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...Just met the man for the first time last Thursday. I rounded up Eric our
bass player and said "Hey lets go check out Deke!" so off we went. It was a
great time. Bass player got a little overzealous on his upright and dropped
the bridge off it midsong. So Deke stood there hammering out bass player
jokes while he the bass player put his instrument back together. It was fun.
-D
>Postscript: if you will please indulge me while I brag for a second.
>We were really interested in having Deke Dickerson produce our first
>album, cause, well, cause Deke is God! That man knows sound, and
>knows guitar. I got in touch with him, and he wanted to hear what we
>sounded like, so I sent him those early tracks. I was so proud when
>I heard back from him - paraphrasing, he said something like "Solaris
>Stomp is an ultimate surf song"!! (he wasn't as thrilled by the
>other two, but no need to talk about that. :)) You could have
>knocked me over with a feather. That was cool. If he only knew -
>Jap pickups and unmodded reissue reverb tanks! It would have been
>quite costly to have him come to Washington to produce us, so he just
>told us to try to make the album sound like Solaris Stomp, and we'll
>be fine. A great guy.
>
>Ivan
>
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