Things to know about this rehearsal
- The first part of the tape has Frank Buchwalder on drums. Frank was a high school friend of mine, an artist - back then he was going to draw a giant mural on my wall before my mother put the kibosh on that - he was also a fellow drummer and just a great guy, a distinctive individual! On this occasion, he was at the studio to help me get my drums feeling and sounding good. (I was very lucky to have John Russell and Frank Buchwalder - not to mention Ted! - help me get my drums up to snuff time and time again). Anyways, early in the tape when you hear "Frank can help us get levels" or when you hear me say (as I sit at the set) "Frank, this is a great job", we're talking about Frank B., not Frank LOOB. You can also hear Frank B. help set up the microphones and get levels.....the guy has the heart of Jesus, what can I say!
- "Teddy, wake up"! I must have slept over at Ted's a hundred, two hundred times. If you told me it was a thousand, I'd believe you. Ted was always a night owl and would stay up until the wee hours, reading, listening to music, whatever. This meant he was deep in sleep when his mother would come to waken him each morning. Her voice would start at a soft tone of voice "Teddy it's time to wake up." Nothing. "Teddy, wake up please...." Nothing. You could hear she was tired and had a million things to do. "Teddy.....TED......Teddy, please, I need you to wake up! TED! TEDDY!! TEEEEDDDDDDYYYY! TED! WAKE UP! WHY WON'T YOU LISTEN TO ME?" and this would go on and on and on, until she was at full shriek. I would literally have the pillow wrapped around my head, my eyes squeezed tight, my heart pounding, praying it would stop, praying Ted would just wake the fuck up. After a short eternity, Ted would suddenly come alive and fire back a wisecrack at her. Not amused, she would shout at him and they would go back and forth....until Ted inevitably found the right wisecrack and got her laughing. She'd volley it back to him and get him in hysterics. Before you knew it, all three of us were hyperventilating. And the whole thing would be forgotten! My first lesson in the Schreibers: they could diffuse any unpleasant situation with humor! We'd go downstairs, have a pleasant breakfast and it would all be sweetness and light. The next morning it would all play out again, as if it hadn't happened a thousand times before. At some point, I had related this ritual to the band and we'd sometimes launch into it as a bit. Here on this tape is such an example, and yes, it really did sound exactly like this. Exactly.
- These two run-throughs of "Be Like Me" are the only recordings I have of this song. Aside from just hearing the song (in two distinct versions - one with slide, one without), it's great hearing us all get into the arranging, excitedly pitching in ideas...something that happens more than once in these rehearsals! I had completely forgotten about this song.
- Speaking of songs I had totally forgotten about.... Frank's "Letters Come Home" follows, once again, the only version I have. Really nice. I was telling Hubie that our back ups on the end of this song makes me think we could have moonlit doing session work!
- We run through a bunch of stuff including a better version of "Inside The Rain/Rise" than we had played the night before (or maybe not, maybe I should just say "another version"!), an electric attempt at playing "I'm Crying" and a run-through of "Castles and Planes" that has Ted delivering a crazy rap at the end.
After Hubie & Frank split, Ted & I got up to some hijinx.....but that's for next time. In the meantime, enjoy:
LOOB rehearsal, Rocky Point Studio, 12/13/90
Mozambique *
Jam with Frank Buchwalder *
Be Like Me
Letters Come Home
Jam
Ocean Town
Wintertime
I Owe
Inside The Rain - Rise
I'm Crying
Castles And Planes
Hubert Poole - guitar, vocal, percussion
Frank Russell - guitar, vocal, percussion
Ted Schreiber - guitar, vocal, percussion
Michael Goodman - drums, vocal, conga
with Frank Buchwalder playing drumset on *
Recorded on two tracks of a Tascam Portasutdio cassette deck. Frank Buchwalder engineered. As he leaves, you can hear him ask if the jam was recorded, and if he could get a copy...it would pain me very much to think that I never made him a dupe! I am going to make sure he gets one now!
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