Last minute remix
Yesterday an LA label Immortal Records called and asked me to contribute to an ‘unplugged’-type compilation they’re putting out. Like a mad fool I agreed! That meant spending about 18 hours today recording a new version of the song. It needed a guitarist, so I called up Eli Nelson from Notorious, the band I played with at the Red Devil Lounge a few weeks back. He and his roommate Erik Schramm have a studio in their house in the Haight, so I drove up here early evening and we put down acoustic and electric guitar and vocals. It’s now 1.30am, the track is finished and I’m waiting for it to be burned to disk. Tomorrow I have to be at the airport at 7.30am to get on a plane to Portland. I will leave the finished masters with Kathleen to be FedExed to LA so they can have them in hand Friday morning.
I don’t usually work this fast! It’s not like me to let something go out unless I’ve sweated over for weeks or months. But it was either that, or turn down the project altogether. I think I like the results. It’s a bit like doing a BBC session in the old days. They were rough around the edges, but they had a certain vibe that got lost when we chose to spend months in the studio. I still treasure a cassette of Siouxsie And The Banshees on the Beeb, circa 1979. I don’t think they ever improved on it on their albums.
Ah! But which song??
Still haven’t come down off my “got tickets for the Scala” high….
Most of those BBC sessions are mint. John Peel left an amazing legacy behind that I really hope gets catalogued and organised properly for prosperity in the future.
Dead right about the BBC sessions. I have some old XTC and Numan/Tubeway Army sessions which give a totally unique twist to well-loved songs. Perhaps not as good as the originals, always, but a wonderful complement. The Beeb’s “In Concert” series was much the same. I used to treasure a tape I recorded in early 81 (I think) of Ultravox. Sadly, it got lost a long time ago.
Arghhhhh! Newly recorded material alert!
15 years of nothing then out of the blue news of a new recording but you don’t tell us which song…
Which song is it? Put us out of our misery please Thomas!
Great news with the Scala event. Tickets have been bought and the countdown has started.
Cheers,
Jon from the white city
Wahooooooooo! Yipppeee!!! Woah, did someone see pigs fly? Has hell frozen over?? Thomas has a new tune and new recording?!?!! The end must be near!!!
Seriously, I’m VERY excited as I’m sure many others are too that we get to hear some new material. I also have some of the old BBC recordings and there is a freshness you can’t reproduce by sitting in a studio tweaking and re-tweaking. Thanks TMDR!!! Make sure to send us the link where we can all buy copies.
MiniCoopGuy
The Portland show was pretty great. I had this to say: http://www.oregonlive.com/weblogs/isitart
The Portland show was absolutely stupendous! Thank you so much for coming. I hope my girlfriend wasn’t annoying you in the parking lot after the show. I should have given her a primer on synthesis and sampling before the show
Have a wonderful tour, we’ll be here if you decide to come back around!
Cheers
Geoff
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