“Hey Now” by Tantric

"Hey Now" was the first single from After We Go, the second album by American rock band Tantric, sent out on Maverick in December 2003 ahead of the record. The band had planned to start writing that album once a headlining tour wound up in San Francisco in April 2002, and singer Hugo Ferreira found a co-writer for these words close to home: Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt. Both came up in Hudson, Massachusetts, a small town where their mothers were friends, and Ferreira was a regular at the Bettencourt house, where he got to play Nuno's guitars.

The rest of the band, Todd Whitener, Jesse Vest and Matt Taul, wrote their own instrumental parts. By the band's account the song came out of a turbulent stretch in the making of the album, and that post-grunge churn is all over it.

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