What is the process of writing a Spin Doctors song?
I think Chris says it best, so here’s what he said in a 1996 interview [annotated], “We write in all different combinations in the band except that I am a partner on every song because I write all of the words. So it will be me and Anthony the guitar player [or Eric these days and way back when too], or me and Aaron the drummer, or me and Mark, or a couple of them and me. Sometimes I’ll write a song and bring it into the band and they will help me finish it. No matter who wrote the beginning of the song, we always end up at some point in a room together working it out, arranging and finishing it off. Everybody comes up with their own part . . . We write together and share the publishing.” So most songs are credited as “written by Spin Doctors”, even for songs such as “Forty or Fifty” where the music was written enough be Aaron for most bands to have written, “written by Comess/Barron.” Chris explains that the band does this because, “that keeps a band together when you feel you are par
