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Spinal Tap, L-R: Harry Shearer As Derek Smalls, Christopher Guest As Nigel Tufnel and Michael Mckean As David St PHOTO: MAtt MINDLIN ::music This is (still) Spinal Tap, L-R: Harry Shearer as Derek Smalls, Christopher Guest as Nigel Tufnel and Michael McKean as David St. Hubbins. By Mr. Bonzai Spinal Tap MocuMentary StarS are ‘Back FroM the DeaD’ During this 25th anniversary of the film a one-hour DVD and a pop-up diorama Cherney mixed half of the thun- and album This is Spinal Tap, the band package that unveils three 12-inch ac- derous new album at his Studio Ed at has reunited to set the record straight, tion figures of the band and a propor- The Village, while Vanston mixed the once and for all. What a stupendous tionally sized Stonehenge. ear-splitting remainder at his studio, relief for the countless fans who em- Tracking for Back From the Dead The Treehouse. Mastering was done pathized with Tap’s well-documented took place at The Village in L.A. with by Gavin Lurssen with publicist Bobbi fall from grace and money. All of the engineer Ed Cherney and longtime Fleckman peering over his shoulder. original album has been re-recorded, Tap collaborator CJ Vanston producing. Vanston explains, “Spinal Tap is re- along with much anticipated never- Guest artists include Phil Collen of Def recording the entire first album because released material for a total of 19 tracks. Leppard, John Mayer, Keith Emerson they thought the original album was a The release, out June 16, also includes and Steve Vai. hatchet job, just like the movie.” With WWW.MIXONLINE.COM I JUNE 2009 MIX 47 ::music spinal tap worldwide attention focused on Tap’s trium- Smalls: Which Castro would that be? Why do you call your studio The Treehouse? phant independent release of Back From the Dead St. Hubbins: Fidel. Vanston: It’s my hideout, my sanctuary, and until on The Label Industry Records, a Rock Band 2 Smalls: He’s dead. recently there were no girls allowed. music videogame in the works and a one-stop St. Hubbins: No, he’s not. Primary equipment? world tour planned for London’s Wembley Sta- Vanston: Lenny Castro, the percussionist. Vanston: The studio definitely centers around dium, this is surely one of the most anticipated St. Hubbins: I think that Ed does bring that Logic 8 and my Macs. Every day I shake my head juggernauts of comic/tragic music mayhem ever chummy quality. Very true. in astonishment at Logic. It is infinitely custom- conceived and/or executed. Smalls: There was chum in the studio every day. izable—I have dozens of templates for working And now, join me at The Village with the St. Hubbins: That’s right, throwing out the in video, live mixing, mastering, et cetera. Some- blond and effervescent David St. Hubbins, the chum for us sharks. times I think back to how we used to work and master of the big-bottom bass, Derek Smalls, the I am interested in what you guys think about the wonder how we got it done. The biggest advan- moody yet severely gifted Nigel Tufnel, and natty rampant digital bootlegging and ripping off of all tage to today’s technology is the ability to jump tweakster CJ Vanston. the material you worked on for so many years. around from song to song. Since I am an “in- How do you deal with that? the-box” guy, there are no knobs to recall when Catching Up With the Guys St. Hubbins: Listen, we’ve been ripped off as switching projects or songs. We’re going to dig under the surface and try to find much as anyone. Some of the basic licks, some I couldn’t live without my Mackie Control. out a little bit more about this new recording. of the stuff that Nigel comes up with—wait for That changed my life. To be able to grab a fad- St. Hubbins: We don’t care if you dig under the five minutes and somebody has ripped it off. er and do a quick duck or ride means that every surface, just as long as you sterilize the instru- Smalls: We’ve been ripped off by almost every- move I do is moving me closer to the finished ment first. one. product. The fact that it’s so small is a huge plus Smalls: And find the surface buried underneath. St. Hubbins: By the best. for a guy like me, who does most of his own en- Rumor has it that this was the most difficult Smalls: By the best, by the f***ing best, by every gineering, allowing it to sit to my side instead of Spinal Tap album to record. Is that true? major… gobbling up valuable real