For the most part that "basement magic" came from the combination of Bryan on guitar and myself on keyboards, bass and drums. Previously, when Bryan recorded albums he'd always remained faithful to our home-studio tapes, adhering religiously to the arrangements we'd created in the basement. Sometimes it took me hours to program a basic track, and that drove Bryan crazy.
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On top of that, "sequencing" software was still in its infancy. The electronic sounds (particularly the drums) lacked dynamics or any human quality. Ultimately however, I believe the technology just got in the way. Territory better left to Bono, Sting and Springsteen. If we'd given it some more thought we might have realized this was creative So well for us in the past, and instead we embraced more serious subject matter. We started writing songs for "Into The Fire" we gravitated away from the typical boy-girl love-song scenarios that had worked The success of the humanitarian effort - helmed by Bob Geldof - was impressive, and it had a profound effect on us. Starving people in Africa have food to eat! I mean, you write a song and a few weeks later it was arrogantĪnd presumptuous of us), but you couldn't help but feel you were changing It may have been arrogant and presumptuous of us (correction. In 1985 - two years before Into The Fire - we'd co-written " TearsĪre Not Enough", the Canadian song for African famine relief. It took nearly twenty years to re-kindle our friendship and our songwriting partnership, now stronger than ever, and for which I'm very grateful. We limped along, creatively, for another year or two, but truth be told, we were done. EverythingĬhanged during Into The Fire: our music, our relationship. Up our own fundamental apertures and re-emerged in "The Land Thatįun Forgot". The Into The Fire album is the moment when Adams and I disappeared
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