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"Where's Claire?", are an unsigned original pop/rock band who started way back in 1990 when Ben Fitzgerald (Guitar and Vocals) and Jerry Speiser (Drums) decided they wanted to try writing, recording and performing some original music. Ben and Jerry had originally met during their student years, playing in a band in 1978 while studying music at Melbourne State College. In the 80's, Jerry co-founded and toured the world with the wildly successful band 'Men at Work' achieving huge hit albums and singles including 'Downunder' and 'Who can it be now?' After the explosions stopped; the dust settled and Ben and Jerry had resolved to work together, they were soon joined by guitarist/vocalist Brenden Mason and Andrew Midson (Bass and Vocals). Brenden Mason had been a member of 'Madder Lake' another very successful Aussie band. 'Where's Claire?' then began a sort of 'Wednesday night secret musicians club' that resulted in a great sounding band, quite a few gigs and enough original music to fill two albums. So, with '91 signalling the start of a decade, they started recording their ten choices in Jerry's 8 track home studio. With a years worth of laid back Wednesdays, they almost finished quite a good album. Trouble was, outside relationships, other music and business opportunities; money; and various and sundry other distractions generally got the better of them and so, loved as it was, the project was shelved. Seven years later, after getting his first CD burner and just prior to a trip to Europe, it occurred to Ben to dust off the cassette master and whack the tracks onto CD. Having not spoken to the guys for a while, he sent them a copy each with a note attached - "Remember this?; off to Europe, see ya in a cuppla months!" It was like finding the master tapes from the Beatles sessions nobody knew about, they all thought "Shit, this stuff is great!" So in March of 1999, nearly a decade after writing the songs and with the 'digital revolutcia' now at their disposal, they began another part time 'labour of love'; this time mostly on Mondays. The album was digitized, cleaned up and lots of new parts added and they finally ran it past a mastering engineer in September 2002. They called the album "Long Time Coming..." Check out the artist's website: http://www.wheresclaire.com Track List: 1. Does Anybody Know? 2. Tell Me You Love Me 3. How Many Times? 4. Verse Chorus 5. Something Serious 6. Maybe 7. Calling 8. 15+ 9. Mr Green 10. Men Among Men Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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