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So as
to make possible to get in the project to people like Tony
Fate (The BellRays), Kim Shattuck (Muffs,
Pandoras), Scott Morgan, Richard Lloyd,
Texas Terri, Thurston Moore (Sonic
Youth) Noodels and Dexter Holland
(The Offspring), among many others.
No high voltage rock lover should miss an adventure like this. During
his european tour, good Sonny spent a few minutes to answer our questionaire:
-The quantity and importance of the guest musicians in this
new album is absolutely amazing... How was this enourmous project
conceived?
-It all started with the wish to record a new album in Detroit
with Scott Asheton and Captain Sensible. We decided to do so and Iñigo
from Munster was our main support! When it started it really was just
going to be an album with us three, but you can see it became something
huge in spite of such a simple start.
-I can
imagine you will have some stories from the recordings...
-Sure!
Mmmm. Let me see. This one’s not really funny, but what happened
was really cool. During the “Skag” recording we repeated
the intro riff also at the end of the song, but it was not planned...
I was going on the mic (as we recorded it) like: “Hey boys,
remember what we did in the intro... That thing with the breaks...
Let’s do it again... Now... Now when I count to four... One-two-three-four!”.
And it was something like Blam,Blam,BoomShack-a-laka-laka-.Blam,Blam,BoomShack-a-laka-laka.
Our heads exploded with that take. And such is the beauty of recording
and playing with Scott and Captain, we do not need a big argument
about how things should be. We do almost everything by instinct
and as we feel it. First I got the raw song, I play the chords with
the guitar and show them more or less how the voice will go. Then
I repeat it to them once or twice and we record. Sometimes we stop
for a minute to see some of the parts, but we have a great communication
and a immediate understanding.
And focusing on funny stories...
A truck hit into the supermarket next to the studio, just in the
peanut butter section. There was this big shelf with some crystal
jars full! And we were shocked when we saw that the truck was loaded
with grape jelly. So I took some bread, opened it and made a sandwich
of peanut butter, crystal and grape jelly. Even the truck driver
and the goy from the store, who were really pissed off and screaming,
started laughing. We were so tired after a whole day’s work
that this stupid thing cheered us up.
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a “regular” album is difficult enough to record, I guess
that making this one woud be sheer madness, in four or five different
studios and with nearly 40 different musicians, tell the truth:
did you go insane?
-It
really was quite difficult, even trying to preserve the feeling.
But I had a lot of support from my friends.
-What do you think about that incredible Beatles-like cover
art? Was it your idea?
-It
was Iñigo’s from Munster and the work was made by our
pal Hammi
Hammerschmidt.
-I can’t see how you are going to do the next time
to improve this one, any idea yet?
-Sure! Don’t worry! I’m already working on it!
-Which band are you going to play with this time? Will you
repeat with the Safety Pins guys? I heard something about Rocket
From The Crypt...
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-Right
now I am touring Europe with Julian (Richard Hell and the Voidoids)
on guitar, Marc Hacquet (Swarm and the Dummies) on bass and Tachi
(another french guy, he played with Steppin Stone) on drums. And yeah,
on March I will tour the USA with the guys in RFTC as my band. In
May I will come back to Spain, also to Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.
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