HORSEY
he first band to take me under their wing was Horsey. to date the most awesome music I’ve ever mixed live. Doug,Steve,Jon,and Misty were all highly intelligent, amazing musically,and super nice down to earth people. When they performed their music together they were an incredibly intense live act.Dynamically they could go from furiously loud to super quiet and trippy on a dime. The band consider me very humbly like a 5th member. They wanted me to mix like adrian sherwood mixing Tackhead live. the band wanted their live sets immersed in sound much like the way a Public Enemy record would run. At the top of show and throughout the set in between songs i would role dat tapes of random abstract sound collages i made.
their rehearsal studio was equiped with adats,the latest affordable digital multi tracks so they could record everytime they got together to play. They had a beautifully organic method to writing songs which were flushed out of the improvisational jams they had at the begining of each nightly rehearsal. This was very inspiring to me and a wonderful example of group songwriting. For a number of years during the early nineties, steve moon and myself recorded quite a few bands in their rehearsal studio where musicians seemed to feel quite comfortable creating in the relaxed environment which was in stark contrast to the sterile clinical environment of the expensive studios in town.
To this day, this band remains my biggest musical inspiration and it is very rare that i experience a live musical act which hits with the same sonic impact.
the track below was was from a live 24trk(dat) recording i did at the DNA lounge in SF