| Author | Message | ||
     beno Member Username: Beno Post Number: 10 Registered: 03-2005 |
Anyone else think this song is the closest Grant's solo work came to matching The Go-Betweens? It sounds like it could have been on any of the last 3 albums | ||
| M. Mark Burgess Member Username: Fortysomething Post Number: 39 Registered: 05-2005 |
Isn't that the song of Grant's that Robert said he wished he'd written? I agree with you. When I went back and listened to IYBR after the last few albums, I immediately thought how that song sounded more at home on a Go-b's disc. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 98 Registered: 11-2004 |
I'm almost dead certain that GM & RF played this in the late 90s before they were officially The Go-Betweens once more. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 54 Registered: 05-2005 |
They played 'One plus one' (get it?) as the closing number on the Friends of Rachel Worth tour at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin back in .... I dunno. It's strange but RF commented somewhere that he thought the demos for 'In your bright ray' LP by Grant were really strong. From reading Nichols book - apparently Grant recorded that album and told the Mastering engineer (or whatever they call themselves) that he could mix/master the recording as he/she saw fit. I really don't like the resultant sound of IYBR, whether that's down to production, mixing, mastering or whatever ... who knows, but I found Robert's reference to the 'demos' for the album interesting .... and perhaps even instructive. | ||
| david pestorius Member Username: David_pestorius Post Number: 25 Registered: 08-2005 |
I distinctly remember this song being played at one of the Legion Club shows in early May 1996 (These shows were not billed as The Go-Betweens, but as 'Forster-McLennan-Pickvance-Thompson'). I also think this was the first time the song had been played live. One can therefore fairly assume, I think, that the song was worked up in rehearsal with RF at that time. Incidentally, the subject of the song is not about GM's relationship with RF, but concerns his then relationship with Julianne Lawson, an artist/film-maker who was working at Metro Arts in Brisbane at that time and who was involved in the organisation of the FOC project there. |