Andrew McMahon began his musical career as the lead vocalist and pianist for the Orange County piano rock band Something Corporate . The primary impulse behind McMahon’s solo project, Jack’s Mannequin, was a song he recorded in December 2003 titled “Locked Doors”. He felt the song had too different a style from previous Something Corporate material to be one of their songs. He realized that if he ever decided to release it, it would be on a solo album rather than a Something Corporate record. Exhausted from months of touring in late summer 2004, the band decided to take a temporary break. During his time off, McMahon laid down piano and vocal tracks for a song on Hidden in Plain View ‘s Life in Dreaming and two songs on Tommy Lee ‘s Tommyland: The Ride .
Recording of ‘Locked Doors’
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