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Who:
The Black Watch
www.theblackwatchmusic.com
John Andrew Fredrick: guitar/vocals
Tim Boland: guitar/backing vocals
Scott Taylor: bass/guitars/backing vocals
Gary Sullivan: drums/guitar/backing vocals
What:
If New Order were more in love with the Beatles than with the Velvet Underground, or if Nick Drake came back from the dead and commanded Kevin Shields to team up with him.
Where:
Los Angeles (the East Side)
Featured song:
"Inner City Garden" from the The Hypnotizing Sea
(2006, Pink Hedgehog Records)
[listen: preview]
What inspired you to write your favorite song?
My favorite song is the eponymous title track to our new record; it's called "Tatterdemalion." It took me literally ten minutes and metaphorically 20 years to write. The drums are like monsters at play, and there's no song in our canon like it. For me, it achieves what I try to do with every record: meld the poetic and the powerful. I wrote it because I was feeling like an emotional tatterdemalion (ragamuffin), so I turned turmoil into artistic triumph. It's as dear to me as anything off The White Album, Loveless, or Magical Mystery Tour...well, not Magical Mystery Tour...hahahahahaha.
The Black Watch, The Hypnotizing Sea (2006, Pink Hedgehog Records)
–John Andrew Fredrick, guitar/vocals, the Black Watch
Posted August 2006
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