we did a bunch of practice recordings for the album.
my friend Scott from Kasms comes over, hears one and asks “Dude have you heard Shellac?”
I say I’d always heard the band name but never actually checked them out.
He hears another song and says “Dude, you HAVE to listen to Shellac”.
He shows me songs on youtube…
the songs were ‘My Black Ass’, ‘Prayer to God’, ‘Squirrel Song’ and ‘Copper’…
It was like a revelation
like i'd been sailing a creaky ship in dark waters for ages and then i find out some NOrse guys had already mapped the nearby region 1000 years earlier
showed me what was possible in recording sound, what can be done
illuminated dark waters
super-evolved, super-advanced,
...and rocked very hard
2 days of obsessing about Shellac later … I’m chatting to my friend James, who was Seachange, and turns out when they were on tour with Mission of Burma a few years ago, he met Bob Weston, the bassist of Shellac.
And then he just pops an email address into the conversation where I can get in touch with Bob.
now I don’t usually do this kind of thing but I end up sending Bob Weston one of those random goofy emails your better senses tell you never to send… and when I ran out of things to say I ended up pasting a link to one of our practice recordings…
…and now, he’s going to master the album.
it's pretty faith-restoring that someone who has done and still does so much can still take the time and listen to a random goofy emailer and be open enough to get involved with their music.
