Crazy Rhythms
Glenn Mercer : By the time we were recording Crazy Rhythms , there was this punk rock thing
Mercer : Mark [ Abel ], our co-producer , said , “ We ’ re scheduled to mix in a week , we have to move on . Why don ’ t we just record the guitars direct and then when we go to mix we ’ ll feed ’ em back to an amp — I ’ m sure it ’ ll sound better there .” But we kind of got happening in New York and we definitely felt used to the way the guitars sounded direct , some solidarity . But we didn ’ t want to align so we ended up keeping ’ em . ourselves too closely because we kind of felt like , “ Well , this has been done before , it ’ s been Million : A lot of times the environment done better .” And they were kind of [ going off takes over — some unknown element takes on ] the fashion aspect with the safety pins … over — and you have to be smart enough to So I think we just kind of steered away from be aware of what ’ s happening and try to anything that resembled what was going on enhance it . And I think that ’ s what we did . in New York . We wanted to stand out . We wanted to carve out a sound that was unique .
THE “ CRAZY RHYTHMS ” LINEUP : KEITH DeNUNZIO , BILL MILLION , GLENN MERCER , ANTON FIER
Bill Million : We ’ d made the decision that when we did record an album , we were going to be in charge of the sound . So we went in with that determination ; however , we were
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still pretty much novices . We started turning
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dials and discovering sounds , and after about eight hours of struggling to get a guitar sound , we said , “ Let ’ s try something different .”
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