After some early trauma in my teenage years, I began a lifelong quest for truth. In university, I could sense intuitively and empathically that some people were more evolved, offering meaningful answers and deeper connections.
The turning point came one day when I visited a counselor, intending only to drop a class. She asked, āIs there anything else you want to talk about?ā As I looked at her, an explosion of light energy erupted inside meāso strong that even she felt it. From that moment forward, I carried a radiant energy in my solar plexus, accompanied by lucid dreams, premonitions, and visions that seemed to open windows into other dimensions.
Growing up in the 1980s, Billy Idolās music was one of the big sparks that lit up my teenage years. The mix of energy, style, and creative flair in his videos stood outāraw rock spirit combined with artistic presentation. And of course, the guitar sounds of Steve Stevens in Eyes Without a Faceā¦ unforgettable. That flashy mid-song guitar solo was always one of my favorite moments in music, and I long dreamed of recreating that energy.
In fact, one of my best friends once said to me, āyou sound exactly like Billy Idol.ā That comment stuck in my mind, and in some ways, it planted the seed for this project decades later.
Fast forward to today, and I finally took the plunge. I started working in Cubase, recording vocals and instruments, and shaping the arrangement into my own interpretation. Iāve always believed that when you really master a piece of music, you live inside itāyou feel the energy, the essence, the pulse of what made it great. Thatās what I tried to capture here.
The project also expanded visually. I worked in Blender 3D to create artistic animations, and used DaVinci Resolve for mixing the video and shaping the final presentation. Music and visuals came together in ways that surprised even meāit started to take on a life of its own.
Curtis Good (Kamloops) and Laurie Jean Fraser (Lake Country, BC) contributed acting samples, adding texture to the narrative side of the video.
What began as a personal passion turned into something much biggerāpart tribute, part reinterpretation, part collaboration.
And because I teach music and video arts to kids, I also slightly modified the lyrics to keep them suitable for everyone, while weaving in a few new touches that connect with the times weāre living in now.
This is more than just a coverāitās my journey through Eyes Without a Face. I invite you to check it out and experience how music from the past can still inspire creativity, connection, and something fresh today.
