16/10/2024
In 1983, I was asked to re record all of Australian Crawls' singles as the band did not own their original master recordings. They didn't want to change much, just use a different drummer. Finally the Crawls first overseas record was released on Geffen records and featured all my re recordings and some new recordings we made during these sessions. I had whizzed through a dozen or so tracks in a couple of days so there was still about 6 weeks of time booked at Rhinoceros studios in Sydney. With guitarist Simon Binks and I left to our own devices with engineer David Nicholas, we began work on an old song of Simons called "Red guitar". Using my drum machine, synthesisers and a few delay machines we came up with a new song "White Limbo" ( Simons ode the co***ne epidemic that had taken over the town). This lead to us to recording another half a dozen songs including "Reckless". The resulting EP called "Semantics" was a block buster thanks to the lead single "Reckless" becoming a number 1 hit. People are always fascinated when I tell them the drum track for that is a kick and snare from my DNX drum machine (plus a liberal amount of AMS Non linear reverb) and a live hi hat I played after a few overdubs had been done. No tom fills no snare fills, no cymbal crashes but I also added a couple of string lines. Anyway here is a version of Lakeside someone sent me from that US release.