Thursday, September 25, 2014

Greetings once more from the poison pen of The Scaramanga Six....

We bring you news of a brand new release by the band who torture from Yorkshire. While we’ve been busy beavering away on the next studio album, we have compiled a CD & DVD 2-disc set featuring 14 songs in both audio and visual format made from a pair of ‘in the studio’ live performances at Bridlington in Jan 2013 & London in April 2014.

Those of you familiar with the ‘Hot Flesh Rumble’ CD from a few years ago will know the score – a set of material that spans recent and older albums all performed with vim & vigour, warts & all. ‘Scenes of Mild Peril’ contains the first airing of 4 brand new songs amongst this arsenal of tunes, which may ultimately appear in more sophisticated form on the forthcoming studio album.

Release date is 13/10/14, but we would love it if you would pre-order your copy RIGHT NOW from the Paypal link on our website HERE:


Read on for details of tracklist, and links to YouTube for a sneaky preview of some of the videos.....

THE SCARAMANGA SIX – ‘SCENES OF MILD PERIL’
Format: CD/DVD – 2-disc set
Release Date: 13/10/14
Cat No: WRATHCD64
Price: £12 (UK)/£13 (Overseas) + P+P

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ReIssue. Via Anthony Bernal .. "Raw Power"

Raw Power I've often wondered why The Stooges album Raw Power sounded so bad. It's always bothered me for some reason. Why does it sound so muffled? Nobody really talks about it. Most people revere the album unabashedly, which is perfectly understandable. But my ears have always said what the heck is going on here, where are the drums? Where's the bass? I finally got fed up and did some research. As it turns out, Iggy decided to mix the album himself and something went haywire. According to my research, Iggy bounced tracks when maybe he wasn't supposed to and as a result he reduced his mixing options. He gave the master to David Bowie to mix. Bowie's quote: "the most absurd situation I encountered when I was recording was the first time I worked with Iggy Pop. He wanted me to mix Raw Power, so he brought the 24-track tape in, and he put it up. He had the band on one track, lead guitar on another and him on a third. Out of 24 tracks there were just three tracks that were used. He said 'see what you can do with this'. I said, 'Jim, there's nothing to mix'. So we just pushed the vocal up and down a lot. On at least four or five songs that was the situation, including "Search and Destroy." That's got such a peculiar sound because all we did was occasionally bring the lead guitar up and take it out." And that's why Raw Power sounds the way it does. Amen. https://firepants.bandcamp.com/ANTHONY BERNAL: is a writer and fellow musician upon the planet.. He can be found at http://anthonybernal.blogspot.com/ This post is a re=print direct from Mr. Bernal's blog.