“We rented out what had been like a mens gym in the, what they called Vaseline Alley, the gay part of Portland back in the day. You know just another record, very different to the first one in my mind… it’s also a fucking amazing record.” Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia I really pushed him into mushy, swirly land. He understands the soul of music and he’s a real gritty mixer and everything.
He’s a great artist and a real trippy mixer. We had Chad Blake, who you know who is a legend. “The next record was our Capitol Records record… a friend of ours built a studio down the street from our house so down we went and we did that one in there, just camped out in there for a year. It’s just a fucking great record.” …The Dandy Warhols Come Down Guitar tones are sick, you know everything. Then back in the studio where Pete and I just moved our hands around on the guitar necks, with every pedal turned on just getting feedback, and then blending that in through the whole record. We had 6 tracks to lay other weird stuff down, borrow old weird keyboards and stuff like that. “The first record was recorded one day in the studio, or no two days to record all of the songs and then we put that onto two tracks of an 8 track…and then I took that to my bedroom…borrowed a $5000 microphone, and just started having the old dude…come over and play flute, big chicks singing harmonies, dude coming over to play congos, you know, whatever. The music of The Dandy Warhols is there for those like-minded individuals who need it and the options of other Dandy haters are irrelevant.Īnd so sitting in his hotel room watching the sun go down in New York City, Courtney Taylor-Taylor launched into lengthy reflections on nine studio albums still fresh in his memory, ranking them from fucking great, to perfect and even outright genius. To his credit the Warhol’s have never tried to make music for other people, despite the divisive and highly lucrative stint on Capitol Records that has allowed them to continue pursuing their art.
“We’re my favourite band, we’re my favourite kind of music”. “I listen to our records every day man…It’s not even like a retrospective for me, I’ve heard all of our records within the last week” explained the frontman.
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