36 - Wednesday, July 20, 1994 - North Shore News

Barney Bentall’s

From page 25

Boneyard made sense.”

The new studio could prove to
he a boon for Nairne and the rest
of the band because it will elimi-
nate many of the obstacles that
hinder producing an album they
will be happy with.

“Barney and | and Gary Fraser
produced our last record (Ain‘t
Life Strange). While everybody in
the band was pretty involved in it,
the three of us were the actual
producers of the record. There
was an awful lot of work. That
record was recorded virtually
everywhere. We recorded for a
«»~ Month up on Keats Island.”

* — They actually put a whole 24-
track recording studio in a cottage
on the island.

“We recorded various people...
in Toronto. We recorded here in
town -—- Mushroom Studios,
Vancouver Studios. We took all of
this stuff — some at Little
Mountain Sound —- from all over
the place and we mixed the
whole record down in Los
Angeles.”

But Nairne says that with
Boneyard set up and ready to go,
BBLH will have more room to
maneuver, and therefore more
artistic license, to prepare for their
upcoming album.

“With this new record, the
recording process has yet to
begin. We've started all of the
writing; a lot of the writing is done
and there’s still more writing
going on as we speak.

“When we come in here
(Boneyard), as a band we go
through the arrangements of the
songs. We listen to them, we can
record them, we can listen to
them for a week or two weeks.
We come back and someone
might come up with a brilliant
idea... and we have the ability to
say, ‘O.K., let’s do it again.’

“You're not confined to going
into another studio, paying a lot of
money and saying ‘Well, we’ve
got to like it because we've just
spent $2,500 on it.’ (Now) if we

lon’t like it, we just do it again.

That's the great beauty of how we
set this place up.”

During the band’s down time,
Nairne offers his time mixing,
engineering and producing
records for local bands who are
trying to start out in this difficult
business or who can’t afford big-
ger studios.

And they are usually getting a
better deal than they realize.

West Vancouver native Nairne,
although far from ready for the

boneyard at 37, is a veteran of the
music scene having been a mem-
ber of the Legendary Heats for
about 14 years --- since they were
know as Brandon Wolf,

He has also been involved —-
either mixing, engineering or pro-
ducing — in the making of Mae
Moore's Oceanview Hotel, Spirit
of the West's Political, Barney
Bentall’s Ain't Life Strange and
Gerry Doucette’s (as yet) untitled

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