or the organ). The organ was a big
deal for us as it was THE organ
used by Booker T on those great
Stax recordings. One of the songs
we recorded was called “Good-
bye Again.” I played organ on that
one. As I recall, the piano needed
to be recorded separately be-
cause it was in the same room as
the drums. So, Adam went in and
played while the rest of us listened
from the control room. He did
a great take, and at the end, he
played stuff that had my jaw hang-
ing open. Just so great. Sadly, the
mix I have of it fades out, and you
can just hear him starting to riff
and then it’s gone. I would love to
know if the tapes still exist.
Epilogue - The Red House was
dropped from SBK and disbanded
in 1992 due to lack of “a hit.” At
many of our last series of live per-
formances, Adam’s friend Chris
(Collingwood) would come and
watch. He and Adam were start-
ing a side project, which I thought
was great for Adam to have an
outlet to assert more of his thing.
Of course, the rest is history. While
you can’t predict why someone
might become successful, it cer-
Watch Adam Schlesinger perform “What’ll It Be”
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