Recording the Scissor Sisters Issue 51
FEATURE SCISSOR SISTERS RECORDING THE AT 36 It’s Babydaddy’s 30th birthday. Normally Discoball Jazzfest, no less, hinting at the this is a time to relax with friends and family, band’s utterly promiscuous (ab)use of zillions and take stock of existential questions to do of different musical influences, ranging from with life, growing up, and everything, but all disco to soul to music hall to prog rock and this is far from the American’s mind. Instead, even, indeed, jazz (Pink Floyd, Meatloaf, he’s standing in a rehearsal room somewhere David Bowie, The Beatles, Bee Gees, Andrew in London, speaking loudly into a mobile Lloyd Webber, and Abba, eat your hearts telephone, desperately trying to keep his head out). The band is utterly and wilfully blind to together while ignoring incessant interruptions notions of what’s musically cool, and delights from noisy trains and humans. The latter are in concocting musical collages verging on the mostly urging him to get off the phone and pastiche. join the rest of the Scissor Sisters, who are eager to begin their rehearsal. INSPIRED PASTICHE The Scissor Sisters waded into the ‘difficult For 26 heroic minutes Babydaddy manages second album’ with the help of some of their to ward off these powerful distractions, and heroes. “We did a session with Elton John in sticks to the job at hand, which is to talk Las Vegas,” recalls Babydaddy, “and out of to AT. Under normal circumstances this is that came the track Intermission. A month not too overwhelming a challenge, but these later he came to our studio, and with him on are not normal circumstances.
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