RICH RAGS - Dance With Fire Cassingle

Jeff backed off of the music scene and has been spending his time concentrating on other business and artistic projects until the 90's. 1991 proved to be Jeff's return sound development – as a solo artist. "Taking time off has been good in a way. It's given me the opportunity to expand my musical senses as well as other artistic endeavors." After securing a deal with David Peel's Orange Records in NYC, Jeff was given one option: To do a cassette solo-single.

"Dance With Fire" was a composition that Jeff had on the boards when the deal was struck. Needless to say, it made it to the tape. "I didn't want to come across as another "Phil Collins", but I did want to basically do a small solo project. I didn't really have anything to back up to "Dance", but I was messing a bit with a blues tune at the time, and thought it would be good filler. I never wrote anything bluesy before and probably won't again, so I thought what the hell!" The two compositions were mixed down and the project was almost ready to go... Almost!

While all this was taking place, another project was being discussed. A Rich Rags reunion concert. The Rags got together late in the summer of 1990 and played a couple of sets to a small crowd in St. Petersburg, Fl. They loved it! So, we decided to do it again in February 1991. We shared the stage with Deloris Telescope (Kacy's Fab trio with Stevie

Release stats: DANCE WITH FIRE / RICH RAGS
Technical Information:
Rich Rags

Side One
Dance With Fire (J. Levy)
In From The Cold (J. Levy)

Side Two
Below Zero (J. Levy)
Fast Foods/Straight Girl
(Ross, Donniacuo, Scott, Levy)

Performing on this tape:
Jeffery Levy / Drums, Keyboards, Vocals
Kevin Fabbi / Guitars
John Donniacuo / Guitar
Kacy Ross / Guitar, Vocals
Mark Scott / Guitar, Vocal
Nancy Sebek / Vocals
John Comerford / Bass

Produced by
J. Levy, K. Fabbi (K. Ross)

Recorded at ORANGE
Ottawa, Canada 1990
and JMA Studio's, Land O' Lakes, Fl. 1979
Cassingle: "Dance With Fire"
by Rich Rags
Orange Records ORA 0991/C

Currently Available in the U.S and Canada

These are the LIPS that were used on the front cover of the DANCE WITH FIRE Cassette. A friend of ours, kissed sheets of papers for an hour trying to come up with the perfect lip print. Not bad.

Grandmaison and Ricky Wilcox). Finally, a reunion with all the original members. We saw faces we hadn't seen in years and it was good to look around the stage and see all the Rags up there together. Anyway, I let Orange know that a reunion show was scheduled, so to make a long story short, we took some songs from the first Rags E.P., remastered them, put them on the solo tape (along with new age type filler) and bingo – a new Rich Rags project surfaced. Well, not really new. We needed a product. We got one.