Tyketto
Tyketto is a hard rock band based out of New York City. The group was put together in 1987 by former Waysted vocalist Danny Vaughn, Brooke St. James (guitar), Jimi Kennedy (bass), and Michael Clayton (drums) completed the lineup.
By 1990, the band had signed to Geffen Records and released their debut album Don't Come Easy, which included the successful single "Forever Young." Musically, the album was somewhere between Whitesnake and Bon Jovi, and Tyketto opened for the former on many bills. However, the rise of the grunge sound in 1991 saw Tyketto's hopes of a big breakthrough begin to recede. Jimi left the band and was replaced by Jamie Scott. Their second album was rejected by Geffen and finally emerged in 1994 under the title Strength in Numbers on CMC International in the USA and Music for Nations elsewhere in the world.
The following year, Vaughn left the band to look after his wife, who had developed cancer, and was replaced by former Tall Stories vocalist Steve Augeri. (Augeri later became lead vocalist for Journey.) This line-up released Shine (which was a departure from their classic sound) in 1995, again on CMC / Music for Nations. However, dwindling audiences and the changing landscape of the rock industry saw the band split up in 1996, releasing the live album Take Out & Served Up Live as a swan song, having never really broken through. The various band members went onto other projects: most notably Vaughn, Clayton, and Scott would reunite in Vaughn. Vaughn would eventually start releasing material under his own name in 2007.
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ALBUMS
- Dig in Deep released: 2012
- Take Out & Served Up Live released: 1996
- Strength in Numbers released: 1994
- Don't Come Easy released: 1991
- Shine released:
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Ain't That Love
by: TykettoWell I can't stop my hands from shaking, when you call me and you want to meet
And I get to the corner an hour before
Just to watch you coming down the street
If you don't want me, if you don't call, to tell me what's been on your mind
I'll be breaking my windows and climbing my walls
Drinking whiskey till it makes me blind
Bridge:
I've been kicked and I've been beaten on since I don't know when
I can only find one reason why I'd put myself through that again
Chorus:
Well, I think I'm going crazy (ain't that love)
Bending over backwards (ain't that love) just ain't enough
I don't know what you were thinking of but
If that ain't love, I don't know what is
Well I listen to your momma bitching, while she's blowing smoke into my eyes
And your daddy keeps his pistol loaded, right behind his dress rehearsal smile
You use your double edged razor tongue, to try and keep me in my place
Why do I always kiss your lips, when I really want to slap your face?
(bridge)
(chorus)
(Solo)
Ah, it's a sad sad story
When the sun goes down and I'm getting home
You're waiting to give me your demands
Don't even look at my take-home pay, I just put that money in your hands - hey
(bridge)
(chorus repeats 2x)
(Ain't that love) Said I don't know what is
(Ain't that love) Don't need no mama comin' to my house
standin' on my porch, kickin' my door down
(Ain't that love) Comin' [with wet hands]
I don't know, I don't know know, yeah