Proud to be pioneering new horizons for Throw-Back Thursdays. Here we have an aural entry: my old band the Pathetics on LI radio station WBAB-FM back in the fall of 1982, doing a song of ours, Has Anybody Seen That Girl?, sung by yours truly. (A singing drummer? What will they think of next?) Now, admittedly this comes under the heading of “Mommy, Mommy, look at me, look at me! Look at what I did!” But since that pretty much sums up Facebooks whole reason for being, I’m not too broken up about it. I posted this just for fun. Mostly mine. Quick note about this particular song, penned by rhythm guitarist/vocalist Robert Hahn: Live, the Pathetics were pretty crackling; I always saw us as a cross between Cheap Trick, the Pretenders, and Rockpile. So how come this song has us sounding like the freaking Association? Easy answer: first time in a 24-track studio, where you get so excited by having so many tracks to fill that you multitrack the life out of everything. Plus, the studio we used was such a dead room that the drums sounded like cardboard boxes -- which the recording engineer then fixed in the mix by drenching them in echo till they got all soggy. Each snare hit sounds like Im setting off a depth charge. Oh, well, live and learn. Or in our case, come real close to getting a major-label record deal, but then the A&R guy who really, really wants to sign you vanishes into a residential drug-rehab center for six months. (True story.) Probably just as well, though, since we only would have wound up choking to death on our own puke in the back of the tour bus, which not only sounds like a pretty unpleasant way to go, but would have been SUCH a cliche. To be delivered to rock & roll nirvana, click the link below and then click on the row of exclamation points at the top of that page. (A little Rube Goldberg-ish, but it was the only way I could figure out how to make this work.) Also, in response to the inevitable question, yes, I did used to be a rock radio announcer, in Buffalo. . jhs1972.net/ The Pathetics (R.I.P.) were: Bob Hahn (guitar, vocals), L. Roy Mango (lead guitar, vocals), Carl Leeds (bass, vocals), and Phil (drums, vocals, beer distribution supervisor).
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:56:56 +0000
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