Re: (TV) The Blue Mask & Quine

["Michael Carlucci" <michael@recordsnyc.com>]

    That's the thing with "Basic". After each song Quine would sit back and
say yhings like, no guitar solo here. That's what people would expect me to
do so I won't. I think that was the idea behind the record for better or
worse do the unexpected. I prefer the Jody Harris/Quine LP myself. Don't
forget too that Basic was a Quine/Maher record. Maher had express hisself
too. I suppose he was into drum machines then. M T C
> 
> As someone who actually likes _Basic_, I have to agree that the drum
> machine is _way_ overmixed.  For some reason, though, I'm able to get
> past that.  There are some real keepers on that album ("Pickup,"
> "Summer Storm," and another one I'm blanking on right now come to
> mind) if you can manage to ignore the drum sounds. It's also
> interesting because the playing isn't necessarily the kind of thing
> Quine's known for.
> 
> Anyone ever hear the album Quine did with Jody Harris from the
> Raybeats/8-Eyed Spy (at least, I think that was the LL band Harris
> was in)?  Harris is another fine underrated player, for my
> record-buying dollar.
> 
> -Maurice
> 
> At 2:18 PM -0500 3/15/00, AndrewMFC@aol.com wrote:
>> However, I recently bought the Quine-Maher
>> "Basic" disc and to be honest I just can't stand it.  The 80s production just
>> makes me want to take a hammer to my stereo.
> 
> Maurice Rickard
> http://mauricerickard.com/
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