Gaslight

TRACK 1 - CIRCUS
(D Walker)
We recorded this song in 1996 with Charles Fisher at Electric Avenue, Sydney. Phil Punch engineered. It was mixed in Los Angeles at Hollywood Sound by Chris Goss with Chris Johnson and Bryan Davis assisting. It was written by Don Walker who we all consider a big wave on the sea of song. Paul Panichi on trumpet. BV by Chris Goss, big bad Don Brown on Drums and P.B. Burton doing some acoustic.

TRACK 2 - CHOCOLATE
(Crowe)
Recorded at Hollywood Sound by Chris Goss, Mixed by Bryan, Dean and RC. This little ditty is a one off, recorded in one take , one time only folks. That luscious viola is played by Novi Notag - she was in doing strings for 'All the White Circles' (see 'What's Her Name? EP) I was there, she was there...you know. Plugged my Gretch Tennessee Rose into the desk dry (not recommended) . That's why the guitar sounds like some spasmo banjo. However, I like the relationship between the voice/banjo and viola and there is a freshness to the obsession that made me write it in the first place - so that's it.

TRACKS 3,4,5 - (Live)
OBLIQUE IS MY LOVE
(Cochran/Crowe),
WHAT'S HER NAME?
(Crowe/Cochran),
THE LEGEND OF BARRY KABLE
(Cochran/Crowe)

Recorded live at Melbourne's famous 'Esplanade Hotel', St Kilda, 1997. Mixed by Dean Cochran and Bryan Davis at Hollwood Sound. Variously Scott Grimes, Jason Grey-Stafford, Kevin Durand, Jim Costello and Dave Kelly as the chorus. These songs were not sequential in the shows. 'Oblique' is a song written by a man who travels too much; a letter home. 'What's Her Name?' - Obsession, obsession, obsession. Part of life folks. Nice girl - you'd like her. 'Barry Kable', Dean wrote this. I kinda chipped in with structure and some words. I always think of this song as a pivotal moment in Dean's writing. He first played this to me after a gig in a shit-hole of a hotel called the Hoey-Moey in Coffs Harbour (since been renovated - quite nice now) "He crossed that road like a river" Dean the poet - cool.

TRACK 6 - SHE'S NOT IMPRESSED
(Crowe)
'The Writer's Hand' in The Rocks, Sydney. P.B. Burton engineered. Mixed by Dean Cochran and Bryan Davis at Hollywood Sound. And she probably won't be impressed by this song either.

TRACK 7 - DAVID
(Crowe)
Recorded at'The Writers Hand',The Rocks, P.B. Burton. Dean and Bryan mixed it. I was in Guatemala one day, true story, and a fella came up to me with a copy of Life magazine. It had one of those portrait of the world at a certain time on a certain day kind of phot play things that they do. The photo from Australia was of a thirteen year old Ballroom dancer from Sydney named Russell Crowe. The fella asked if that was me. No, I said. I was on an aeroplane one day and a guy came up to me with a copy of USA Today. There was a story of a Russell Crowe, 42, snake trainer from Pensacola, Florida. He had been found guilty of abusing his snake. This guy asked, 'Is that you?". No, I said.

TRACK 8 - WHAT YOU WANT ME TO FORGET
(Crowe)
'The Writers Hand', P.B., Dean, Bryan. This began life as a serious song about my dad and about an experience he related to me, however, it has kind of evolved into an Eddie Cochrane Romp & Stomp. We have finished out our shows on the last two tours with this song. To me it's got an infectious thanks for coming down home pub heart to it. It has been much maligned within the band 'coz it's just a twelve bar basher - in this session it was only recorded as a warm up. One of these days we might even intentionally record it - but then again it is what it is.

TRACK 9 - NOWHERE
(Crowe/Rap - Kevin Durand)
Recorded at Hollywood Sound by Bryan Davis. Mix by Bryan. I had this tone poem that came out of a conversation with a girl in Louisville Ky who wanted to go to L.A. just 'cause it was L.A. - it meant so much to her but she had never been there, she had no true concept of the city at all. It just got me thinking of the magnetic force of the invisible city. I bought some loop CD's. Scotty G plays the Hammond B3, the Mighty Tree lays the Quebecois Rap, Monkey Boy also sings high. Dean on guitar, Bryan. 'Bruno the Aspro Boy' on Bass, sequencing by Ryan Bocsch

TRACK 10 - ETERNITY
(Cochran/Crowe)
Recorded at Paradise Studios in Sydney by Charles Fisher. Mix Bryan and Dean at Hollywood. I wrote the words for this in 1987. I was making my living busking in the streets with Dean. Rent was $50.00 a week and I live off $3.50 a day amortised over cigarettes and fried rice. It wasn't until '93 that Dean had some chords for it . It's a lonely song. I feed eternity from my own bravery.

TRACK 11 - WENDY
(Crowe)
Recorded 1995 in an apartment in Los Angeles live to 8 track. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Mixed by Phil Punch -Sometimes things don't work out quite the way we plan them.