Ahh, I remember that record... They did the bulk of it at my studio in Venice, and what a wild crew it was. My most memorable session on that was one day when Les Claypool, Buckethead, Abe Jr., Billy Bass from
The Temptations, Jim Cox, various Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others-- a huge number of amazing musicians all came down for a "jam". We set everybody up on chairs facing one another in the main room--
probably about 15-20 people. My assistant made a batch of "tea" that he'd made with psilocybin mushrooms, with a warning sticker on it.
What followed should be a record of its own, at times recalling Talking Heads' "Remain In Light", at others some sort of King Crimson-meets-Parliament Funkadelic sort of
hard funk progressive fusion. I was most dazzled by Buckethead, who kind of reminded me of the time I saw Miles Davis recording on
a film score of (I think) Jack Nitzsche's, in that
it seemed like both Davis and Buckethead were doing nothing more than making random noises until you listened to the whole track in context and found that it was in fact both highly precise and musical, but also ridiculously sophisticated and original.
We used thirteen reels of 2" tape, and the session lasted until about 3 o'clock in ther morning.
None of that stuff made the record, which is an enormous pity. Somewhere I have all those tapes and ProTools data.
I actually played guitar on Aids and Armageddon, and I have no idea how I got credited with "A&R". Wild record, great bunch of guys.
Yrs,
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Ahh, I remember that record... They did the bulk of it at my studio in Venice, and what a wild crew it was. My most memorable session on that was one day when Les Claypool, Buckethead, Abe Jr., Billy Bass from
The Temptations, Jim Cox, various Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others-- a huge number of amazing musicians all came down for a "jam". We set everybody up on chairs facing one another in the main room--
probably about 15-20 people. My assistant made a batch of "tea" that he'd made with psilocybin mushrooms, with a warning sticker on it.
What followed should be a record of its own, at times recalling Talking Heads' "Remain In Light", at others some sort of King Crimson-meets-Parliament Funkadelic sort of
hard funk progressive fusion. I was most dazzled by Buckethead, who kind of reminded me of the time I saw Miles Davis recording on
a film score of (I think) Jack Nitzsche's, in that
it seemed like both Davis and Buckethead were doing nothing more than making random noises until you listened to the whole track in context and found that it was in fact both highly precise and musical, but also ridiculously sophisticated and original.
We used thirteen reels of 2" tape, and the session lasted until about 3 o'clock in ther morning.
None of that stuff made the record, which is an enormous pity. Somewhere I have all those tapes and ProTools data.
I actually played guitar on Aids and Armageddon, and I have no idea how I got credited with "A&R". Wild record, great bunch of guys.
Yrs,
db
The Temptations, Jim Cox, various Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others-- a huge number of amazing musicians all came down for a "jam". We set everybody up on chairs facing one another in the main room--
probably about 15-20 people. My assistant made a batch of "tea" that he'd made with psilocybin mushrooms, with a warning sticker on it.
What followed should be a record of its own, at times recalling Talking Heads' "Remain In Light", at others some sort of King Crimson-meets-Parliament Funkadelic sort of
hard funk progressive fusion. I was most dazzled by Buckethead, who kind of reminded me of the time I saw Miles Davis recording on
a film score of (I think) Jack Nitzsche's, in that
it seemed like both Davis and Buckethead were doing nothing more than making random noises until you listened to the whole track in context and found that it was in fact both highly precise and musical, but also ridiculously sophisticated and original.
We used thirteen reels of 2" tape, and the session lasted until about 3 o'clock in ther morning.
None of that stuff made the record, which is an enormous pity. Somewhere I have all those tapes and ProTools data.
I actually played guitar on Aids and Armageddon, and I have no idea how I got credited with "A&R". Wild record, great bunch of guys.
Yrs,
db
