LIZZY BORDEN - "I Made An Album That Was Way Beyond My Capabilities"
March 22, 2009, 15 years ago
Carlos Ramirez recently debuted his Rediscovered Steel column at NoiseCreep.com. It highlights an album that is essential listening but has either been largely forgotten or never got the credit it deserved.
The initial installment focuses on LIZZY BORDEN's Master Of Disguise from 1989. Below is an excerpt:
'We Got The Power' was the first single and video from the album which was gutsy considering the horns were prominently featured and it had an R&B; feel to it. I remember seeing the video's debut on Headbanger's Ball and it stuck out like a sore thumb. Did Metal Blade try to persuade you to go with a heavier, more conventional metal sounding song?
"They actually picked that song as the single. I usually want to go with something else. On Visual Lies I wanted to go with 'Outcast' but they chose 'Me Against The Word' which worked out well. For MOD I wanted come out of the box with 'Love Is A Crime' which became the second single. But yeah, I think choosing 'We Got The Power' was pretty ballsy. We were in the time of raw guitar bands like GUNS N' ROSES and here we were with a rock and soul song."Before the album hit stores, were you anticipating a mixed reaction from your fans since you took so many stylistic chances on it?
"The main thing was that I felt like I made an album that was way beyond my capabilities as a musician. Sure, I had help getting all together, but it was so far from what I thought I could ever do. So I was so proud of the album that I really didn't care what people thought of it. It wasn't going to make or break my career. I was nowhere near a place where I would fall that far. I mixed it in two weeks with Terry Brown and that was the first time I got to hear all of the tracks together and I was so excited by the way it came together. MOD sounded exactly like I had wanted it to where the album before it, Visual Lies, didn't. I had wanted that one to have a huge production but Max Norman (the album's producer) stripped it all down to just bass, drums, and guitars."To read the entire interview, click here.
