ANACRUSIS - "It Was A Challenge"
July 8, 2010, 14 years ago
Mark Morton of Heavy Metal Examiner recently interviewed ANACRUSIS frontman Kenn Nardi about the Hindsight 2010 Re-Recordings, an excerpt follows:
Was it difficult at all to convince the guys to embark on this endeavor to, in a sense, erase the past?
"Yes and no. Everyone was excited to finally get together and play a show or two, but we hadn’t remained as close the last few years as we had after the band split up. It was a challenge to not only re-learn songs for the live performances, but also to record 22 songs; most of which we hadn’t played at all in nearly 20 years."Rather than simply remaster and remix the two albums, what led to the decision that it would actually be better to completely re-record them?
Our first manager has/had the master tapes for Suffering Hour (not sure if she still does or if they are even playable) and the Reason tapes were supposedly destroyed or thrown out a few years ago by a studio here in town (they claimed they notified us first, but neither Kevin nor I got a letter). Since there was no chance in remixing or anything like that, I figured it was a good time to do what we had always wanted to do, which was to re-do the albums the way we had wished they were done in the first place."
To read the rest of the interview, click here.
