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Originally posted by CarneVaca
That's a good point, Gerald. But I was merely paraphrasing what Lindsey himself has said. He wanted to tone down the kit and the bass. He wanted to challenge himself by creating as many of the essential sounds with the guitar as possible. I also recall reading that he was very satisfied with his use of drum machines, saying that unlike most recordings that had used them, the drum machines in Cradle did not come across as "cartoonish." This was what he told Rolling Stone, as I recall.
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Well, I agree with the man that it is not cartoonish. But it didn't help in giving such great songs a rock'n'roll-feel, that I'd like to hear. And hey, I'm important, because I play his music all the time and have to listen to it. Im sure I heard that album more often than he did, after he he finished it!
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To be sure, Lindsey himself realized he needed real drums for the Gift of Screws songs. Only when he got really experimental with Red Rover and She Smiles Sweetly, did he carry through with that "guitar as orchestra" concept. So a happy medium was reached?
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What he did on RR and SSS and Try for the Sun and Say Goodbye is just simply brilliant. For me that is something completely different then using drummachines in (pop)rocksongs.
And he chose to use accousticdrums on the rest of the GOS-songs, so he came back on it, to my great relief. I put GOS way above OOTC for that reason....
But that one he didn't bring out!!!! as we all know....
gerald "finlovingcriminal" van koert