Thanks Michael and Ross!!!
Good stuff, I would love to hear more about it, whatever you guys can remember (or, as Lars Ulrich said, "10 years and 40,000 vodka tonics later, it's really hard to remember specifics"!).
Fletcher, the guy's name is Bernard
Fowler, he also did stuff with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Philip Glass, to name a few. Amazing pipes on that guy. And yes, this album probably didn't exactly go triple-platinum. Great music rarely does, it seems.
Ross, it was very cool to hear about the drums recording. So you were in a pretty small room? The feel of this album is very spontaneous, exuberant, almost overplayed at times. I get the feeling that you were alluding to, that it was recorded quickly and in-between other things. the drums sound wonderfully trashy, undamped, and lo-tech. Brian Tichy is a motherf**ker!!
I also like Stevie Salas's guitar tones... there's something very genuine in his palette of sounds, almost Hendrix-y at times.
Does Fowler like to crank his headphones a lot? I hear on several occasions on the album, how the leakage from the cans whistle and swish in front of the vocal mic. It even feeds back briefly once!
Michael, one last note.... when I heard the Hammerfall shotgun story, I misunderstood.... I thought you actually blew out the AC ducts by firing the shotgun into it!!!