"One Stage Before", Al Stewart by Michela Vazzana Feat Lucas Ballesteros

Here's my 5th cover of an Al Stewart's song. It wasn't the easiest one I made mainly because of the low key for my avarage range, and... I'm a woman. I've always loved this song, kinda "ghostly" and misterious. I love the arrangemements and always been in love with Tim Renwick's solo! Here all the instruments have been played by the talented LUCAS BALLESTEROS and I think he did an amazing job, specially with this epic solo. The video was a challenge too, 'cause I decided to overlay an original video by Al singing OSB live in Capitol Theater in 1978! You'll see Adam Yurman here playing, but you hear Lucas Ballesteros. It was pretty hard to sync and I coldn't do better than this... seing Al back then, singing on top of my version, it's pretty touching for me.. "IT SEEMS TO ME AS THOUGH I'VE BEEN UPON THIS STAGE BEFORE"... ! This is simply a magic and evocative song, and hope you like what you hear and see. Enjoy! "One Stage Before" has been written and composed by Al Stewart for the album "Year Of The Cat" in 1976, produced by Alan Parsons. ONE STAGE BEFORE (lyrics) It seems to me as though I've been upon this stage before And juggled away the night for the same old crowd These harlequins you see with me, they too have held the floor As here once again they strut and they fret their hour I see those half-familiar faces in the second row Ghost-like with the footlights in their eyes But where or when we met like this last time I just don't know It's like a chord that rings and never dies For infinity And now these figures in the wings with all their restless tunes Are waiting around for someone to call their names They walk the backstage corridors and prowl the dressing-rooms And vanish to specks of light in the picture-frames But did they move upon the stage a thousand years ago In some play in Paris or Madrid? And was I there among them then, in some travelling show And is it all still locked inside my head For infinity And some of you are harmonies to all the notes I play Although we may not meet still you know me well While others talk in secret keys and transpose all I say And nothing I do or try can get through the spell So one more time we'll dim the lights and ring the curtain up And play again like all the times before But far behind the music you can almost hear the sounds Of laughter like the waves upon the shores Of infinity