estate. St. Hubbins: I wouldn’t say that it was the most St. Hubbins: That’s how they got to be the best. I also have a vintage keyboard room that is difficult. We had a good time. We did a lot of the Smalls: That’s how they got their lifestyle, how full of tasty artifacts from the era of analog synths. old songs. It was sort of like old wine in, well, not they got their fancy cars, their great homes in the There is nothing like these old beasts. They shake new bottles—the bottles were old, as well—but Hollywood Hills. So now it’s the punter’s turn. the room while the plug-ins lie limp. My Ober- they are packed in a really high-impact space-age Now everybody can act like a record executive. heim 4-voice is all over this new Spinal Tap re- plastic carrying thing. We’re really looking forward to hearing the new cord, as is my Jupiter-8 and Yamaha TX816s. I Smalls: New labels. No corks. Spinal Tap material. also use the Alesis Andromeda, a more recent A lot has happened in the… Smalls: We’re very proud of “Warmer Than Hell,” analog synth—I don’t know how it ever got made Smalls: Not really. which has never been recorded, and “Short and as it is an expensive tool for a small market. Kind No, not really, but some things have happened Sweet,” and our legendary long jam is coming of like this band. I am also absolutely loving my since the first album. out on this record: “Jazz Oddyssey.” ZenDrum! David Haney came up with a superior St. Hubbins: Oh, yeah. St. Hubbins: A couple of the re-dos, as well: trigger technology to make drum programming And now we have all this digital manipulation. I “Funky Sex Farm,” “Reggae Flower People.” fun and creative. just wondered if you guys resorted to any of that How do you get the group’s massive drum sound? Auto-Tuning trickery. A Few Words From CJ Vanston Vanston: We have a massive drummer, Skippy St. Hubbins: Technological jiggery-pokery, is that When did you first work with Spinal Tap? Skuffleton [aka Gregg Bissonette]. We really tried what you’re saying? Oh, yes, we love it. Especially Vanston: I played a concert with them in 1991 at to fatten him up for this record. He lives in a mo- CJ Vanston. We just look over, and there is CJ fid- the Disneyland Hotel. Dweezil Zappa and Steve tor home that he parks outside the studio, and dling with something. We say, “Put that away and Lukather sat in, and it was an amazing night. we send Mexican food out to him at regimented get started on the music,” and then he starts do- Drum legend Russ Kunkel was responsible for intervals. Of course, it takes a special engineer to ing all this digital stuff. He’s explaining it to us, that, and I’ll never forgive but we don’t understand half of it. But we know him. that when he tweaks it, it stays tweaked. What do you do for Spinal Ed Cherney had something to do with recording this Tap? album. I believe he recorded the tracks. Ed’s really Vanston: I have multiple known for his work with many, many artists, espe- functions with Tap, ranging cially Bonnie Raitt. Do you think that there’s a Bon- from being their producer, nie Raitt intimacy with this new album? keyboard player, musical di- Smalls: There’s a cut-rate intimacy with this rector, photographer and ar- ON album. chivist, et cetera. I also find ST AN J V J C : : St. Hubbins: I wish Bonnie had shown up. She’s Chinese restaurants in each O T always pleasant to have around. You know, she city that still use MSG. Hard PHO was off waltzing with Castro. She’s very politically to find these days, but the At Wembley Stadium, London, 2007, left to right: Smalls, Judith Owen, Skippy Skuffleton, Rob Reiner, Tufnel, Annette O’Toole, St. Hubbins, CJ involved. boys love their MSG. Vanston, Ricky Gervais 48 MIX JUNE 2009 I WWW.MIXONLINE.COM capture the sheer violence when Skippy is trying surface for the true fans. Keith Emerson was a to finish the track to make a run for the loo. That huge influence on me, yet I’m unable to use any would be Ed Cherney, the only guy Skippy will let of that influence for this band on this record. closer than 10 feet to his drums. There is just no room. So I tend to distort things Blue Microphones sent over some very ex- so the guys think they are guitar sounds, thus pensive mics for us to use. The big ones are they stay on the record. called Blue Bottles, and I think Skipper Wise at Blue wanted us to try them on vocals.
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