Neil famously said that this is not an album for 11 in the morning.
He was working through his grief at two close friends dying to the needle. The whole album was recorded in a warehouse over the course of two weeks. They ate burger after burger and drank lots of tequila. Most of it is drunken pain. Kind of like an Irish wake? But he doesn't seek to wallow in it, or escape it. But to live in it for long enough to get through it.
But he didn't really come out of it until the Zuma album, says Neil.
Neil famously said that this is not an album for 11 in the morning.
He was working through his grief at two close friends dying to the needle. The whole album was recorded in a warehouse over the course of two weeks. They ate burger after burger and drank lots of tequila. Most of it is drunken pain. Kind of like an Irish wake? But he doesn't seek to wallow in it, or escape it. But to live in it for long enough to get through it.
But he didn't really come out of it until the Zuma album, says Neil.