I know what you're thinking: here it is, the end of July.....we've gone a whole month with no Frankie? What happened to this place?!!!!
The truth is....we've come to the end of what I have of the "Frank era"! Other than one live show on videotape (The Space At Chase), this is it! Unless the DATs are unearthed - if they even still exist anymore - we won't be hearing much more of Maestro Russell, or anything else from the Rocky Point house! This is the very last of the 4-tracks.
So...at this juncture, let me/us take this opportunity to thank Tom Gavin, who loaned me this ole Tascam Portastudio, the impetus for this entire blog! Tommy, can you hear me? THANK YOU! You have made many people happy, amazed, excited.....and sometimes melancholy!!!! Next time I see you, I'm finding the biggest spot on your bum for a nice big smooch!
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| Tom's Tascam in my studio with piles of LOOB tapes behind it. The pile is now tiny, about 15 tapes. |
So with that, let's proceed!
This post finds us twenty-five years ago today, rehearsing for the WUSB broadcast, which happened four days later. Everything's a little loose, slightly sloppy on this one....it's a rehearsal, not a performance! I would not necessarily recommend this tape to people not familiar with the band.
Having said that, it's fun fun! We're in a good mood. Ted and Frank particularly seem to be having a good day on their instruments! At one point, we play a funny jam on the Grateful Dead song "Dark Star" that turns into "Sympathy For The Devil". And we get our hands dirty doing crucial arrangement work, always interesting to listen to (at least for me!).
Throughout the tape, we are talking to a "Tom", someone many of us seem to know. But I cannot place the voice, nor the name! Anyone?
As I said, everything's a little casual and loose....that is until we start working on the still-new "Gimme Fun", definitely the song of the moment for us, and a song we MUST get right within a few days, when we do the WUSB broadcast! As with all the July 1990 tapes, listening to these early "Gimme Fun"s (at the time, called "Fun Fun"), hearing us try different stuff out - stuff that was discarded - is among the bigger suprises you get on the LOOB Blog! For instance, Hubie's idea on this one: for us to all stop, so that we can shout out "Limbo Time!"
However, the biggest surprise on this tape comes at the end. I had an accordion that we kept in the studio. It later was one of two that Steve would play. On this night, after Frank and I left, Ted recorded Hubie doing something with the accordion, almost definitely making up the lyrics on the spot, a talent both he and Ted shared (I don't share it!).
And that, my friends, is the last tape I have to post from the Rocky Point Studio.
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| One more look at the Rocky Point Studio, Frank's rendering, of which there are no photos unfortunately. |
Rocky Point Studio, 7/30/90
Wintertime
Castles And Planes ->
Is It Safe?
The Advocate
We Both Wobble
Gimme Fun
arranging end of "Gimme Fun"
Hubie accordion demo
Hubert Poole - guitar, vocal, percussion, accordion
Frank Russell - guitar, vocal
Ted Schreiber - bass, vocal, percussion
Michael Goodman - drums, vocal
recorded on a Tascam Portastudio cassette, engineered at times by "Tom" (?)
download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ej21ihduedzbury/1990-07-30+Rocky+Point+Studio.zip
or if you prefer Dropbox, this link will expire in a week or so:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxk04r5xan5zcxe/1990-07-30%20Rocky%20Point%20Studio.zip?dl=0
