As I recall it, the lineup for the Bottrill Black Mamba Kiss version was: drums Ed Greene andI think Bill Bruford on toms, Jerry Hey's horn section, Paulinho D'Acosta on percussion and Dave Ricketts and me on the rest. David Bottrill engineered and swore an awful lot at our shite console and DA-88 digital 8 tracks. For me, I remember thinking it was a little too blatantly reminiscent of Tom Waits--marimba heavily featured and extra gravel on the vocal please, but the horn section was nice and fat, and Paulinho was a joy as always. Also Vicki Peterson of the Bangles did a beautiful, creepy version of Marilyn Monroe singing "happy birthday, mr president", as at that time my model for the narrator of that song was a
severely desperate and demented Jack Ruby.
The guitar solos in Born For Love were actually a tribute not to Fripp, but to David Ricketts, whom I sorely missed, but who himself was paying tribute to Robert Fripp. So I was paying tribute to Dave, who was in turn paying tribute to Fripp, or possibly Adrian Belew. A chain of fools in the nicest sense, as is the wont of guitar players in general, and us in the specific.
As far as putting that on this version of AFM II, I simply can't, but maybe I could do an entirelt different CD at some point that includes all that stuff and the rest of the stuff from those sessions.
Thanks for thinking of it.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
Bottrill, Born For Love
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As I recall it, the lineup for the Bottrill Black Mamba Kiss version was: drums Ed Greene andI think Bill Bruford on toms, Jerry Hey's horn section, Paulinho D'Acosta on percussion and Dave Ricketts and me on the rest. David Bottrill engineered and swore an awful lot at our shite console and DA-88 digital 8 tracks. For me, I remember thinking it was a little too blatantly reminiscent of Tom Waits--marimba heavily featured and extra gravel on the vocal please, but the horn section was nice and fat, and Paulinho was a joy as always. Also Vicki Peterson of the Bangles did a beautiful, creepy version of Marilyn Monroe singing "happy birthday, mr president", as at that time my model for the narrator of that song was a
severely desperate and demented Jack Ruby.
The guitar solos in Born For Love were actually a tribute not to Fripp, but to David Ricketts, whom I sorely missed, but who himself was paying tribute to Robert Fripp. So I was paying tribute to Dave, who was in turn paying tribute to Fripp, or possibly Adrian Belew. A chain of fools in the nicest sense, as is the wont of guitar players in general, and us in the specific.
As far as putting that on this version of AFM II, I simply can't, but maybe I could do an entirelt different CD at some point that includes all that stuff and the rest of the stuff from those sessions.
Thanks for thinking of it.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
severely desperate and demented Jack Ruby.
The guitar solos in Born For Love were actually a tribute not to Fripp, but to David Ricketts, whom I sorely missed, but who himself was paying tribute to Robert Fripp. So I was paying tribute to Dave, who was in turn paying tribute to Fripp, or possibly Adrian Belew. A chain of fools in the nicest sense, as is the wont of guitar players in general, and us in the specific.
As far as putting that on this version of AFM II, I simply can't, but maybe I could do an entirelt different CD at some point that includes all that stuff and the rest of the stuff from those sessions.
Thanks for thinking of it.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
