Coheed and Cambria In-the-Studio Video Reveals Creative Process, Alcohol Preferences

The next Coheed and Cambria album with a lengthy title, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow, drops Tuesday, but the folks at Camp Coheed have sent Rock Daily readers a little advance treat. Check out exclusive footage from the band's in-studio recording of "Mother Superior" here for a behind-the-scenes look at how a Coheed track is built, from laying down basslines to chugging some whiskey.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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