"The Warrior”" – SCANDAL/Patty Smyth (bass tab & cover) - FRANKS BASS COVERS

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Released: June 1984 from the album ‘Warrior’

Bass
I added a few runs but mostly stayed true to the tab.

The Song:
This was written by Holly Knight along with Nick Gilder of "Hot Child In The City" fame. With the battle/love theme, the song is similar to Pat Benatar's "Love Is A Battlefield," which Knight also wrote.

The song went to number seven in the United States and number one in Canada

This was the biggest hit for Scandal, whose lead singer Patty Smyth had a #2 US hit in 1992 with "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough," a duet with Don Henley.

Smyth married tennis star John McEnroe in 1997.

There are some intriguing lines in this song that don't necessarily make sense, notably, "Follow me stereo jungle child." Chock full of vowels, these are great lines to sing, which is why they're there.

In the songs video Smyth appears in body paint and a short haircut, making the appropriately cheesy finger pistol gestures during the "bang bang" parts, a bit that Scandal's concert goers would imitate whenever they played the song live.

Following the end of Scandal, Smyth was invited by her friend Eddie Van Halen to join the band Van Halen to replace David Lee Roth as lead singer.