I said 'Just run the tape 3 times, whatever I sing the third time, those are the lyrics.' I really just improvised the lyrics, and as I sang the first 2 times if anything came out of my mouth that I liked I jotted it down. The sun was coming up and we were all totally exhausted. I stepped to the microphone and realized I had no verse lyrics.
We got there at 3 in the morning, we recorded the tracks, and it was time to sing the vocals. Then we played the gig and I hired the same guys to come to this demo session. I madly drove to the gig we were playing, I picked up a guitar and figured out what the chords in my head were and jotted it all down. On the way to the gig that night, driving along the highway in Toronto, it seemed like the sky opened up and the song just came to me (musically and the chorus, I didn't have the verse lyrics yet). The session started at 3 am and was scheduled to go until 6 or 7 in the morning. " I booked a recording session for after our gig one night. He describes how he put together the demo for this song: Eddie didn't have any songs finished and was working as a guitarist for a Canadian singer named Charity Brown. ATV was involved in The Beatles catalog and was a very exciting opportunity, but they wanted to hear a demo of Eddie's songs. Maybe I should go back."Īfter he got the idea for this song, Schwartz was approached by a publishing company called ATV, who were interested in signing him. I haven't been to therapy before or since. It all seemed kind of strange, but I remember walking outside of this therapy session and standing on the doorstep of the building I'd been in, this small house in Toronto, and the title just came to me, Hit Me With Your Best Shot. I went to a session where we punched the pillows for a while. One of the things we did was punch pillows, I guess it had something to do with getting out hostility. He told us: "I was in a kind of weird therapy when I was in my mid-20s, it was called bio-energetics, I believe. Eddie is based in Nashville, but at the time he was a struggling guitarist living in Toronto. He has also written over 200 songs, including "Don't Shed a Tear" by Paul Carrack. Hit Me With Your Best Shot is a song by Pat Benatar which was written by Eddie Schwartz, a successful producer who has worked with Joe Cocker, Carly Simon, The Doobie Brothers and Jeffrey Osbourne.
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