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DE: Oh yeah. Smelly rock 'n' roll. It stinks. | DE: Oh yeah. Smelly rock 'n' roll. It stinks. | ||
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 specifically, but it'd go from one track to another and sound like someone else. | 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. | ||
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DE: And John Williams and Micky Gee from Love Sculpture. | DE: And John Williams and Micky Gee from Love Sculpture. | ||
<center>On the Road Again </center> | |||
TP: You were telling us why you went back on the road. | |||
DE: I was hanging around doing a lot of drinking with Nick Lowe. We just had nothing to do for a few months. We were just going to a certain pub in London where a lot of musicians hang out. Jake [Riviera] was hanging out as well. We were talking about if we did get a band together, who would it be? Just sort of drunk talk, really. I said it would have to be Terry 'cause he's my favorite drummer and I know him, but that's out of the question because he'll never leave the Man band, they'll be going forever. They've made 13 albums and have been going for 15 years. When it came to a fourth member, we'd need a good guitarist and I spotted this guy playing in Fatso, which was Neil Innes's backing group. He was great, great voice, great guitar player, yeah, that would be the guy. And then Terry phoned me up and said : "It's a big secret. Don't tell anyone, but the Man band is splitting up. Do you wanna have a go?" I said, "I don't know. I'll be in touch with you." Two days later Billy phoned me up and said, "I hear you've been trying to get a hold of me." I think I met him once, briefly. I never mentioned it to him, but it got back to him somehow. So Jake said, "Right, here we go." And we said, "No Jake, hold it, we'll just do a few gigs." Next thing I know I'm told by Swan Song, "There's a Bad Company tour, are you interested? We know you've got a band together, do you want to do it?" Well, what else can I do? It was all there, laid out on a plate and I hadn't done a thing except talk about it. | |||
TP: ''Why hadn't you a band for so long? | |||
DE: I just wasn't interested, or thought I wasn't anyway. Well, I definitely wasn't interested when I jacked in Love Sculpture —I really didn't want to know. | |||
TP: '' Do you think of yourself as being a producer? | |||
DE: No, never, I never thought that. It was just a question of giving a hand out to a few mates in the studio if they wanted me to do it. If they want to call me "producer," great. And give me two percent, lovely. But it was just that I do the engineering and act as a go-between, between the equipment and the band. I throw in a few suggestions but I couldn't be a producer as such, sitting next to the engineer and telling the group what to do, what songs they could do and what they can't do and all that. I couldn't do that. | |||
Birth of a Songwriter | |||
TP: '' Do you write at all on your own? | |||
DE: I've got one on Get It, but apart from that I hope to do more in the future. | |||
TP: ''When did you meet Nick Lowe? | |||
DE: I first knew him when the Brinsleys came up to Rockfield to do a couple of albums, but we became good friends when I produced New Favourites for them. | |||
TP: '' Do you write with him often? | |||
DE: Well, I'd never written a song before. I was convinced I couldn't write songs, because of a few abortive attempts and Love Sculpture B-sides which were all miserable. Then I moved to London, which was a great idea because I realized I'd been completely out of touch. I'd been in Wales | |||
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