The Jazz Butcher
Releases
Condition Blue
Details
Release Type: album
Media: LP;CD
Released: 1991 (Creation Records) 1992 (Sky)
Label: creation_records, sky_records
Recorded: 1991-04/1991-05
Studio: Raven, Norfolk and Submarine Sound, Northampton
Catalogue: CRECD110, SKYCLAD 5080
Notes
The Sky (CD only) release has sides A&B switched
Thanks
Thanks to the bureaucratic idiocy on the part of the Butcher and his associates the contributions of Alex Lee & Sumishta Brahm to the previous JBCLP Cult Of The Basement have gone uncredited. The Butcher would have you know that they both played leading guitar stuff on that record, as well as on this one. Respect and thanks are extended to the groups who let their musicians out to play on this waxing, specifically: The Blue Aeroplanes Levitation, 13 Frightened Girls and Spectrum. Thanks also to Ensign, Ultimate and Silvertone. Deep gratitude goes out to all involved. This Butcher owes you one. Special love and thanks to Paul Mulreany , Tim Burrell and Sumishta Brahm , without all of whom God Only Knows...
The Butcher Says..
Four desperate men, all too desperate to notice how desperate
the others are, gather in a farmhouse with a queue of
lead guitarists stretching round the block. For all
the pain and crap from which this record was made, the
actual sessions were a gigantic and wonderful party.
The songs are all long because we (Paul, Joe, Lix & I)
just enjoyed the playing on the "to-be-faded" bits so
much that it seemed a shame not to let everyone hear
them. This was warmly received by The Outside World,
less popular among those who counted themselves JBC afficionados.
Well, I couldn't have written it any other way, and I
love that everyone plays on it, so I'm not in much of
a position to know why you don't care for it. All I can
say is that I'm still well pleased with it as a recording,
and as a piece of writing about a tough subject. I mean,
I hate "divorce rock" too. It wuz a tough assignment.
Go on, give the fucker another listen. The songs may
not make you laugh, but the playing ought to give you
a few thrills. And, after all, I'm not in a band to make
money, or be a "professional entertainer" - I'm in a band
because I like to play very loud electric guitar. This
IS the sound of me having fun, and getting me to do that
in those dark days of mid-1991 was no small job. (Can
anyone tell me how I *knew* that the French were going
to like "
Girls Say Yes
"?);;Pat Letter: 1993-08-30;;/letters/93Aug30/albums.html#blue;;1993-08-30$$
Reviews
The Record Store Up Front And Center Treading the line between dumb and stupid (Waterloo, Canada), Fri, May 8th 1992
Vancouver Sun Butchered relationship fascinates Fish (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Wed, May 27th 1992
