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from Maidstone, Ontario. I've met with a guy named Christian Vay who is probably one of the best guitarists I have ever heard in my life. He's a young 19 year old from Windsor, Ontario. And also negotiating with Brian Good of The Good Brothers. We might be doing something together as well.
So, I'm still helping a lot of the Canadian artists out. Chelsey and I, as a matter of fact, will be in Nashville July 11th through 16th doing her album down there. She's a girl from Maidstone, Ontario. She's going to school up in Kitchener somewhere but that's all I got. I've been lucky enough to live vicariously as a musician though all the bands I produce and there's been quite a few of them. Now I'm down in Mission, just a little south of Los Angeles.
I don't what kind of exposure you guys have but if anybody wants to send me any stuff or any ideas they can always e-mail me at my company:
[email protected] and I'll bet back to each and everyone of your listeners if they have anything to say.
Big Al, tell us about the band and the changes it went through, as well as any successes you enjoyed.
Big Al: In 1996, actually, my brother and I started a band called 'Moaning Lisas' and we actually got Stacy to do our demo for that band which was kind of cool because I'd written a song called 'Four Shots Of Jager' and Stacy said, 'You know, you need to send that to Jägermeister' and next thing you know, I mean, we had a twenty year relationship with Jägermeister. We were on their 2006 'Best Of Music' cd that they released out.
So I kept playing live, I just kind of had to put Left Wing Fascists on the shelf. Some guys came and went but Scotty Carlisle, the main guitar player, him and I wrote the second record together. He had sent me some demos. He says, 'Hey, I got some songs you know, what do you think about these?' I called him up and said, 'Well, what do you think about getting the old gang back together?' He says, 'What do you mean?' and I said 'Well, can I call Stacy on this?" and he goes 'Absolutely, we would love to have Stacy do that.'
We asked a couple of other band members and long story short on those, some guys bailed out. But Scotty and I stuck it out and Stacy, I gave him a call and he said 'Hey How are you doing? You're looking good. Looks like you lost some weight'. I said, 'Yeah, I'm in shape. Can I flip you these demos and he said absolutely. We had a long history of doing those records together.
I flipped them to him, he goes, 'This is great, Al, this is what we can do. Scotty can do all his parts in Carolina where he's living. We can get the drums done out west and flip them right back and we'll put your butt on a plane and fly you out here and get your vocals done.' And that's what we did. It was about September of 2015. I jumped on a plane, rolled right on out there and we did ten songs in three days. Stacy pulled six out of me the first night, I believe.
For the second morning. Then we had all the vocals done . He would not let me go until the next morning. We had to do all the backing vocals. Then we went out to a beautiful beach at Dana Point, California and shot a video, which is a surfin' junkies video you can see on YouTube. Had a nice dinner. I think that was pretty much about getting a couple of mixes down, just to kinda listen and that was it. So, I got to knock out ten songs in three days. I'm pretty proud of that. He really did push me but I'd had throat surgery in 1999 and things were doing real well for me, vocally.
I felt that I had the confience to do it. It was really some situations where, I'll be honest with you, I got an outbreak of the gout, I did(laughs). It was because I was being pushed and the level of anxiety and energy you put out there. You can put a good record out there. I'm very proud of 'Oxymoron'. I think it's a great album. Some of the best work I think Left Wing Fascists has ever done.
Stacy: Let me add one thing to what Al's saying. He's a pretty modest man. I will say this. I'm very selective with who I work with and it's very rare and in between I find people doing music for the right reasons. I do it because I love it. And I only like to to work with people who are doing it because they love it. Not to get chicks, not to stroke their ego. Al is one of the hardest working sons of bitches I ever worked with and I`ll help him out until the day he or I die. He`s belittling
his Moaning Lisa thing.