Post by cameron4321 on Jul 27, 2020 17:00:23 GMT -5
So...Gary very casually uploaded this unreleased Screaming Trees track from their abandoned recording sessions in late 93 last week. The song is called The Right Combination and I've never seen it anywhere, or at least, it never made it on a compilation record and it's not a b side. Sounds like there are still some ST songs that we may actually hear at some point.....good times!
Per Gary:
Today's Tree Tune 6/18/2020-The second "aborted album." Around Christmas time in 1993 Don Fleming and John Angello traveled to Seattle to record our next album at Bad Animals studio A (not the big studio X.) We had been constantly touring for the Sweet Oblivion album since the summer or the year before and had finally taken a break a couple months earlier. However since being on the road, at least for me, was not very conducive to songwriting, the job of writing the next Screaming Trees album (because that's what it was at this point, A JOB) now had to be attended to. It had been over a year since Sweet Oblivion was released and we were hard pressed to get another album out soon on the heels of it's success and while the Seattle Scene was still a hot commodity. Things were not quite the same as when we were working on the previous album within the band. Mark was not into hanging out with the us any longer for various reasons (if you've read his book I'm sure you know that part of the story) so either I would write on my own like I used to or get together with just Van. I was also trying to spend time with my wife Janet in New York (we had just gotten married in August during the Alternative Nation Tour.) Being in Seattle and New York at the same time was not an easy task but I tried (see the song Traveler.) Anyway, we manged to come up with enough partially done material to go into the studio and gave it a shot. Mark spent the entire time "dozing" in the lounge and Don Fleming spent the whole session playing a video game at the recording console while Van, Barrett and John Angello gave it a try, but it just didn't come together. We regrouped a couple months later in New York at Sear Sound but the things were not going the same as the Sweet Oblivion sessions and the project was shelved. Up next came the most dark year and a half for myself and a dark time for Seattle as well. Pictures include; Outside CBGB's in 1993, an Alternative Nation Tour backstage pass, an Epic promo Trees Xmas ornament and me with the Trees endlessly opening for the Spin Doctors and Soul Asylum in the long hot summer of 1993. Here is a song from the 1993 Bad Animals session The Right Combination, maybe this would have been the first single from a 1994 album...
Listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOdgfLkOpnk
Your thoughts?
Per Gary:
Today's Tree Tune 6/18/2020-The second "aborted album." Around Christmas time in 1993 Don Fleming and John Angello traveled to Seattle to record our next album at Bad Animals studio A (not the big studio X.) We had been constantly touring for the Sweet Oblivion album since the summer or the year before and had finally taken a break a couple months earlier. However since being on the road, at least for me, was not very conducive to songwriting, the job of writing the next Screaming Trees album (because that's what it was at this point, A JOB) now had to be attended to. It had been over a year since Sweet Oblivion was released and we were hard pressed to get another album out soon on the heels of it's success and while the Seattle Scene was still a hot commodity. Things were not quite the same as when we were working on the previous album within the band. Mark was not into hanging out with the us any longer for various reasons (if you've read his book I'm sure you know that part of the story) so either I would write on my own like I used to or get together with just Van. I was also trying to spend time with my wife Janet in New York (we had just gotten married in August during the Alternative Nation Tour.) Being in Seattle and New York at the same time was not an easy task but I tried (see the song Traveler.) Anyway, we manged to come up with enough partially done material to go into the studio and gave it a shot. Mark spent the entire time "dozing" in the lounge and Don Fleming spent the whole session playing a video game at the recording console while Van, Barrett and John Angello gave it a try, but it just didn't come together. We regrouped a couple months later in New York at Sear Sound but the things were not going the same as the Sweet Oblivion sessions and the project was shelved. Up next came the most dark year and a half for myself and a dark time for Seattle as well. Pictures include; Outside CBGB's in 1993, an Alternative Nation Tour backstage pass, an Epic promo Trees Xmas ornament and me with the Trees endlessly opening for the Spin Doctors and Soul Asylum in the long hot summer of 1993. Here is a song from the 1993 Bad Animals session The Right Combination, maybe this would have been the first single from a 1994 album...
Listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOdgfLkOpnk
Your thoughts?
