Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I made this record without a record label.
Whenever I approach a record, I don't really have a science to it. I approach every record differently. First record was in a home studio. Second record was a live record. Third record was made while I was on tour. Fourth record was made over the course of, like, two years in David Kahn's basement.
Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.
I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.
It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.
After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.
I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.
In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.