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David Baerwald and David Ricketts began working together writing and recording songs in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s as a hobby while Ricketts worked as a painter and Baerwald as a clerk.

“I left an old Remington typewriter on the floor behind his couch, and would write down some lyrics or something while he would construct these beautiful spooky electronic tracks,” Baerwald wrote in response to a question at the Baerwald fan website dbinfosource.com. “I’d fall asleep on the couch while he programmed drums until it was time to sing something, at which point he'd give me a cup of coffee, a microphone, a pair of headphones, and three tracks to overdub vocals.”

The finished product was the masterpiece album “Boomtown,” embossed with rare lyrical sophistication, full of songs about Los Angeles and the wretches that inhabited the city during the ’80s.

The first single, “Welcome to the Boomtown,” cracked the top 40 at No. 37, and a second single, “Ain’t So Easy,” reached No. 51.

The Great Miss is “A Rock For [Four?] the Forgotten,” which introduces the listener to four troubled souls who drink at a bar called the Firefly. There’s the failed writer resigned to his fate; a mean old man trying to wash away his sorrow; and the menacing, babbling Soapbox Man. The fourth character is the bartender. The other three smile when he pours their drinks, and they agree he is a Rock for the Forgotten, but as Baerwald wrote at http://www.dbinfosource.com, “He is the stable presence in all these lives, but the unspoken truth behind it is that he's just as lost as they are.”

Ricketts’ musical backdrop is funky with heavy bass and weird percussion sounds, reminiscent of the first few seconds of Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly,” and guitar feedback right before the lyrical climax about the down-and-outers coming alive again. With Baerwald’s eerie lead vocal, it’s easy to imagine the Firefly as a dimly lit dungeon.

Some have compared the characters on the “Boomtown” album to the drug addicts, prostitutes, child rapists, and other slimy characters in Bret Easton Ellis’ nauseating novel “Less Than Zero,” which also takes place in Los Angeles in the 1980s. According to Baerwald, the resemblance is “coincidental,” and his “book of the record” to guide the overall mood of “Boomtown” were the novellas “Day of the Locust” and “Miss Lonelyhearts” by Nathanael West.

“Boomtown” peaked at No. 39 on the Billboard Top 200 and eventually went gold, but you won’t hear even its hits on the radio today. It’s too much a product of its time.

David & David never made another album together. They were members of the “Tuesday Night Music Club,” which helped Sheryl Crow write and record her multi-platinum 1994 debut album, but otherwise went their separate ways musically.

The book is Greatest Misses: Deep Cuts and Forgotten Songs from the Shadows of Classic Rock by Darren Barakat. You can find the book here on Amazon.