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Broken
Moon
 Parachute/Mercury 314 518 309-2 Released October 20, 1993 |
Their
Thoughts:
Dan: We thought we were ready to make the follow-up to "Wire" in early 1991, with more than 15 new songs we had performed throughout the previous year. But Chameleon suddenly restructured and dropped us, which kept us out of the studio for more than two years. So we toured constantly (almost 50,000 miles in 15 outings) and wrote "All Is Quiet", "Constant As The Night", "Just To See You", "Maybe Later", "Broken Moon", "Open Your Heart" and "Dreams I Left Behind" in the ensuing two years. I guess we weren't as ready as we thought.Eric: By 1993 when we started to record "Broken Moon" we had something to prove, with a great deal of pressure to live up to what many critics, fans and music business people had termed, in that oh-so-polite way, "great potential." Two days into recording, we had to fire the band that had been with us since the release of "WOW" and start again with new blood. It was scary and disconcerting but, in retrospect, stimulating and exactly the right thing to do. Once again, Jim Scott helped us to believe we could get through it and we did. There were truly magical moments: the afterthought of a piano part on the song "Broken Moon", the one-take vocal (after numerous false starts and a dinner break!) on "Just To See You", the live recording of "The Best of Me", among many others.
Produced, engineered and
mixed by Jim Scott
Eric Lowen acoustic, electric, slide and 12-string guitars, keyboards, vocals
Dan Navarro acoustic and high-string guitars, keyboards, percussion, vocals
Richard Dodd - cello - Simeon Pillich - acoustic and electric bass - Tad Wadhams - electric bass (I'll set You Free; Broken Moon) - David Raven - drums and percussion - Jonathan Norton - drums (I'll Set You Free; Broken Moon) - Phil Parlapiano - accordion & mandolin - David Navarro - electric guitar (Pride and Hunger) - Mark Goldenberg - electric & acoustic guitars (I'll Set You Free; All Is Quiet; Maybe Later) - Eddie Muñoz - electric guitar (Constant as the Night; Dreams I Left Behind) - Susanna Hoffs - harmony vocals (I'll Set You Free) - Derek Nakamoto - keyboards (Broken Moon; I've Had It All) - Ethan James hurdy gurdy (Pride and Hunger) - Debra Dobkin - percussion (Just to See You; Open Your Heart; Dreams I Left Behind) - Rick Sailon - violin (Dreams I Left Behind) - Garner B. Thomas - saxophone (Open Your Heart) - Jim Scott - castanets (I'll Set You Free)
David Navarro appears courtesy
of American Recordings
Susanna Hoffs
appears courtesy of Columbia Records
Dedicated to Thelma Johnson Lowen and Josephine Lucero Navarro
Recorded May 10-28, 1993 at Skip Saylor Recording, Los Angeles, CA; Entourage Studios, N. Hollywood, CA; Clear Lake Audio, N. Hollywood, CA; and Sounder, Granada Hills, CA. Assisted by Louie Teran, Colin Mitchell, Gordon Suffield, Teresa Caffin, Oscar Contreras and Sandy Solomon.
Mixed May 29-June 6, 1993 at Skip Saylor Recording, Los Angeles, CA and Pacifque Studios, N. Hollywood, CA. Assisted by Eric Flickinger, Chris Puram and Sean Rowbottom.
Mastered June 14, 1993 by Alan Yoshida at A&M Studios, Hollywood, CA.
© 1993 PolyGram Records, Inc.