When we were making the first Little Murders record in early 1979 I'd go around to Stuart Beatty's house in St. Kilda to record the vocals. Usually this was done in the bathroom. On the record we called it the Cathouse because he and his partner Rosslyn Beeby, had so many cats. Great big fluffy ones. Everywhere you looked. We recorded in the bathroom to get the natural echo. The backing tracks for Things and take Me I'm Yours were recorded up in St. Andrews on a friends farm. All the rest were done here.
Stuart also started to educate me in the ways of great sounding power pop. Everyone of his records had a plastic sleeve and he would takes ages to get it out the sleeve check it for dust before playing to me a power pop classic like Danny Says by The Ramones. And this one by Bram Tchaikovsky. I have to admit the songs I heard there were pretty great. This one especially would influence a bunch of songs I wrote. And it influenced quite a few other power poppers by the sound of some of their records. I was at Dom Mariani the other night and I turned to Danny McDonald (who also admits to a bit of Bram influence) and said that some of this sounds like Bram Tchaikovsky.
Bram isn't that well know. He was in the Motors he produced some classic singles. I think he was a bit of a cult hero in the USA. But after this record I never heard anything else. I'm tempted to google him but I might just leave it alone and instead go back and listen to this song. Ageless power pop.
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