Beatfish Live - James Freaud & Martin Plaza (out of Control & Get Together) 1992
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Beatifish was a short lived collaboration between James Freud (Models) & Martin Plaza (Mental as Anything). Theses two tracks (Out of Control & Get Together) are from a live showcase of the band in 1992 in L.A. If anyone reading this has the full concert please contact me!? Or post the show on UA-cam.
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If anyone has the full Beatfish live show please post it on the net &/or let me know !?
Amazing! Loved this. Get Together is such a chill funky song, loved Beatfish
James Freud and Martin Plaza
Love it. So great that someone preserved this. When I first googled nothing much came up. Quality footage too.
This is magic.
I was working at Jackson's on George when they did the album launch.I was working in the bar - fun night. I remember talking to Michael Hutchence at the bar.
Wow, neat. :)
i recorded this album back in 91 - did all the keyboard/bass and vocal arrangements - rob racic doing all the drum programming - felt a lil peeved they didnt let me tour with them....:( but i suppose me doing other session work at the time - they might have felt a little alienated by that.....oh well
Wow, that's awesome. If you have any demos or alt-versions please UL to UA-cam! Also share your story with the 2 James Freud pages on Facebook. Thanks for commenting. :)
:) no alt versions - whatever was created on the spot is what u hear - the workflow would usually go something like:
Id walk into the studio, robert would play me some drum track he did - there would also be some rough vocal take or guide melody to work from (occassionaly a chord or 2) - then he'd just tell me "ok - fill in the blanks" - so then i start adding chords, riffs and notes for the harmony girls to follow etc - cheques in the mail - job done:)
So in hindsight - for the most part I was probably 60% on the beatfish band (album only) - robert 30% doing drums and edits. The songs were still James and Martin written and their voices - also theirs, plus a few gtr bits:))
One track I believe I didnt do anything on was the one called New Day - James and Martin played bass/Gtr on that - robert still on drum machine. Not sure who played the gtr solo on wheels - maybe martin...the gtr lick on love in vain was a midi triggered sample - Jive Talking was the only track to use a drum loop per se - and i think the reason for that was the deadline to finish was looming - robert pulled out one of his vinyls and 'stole' a snip - which takes like 5 mins to do - as opposed to programming the drum machine which would take hours.
Maybe some djs did some ALT remixes - but i never got to know about those (if any) - anyway, normally remixes only pulled a budget from the label if the radio mix started charting....in which case i think wheels (being the plug track) got limited rotation, so it only peaked at i think 20, 19 on the charts?
From memory at that time, dance music was a taboo subject still for commercial radio - only JJJ, TV and the RAVES would spin it. Though I do believe, correct me if im wrong - but i think this album might have been the turning point (or crossover event) getting radio to start spinning dance style tracks, because even Kylie couldnt get radio spins on her earlier stuff - only through videoHits or similar.
And the other sad thing for the project - apart from radio being somewhat biased towards 'anti-gay' music, the label had in house fighting spats on how to promote it - i dont remember the full story but some bitching went down at RCA, someone caught wind of 'some' poofter joke - the album got shelved soon after - lol James probably didnt help either as he was a mad drunk of sorts and probably spat the dummy to someone he shouldn't have. It's a bitchy business...i must admit:)
Facebook? no prob - im not that familiar with it but if u show where to type ill share whatever i can still remember:)
best
wayne
Wow, fantastic info Wayne. Really appreciate your recollections. I see you have been replying to my James Freud Facebook page (called James Freud Beatfish Models. Welcome! If it's ok could I copy and paste what you've mentioned here and post it there? And I don't suppose you would have an image from those sessions at all?
ah ok thats ur page - well i was gonna mention before just copy n paste for sure:) - pics? i guess at the time - as a session player (as with most session players those days) - the normal protocol was - walk in do ur work - give invoice on the way out....though im sure it would have ok to do....but just didnt think to do any - fun times though - kinda regret not doing any....the only souvenear i have is a promo copy of the album...better than nothing i suppose - lol
Many thanks! Yes, nowadays selfies and technology means pics abound...but in the early nighties ...... I haven't seen a promo version of the Beatfish CD...Is it different to the commercial release? Any chance of photographing it (cover, back and CD and adding it to my James Freud Facebook page)?