A-Side : 'Crash Wanderer'
B-Side : 'Shirts'
Both tracks are on the 'The Stortbeat Collective' Double CD (can be downloaded from musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com ;) )
... more stuff you've never heard on Youtube before ...
--> uploads @ http://youtube.com/JunkGunkPunk <--
--> website @ http://JunkGunkPunk.c1.biz <--
Mar 17, 2012
*132* Pressure Stops - Crash Wanderer / Shirts
A-Side : 'Crash Wanderer'
B-Side : 'Shirts'
Both tracks are on the 'The Stortbeat Collective' Double CD (can be downloaded from musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com ;) )
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I like this single I really do. But since I wrote it, recorded it and played it live many times I probably would say that wouldn't I? Crash W started life as a 3 chord thrash and developed from there. It was supposed to be a story about how nobody wants to know you when you're down and out but it had so many metaphors who knows what it ended up being. Shirts was a knockabout song we wrote one afternoon round the bass players' house. It was about a girl he knew that used to like one of his shirts. Trust me, there was nothing special about it but it was good enough to write a song about so we did.
ReplyDeleteIt was recorded in one session at Ear'ole Studios in Elephant & Castle in London and my abiding memory of the recording of Crash W is when the guy who was producing it (Shane Roe of The Sods) said to me, "Get ready, we'll be doing the guitar overdubs soon."
I said "Guitar overdubs? There aren't any apart from the solo."
He shrugged and said, "Well make something up then."
I had to sit in the studio on my own, with everyone staring at me through the control room window pretending I knew some scales (I didn't) and occasionally I'd hit something that was in the right scale and that's what ended up on the record.
Also the intro sounds twice as long as it should because there was going to be some heavy phase on the guitar the 2nd time around to emulate the sound of a plane taking off. It never ended up on the single.
Did we make any money from it? No. Like most bands we just wanted to record a single and see if John Peel would play it (he did; a few times). That summarised the limit of our aspirations.