Comments for Jazz Butcher, Fishcotheque

pat says: Having ended up on Creation, which I took as a bit of a validation, I was keen to get as far away from all those "w" words that had followed my group around, and to make it as clear as I could that this was a rock & roll thing, not some "eccentricity". I had my shades and I had my fringed suede jacket and I had the Weather Prophets rhythm section. In the last flickering days before Marriage and Acid House would change the world Kizzy and I hung out in his dealer`s flat in Islington and WALKED to the studio in Waterloo everyday. The sessions were chaotic and funny. At one stage Kizzy arrived 56 hours late for a mix, having been held by the Police under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. David has this down right as a sort of self-justificatory thing. What disappoints me is that it came out sounding so SMOOTH and tidy. I`d hoped it would be more harsh and mad. I guess perhaps it`s the saxes, which, I recall, enraged some reviewers. Sonic Boom does good things on Susie (that`s 4 of them big ballads at least, now), that was more the idea. Still, not to slag O`Higgins, who began a lengthy association with the JBC on this recording. This sold rather well, which was pleasing, and seems widely liked. I can`t fuck with that, but I had hoped that it would be more a "change of direction" than it was. But I like Fishcotheque; I wish there more records as good as it.