It has been a long and amazing journey to not only conceive and write this adaptation, but to also write all the music and lyrics, and play, record, and mix all these songs, and then have them mastered by one of the worlds great engineers, Jay Messina. It has all been a wonderful gift.

This website is also part of my vision that we as musicians need to embrace all this new technology and add it to our creative expression. Remember the days when we use to have inserts in our albums or liner notes that gave our fans more insight into who we were and where our music came from. And the days of concept albums where we created more than just canned singles designed for radio play and commercial success. Animation, Video, Graphics, Sound and interactivity,  can add a whole new dimension to our musical expression and are a new pallet of colors we can paint with. I encourage more artists to share in the creative process online and embrace the technology. This is just the beginning of many wonderful works of art that will come in the future when we all start to work together and share our creative ideas. 

I have gotten to work with so many wonderful talented people in the making of this through the years. I will always be grateful for the experience and to all those that have lent a hand, 

I can only hope that enough people buy this access so I can eventually use the money to mount the complete live performance of 'two cities' as the arena rock show it was always meant to be.  If and when that day comes, you, who have supported me will be the first to hear about it and I will create some sort of special ticket for all of you to be part of it.  pass on a link to the site and share with anyone you might think would enjoy this. And I hope everyone will come to see the final fruition of this project of mine as I now let it out into the world for the first time as my complete thought.

The Making of Two Cities spans over 40 years now and was first created back in our little
apartment in NYC. I wrote and recorded the entire first version of the show in about 4 months. I
used an old 4 track teac recorder and a polymoog for all the tracks.  I hand walked in the final tapes I had made into the NYC management company, Contemporary Communications Corporation, run by David Krebs and Steve Leber. I asked the Leber-Krebs Secretaries out front to shut the phones off and lock the doors to David & steve's office so I could play the show to both of them in it's entirety without interruptions. I left with my first contract.

Over the next 40 years the show was signed 5 times, rough recorded 2 times in different versions, many of the  songs were recorded with about 30 different singers and it was performed in a full Broadway workshop showcase one time. I wrote 7 different versions of the show. my original version, A modernized version, an early narrated version, 2 full Broadway books , one I wrote myself and the other i co-wrote with Juliette Mann, another narrated book with jerry cruncher as the main narrator character and a version with an Anonymous Actor and finally this one. And through all that, it still has never been mounted live or shown to the public! WOW.

And once the pandemic hit, I spent all of 2020 re-recording the entire show in my studio at home. I found singers on line on different web sites and got them to perform on each song. It was a long process finding the right mix of people. I had to make instrumental copies and then sing each song myself and then write instructions and then wait for tracks to be sent back from them and then make revisions of all 25 songs. Then once I had all the final tracks finished, I had to remix the entire show. each of the 25 songs had about 25 tracks that I had already recorded and with the new tracks each song ended up with about 35 tracks of music that I than mixed and sent down to NYC where the amazing and gifted award winning Jay Messina mastered all the songs for me. I than had to bring all the mastered tracks back into my studio again and record all the sound effects and edit the 25 tracks of narration and then re mix and master all of them one final time. Phew!

I spent another several months building the website and doing all the graphics and re-writing and porting over the script and lyrics to the web and figuring out how to create and stream the show and also how to sell and market it all.  I then designed the logos and all the products in the merch store and figured out how to get everything ready to push the PUBLISH button. And finally, I had to decide on what I'd sell it for, probably the hardest thing out of all of it I had to do!  haha.  It started at $12.95, a fair price and worth it to pay for my work.  But then dropped it to $9.95 and finally just wanted people to hear it so I decided if people liked it maybe they would support it and donate whatever they could. But it's all done now and I really hope you enjoy this vision I've had for so many years. this really has been a labor of love and I'm so honored to be able to make it available to all of you finally. If you want to know more about the making of 'two cities' or anything else about me or my music, my creations or anything else ive done in my life, check out the Internet autobiography that I also added.  



And in closing, I can only hope that we as a species on this little planet, hurtling through space and time, will all one day, evolve enough to remember, that the most important thing we all have is, LOVE and EACH OTHER!
    

May All of you and the ones you love Be safe and Be well.

Thanks again, 

Christopher Meredith