- Addy wrote:
- In his interview with the ole Tinker Jimmy himself said that Assimilation should not have happened. That he didnt consider it a true return to form D album, though he said there were some choice cuts
I think Jimmy had told me or I read this i Cannot quite remember that he wrote that entire album with nothing but keyboards initally
Actually that was "This Sad Veil of Tears"... He wrote it with no guitars at all intending it to be a Fearful Symmetry release... and then later thought about making it a Deliverance CD instead of a FS record. So he put the trademark guitars on there and had Manny lay down bass.
But when his relationship with Indie Dream Records began to crumble (at the same time mine did) he decided to continue developing the disk as a Fearful Symmetry CD. Several us begged him to leave the guitars and I suppose we finally convinced him.
I have long told him that I think some of his best vocals were done on that disk. He tracked the vox before he did the guitars. He has such an amazingly smooth voice. When he sings with guitars, though, he tends to grind his voice a bit. That didn't happen on This Sad Veil of Tears though - the vox are wide open and gorgeous!
I think he's a little bummed that D fans didn't embrace This Sad Veil of Tears. It's SO much better than Assimilation and more accurately portrayed where he wanted to go with Assimilation (were it not for label games and meddling).
It may be blasphemy, but I recon that I like This Sad Veil and A Loss of Balance best of all Jimmy's musical catelog. Watching him record those disks... his heart was REALLY in them - and I think it shows.
peace,
r