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Worlds Collide In New Wine-Related Music Vid (And YOU Can Win Some Free Tunes!)3 min read

Posted on December 26, 2011December 25, 2011 by 1WineDude

in commentary, giveaways, wine tasting

The first thing most people over the age of twenty-five think of when you ask them to name a song about wine is probably UB40’s Red Red Wine, which is ironic because they’re all totally drinking beer in the vid for that tune.

In a similarly ironic case of music-meets-wine creative worlds colliding, the band I’ve been playing in for… well… for a long time (some of you will remember us as the dudes who recorded a rock version of the Snow Miser/Heat Miser song, and a reggae/dub take on the Oompa Loompa Theme – we’re kinda into the holidays), has just released a video (available for your viewing pleasure below, after the jump) for a tune titled Wine Kissing Days.

The ironic part: the song is about the social pleasures of sharing wine (a near-constant theme among these virtual pages), was filmed in part at local PA producer Chaddsford Winery (which has been profiled here) BUT… apart from playing bass on the tune I had nothing whatsoever to do with it. More on that in a minute or two. Also, since we know that the music played during wine tasting impacts the qualities that people recall about the wine, if I were a tasting room manager I’d buy a few copies (you know, like, 10,000 or so) of this song. Just sayin’.

Anyway, you can hit up iTunes to grab the tune (and the album from which it comes, “Tricky, Seabass & the Hun” – and damn, it sure makes me feel old to even talk about the conceit of an album at this point), but I’m giving away a copy of the new Steve Liberace Band CD (another near-ancient conceit!) to three lucky randomly-selected commenters!…

Back to the irony:

Wine Kissing Days has lyrics that evoke a wine-tasting note (“tobacco, & leather, & pepper I’ve found”) but I had zero lyrical responsibility for the tune – our head-honcho-singer-songwriter Steve Liberace happens to live about one mile as-the-crow-flies from Chaddsford Winery in PA.

The band has played events at Chaddsford before, and Steve has done his fair share of hanging out there drinking vino (and hanging out at his home drinking their vino), and basically the song is about the general life-lovin’ positive vibes you feel when getting buzzed on good wine with good friends (for more on Chaddsford, check out my interview with winemaker Eric Miller, and the feature on PA’s vintage-of-a-lifetime 2007 reds; for more SL Band, check out the vid for “When You Turn Blue” which is a slightly darker song, being about drowning someone and all that).

The vid for Wine Kissing Days was produced, filmed and directed by the intrepid team at AverageEnthusiast.com and features portions captured on-location (during a rare November snowstorm) at Chaddsford Winery as well as some live action of the band “rocking out” as my daughter likes to term it. For more of the band-meets-wine thang, check out my Summer Solstice music festival field-test of boxed wine, and the 20-year Merlot retrospective and on-the-back-patio gig at Peconic Bay Winery in Long Island). While I’m pretty sure that the tee-shirt-over-long-sleeves fashion choice will eventually come back to haunt us, I’m also pretty sure that the MTD bass guitar I’m playing will always look better than I will.

As for the giveaway:

Leave a comment telling us about your favorite wine-related or wine-inspired tune, and in one week I will randomly select three winning comments at random whose authors will each receive a CD copy of Tricky, Seabass & the Hun.  Enjoy the vid – bonus points if you can find the lady heading to the ladies room behind the band in the live shots…

Cheers!

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19 thoughts on “Worlds Collide In New Wine-Related Music Vid (And YOU Can Win Some Free Tunes!)3 min read”

  1. JetJill says:
    December 26, 2011 at 1:05 pm

    I will definitely have to find the rocked-out Heat Miser. but what about a remake of my all-time favorite wine song: Don Ho's "Tiny Bubbles"?

    1. 1WineDude says:
      December 26, 2011 at 1:11 pm

      JetJill – thanks. I will float the Tiny Bubbles idea to Steve. Get it? Float… Bubbles… Ok, I'll stop now… ;)

  2. Gary says:
    December 26, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    Will have Tricky, Seabass & the Hunn in our tasting room rotation! Good Stuff.

