Dusk

[Doobie]

I disagree with the statement "the vocals and guitars copy each other in dog".

[sytharnia]

people must hear things very differently because to me they totally follow each other for all the verses

[Sunrise]

I still thanks God that we have a 3rd Badlands album to listen to

[3dayphunk]

Dusk is essentially demos. They were playing a few of these tune live too at the end of their run ("Tribal Moon", "Healer", "Dogs", "Sun Red Sun"). I think "Lord Knows" was from their very first demo (before their 1st album came out). So anyways, it should be known that a lot of time or effort to fine tune and complete everything went into it. There was nothing really done to it outside the live takes (no more vocal tracks, solo tracks, fixes, layers, etc).

So maybe you need to know what the album is before you fully appreciate it? I for one, LOVE Dusk. I absolutely appreciate that Jake/Greg/Jeff put it out for us! No matter how long they waited to put it out. I was just listening to it today in fact.

[sytharnia]

Dusk is essentially demos. They were playing a few of these tune live too at the end of their run ("Tribal Moon", "Healer", "Dogs", "Sun Red Sun"). I think "Lord Knows" was from their very first demo (before their 1st album came out). So anyways, it should be known that a lot of time or effort to fine tune and complete everything went into it. There was nothing really done to it outside the live takes (no more vocal tracks, solo tracks, fixes, layers, etc).

So maybe you need to know what the album is before you fully appreciate it? I for one, LOVE Dusk. I absolutely appreciate that Jake/Greg/Jeff put it out for us! No matter how long they waited to put it out. I was just listening to it today in fact.

I pretty much said some of that in one of my earlier posts so I know exactly what it is....really its only 2 songs I don't dig.. I love much about the album but I can also see why ray wasn't totally thrilled about it

[LouZ]

Synth- I'm almost positive Ray was unhappy with 'Voodoo Highway'

There's that terrible magazine article where Ray is telling his side of the story, and he talks about why he didn't put any acknowledgements and thank yous in the liner of Voodoo. It was because he wasn't happy with all the songs and wanted to keep writing or work on some stuff he came up with. It's a sad, sad article because that special relationship Ray and Jake had seemed to crumble because of the record company.

I'm not too sure if the Dusk demo was presented to Atlantic, then they were dropped or they were dropped from Atlantic, then came up with the Dusk demo. Sony was interested in signing them, but wouldn't because of rumors that Ray had health problems, which unfortunately turned out to be true.

And yes 'Lord Knows' was written before the first album was released. They played it live on the first tour. There's a YouTube clip of it. It's my personal favorite

[sytharnia]

Synth- I'm almost positive Ray was unhappy with 'Voodoo Highway'

I know in dag the giblets jake said he hate was it whiskey dust or something?? so you are probably right...I just always thought it was the stuff they were currently working on that led to the split

[Sunrise]

Theres nothing in DAG where Jake says he hates anything.

[metalk76]

I don't recall Jake say he hates Whiskey Dust, and I watched Dag numerous times And Dusk is an awesome album I read about the dusk demos as well.... Sad about Ray I always list to everything Jake does... From Ozzy to Retraced and Fine Pink Mist

[sytharnia]

Theres nothing in DAG where Jake says he hates anything.

I didn't say jake hated it. if you read what I said about the post I linked I said jake said that "you" hated it (ray was sitting next to him...go watch it again

[Kathy]

Theres nothing in DAG where Jake says he hates anything.

I didn't say jake hated it. if you read what I said about the post I linked I said jake said that "you" hated it (ray was sitting next to him...go watch it again

Good excuse to watch it again!! I love Voodoo Highway...I reach for it over and over I listen to other artists but I still go back to that cd. Never too far away.