{"id":20110,"date":"2021-01-07T05:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T10:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=20110"},"modified":"2021-01-07T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T16:30:55","slug":"the-chris-brubeck-interview-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/07\/the-chris-brubeck-interview-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chris Brubeck Interview, Part Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Part Three<\/a>. In this final part of my lively conversation with Chris Brubeck, he relates a funny story about an album he made many, many years ago with Larry Coryell.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"\"Again another tangent: I was just listening to a vinyl LP that I bought years ago called Better Than Live<\/i> by Larry Coryell and the Brubeck Brothers. It\u2019s got some high-energy fusion on it. Actually, I interviewed Larry several times before his untimely passing. And I actually got to write the liner notes for the first-ever CD reissues of some of his albums. I realize that that record was made more than 40 years ago, but do you still have an affinity for that kind of hybrid of rock\/jazz thing that you were doing back then? <\/b><\/p>\n

Well, first of all, it\u2019s hard to believe that it\u2019s that old. Since you know that record, I can\u2019t remember if it\u2019s it\u2019s discussed in the liner notes or not, but there\u2019s one tune on there, \u201cMidnight Sailor.\u201d Darius [Brubeck] wrote it. And it\u2019s kind of a groove tune.<\/p>\n

Now, these were just direct to disc recordings. So, as that little experiment got more and more popular, they got to the point that instead of just cutting one disc which was able to print maybe 20,000, they started cutting multiple lathes by hooking into different studios.<\/p>\n

Oh, that\u2019s<\/i> how they did it? I didn\u2019t realize that.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. So, they had cables running across alleys to go to different places where the lathes would be cutting, and when we cut those records, we not only did the tune live, we had to do the entire side<\/i> live.<\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t stop, you had to just, \u201cOkay, quiet, 1-2-3 and on to the next one?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Right. You had to do the whole 20 minutes. We were going, and we\u2019re, like, in the seventeenth minute, which means maybe the third or fourth song on the side, and a police car got a call of, like, a robbery in a 7-11 and came racing down the alley, and when the guys talking, \u201cAll right, we have a 9-4-4 and 1-1.\u201d That came through the wires, broadcasting out of the radio into the lathes and ruined the side. And they\u2019re like, \u201cSorry, guys. We\u2019re going to have to start again.\u201d And it was like, \u201cAh, shit.\u201d Because we had played really good. So, we had to take a break and they had to reset all the lathe and everything.<\/p>\n

So, Larry drank a beer; I think it was a Heineken. And like 20 minutes later, it\u2019s \u201cOkay, let\u2019s try to do this again.\u201d We start recording, and something went wrong technically<\/i>. We got half way through: \u201cOh guys, we got to start again.\u201d So, this is like a Catskills joke, or something.<\/p>\n

So, it happened four different times. Each time, Larry would have another beer<\/i>. So, by the time we got to the last attempt, I was really worried about what kind of state he was in, alcoholically speaking. And we got to the big guitar solo in \u201cMidnight Sailor,\u201d which was the last cut on that side, and I look over and I hear this amazing stuff that had never happened before<\/i>, like a slide guitar sound, sort of a Derek Trucks kind of thing, except Derek wasn\u2019t born yet.<\/p>\n

And then I look over, Larry has drunk so much that he\u2019s using his Heineken bottle as a steel bar on the guitar. And that<\/i> is the solo that you hear on that record. That\u2019s the side. It was really cool. It was good.<\/p>\n

“Brubeck Week” on Musoscribe concludes tomorrow with a review of a recently released album, <\/em>Time OutTakes, unheard material from Dave Brubeck’s classic session.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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