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Hodgson, Roger – Open the Door - Open the Door
Identifier
027558
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Open the Door is the fourth album by Roger Hodgson, released by Epic Records and his third and most recent studio one (and his first studio release since 1987). It was recorded mostly in France and features mostly French musicians, many who have played on Excalibur (La Légende Des Celtes) also produced by Alan Simon featuring contributions from Hodgson, as his backup band. This is Hodgson's only solo album to be partially recorded outside The United States.
Personnel
Roger Hodgson: vocals, guitars (tracks 3, 4, 6, 10), 12 string guitar (tracks 1, 2, 7), bass guitar (track 8), keyboards (tracks 1-4, 6, 9), piano (track 6), harmonium (track 5), pipe organ (tracks 8, 9), harpsichord (track 8)
Trevor Rabin: electric guitar, keyboards, vocals (track 2)
Claude Samard: banjo, (track 3) Dobro slide guitar (tracks 3, 4), bouzouki (tracks 6, 7), pedal steel guitar (track 7), oud (track 9)
Manuel Delgado: Spanish guitar (track 9), palmas (track 9)
Dan Ar Braz: arpeggio guitar (track 10)
Laurent Verneret: bass guitar (tracks 1-5, 7, 9, 10)
Alan Thomson: bass guitar (track 6)
Arnaud Dunoyer: Hammond organ (tracks 1, 7, 9, 10)
Olivier Rousseau: piano (tracks 2, 3)
Alan Simon: high whistle (tracks 1, 6), bodhran (track 6), harmonica (track 9)
Loïc Ponthieu: drums (tracks 1-5, 7, 9, 10)), wavedrum (track 9)
Denis Banarrosh: percussion (tracks 1, 3-7, 9, 10)
Gerry Conway: percussion (tracks 1, 6), drums (track 8)
Jeff Phillips: drums (track 6)
Jean Pierre Meneghin: Scottish drums (track 1)
Gurvan Houdayer: Scottish drums (track 1)
Christophe Negre: saxophone (1, 4, 10)
Michel Gaucher: flute (track 9)
Zdenek Rys: oboe (track 6)
Bruno Le Rouzic: bagpipe (track 1)
Pascal Martin: uilleann pipe (tracks 1, 6)
Jean Louis Roques: accordion (tracks 1, 7, 10)
Marco Canepa: Morse code (tracks 1, 10)
Jean-Jacques Milteau: harmonica (track 3)
Dominique Regef: rebec (track 5), Hurdy Gurdy (track 6)
Didier Lockwood: violin (tracks 3, 6, 8, 9)
Pavel Belohlavek: cello (track 6)
Ilana Russell (Alana Cunningham): children's choir
Sierrah Dietz: children's chorus (track 10)
Justine Black: children's chorus (track 10)
Molly Katwman: children's chorus (track 10)
The Symphonic Orchestra of Prague: conducted by Mario Klemens (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8-10)
The Bulgarian Voices "Philippopolis": conducted by Hristo Arabadjiev (tracks 8, 9)
Samples from: speech by Queen Elizabeth II (track 1), Rev. Jesse Jackson (track 3), Ronald Reagan (track 3), Sevik the wolf (track 6)
A description of the experience
Open the Door
Who's to say, who's to know,
Where the ship is going to blow
Taking time beneath the trees
State of mind, state of ease
Easy come, easy go
What a life, what a show
Caught in old familiar ways...
Has our love gone astray?...
Gone away? .. gone away?...
Open the door... Open the door
Open the door - I want to be with you
Open the door - I want to play with you
Do what you want to, be who you want to be
'Cause I don't care what you say or what you do to me
I'm having trouble going a whole day without you
Don't want to live if it's a lifetime without you
Come on give me some sign I can see
Come on give me now - show me something
Open the door - I want to be with you
Open the door - I want to play with you
Open the door - I want to dream with you
Open the door - I want to stay with you now...
Right, right on, easy come, easy come
- easy go - easy come
And I know, yes I know that I'm wanting the world to be one
But we take as we please and we can't see the wood for the trees
But I know, yes I know when I open the door I'll be home
I want to go home, I want to go home...
And I know, yes I know
That I'm wanting the world to be one
But we take as we please
And we can't see
The wood for the trees
But I know, yes I know
When I open the door I'll be free
I want to be free, I want to go home...
Open the door - I want to be with you
Open the door - I want to play with you
Open the door - I want to dream with you
Open the door - I want to stay with you now...
Do what you want to, be who you want to be
'Cause I don't care what you say or what you do to me
I'm having trouble going a whole day without you
Don't want to live if it's a lifetime without you
Come on give me some sign I can see
Come on give me now - show me something
Who's to say, who's to know...