tisdag 6 oktober 2009

Grizzly Bear och Holy Ghost tar båda in Michael McDonald till sina skivor!

HUH?? Det hippa och sådär bra Brooklyn-00-tals-indiebandet Grizzly Bear har gjort en låt med en av LiL:s husgudar Michael McDonald!!

Pitchfork:
"Even in the realm of stunt-y, generation-crossing collaborations, this is fucking weird. McDonald's soul holler could not be more different than original singer Daniel Rossen's troubled warble."

Och som om inte det räckte:
"The members of the New York nu-disco duo Holy Ghost! must have been watching The 40 Year Old Virgin stoned recently. How else would they come up with the idea to recruit Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers member/eternal punchline Michael McDonald to sing on their forthcoming debut album?
/.../
Here's what Millhiser told Anthem:

"We had this song, but Alex [Frankel, the other half of Holy Ghost!] wrote the hook out of his range. We always knew we wanted someone else to sing it, but [we didn't know who]. We brought the demo over to James [Murphy], and said, "Why not Michael McDonald?" James-- and he does this a lot-- is really unhelpful sometimes because he [supports] crazy ideas. He was, like, Fuck yeah! Just get Michael McDonald! We happen to know this girl whose father was the bass player in Kenny Loggins' band. So Alex called her and was like, I know this is a long shot, but is there any way you can ask your dad to ask Michael McDonald to do our vocals? She was like, My dad's having dinner with him tomorrow―give me the song and I'll see what I can do.

She gave him the song and he did it...

We wrote out all the charts for him, but he totally did it in, like, five minutes. You can almost hear him eating a sandwich in the background.

He asked us what we wanted him to do, and we were like, You know, do some falsettos, some ad libs, some harmonizing... and he literally did a seven-part harmony. We didn't use it, but..."

Fantastiskt!

2 kommentarer:

Max Thornberg sa...

Cool

Arvid Ahrin sa...

Underbart, brooklyn-scenen har sina stunder får man säga.