Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor
hard kids waiting worked
We've been waiting on this for a long time. We've had our struggles, but these kids have worked hard and gutted it out this year.
lucky reclaim special
We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives.
almost band call drift finally moment music slowly
I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed.
people
Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.
needed
When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
months ragged record seven six tiger took
Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.
dome facts fail faulty feet men stamp successes throwing truth
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
gift god man mind placed value
Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
aside buy lay ready replace
My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.
lightly walks
I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
finished period recorded time
It was over a three-year period that we recorded this album. Everything sounded very different by the time we finished the album.
until
The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that.
beatles complete plug room
It's a complete collaboration. We just set up our instruments in a room and plug in, much as The Beatles would have done 30 years ago.
nonstop
It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.