We Care a Lot
Background and recording
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|title=Faith No More: Angel Dust in the wind |access-date=August 10, 2015 |first=Jem |last=Aswad |date=June 1992 |work=Issue 25 |publisher=Reflex Magazine}} |
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In addition to having a small budget, the album was recorded in a short space of time. In a 2015 interview, bassist Billy Gould reflected, "there are probably things we could have done better, but at the same time I think that the performances were pretty damned good. And that had to do with us keeping focused and needing to work within those budget restrictions. We rehearsed quite a lot before we went in to record, so we were ready."{{Cite web|url=http://www.faithnomorefollowers.com/2015/11/we-care-lot-30th-anniversary-bill-gould_4.html|title=WE CARE A LOT | 30th Anniversary | Bill Gould Interview + EXCLUSIVE Album Reissue News|date=November 4, 2015}} It was produced by [[Matt Wallace (record producer)|Matt Wallace]], who produced the band's next three major label albums ''[[Introduce Yourself]]'', ''[[The Real Thing (Faith No More album)|The Real Thing]]'' and ''[[Angel Dust (Faith No More album)|Angel Dust]]''. Wallace went with the band to [[Prairie Sun Recording Studios|Prairie Sound]] in [[Cotati, California]] to record the album, and according to him, it was done over two three-day weekends including mixing. During the recording, Wallace and the band stayed in a one-room loft, which was across the road from the studio they were recording at. Wallace claimed the lower budget had an influence on the band's overall sound for ''We Care a Lot'', saying "the room we were working in didn't have a lot of isolation booths so I had to take Bill's bass and built like an echo chamber like 60 or 100 feet away from the control room. So we stuck his bass there and miked it up. Bill at the time liked to use a Peavey guitar head for bass and it was also solid state, which was really interesting and had quite a bit of punch and bite to it and even though I close-miked it, it still got some of that room ambience and of course we compressed it." |
In addition to having a small budget, the album was recorded in a short space of time. In a 2015 interview, bassist Billy Gould reflected, "there are probably things we could have done better, but at the same time I think that the performances were pretty damned good. And that had to do with us keeping focused and needing to work within those budget restrictions. We rehearsed quite a lot before we went in to record, so we were ready."{{Cite web|url=http://www.faithnomorefollowers.com/2015/11/we-care-lot-30th-anniversary-bill-gould_4.html|title=WE CARE A LOT | 30th Anniversary | Bill Gould Interview + EXCLUSIVE Album Reissue News|date=November 4, 2015}} It was produced by [[Matt Wallace (record producer)|Matt Wallace]], who produced the band's next three major label albums ''[[Introduce Yourself]]'', ''[[The Real Thing (Faith No More album)|The Real Thing]]'' and ''[[Angel Dust (Faith No More album)|Angel Dust]]''. Wallace went with the band to [[Prairie Sun Recording Studios|Prairie Sound]] in [[Cotati, California]] to record the album, and according to him, it was done over two three-day weekends including mixing. During the recording, Wallace and the band stayed in a one-room loft, which was across the road from the studio they were recording at. Wallace claimed the lower budget had an influence on the band's overall sound for ''We Care a Lot'', saying in 2015 "the room we were working in didn't have a lot of isolation booths so I had to take Bill's bass and built like an echo chamber like 60 or 100 feet away from the control room. So we stuck his bass there and miked it up. Bill at the time liked to use a Peavey guitar head for bass and it was also solid state, which was really interesting and had quite a bit of punch and bite to it and even though I close-miked it, it still got some of that room ambience and of course we compressed it." |
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For ''We Care a Lot'', ''Introduce Yourself'' and ''The Real Thing'', guitarist [[Jim Martin (musician)|Jim Martin]] used a Flying V guitar and a single Marshall half-stack. Wallace said in 2015, "that's all we had. So it wasn't like we'd [be] like, 'hey, let's try this guitar over here. Let's try that amp over there.'" Wallace added, "i think by the time we got to ''The Real Thing'', he did have a [[Gibson Les Paul]] but that's it, man. There was no selection, choices or options. It was like, 'this is what we had and that's what we did.'"https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/matt_wallace_on_fnm_biggest-selling_album_angel_dust_label_guys_thought_it_was_crappy_record.html |
For ''We Care a Lot'', ''Introduce Yourself'' and ''The Real Thing'', guitarist [[Jim Martin (musician)|Jim Martin]] used a Flying V guitar and a single Marshall half-stack. Wallace said in 2015, "that's all we had. So it wasn't like we'd [be] like, 'hey, let's try this guitar over here. Let's try that amp over there.'" Wallace added, "i think by the time we got to ''The Real Thing'', he did have a [[Gibson Les Paul]] but that's it, man. There was no selection, choices or options. It was like, 'this is what we had and that's what we did.'"https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/matt_wallace_on_fnm_biggest-selling_album_angel_dust_label_guys_thought_it_was_crappy_record.html |
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