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TP: ''Was the album a conscious attempt to touch on all different 'fifties rock 'n' roll styles? A ballad, a Chuck Berry-ish number | TP: ''Was the album a conscious attempt to touch on all different 'fifties rock 'n' roll styles? A ballad, a Chuck Berry-ish number | ||
DE: It was a conscious effort to make it one type of music as opposed to my other two albums where it was like a various artists compilation. It didn't sound like the same artist sometimes. I can't remember | DE: It was a conscious effort to make it one type of music as opposed to my other two albums where it was like a various artists compilation. It didn't sound like the same artist sometimes. I can't remember specifically, but it'd go from one track to another and sound like someone else. | ||
TP: ''There's a great variety of styles on Get It, though. | |||
DE: I think it's believable, that it is one artist. You tell me, I think so, that's what I tried for. I did throw in a few strange ones. "Where or When" was an odd one. I just liked doing it. | |||
TP: '' How come "New York's a Lonely Town" (English B-side of "Where or When") wasn't included? | |||
DE: For that reason. It was getting too messy like the other ones. To put a surfing thing on as well wouldn't have been right. | |||
TP: '' Last time we spoke you said how reluctant you were to put together a band, how you didn't like being on the road. | |||
DE: I'd have never believed it a year ago if someone told me I'd be doing a four-month tour of the States back on the road. | |||
TP: '' What made you change your mind? | |||
DE: What happened was I signed with Swan Song and I had this album to do and had the time booked and had recorded a few tracks. I was doing nothing apart from that. I knew this album wouldn't take long to do as opposed to the others. It was done in six weeks apart from "Ju Ju Man" which was recorded two years ago and "My Baby Left Me" which was a throwaway thing I'd done about eight years ago. | |||
TP: '' It's astonishing the way you captured Elvis' feel on "My Baby Left Me." | |||
DE: That's what we were doing with Love Sculpture when we came over here. Terry [drummer Terry Williams] was in the band then and it was the same line-up; we recorded "My Baby Left Me" and a few others. Greg Shaw brought them to light. Somehow we found out about them and I was asked questions about them in inter-views. Y'know, "What about these legendary mystery tapes you did?" and so on. So I tried to dig them up, but could only find one, although we actually did four of them. | |||
TP: '' Who actually played on it then, you and Terry? | |||
DE: And John Williams and Micky Gee from Love Sculpture. | |||
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