New CD by Strawberry Alternative | Back Again
Skeleton Crew is proud to announce the new album release of, “Back Again,” by our favorite drummer Greg Tyler and his solo project Strawberry Alternative! Here’s Greg to tell you a bit more about “Back Again.”
This CD, “Back Again,” follows up “Gone.” We think it tends to be a little more of what we really sound like. It’s a little more rock and bluesy. The playing by everyone was just awesome and the disc turned out great, so of course we hope you enjoy listening to it. Some songs write themselves, “Invisible” for example; other songs like “Dangerous” took a bit more time.
Some songs on “Back Again” had the kitchen sink and we had to go back and listen and start taking stuff back out. Digital recording is a boon and a bane. The ability to track and re-track can be intoxicating. It can also be a trap. There were times when we said that’s it; it is what it is, because once you start to “create” what you think you hear it no longer has anything worth hearing. So that being said, if there was a bit of feedback, or the snare was a bit out of tune then it remained what you hear.
An album is a chronicle, a portrait of what happened that day at that time. When I listen to music recorded back in the day it makes me happy. Not because of the writing as much as the recording. At the very top of James Brown’s “GetUp (sex machine)” he counts in John (Jabo) Starks on drums. I think he used a speed king bass drum pedal. They squeaked. They always squeaked. I never had one that didn’t squeak. So, 1-2-3-4 and in comes the funky drummer with “squeak-squeak-squeak-squeak” on the bass drum and the recording. We tried to leave in the squeaks on this disc too. It’s not James Brown, but it was a lot of fun to record and hopefully…listen to as well!
Hopefully you will enjoy listening to this disc and it will make you happy. There is a little something for everyone. We even threw in a little bit of Vincent Price tongue-in-cheek horror. Check out the new Strawberry Alternative record, “Back Again,” available for download now on CD Baby!
Listen here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/StrawberryAlternative
I am a proud owner of a Prehistoric Dig CD, and have been playing it over and over this week, and thinking about my old friend, Greg Tyler… Id love to hear your music live again! I still don’t know why you guys weren’t a national hit off that CD alone!