Album Notes

Blick Van Glory is the rock and roll invention of filmmaker Todd Edwards, who co-created the 2006 hit movie Hoodwinked for which he also wrote 10 original songs including Red Is Blue performed by Ben Folds. Although music was always in his peripheral, Todd began as a filmmaker. In 1999, just a couple years after graduating college, his first movie Chillicothe premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival to outstanding reviews and packed audiences. Todd also starred as the lead actor in the film, and wrote one original song, 'Midnight.' But as Todd quickly learned, the success of a festival run does not a movie career make. For the next few years as he struggled to get a second film off the ground, he and screenwriting partner Peter Bedgood began performing music in coffee shops around Los Angeles under the name Milk the Spider. “We wrote about 100 songs, and had about 50 fans. So that's like...2 songs per fan if you do the math.”

In 2002 Todd went into hibernation with a small group who spent three years making Hoodwinked starring Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close and Patrick Warburton. The movie went on to open number 2 at the box office and become a global hit—becoming the most successful independent CGI movie to date. During the production Todd worked with composer/producer John Mark Painter (of Fleming and John) on ten original songs. For Blick Van Glory's premier album, The Search for Quest, Todd turned to Painter once again to produce. “John has been my secret weapon...I wrote the songs and devised the parts, and he performed most of the instruments and brought it together as a producing genius. The album title comes from Peter Bedgood. Back when we were shooting our first movie, it was his tagline for a bad sequel that doesn’t yet exist. Tron 2: The Search for Quest—that sort of thing. The alternative way of saying it was ‘The Quest for Searching.’ I held onto that in my mind and when I was exploring themes for the album it suddenly became the top choice for a title.”

Todd drew from his songwriting heroes John Lennon, Morrissey and Bono. “It is a loose kind of storytelling where all the songs sort of relate to each other on some level. I would look at my favorite albums like Achtung Baby and The Cure’s Head On the Door, and take note of what made them work for me so well as a listener. What keeps me coming back to these albums ten, twenty years later? There are certainly the deeper levels that made me a fan, but for me, the best albums never forget that aesthetic quality… that lean, unapologetic entertainment factor.”