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Monday 28 June 2010

AAGA - THE NEW SAINTS... CASSETTE

The final AAGA cassette I have in my collection is this one here from around the 1983/84 period - "The New Saints Of Drab Intensity".
There are 4 tunes on it, 2 are live recordings, 1 was done on 16 track and the one here below "Patience Is Virtue" was done on 4 track.
This is probably the most tuneful thing AAGA have ever done. It's even, dare I say, commercial sounding! Quite a sensitive touch to it too.
Thanks once again to Mike Kane.
 
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8 comments:

  1. VEX28 June 2010 at 08:06

    little bit of history if anyone is interested!
    when steve grimmond had left the Scrotum Poles and asked me to form a band I hardly knew him, but I invited him up to my house to rehearse , we hardly spoke , but wrote and recorded 3 songs every week (that was our quota), obviously lots were shit , but this was the third song we wrote , credit were its due the fantastic bass line was written by gerry mitchell at a random jam we had and I stole it for this song , we recorded it in a studio in Cupar on a 4 track and Gerry and Neal mitchell came along and added drums and guitar, gerry and Neal just made there bits up on the spot , I normally sang this one ,but , on the day steve said he had some lyrics he would like to try..and I discovered he was the singer (and lyrisist) and I never ever sang for AAGA again ...better stop could go on for days.. hope people like this track it is a personal fav of mine due to great drumming , great bass and great singing !!
    over and out

    mike kane

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  2. Craig28 June 2010 at 09:31

    my very favourite aaga song.

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  3. Anonymous28 June 2010 at 13:15

    hey mike aaga seem to get better the further back you go, if you hadn't started you wouldv'e been absolutely brilliant :D
    reminds me of talking heads a bit.
    lara croft

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  4. Stu28 June 2010 at 15:29

    The guitarings my fave, but nice bass line too, its amazing the talent that Dundee had in those days, I wish I could go back in time.

    Thanks again for (almost) taking us there.

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  5. Anonymous29 June 2010 at 00:53

    Ah...the good old chorus pedal! You don't hear much of that these days.

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  6. Baxter Parp.29 June 2010 at 06:04

    Actually, that one's really good.

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  7. The Historian2 July 2010 at 01:54

    Good tune.

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  8. Anonymous21 January 2011 at 02:26

    I still remember it vividly... more clearly than hearing it now... I think Gerry must have given me a copy..

    Loved the drums and the Mitchell influence... a truely beatiful song.

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