SOME DETAILS:
Lloyd Cole | Antidepressant - 2006: Most recent and a favourite session because we got the ideas down quickly and kept many of them as they were. Lloyd skyped me the demos and I charted them out then skyped him a few ideas back. When I went down to Northampton we pretty much did the takes live and in many cases improvised. I stuck pretty much exclusively to L's 335 with Antiquity pickups for both the standard electric guitar parts and the slide parts. I also played acoustic on New York City Sunshine.
The Bathers | Lagoon Blues - 1993: I really like this album. One of the earlier Bathers albums and the only one I played on. I played on 4 or 5 tracks. Ave. the Leopards, Gracefruit, Never Too Late and The Sweetheart Sessions. Recorded at John Turner's place outside Edinburgh. I was just about to move to Toronto. I remember Chris sitting at the big grand piano calling out the chords to Sweetheart as I played. I think it worked out though. I used my Sans Amp straight into the desk. It was used like that on a few of the tracks on Bad Vibes as well. Amazing boxes. It's always a pleasure to work with Chris. Hopefully we will again.
Lloyd Cole | Love Story - 1995: I played on Baby, Sentimental Fool, Trigger Happy, I Didn't Know That You Cared, Happy For You, Be There, Unhappy Song and Crying Out Loud. All electric guitar. I played the solos on Sentimental Fool and Be There. Robert Quine did the guitars on the others and he played the solo on I Didn't Know That You Cared. I had to learn all Robert's parts for the tour as I had done previously in 1991. I became quite intimately acquainted with his style and phrasing which was brilliantly inventive. From what I gathered in our brief conversations he was a real scholar of Charlie Christian and early rock and roll jazz converts like Scotty Moore. We only met a few times and I was quite in awe of him and his reputation but he was always funny and kind to me. We took a great band out on this tour, with Amanda Kramer, Rafa Maciejak (replaced Robert Rodriguez for the second half) and Chris Wilson. The recordings that make up the bulk of Lloyd Cole Live at the BBC released in 2007 show this band in very good form.
Lloyd Cole | Antidepressant - 2006: Most recent and a favourite session because we got the ideas down quickly and kept many of them as they were. Lloyd skyped me the demos and I charted them out then skyped him a few ideas back. When I went down to Northampton we pretty much did the takes live and in many cases improvised. I stuck pretty much exclusively to L's 335 with Antiquity pickups for both the standard electric guitar parts and the slide parts. I also played acoustic on New York City Sunshine.
The Bathers | Lagoon Blues - 1993: I really like this album. One of the earlier Bathers albums and the only one I played on. I played on 4 or 5 tracks. Ave. the Leopards, Gracefruit, Never Too Late and The Sweetheart Sessions. Recorded at John Turner's place outside Edinburgh. I was just about to move to Toronto. I remember Chris sitting at the big grand piano calling out the chords to Sweetheart as I played. I think it worked out though. I used my Sans Amp straight into the desk. It was used like that on a few of the tracks on Bad Vibes as well. Amazing boxes. It's always a pleasure to work with Chris. Hopefully we will again.
Lloyd Cole | Love Story - 1995: I played on Baby, Sentimental Fool, Trigger Happy, I Didn't Know That You Cared, Happy For You, Be There, Unhappy Song and Crying Out Loud. All electric guitar. I played the solos on Sentimental Fool and Be There. Robert Quine did the guitars on the others and he played the solo on I Didn't Know That You Cared. I had to learn all Robert's parts for the tour as I had done previously in 1991. I became quite intimately acquainted with his style and phrasing which was brilliantly inventive. From what I gathered in our brief conversations he was a real scholar of Charlie Christian and early rock and roll jazz converts like Scotty Moore. We only met a few times and I was quite in awe of him and his reputation but he was always funny and kind to me. We took a great band out on this tour, with Amanda Kramer, Rafa Maciejak (replaced Robert Rodriguez for the second half) and Chris Wilson. The recordings that make up the bulk of Lloyd Cole Live at the BBC released in 2007 show this band in very good form.
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DISCOGRAPHY:
- 2007: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions Live @ the BBC (2 separate Volumes)
- 2007: Lloyd Cole Live @ the BBC
- 2006: Sleeping Dogs feature film soundtrack
- 2006: Lloyd Cole - Antidepressant (electric guitar, slide guitar, acoustic guitar, co-write)
- 2004: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes Deluxe Edition(electric guitar, acoustic guitar, co-write)
- 2004: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Singles (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, co-write)
- 2003: Lloyd Cole - Music In A Foreign Language (electric guitar)
- 2002: Lloyd Cole - Etc (electric guitar, slide guitar, co-write)
- 2001: Lloyd Cole and the Negatives (electric guitar, slide guitar, co-write)
- 1998: Axelle Renoir - Rose (electric and acoustic guitar)
- 1996: Lloyd Cole - Love Story (electric guitar)
- 1995: Mae Moore - Dragonfly (electric guitar)
- 1994: Axelle Renoir - Magnums et Matinees Dansantes (electric and acoustic guitar)
- 1993: Lloyd Cole - Bad Vibes (electric guitar)
- 1993: The Bathers - Lagoon Blues (electric and acoustic guitars)
- 1991: Bloomsday - Fortuny (electric and acoustic guitar, co-write)
- 1990: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - '84 - '89 (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, co-write)
- 1987: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Mainstream (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, co-write)
- 1986: Absolute Beginners Soundtrack (electric guitar)
- 1985: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Easy Pieces (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, co-write)
- 1984: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, co-write)