The Bagmen
1991
Produced by Mark Harris and Ken Doucette
Mark Harris: Vocals, Bass, Programming
Ken Doucette: Electric and Acoustic Guitars
Danny Brown: Drums on Weekend Explorer and Past
John Henry: Piano on Stay Ahead of the Game
Joe Amato: Tenor and Alto Saxophone on The Sun Must Rise
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This album was recorded in 4 different studios. The original master for Weekend Explorer and Past has been lost so they were transferred from the sole remaining cassette dub and unfortunately are poor in quality. The original cassette release of the album included only the songs up to and including The Final Meta.
The drum machine was first used during the writing and workshopping phase of production. We would get to the stage where a 4-track demo was created and I would work on the drum programming a lot to get it as realistic sounding as possible. After listening to the demos for a while we realized we could get really good sounding tracks if we did basically the same thing on the 4-track but in a bigger studio. We saved a lot of studio time.
