Comments for Jazz Butcher, Condition Blue

essential! pat says:Four desperate men, all too desperate to notice how desperate the others are, gather in a farmhouse with a queue of lead guitarists stretching round the block. For all the pain and crap from which this record was made, the actual sessions were a gigantic and wonderful party. The songs are all long because we (Paul, Joe, Lix & I) just enjoyed the playing on the "to-be-faded" bits so much that it seemed a shame not to let everyone hear them. This was warmly received by The Outside World, less popular among those who counted themselves JBC afficionados. Well, I couldn`t have written it any other way, and I love that everyone plays on it, so I`m not in much of a position to know why you don`t care for it. All I can say is that I`m still well pleased with it as a recording, and as a piece of writing about a tough subject. I mean, *I* hate "divorce rock" too. It wuz a tough assignment. Go on, give the fucker another listen. The songs may not make you laugh, but the playing ought to give you a few thrills. And, after all, I`m not in a band to make money, or be a "professional entertainer" - I`m in a band because I like to play very loud electric guitar. This IS the sound of me having fun, and getting me to do that in those dark days of mid-1991 was no small job. (Can anyone tell me how I *knew* that the French were going to like "Girls Say Yes?")