"“It was the first time they tried to play sober,” Dickinson recounts, “and it just wasn’t working. So we gave up. Every day they were like a sine wave. They wouldn’t be drunk enough early on in the day to get anything. Then they’d be good and drunk and it would be great. And then they’d be too drunk and they’d get useless. But at the end of the day Paul would start to feel good and want to play these awful covers, and that was fun, except we couldn’t really use any of them for the album. To this day he thinks he played on a bunch of those where I was really playing guitar.”"
Glad Hampton finally cleared up the story about Westy puking on the ceiling. (I had always heard that he threw up in his hands and then splattered it on the ceiling.)
Finally got a chance to read it, wow. Wonderful article. I'd been under the impression that the Dickinson/band relationship was more contentious than it was. Kind of weird that Paul and Alex didn't hit it off, at least from Alex's side.
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"“It was the first time they tried to play sober,” Dickinson recounts, “and it just wasn’t working. So we gave up. Every day they were like a sine wave. They wouldn’t be drunk enough early on in the day to get anything. Then they’d be good and drunk and it would be great. And then they’d be too drunk and they’d get useless. But at the end of the day Paul would start to feel good and want to play these awful covers, and that was fun, except we couldn’t really use any of them for the album. To this day he thinks he played on a bunch of those where I was really playing guitar.”"
Man, what I wouldn't give to hear those tapes.
Good find, Dave.
Glad Hampton finally cleared up the story about Westy puking on the ceiling. (I had always heard that he threw up in his hands and then splattered it on the ceiling.)
Finally got a chance to read it, wow. Wonderful article. I'd been under the impression that the Dickinson/band relationship was more contentious than it was. Kind of weird that Paul and Alex didn't hit it off, at least from Alex's side.
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