Hartford Advocate from Hartford, Connecticut • 27

THE HARTFORD ADVOCATE FEBRUARY (087 27 Dave Edmunds And we hear him rockin Returns 1 I ByClaudiaBeU The Welshman rocks! The Dare Edmunds Band is beck on the road again after too Jong an absence Edmunds been -idle however aa he informed the Adeocett in a recent phone can- venation from team the ocean-' Advocate: First alt the live record sounds grant how many hours of tape did you -have to listen to to And die versons you wanted? Dove Edmunds: About four or five gigs 1 And thiee venues made it 1 onto the record which is surprisingly consistent for three different recording en- ten they give me tapes without any instructions as to why listening Do they just want me to hear it do they want me to record the songs or produce it? They say they just hand you tapes quite tar teresttag filtering to them but never heard anything I realy wanted to get involved with Are you still interested in Yeah a how do you know about Well been a Mg fan for yean And I know that Modem Photography even did a story on you once but I never was able to find it Oh yeah wel I bought aB these cameras and lenses and al that because I could never understand someone trying to explata it to me and I wanted to find out how it al worked So I bought a -Canon aad taught myself how to take a good photo I do a lot of it but I achieved nflr goof When I want to do it I can! Tin Dam Edmuadt Band wOl appear at Ptact is Nm Hawn fiUr Monday February 2 Gatemouth Dave Edmunds backstage with our Advocate writer (Mike Barone photo) dio II Eaten but Do you have a lot of released material languishing in the vaults? Not realy I Ike to get it al out I suppose the odd thing that worked so I take it any farther hut if I finish a thing and mix it that means going out in some farm or other- also boon involved with various film prefects in one way or another (Give My Regards in Brand Street Forty's Revenge) like that on the horiaori? Not at the moment- quite busy til atom August oo the road Aad I want to go back to Japan sThe reaction ta amuring love the Japanese people nd quite an eye-opener wkh their to me and to you culture Ooh weird! -Bid been begging and plead--tag with the record company tq send me bade And II go back to Australia as wel And wel go to Europe the old France- Gemuuy-Scancfnavfa and al that But I like the food I only Eke American and English food a very fasay eater! I recall seeing you back 1 We were surprised when we fistened to ft Everything is so expect to hear the room and al that but you very dry you have to manufacture tint We put some microphones at the back of the hal to bring that dement in So it does sound pretty com- patible "The is die first single? In America The album come out in England until: March Is that the act of The Unde Floyd Show on the tamer sleeve? I think it is yeah! Speaking at things like that you were just on SCTV over here a couple weeks ago (T Was a Teenage Com with Martin Commie bit nib Edmunds as a mmA -glBl) i Oh that tfatag again! I didn't know what the hel wm going on because it was definitely Amerl-can we just (fid it! Are you doing any TV while over here? Yeah doing Damd let-Imam playing with the Pad Shaffer band greats a big fan of I worked with him once before for an MTV Where will this tour take you? 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Wei started it actuafiy I wanted to take my time on thta one so been doing a track every now and again got three done Have you worked with Jeff Lynne recently or are you getting away fram the syn tuta Yeah getting away from that- It wm fan doing tint for a bit and Jeff ta great so good But now doing things five and a bit name rock and roly -v Did your Cans drink it was sacrilege when you did use the synth bits? I wm touring after the first -single-and gotafittieieaction to that but after the second album with Jeff I tour so I know what people thought Are you else at the been very busy I produced the new FWbukus 1 Thunderfairds ahum which wff be out in Aprfl and a guy from Texas caled Mason done a great afaum And a gbi caled KD Lang from Canada pretty big news there We did a very interesting afaum with her on the Sire label very different her band the Redmes aw al great musicians and thta ta ony their first record Do you ever go back and listen to your (rid records? Never If they come on the ra (Ceahaatd front pnoioatpagt) ways graapmg for more he continued greedy ta a needy sense but being creative I want to show the world more of what can be done Gatemouth has played htamu- aic al over the world In 1978 -he toured northeast Africa playing in 11 countries He toured the USSR ta 1979 and enter- tains every year at tbe Montreux Festival the Nice jins Fes-J tival the Berfiajasa Festival and the Bern Jazs Festival He recently finished another tour of Japan then returned to the States to play a aeries of outdoor fas- trvals and returned to Europe be several jazs festivals in France and a tour fa England Not a had itinerary far a man who just celebrated his 64th birthday I asked Gatemouth to tel me his secret to longevity -creativity and muricri freshness number one get your 99 La aaIA ngnr amount ok rest dbmkl fey off that alcohol fay off of heavy drop and try to go with every woman that says helo because al of thta ta certain death gooner or later Untly being collared by i want to vi ou cassettes of their you ever find anything in teresting in those? 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