    Would have to say Me & My Wine from one of the best all time Rock & Roll albums High 'n Dry by Def Leppard would be my choice. http://youtu.be/5irgYeDM2qU "Oh, me and the boys have been drinking Feeling like this is the wrong time for thinking All I can say is I'm doing fine with just me and my wine" Come on, they just don't write lyrics like that anymore? LOL

    1. 1WineDude says:
      December 26, 2011 at 5:06 pm

      Gary – AWESOME pick!

  3. Fpkjr says:
    December 27, 2011 at 7:32 am

    For what it's worth I thought of "Miss You" by Rolling Stones
    In the song he sings "bring a case of wine, dont mess around like we use to"
    The Glimmer Twins rock!

    1. 1WineDude says:
      December 27, 2011 at 8:14 am

      Thanks, Fpkjr – woo-hew-wheeeee-hew-wooo-ah-wooooooo, woo-hew-wheeeee-hew-wooo-ah-wooooooo, woo-hew-wheeeee-woooo-hoooooooooo :)

  4. winebratsf says:
    December 27, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    The obvious choice here would be Red Red Wine by UB40 but I'm going to go further than that and say Two More Bottles of Wine by Emmylou Harris.

    Get your toes tapping, because it's alright, it's midnight, and I've got two more bottles of wine!

    Which pretty much sums up my tagline:
    Screw it! More wine!

    And of course as I typed this Scenes from an Italian Restaurant floods my head…

    1. 1WineDude says:
      December 27, 2011 at 5:19 pm

      @winebratsf – Wow – nice shout out to the 80s! As for the 2nd pick, I've soured on Billy Joel lately but that entire album (The Stranger) is still awesome. Cheers!

      1. winebratsf says:
        December 27, 2011 at 5:21 pm

        ahh that's how I roll. Seems whenever I think of a song it's from my totem decade! ;-)

        1. 1WineDude says:
          December 27, 2011 at 5:48 pm

          @winebratsf – I’m stuck on the late 70s / early 80s at the moment, but that’s because I received one of the new RUSH box sets for Xmas… ;)

          1. winebratsf says:
            December 27, 2011 at 5:56 pm

            I'm a little disturbed that you didn't ALREADY have every RUSH box set ever issued!

            1. 1WineDude says:
              December 27, 2011 at 6:04 pm

              Well… These are *new* box sets…

  5. Helene Kremer says:
    December 29, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    I'll say Red Red Wine also, which *most* people know as by UB40 (hey, I'm an 80's gal too!), but I also appreciate it done by the man who wrote the song – Neil Diamond!! ;)

    1. 1WineDude says:
      December 29, 2011 at 6:16 pm

      Thanks, Helene – another shout out to the great ND!

  6. Helene Kremer says:
    December 30, 2011 at 1:59 am

    Ooh, sorry, but I found the winner here in the late Francis Albert Sinatra's song about aging:

    And now I think of my life as vintage wine
    >from fine old kegs
    >from the brim to the dregs
    And it poured sweet and clear
    It was a very good year
    It was a mess of good years

    1. 1WineDude says:
      December 30, 2011 at 7:51 am

      Nice one, Helene!!

  7. Anthony Ianni says:
    January 2, 2012 at 11:07 am

    "Pass the Wine Sophia Loren". From the expanded version of Exile on Main Street. "I’m glad to be alive and kicking
    I’m glad to hear my heart’s still ticking
    So pass me the wine, baby, and let’s make some love".
    http://youtu.be/IZNVfE8-stE

    1. 1WineDude says:
      January 2, 2012 at 12:04 pm

      Nice one, Anthony!

  8. 1WineDude says:
    January 2, 2012 at 7:57 pm

    Aaaaaaand we have our winners! Thanks for the comments, everyone – and Happy New Year!

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