{"id":766,"date":"2012-05-01T05:11:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T10:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2012-05-01T05:11:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T10:11:50","slug":"jump-out-the-window-the-brotherhood-story-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/01\/jump-out-the-window-the-brotherhood-story-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump Out the Window: The Brotherhood Story (part 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brotherhood Brotherhood <\/strong><\/em>Phil recalls that after they had taken their Joyride<\/em>, the band had gotten eclecticism and experimentation \u201cout of our system.\u201d Now it was back to business, back to crafting a \u201csecond\u201d Brotherhood album. The situation is thick with irony: their recording budget slashed, their lineup frayed, their future uncertain, they would cobble together an album with a few new songs but largely made up of leftovers, covers, a three-year old single, and even a borrowed track. Yet the resulting album, Brotherhood Brotherhood,<\/em> would be their most fully realized, consistent effort.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe had to knock the second album out fast,\u201d Phil says. \u201cWe did it in less than half the time that the first album took. We were getting ultimatums from the label that we had to bring this album in under $30,000 to offset the overrun on the first record.\u201d Phil says that they decided to deliver the album that RCA wanted, one that \u201csounded like a rock band.\u201d They even recorded some of the tracks live in the studio. \u201cWe told our friends, \u2018We gotta get some songs done,\u2019 and so we pulled things from different sources.\u201d Phil asserts that David Crosby offered to sing his \u201cLong Time Gone\u201d on the next Brotherhood album, but that RCA wouldn\u2019t allow it.<\/p>\n

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With Smitty gone, Drake and Phil rang up Bartholomew Smith-Frost (aka Frosty) but he was already busy playing with Lee Michaels. Frosty suggested his roommate, Joe Pollard. Jeff Levin \u2014 Drake\u2019s brother, and Brotherhood roadie during this period \u2014 recalls that Pollard was known as \u201cThe Machine\u201d thanks to his solid drumming. Joe had attended high school with Jim Valley, and had been an active part of the Seattle music scene. \u201cI went over to meet Drake and Phil at RCA Studio C, the small studio,\u201d Pollard recalls. \u201cBasically, if they didn\u2019t have a band and that album, the record deal crashed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joe signed with the band for what would essentially become a \u201cpower trio\u201d record. \u201cDrake was really good at \u2018robbing Peter to pay Paul.\u2019 Somehow,\u201d Pollard laughs, \u201cthe advance that I got for signing with RCA turned into a guitar amp!\u201d Joe says that the band tried without success \u201cto get Terry Melcher to produce the album.\u201d But instead, \u201cWe were [allowed by RCA to be] our own producers, which was unheard of in those days for a rock band. Ten years later, everybody was doing that.\u201d The band blocked out long stretches of studio time at RCA. Pollard says, \u201cWe were bumping people like Henry Mancini. I remember going next door and meeting people like Quincy Jones and Frank Sinatra.\u201d Michaels and his pal Jimi Hendrix even dropped by the studio once for an all-night (albeit unrecorded) jam with the band.<\/p>\n

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