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Artists > A - C > Black, Frank > Pistolero

 
:: Pistolero  Ref: COOKCD311
 
 
 
Pistolero

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“It was meant to be a larger production, but still recorded live to 2-track; we were going to bring in additional musicians to play the parts that normally would have been overdubbed, and my old drummer Nick Vincent (on ‘Frank Black’ and ‘Teenager Of The Year’) would be producing and acting as a kind of musical director for all the different musicians, writing charts and arranging, and basically being our Phil Spector; The Catholics would be the band at the core. Well, I kind of fucked up that concept. It ended up just being the core. I finished a batch of songs and got all excited. I called up the band, who all live on the East Coast, and asked if they could come out to L.A. in a few days. I overnighted them a hastily recorded demo of all the songs, some of which they had never heard, and I called Nick Vincent, who lives here in L.A. and begged him to get together with me the very next morning to hear all my precious, pretty little numbers that we were going to record the following week sans orchestra. The recording went smoothly, done during two sessions totalling 10 days, longer than ‘Frank Black And The Catholics’ which was a four-day session. The longer session allowed us to play the new material over and over while the tape ran. About half the songs were grown out of riffs and chord progressions that we’d been playing around with for months or even years, so it wasn’t all new material, except to our new guitarist, Rich Gilbert (Ex-Human Sexual Responce, Ex-Zulus, Ex-Concussion Ensemble), who had only just started playing with us. But the situation suited Rich just fine. He is a wild, spontaneous player, who Scott Boutier (drums), Dave McCaffrey (bass) and I had been admiring for years. Nick Vincent managed to squeeze in some great intuitive thought and extremely subtle direction and knew instantly which of the many takes we did should be on the record; so the sessions simply consisted of us playing, Billy Bowers recording, and Nick Vincent cracking the whip; no video gaming going on at a Catholics session” (Frank Black Francis 2004)  


 


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