My Sunday Song #415, we are back to Danger Danger and this time around “Six Million Dollar Man” off the band’s fifth album ‘The Return of the Great Gildersleeves. The album is from 2000 and the song was written by Paul Laine, Bruno Ravel and Steve West. It wasn’t a single, but maybe that was a missed opportunity.
The song is from the big nerd side of Paul. I mean you have to be a nerd to write a song about the “Six Million Dollar Man”. Now, he admitted that he was one to me. He had been writing songs for his next album not expecting there to be another Danger Danger album and lo and behold, they did another one and this song wound up on it. There is no hidden meaning behind the song, it is truly about the TV show and even has a shout out to Jamie Summers and Oscar Goldman.
The song has the lines from the T.V. show…”Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better…stronger…faster.” And no, they didn’t get permission to use the audio from the show. Shhh…don’t tell anyone. The song is a rocker, party anthem with killer, powerful drumming by Steve West and some killer guitar work from Bruno and I think the solo was actually done by Paul. He also handled the keys and vocals. There are a lot of electronic, sci-fi type sounds with lasers and robots. The song is meant for fun and delivers in spades.
Give the song a listen and let me know what you think? Have you ever seen the TV show? I grew up with it and had the action figure as well so I love this song as it brings back so many great memories. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful and Happy Sunday.
“Six Million Dollar Man”
You had it all inside your mind
All the questions and the answer
Hid behind the O.S.I
You’re not taking your chances
Six million dollar man
Your suit was turned faded red
Six million dollar man
Jamie Summers left you dead
Treated the girl like she was gold
Nothing works like it used to
All circuits down and lost control
All their promises fooled you
Calling Oscar down at mission control
Don’t put me on hold again
Situation is critical, I’m fallin’ apart
Need my bionic heart to mend…
Solo
Chorus
Written by Paul Laine, Bruno Ravel and Steve West
2 Loud 2 Old Music 
This takes me back to my youth, I remember watching “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman” on TV. Cool fun song to tribute to them.
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Absolutely love it. wish I had a vintage Steve Austin doll. I’d make him a custom Paul Laine jacket to wear.
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