A live, in-studio performance and interview
with singer-songwriter/author Cath
Carroll recorded at Lilypad Recording, her home studio in the
countrified-fringe of greater metro Chicago. Each
month we'll try to bring you a little insight into the bands that
make up the Lilypad family. During that time, we'll also attempt to
lure some of the bands and songwriters we know and/or have worked
with in the past, present or future. The vibe will hopefully make
you feel like you just sat down in the living room of your favorite
band's home and experienced a musical journey from their perspective.
A little friendly conversation for back story and detail too.
Sean
Blythe and Eric Enger have been making music in our basement bunker
since the end of June 2007. A great mashup of styles and influences
resulting in a sound that is rooted in rock and punk if you filtered
it through a psychedelic-folk/blues sensibility. Their range may surprise
you and their infectious spirit is bound to hook you too.
Our debut podcast launches
with our first Lilypad signing, Chicago-via-Morris, Illinois duo
worldwideriot.
Join us as Cath talks to the
band about style, the writing process, performing, living in the cornfields
of the Midwest and their debut EP on Lilypad, Poster
Boys For The Apocalypse.
Padcast #1: Part One
/ Music Selections From WWR:
-
Dancing Trees
Part 2 (Live in-studio)
-
No Idea (From the Poster
Boys EP Lilypad 2008)
-
Lori (From the Poster
Boys EP Lilypad 2008)
-
Lay Down Your Head (Live
in-studio)
-
Come On Home (Live in-studio)
In-studio performance:
Sean Blythe: vocals, guitar,
bass and drums (right side interview)
Eric Enger: vocals, drums
and guitar (left side interview)
Cath Carroll: The Pad's host
Kerry Kelekovich: Recording
engineer and show producer.
All songs written by WWR
©2008 Enger & Blythe
No Idea and Lori
courtesy ©(P) 2008 Lilypad Records/Superclammy, Ltd. Publishing
All Rights Reserved
A FREE podcast from Lilypad
Records. Please do not resell this, it's FREE!
Thanks to worldwideriot
and to YOU for listening and your support
Padcast #2: WORLDWIDERIOT PART
2
WorldWideRiot visited The
Pad on Leap Day, 2008. This is the conclusion
of their interview with Cath Carroll where they discuss the EP,
sitars, cacti, freedom and cigarettes and perform live in our
studio too.
Songs featured in this segment:
-
Kickin' The Can
(Track 1 on the Lilypad Records' EP, "Poster Boys For
The Apocalypse")
-
Traveller's Song (Track 5
on "Poster Boys...")
-
Freedom (Track 4 on "Poster
Boys...")
-
Green Lighter (Track 7 on
"Poster Boys...")
-
Karaoke (Live from Lilypad)
-
Anti Cacti (Live from Lilypad)
-
Cigarette Song (Track 6 on
"Poster Boys...")
Eric Enger: vocals, drums,
guitar, right hand on Roland synthesizer and percussion
Sean Blythe: vocals, guitars,
bass, drums, sitar, harmonica, left hand on Roland synthesizer
and percussion.
Kerry Kelekovich: electric
guitar on "Traveller's Song"
All songs ©2008 Enger &
Blythe (P)2008 Lilypad Records/Superclammy, Ltd. Publishing
All Rights Reserved
Recorded February 29, 2008 by Kerry Kelekovich at Lilypad Records'
studio.
"Roy's songs were not so much about dreams
as like dreams." -Tom Waits
Contents:
On Being An Original
Elvis
Nervous Fingernails
Favorite Song He's Ever Written
His label ZTT
His Touring Bandmates
Things To Do
Favorite City
On May 30, 1985
Cath Carroll recorded this interview with Roy Orbison in his Montcalm
Hotel room. Using a next-generation, post- can & string era, recording
device (a hand-held, monaural, audio cassette-recorder), Cath conducted
her one-on-one with Mr. Orbison as a free-lance journalist for the
NME.
The original cassette
found its way to America via the cardboard moving box used to transport
Cath's belongings when she moved to the states in 1990. The cassette
sat in this box and moved around various parts of greater Chicagoland
until I unearthed it Autumn 2003. Not being exactly sure what I had
discovered, Cath seemed rather surprised when I showed her a very
dusty, low-grade, audio cassette marked, "The Big O 1985."
When I attempted to play the cassette, chunks of oxide began to fall
off the ribbon. As a recording engineer with a large, analogue archive,
I recognized this phenomena as the dreaded tape-shedding nightmare
so familiar to restoration engineers dealing with old master tapes.
