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Richie Wise & Kenny Kerner
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Warren Dewey Richie Wise Kenny Kerner
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751 N. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90046
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Keyboards, BG Vocals, Percussion: |
Roy Braverman
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There are a couple of cool things about this song:
First of all ... Just like the Sunrise album, my favorite song on
this Serenade album is one I didn't write: My Fault. It was going to be the single. It's clearly the 'pop-iest.'
And I am enthralled with the Mellotron string solo, tubular bells and castanets. And the two key changes!
Perhaps more noteworthy is the way this song set up a great moment
in the recording of the Serenade album. We were in Cherokee's Studio A on a Saturday, ready to cut some basic tracks
(drums, bass, acoustic piano and electric guitar). This song, My Fault, hit the tape in one take. Simple.
Easy. The next song ... not so much. Hollywood Freeway was a fast rocker that had us all playing at the edge of
our abilities ... and take after take found one of us messing up something. We went at it for about 5 hours. After
that insanity, our producer Richie Wise snapped. He grabbed all the pencils from a cup by the console, snapped them
in two and threw them in the air. Then ... He went into the iso booth adjacent to the control room, shut the door, laid
on the floor ... and screamed at the top of his lungs for what seemed like ten minutes non-stop (probably more like two).
The scream was muffled through the sound-proof door ... just the faintest little sound of a tortured soul in great pain.
It was hysterical! I'll never forget that! And it was all that much more intense having been set up by the
easy, one-take My Fault.
