HOT ANIMAL MACHINE

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Ah yes, where it all began...
My (fallible) memory is that Henry and I were both visiting DC at the same time (I from England, where I was living) and he from LA and that was precisely when Black Flag officially ended. We'd traded tapes for a few years and had always talked of maybe doing a project together. So at that point it basically became, "get a band, write some tunes and book some studio time". So I did. The songs, except for the riff to "A Man and a Woman" (which was supplied by Bernie Wandel) were mostly old stuff I'd been sending Henry from my Portastudio. We had a few days (I think three) of intense practice and then went into tracking. Mick Green (my band mate from Surfin Dave) and Bernie Wandel (a spectacular bassist friend from DC) were the rhythm section. The unflappable Geoff Clout (whom we would happily work with again on Lifetime) engineered and offered sage counsel. Cool record.
Sadly the original multitrack tapes got reused before we could buy them.
Such is life.
GEAR: Man, I used EVERYTHING on this. Back in Leeds (where this was done) I mainly was playing the Damn Armstrong, the Longhorn, that black Rick 420 (which went mysteriously missing from home when I was on tour) and an anonymous red strat copy. As for amps, it must have been my old twin and a wonderful-looking but terrible sounding little no name 1x12 I had.

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