Sometimes they can be saved. Sometimes not.
The salvaging attempt
requires the baking of these tapes at a low heat setting (around 135*
F) for a period of 2.5 - 3.5 hours. After doing this, you must immediately
off-load the information because it is not known exactly how long
the flaking condition is postponed. Approximately 30 minutes of this
interview was saved. Complete with all the glass clinking, ice dumping
and recorder rustling any restoration specialist would have night
sweats over, The Big O interview made it's way onto a stable DAT cassette
and then re-transferred at 24 bit/96KHz to our ProTools editing setup.
I began audio sweetening, using re-equalization, leveling, noise reduction
and in some cases, crash protection. No, not for a computer but for
your ears. There were simply hundreds and hundreds of pops, clicks,
door slams, glass clinks, ice droppings and more door slams. LOTS
of Wilburys too - aka, audio gremlins - as George Harrison & Jeff
Lynne used to call them. You would have thought the Lefty Wilbury
interview was conducted during a drive-by shooting inside a cocktail
glass. And then, there was the dead air...
Well, now it's
late winter and as promised, The Big O Interview has reached a happy
compromise. By no means a good restoration. Still lots of noise, ice
clinks and pauses present. But, it's also a glimpse into the warmth
and humor of a singer people still worship 15 years after his untimely
death at the age of only 52. Cath must have charmed Roy into divulging
some of the nuggets of this interview because it did not start off
like much. But by the time you hear all thirty minutes that were salvaged,
you will feel as if you got a glimpse of the man, minus the persona,
and come to find that Roy was a genuine spirit and a kind soul.
We still miss
Roy. He was a truly amazing vocalist and a very special songwriter.
I was delighted when I heard Roy state his favorite original song
was "Crying" since I love that tune of his THE most! I was
also comforted to find out that even a true legend gets nervous before
he performs. We hope you like it.
Kerry Kelekovich
Lilypad restoration engineer
October 2003
Updated March 9, 2008 Using ProTools 7.4 and better
noise reduction.
All audio content and restorations are property of Cath Carroll
© 2003/2008 Lilypad Records / Superclammy, Ltd. Publishing
Intended for the exclusive use of the visitors of The Pad, cathcarroll.com
and loyal fans of Mr. Roy Orbison everywhere.
NOT intended for sale, resale or retransmission via any other media
or broadcast medium.
© 2008 Lilypad Records / Superclammy, Ltd. Publishing ASCAP
All Rights Reserved
He may be gone but his spirit will always be with us.
PADCAST #8: HOLLUS LIVE
AT LILYPAD
128 kbps MP3 (30:48)
warming up
3 Words
Electrica
Stella
Steal Away
Hold On Wild Rose
Gimme Trouble
Potter
All Songs © 2007 Hollus / Sound Recordings
© 2007 Lilypad Records
Recorded by me at Lilypad on January
8, 2007 (Elvis & Bowie birthdays), these songs marked
the opening of our basement to the musical universe. No walls or ceilings
or floors. But the gear was there and even hooked up and running.
Record here? Impossible! But, why not? A raw, live performance certainly
needs nothing to add if the emotion and energy is right.So we took
a chance. Cath fired up the frozen chicken nuggets. I fired up the
analogue 16-track that hadn't seen use in over 3 years (ok, I did
calibrate it first, making sure the heads were pristine and the tape
oxide was not peanut butter). And in walked a band I had never met.
Jamison Acker (vocals) was a former
student of mine but we hadn't seen each other in a few years. Mike
Sauer (guitar) was someone I met once in a Chicago studio
to discuss some music related topic I can't recall now. The Hollus
1.0 rhythm section consisting of Sean Blythe (bass)
and Matt Perryman (drums) were unknowns. And to my
complete surprise, in walks another former student, Umaar
Mirza, carrying a video camera. OH BOY! Lets photograph the
cobwebs and mattresses I had to show in lieu of actual studio treatments.
And away we went at it...
Over two years later, Hollus is now Hollus
2.0 sporting a new bassist and percussionista. And,
promoting a brand new full-length, The Joker
And The Queen, which I mastered and mixed 3 songs for as well.
Sean left to form WorldWideRiot
with his pal, Eric Enger. Which, as it turns out,
was the very first band to appear on The
Pad, when we recorded Eric & Sean live to ProTools
on Leap Day 2008.
We hope you enjoy this raw, live performance. Use
caution since it may catch you by surprise. I still think Jamison
channeled Steve Marriott when he screams, "in
the morning" during the breakdown of Steal Away.
You be the judge. -KK
Hollus MySpace
