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NAILING COLOURS
TO THE WHEEL
Bad Blood
Waiting On the Wire
Count On Angels
The Warmest Kiss
Recorded at Blackwing
Engineered by John Fryer
Cover photo by Ari
BREATH5
Although I’m sure John Fryer used drum samples to enhance the
sound on some of our other songs, Bad Blood is the first song on
which I was really aware of this happening and remember him playing
us a variety of sounds and asking if we preferred the drum sound
on Born In The USA to something like In The Air Tonight, which we
found very amusing. I remember being really pleased with how big
and powerful the drums sounded at the time, but listened to it recently
and couldn’t believe how overpowering the drums sounded in
comparison to to the small, polite guitars, but as with all things,
certain sounds become fashionable and one’s ear becomes accustomed
to them, and in the late Eighties the fashionable sound was big,
big drums
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The Warmest Kiss was a song we had been doing live for quite a while
before recording it and ended up sounding pretty similar to how
it did onstage. But although we had performed Waiting On The Wire
a couple of times before going into the studio, once we’d recorded
it we didn’t want to play it live again because although we
were really happy with it beforehand, we’d added so many layers
while recording it (even Tris did a vocal part ), that it sounded
really empty when we tried to recreate it live in comparison to
the recorded version which was really rich and spacey.
Taken from interview with Ari.
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