Morris thought that the new material was weak, but when he voiced his opinion to Noel he was cut down: "[So] I just carried on shovelling drugs up my nose."
Creation's owner Alan McGee visited the studio during the mixing stage; he said, "I used to go down to the studio, and there was so much cocaine getting done at that point ... Owen was out of control, and he was the one in charge of it. The music was just fucking loud."[5] Morris responded: "Alan McGee was the head of the record company. Why didn’t he do something about the 'out of control' record producer"? Obviously, the one not in control was the head of the record company."[8] He said that he and the band had been dealing with personal difficulties the day and night before McGee visited the studio.[8]
Heard on a Larry Levan mix.
yesterday would have been Whitney's 60th birthday
and I feel guilty because the night before her death I was googling "crack is wack" [0]
and then she died [1]
but I can't help it if I'm precog
the one and only Whitney tune I've ever "owned" was on a Material album, when she was a total unknown, allegedly her first recorded appearance
Material - Memories ( feat. Whitney Houston and Archie Shepp )
which is actually a cover of my tune of the day
Robert Wyatt - Memories
which pisses all over Whitney unlike the Nick Broomfield documentary about her which was surprisingly anodyne - I doubt anyone was willing to talk to him which is why we got a boring yawn fest of stock footage arranged in a soporific montage
the Wyatt original makes me wonder what would have happened if he didn't fall out of a window, would he just carried on playing drums in long forgotten fusion bands?
[0] which she said because she knew freebase was superior
[1] I doubt this is the right time to mention the rumours of Bobby having to "reach deep" to tug on the ceramic stool that was preventing Whitney from being regular?
I was reading about Be Here Now the other day due to Craner's provocation and there was a comparison with My bloody valentine and I could hear that — the drums are totally swamped in feedback, there's a lack of rhythmic heft, it all feels weirdly weightless. Maybe that's part of the appeal?