Rieflin: “What is most bogus about my work is that I get credit for doing things I DON’T do and I don’t get credit for doing things that I DO do” [laughs].
Sounds very much like any job I have ever held :-/
There was another magazine source where Rieflin made the same claim (I think the Decibel [?] article in which Al first coined the “book club” term). I.e. various members would simply show up at the studio at random times and work on whatever had been left over from the night before. Meaning, of course, no dictatorial and absolute control by Al, whatever he may have claimed later.
There was another magazine source where Rieflin made the same claim (I think the Decibel [?] article in which Al first coined the “book club” term). I.e. various members would simply show up at the studio at random times and work on whatever had been left over from the night before. Meaning, of course, no dictatorial and absolute control by Al, whatever he may have claimed later.
Right, but I believe they all agree Al had final word on nearly everything. Such as that one dude who raps on “Test,” that no one else in the band liked.
Tomasz I do think you missed the time when the illustrious K-Lite and Terry Bones joined the board within minutes of each other. It was kinda fun for 10 minutes.
Connelly mentioned “Test” in his book - how a good musical foundation went bad. The song has that sort-of RevCo trance loop sound, and maybe the song is better with Ogre or LVA chanting over it, who knows. It’s the worst track on Mind, but only because of the tossed off rap vocals and annoying samples. Even if Jello Biafra rants over the music, it becomes a better song. Too bad Forkboy wasn’t a Mind track instead of Test (if the former was even written yet).
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I would love to hear instrumental versions of Test and JBMHR. Read once where Barker said Gibby’s vocals really changed the feel of the song. And kinda implied he liked where it was going prior to Gibby’s involvement. Might take me a bit to dig up that reference, but strongly believe it’s in the prongs interview archive. But, Connelly couldn’t come up with lyrics and suppose it turned out pretty ok for the band.
Instead of Al giving away remixxxes, I wish he would let stuff like this out of his “vault.” Trax Box has got to be the tip of the iceberg.
Tomasz I do think you missed the time when the illustrious K-Lite and Terry Bones joined the board within minutes of each other. It was kinda fun for 10 minutes.
Just saw this - yes, I actually did lurk for that exchange, and had a difficult time explaining to my old lady why I was howling with laughter in the other room while reading Minister K-Lite’s “left behind in 1990” proclamations and declarations of street knowledge. I was tempted to re-join the board then and there, but knew I’d get sucked in to a marathon posting session to communicate with the alleged “…Mind” auxiliary band members’ club.
Got mine today. Perfectly done. The sleeve and overall release style completely takes me back to when I was tracking all the original Wax Trax stuff down in the early 90s - in a very good way. I got the gold version. One of the few color records I own, but definitely high on my list. Never actually though this thing would see a real release, so it’s really nice to finally get it. And it looks nice paired with my black-vinyl version
You know the more I listen to this, the more I love it. I haven’t been listening to much industrial the past year, but this doesn’t really sound like most industrial. The structure of the tracks is very repetitive and building and I dig that, it’s not so much about dynamics as it is about building and building. There’s nothing particularly aggressive about any of it either, which is awesome. Very much in line with why I loved LiG back in the day. I’d sort of forgotten how great they were. I also loved how “industrial” on Wax Trax was so much more varied than what it’s become.
Arrived today. Love the Wax Trax stamps on the shipping box, love the signed “THX” on the printed receipt. Stickers will go on my guitar cases. Love the artwork.
