I appreciate the bass riff on Generals.
I wish they’d reconsidered Bakerman.
Man, imagine if they’d replaced it with a 54 second thrash.
Who Can Stand In The Way from the second side really stands out to me.
Just the juxtapositions of style. It’s soooo far ahead of anything anyone else was doing.
And I adore the line
‘If Christ were here he’d camera-check’
And of course the second side has Kosciusko.
Screw Bullroarer.
Edit: the genuine Christian band the US wanted but couldn’t cop.
Edit: and gosh you can hear the drums like you’re in the room.
Edit: edit: and I will follow them forever because of the guitar squeal at 1:00 on Both Worlds, to say nothing of the guitar solo into riff that comes later…
Well yeah… Nick Launay in the producer’s seat. Big drum sounds were his calling card. Well, until his very disappointingly tame work on Earth And Sun And Moon anyway…
Those guitar squeals and Gifford’s impeccable bass. Both were keys to the Oils and both went sadly missing from their music thereafter…
Pretty sure there is one for Trevor Horn.
Very probably for the likes of Nile Rogers & Quincy Jones too.
Don’t know about Launay. Someone on Spotify has probably put a playlist together. It’s not just Launay’s production either - he’s mixed/engineered a whole swag of albums too (even if he didn’t produce them).
Moon Safari and…surprisingly (although maybe not as I’m clearly a Launay fan) The Swing.
People honestly forget how sonically brilliant that album is. Which is fair because…you know…One Star…
But…there’s so much going on there that’s not on anything before or since for them.
(Some) people just go, yeah…I know it…
But you don’t tho…
Lydon had put together a low-key band to record the album. After the first rehearsal Laswell convinced Lydon to sack the band. Laswell then roped his connections in instead.
It’s hard to go past Michael Jackson/Eddie Van Halen. Evidently Eddie came in, listened once through while sucking on a dart, then peeled off his solo.
Is it though?
You think they were more worlds apart?
Anecdote.
One of my favourite interactions is Jackson wanting a guitarist for Dirty Diana, and saying to Vai, ‘I hear you’re a bad motherfarker.’
And him replying, ‘In what context?’
Not so much now. But at the time?
If memory serves, the solo was originally released as uncredited… by mutual consent. MJ’s camp were worried that EVH was maybe a bridge too far…EVH was worried about blowback from VH fans…
