Let's remix the 1980s!
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Artist:
I'm working on this long term project of portraits of musical people. People, who tend to be in the underground, playing music because they HAVE to. As one of my subjects put it "...because they have no choice." Today I was photographing Robert the drummer for the Hellacopters, we were looking for a place to use for a quick shoot so he said "hey let's go over to Stevie's guitar shop." We got there and Stevie Klasson is standing outside, closed for the day because there was a fire in the bathroom. So he takes us downstairs into the cellar of this place. As I'm doing what I need to do we're all talking about music, of course! After all Robert plays with the Hellacopters and Stevie plays with bands like the Diamond Dogs (and he's been lucky enough to have played with Johnny Thunders!). Somehow we got on the subject of bands from the 1980s, like Lords Of The New Church and Robert says "that second LP, there's nothing wrong the songs but the production killed it." Stevie says "someone should remix that album. Maybe we should just remix the whole 80s?"So we all started to joke about how the coked-up engineers and producers pretty much ruined a lot of bands. And we started thinking: yeah, someone should remix those 80s bands that were great punk bands and underground bands. Rock and roll bands that should have sounded better. Rougher. Rawer. More real. Anybody else with us on this???New wave pretty much sucked though, so we don't need to both with that.
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