"It's the fifties. It's late at night and it's been raining."

2009-07-10 17:46:34 　　来自: 大胃麒麟 (寇比力克)
Fox Bat Strategy: A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi的评论   

　　"It's the fifties. It's late at night and it's been raining."
　　
　　这是lynch对这张专辑的高度总结,或者应该说, 是他在指导Fox Bat Strategy录下整张专辑时头脑里浮现的景象吧.
　　
　　这张专辑早在1994年就完成了, 乐队成员是双峰电影版Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me中, 在酒吧里演奏经典阴暗曲目Pink Room的原班人马. 是否可以说，制作这张专辑时lynch还沉浸在某种双峰式的怀旧时光中？ 你甚至可以把它看作是90年floating into night和93年the voice of love的延续, 只不过这一次julee cruise被换成了Dave Jaurequi, 专辑标题里纪念的乐手.
　　
　　纪念他是因为他在06年去世了, 因此lynch才决定将该专辑发行出来.于是我们有了这张7首歌曲的小专辑, lynch世界的又一块拼图被补上了, 虽然遗漏的部分还有很多.
　　
　　pitchfork只给了这张专辑6分,及格的分数. 作者虽自称是lynch影迷但是从他带着嘲讽的引经据典里,我没有看出丝毫对lynch的敬意.无所谓. 他说某些歌曲像suicide我倒是很认同,至少这是好兆头吧?
　　
　　lynch在这张专辑里的作用就跟他在电影里的作用一样,指导一次独特的经验。他从头到尾对乐手们做着抽象的指示，并且一边录音一边在本子上写词，画小画，整个过程十分即兴。
　　
　　看一下当年乐手回忆他们录rollin'down with you这首歌时的情景吧：
　　we were all in the groove. After a while this voice came into our headphones, "Stephen, that snare drum is......well, is there another sound instead?" Stephen tried playing the rim of the drum. "That's better. Can you make it sound more like metal?" For the next 20 minutes, Stephen went through a number of different sounds. He played the side of the drum with a brush. He tried scraping the drum. He used a metal mallet. He tried a music stand. He tried a break-drum. An old stand up ashtray. Finally they settled on him playing the big heavy base of a mic stand turned upside down on top of the standing ashtray with a ball peed hammer as a mallet. We started jamming on that for a while. After a few minutes the sound started echoing in our headphones (like that tape echo you hear on an old Excello blues record.) The echo track was getting louder and louder, dominating the mix. I felt like I was being hypnotized. The clang of the ball peed hammer thru the tape echo was like some Shaman's club whacking me on the forehead over and over again until I was completely lost in a trance. After another several minutes, we managed to wind it down and find an ending, a resolution to our strange musical journey. I looked over at Stephen and his right arm was swollen from swinging that hammer. It looked like one of Popeye's arms. We all laughed and put down our instruments and headed into the control room. I asked Lynch, "Was it too normal?" He thought for a moment and said, "It was normal ......but it was Abnormal."
　　
　　我只想像cooper那样说一句： This is, excuse me , a damn fine album.