(TV) Del Amitri

["Murray Ramone" <murrayramone@hotmail.com>]

Sitting here listening to the first Del Amitri album (just called del 
amitri, released in 85) and I remembered that Tom Verlaine gets thanked on 
it - I heard once that he produced some demos for them (it sort of makes 
sense if you know the guitars on the album) so I googled it and found this 
from the guitarist

DEL AMITRI'S IAIN HARVIE PICKS FIVE SEMINAL SLABS OF ROCK...

TELEVISION "Days" - It's a track from their "Adventure" album and features a 
great jangly riff. The great thing was we ended up working with Tom Verlaine 
- it's very weird in itself to end up working with your heroes - but he 
claimed that this riff was "Mr. Tambourine Man" played backwards and that 
was in fact how he came up with a lot of riffs... playing these tapes of his 
backwards. But I've tried it and it doesn't sound anything like it! He said 
it with a straight face though...

http://www.delamitri.com/articles/printmedia/guitar1.html

and then this from the singer in the re-release album notes from the same 
site

"Of course we had a philosophy so strict that it eventually strangled us. No 
chords, no choruses, no distortion, no synthesizers and definitely no long 
hair. Melody was God. There are more tunes between the twin guitars parts 
and bass lines in one backing track from this era of Del Amitri than in 
every top-line melody I have written since."

Does anyone know if it was just demos that Verlaine recorded with them ? I'm 
pretty sure he produced a single from another glasgow band who's name 
escapes me from that time so I guess it was also done over here in Scotland 
?

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