1994 - North Shore News

Still waiting to hear from Errol

John Moore
WINE SPOTS

KILLAWARRA CHARDONNAY
1992 $9.40 (Australia)

| drank this at my wedding, so
'm sentimentally prejudiced, but
this budget wombat-stunner
seems to have vastly improved,
just like my marriage, in the
interval. A very nice “marriage”
of fruit and oak that outclasses
most of the competitors in its
price range.

It’s a good thing | didn’t marry
a Francaise, or I'd have had to
learn to say “Puligny-
Montrachet” at $60 a throw. All |
have to do is keep a straight face
while ordering a bottle of
“Chateau Wogga-Wogga.”

RENMANO SHIRAZ 1990
$9.25 (Australia)

Shiraz is one of those grapes
that suffers from Multiple
Personality Disorder. It canbe
firm and austere or jammy and
over-friendly, depending on the
personality of the wine-maker. |
tasted so many really fine ones
in Oz a year ago that my taste-
buds are permanently skewed.
This one leans more to the
woody, tannic stand-offishness |
prefer. None of your back-slap-
ping car-salesman chumminess
or “what de-you want for hreak-
fast?” on the first date with this
wine,

. Still dense. and dark, seems
unbalanced straight out of the
flask, but improves with.a fittle
“air time.” Decant it so it can
gasp for a-decent interval before
you force it down your neck and
you'll have a pleasantly potable
pitcher of plonk.

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consciously tried for?

Al: We recorded a lot more
songs. We wrote more and
recorded! more so that we could
pick 10 out of 15 we recorded.
There was a little fess experimen-
tation at the fringe of the album.
The sound wasn’t premeditated,
it was just the effort was to try to
one in on the sound of the band
and make sure that it’s a uniform
sound. Even the most diverse
tracks on the album should
sound like our band, rather than
like Motorhead on one and
Plastic Ono Band on ancther,
Music Now: How did you guys
connect with mixer Tom
Garneau, the Prince cohort?

Al: t think Corky Laing hooked
him up with us, he’s our A&R
man.

Initially we thought it was going
to be some glitzy production. He
came clown and he was great. He
really knew how to place things
in the speakers. It was an inter-
esting experience to see how he
worked.

Drew: He understood the band
very early on. We ail sort of saic
our piece and then he listened to

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the music and understood it from
the music standpoint and he got
it fast.

Al: He's done Prince on the last
two albums and while I’m not
nuts about Prince’s latest stuff,
you can’t deny that those two
afbums are the best sounding
ones he’s done.
Tom knows how
to take a lot of
tracks and make
sense of it —- bring
some clarity out of
what could oather-
wise be, with a
lesser mixer, a lot
of confusion.
Music Now: fs it
generally difficult
to find somebody
who shares your
vision of how the
band should
sound? :
Drew: It’s very difficult. We try to
keep our live sound man and
crew because it is difficult to get
somebody who uncersiands your
vision. :

You get a guy who grew up on
Loverboy or April Wine or what-
ever and doesn’t quite under-
stand where this music is coming

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from and that can totally change
the sound of the band. You end
up sounding like a deranged rock
band from the 1970s.

Music Now: What attracted you
to doing a cover version of Rick
Derringer’s 1970s hit Rock &
Roll Hoochie Koo?

Drew: It wasn’! the song. It was

66 Jt was fun to pick a 1970s rock
classic and bring it right away from

what is in it. 99

the promise it hele. It had a great
chorus and it had a great guitar
chunk. It was something we
thought we could work with,
massage it.

Al: A lot of times what might be
the band's favorite song, for
instance we were thinking about
covering Seplember by Earth

Wind and Fire, which was so
amazingly done, we decided to
leave well enough alone and not
mess with a classic.

Music Now: Did you get any
feedback from Derringer or Errol
Brown (Hot Chocolate) for your
covers of Rock & Roll Heachie §
Koo or Everyone’s A Winns?
Drew: Errol Brown is
actually supposed to be
selling us some stuff
that we were going to
co-write together.

Al: That was three.
years ago and we're
still waiting to hear §
from him. :
Drew: Derringer. is
around, he’s been play-
ing and we could have
had him on it, but it’s
not as much fun bas-
tardizing someone’s
song when they’re sit-
ting there.

Al: It was kind of fun, because
everybody's taking 1970s classic
rock and playing like Sabbath. It
was fun to pick a 70s rock classic
and bring it right away from-what
is in it, kind of a grunge sound, |
and bring it into-a kind of
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