make that Roger McGuinn sound if you just put some reverb and the treble on an- boom it sounds a little bit like The Byrds. And when I wanted to play guitar and I started listening to The Byrds. I learned to singing along to Joni Mitchell records, The Supremes and to Lulu that’s how I leaned. I learned to sing by singing to records that I loved. I think to just do what ever it takes to find your own voice and be patient. Hoffs described how she, herself, learned the art of songwriting through her own record collection as she recalled in the same interview with Jeff Gemmill when Susanna said, “ So we learned so much from doing covers, now that’s not necessarily the good way to go for everyone some people wake up and their songwriters, they don’t need to study their favorite songs in the way that I had to. But something about that folk rock feel of it and the harmonies really became part of The Bangles sound.” And that song came on and I pitched it to the band to put into our set, which we did and years later we ended up releasing it. The radio was always playing and I had it tuned into the sixties station. I was working in this ceramic factory, by myself, in this dungeon like room. “A Hazy Shade of Winter” for example, when we were starting out we all had day jobs. Some of our sound came out from us doing covers. I still always learn something when I take on a cover song. Why would the Los Angeles based Bangles cover this Paul Simon penned classic? Susana explained to Jeff Gemmill, how their cover of “A Hazy Shade of Winter” came to be, when she said, “F or me a lot of it was learning cover songs, in a way, that I loved to try to figure out and just to get comfortable singing and playing. As you could tell I loved myself some Susanna Hoffs and The Bangles, they soon became the soundtrack of my teenage daydreams. My attraction for Hoffs was so intense she literally had me “Walking like an Egyptian.” And by the way, “Manic Monday” is a beautiful pop rendition of a Prince song. I have to admit my teenage crush on lead vocalist Susanna Hoffs. Usually a Paisley rock band’s cover of an iconic rock song from the sixties wouldn’t get my attention but The Bangles were different. Originally a psychedelically acoustic Simon & Garfunkel single, circa 1966, over twenty years later “A Hazy Shade of Winter” was resurrected by The Bangles for the 1987 soundtrack to Less Than Zero. We’ve always played covers of songs that we loved, so on that note, it made it a little simpler.Don’t Forget the Songs-365: Mach Dos: Day 306 But we had performed “A Hazy Shade Of Winter” in our early club sets, in like 1981-‘82.
HAZY SHADE OF WINTER MOVIE
We didn’t know enough about the movie to know if it was going to make any sense in the film, but ultimately, I think it fits beautifully. She said, “Let’s just use something we already know that we used to do. We were thinking, What can we get done in four days? It was really a tight window.
I think we were actually at a meeting to discuss another video or something else and we got the offer to submit a song for this film. We did not have a lot of time: We were in-between tours, just about to go out again. We didn’t know that much about it other than we knew who some of the creators of the film were and we definitely wanted to be a part of it. We were asked to submit a song for this movie.
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