Q:Hi Flans! Historical question here... when you guys first added backup members to the band (circa Apollo 18 tour and John Henry studio work), what was that like? Did you and JL find/audition those individuals yourselves, or did the label run point on it?
JF: Hi. I must admit I recoiled a little bit at the idea of a label having anything to do with picking our bandmates, but of course some people look to their labels or management to help them out that way, and if that is a healthy relationship maybe it would be useful. In our case, the label had exactly no say in how we went about putting anything like that together, and I don’t think we even told them what we were planning until we had figured it out. John and I had some ideas-we wanted to work with our pal Kurt Hoffman from the Ordinaries as well as Tony Maimone from Pere Ubu who was in the neighborhood (Although we didn’t know him well, we were always impressed with him as a bold player since 1977) We auditioned a good number of drummers before going with JD who was versatile and clearly had a good memory for arrangements.
The truth is it was very much an experiment and it wasn’t predetermined in our minds that it was going to work. But ultimately it freed us up in a lot of ways and focused up our own playing. It’s been a real education working with the folks we’ve teamed up with over the years.
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