Discography - Anyone Can Fill Your Shoes

It started in our garage at 3 Plymouth Lane, East Brunswick in July 1990. Drummer Juice wanted to call the band “The Beer Drinkers from Spotswood” or something like that. Perhaps foreseeing his future as an AA counselor he backed down quickly. After a few bars of “Farce Fed” Matt commented that even at this our first rehearsal we were already on a crash course; as we were struggling mightily with the chorus at the time the name Crash Chorus came to mind. Noone came up with a better idea so it stuck.

Recorded in three days, mixed in two, entirely live with very few overdubs . . . and it shows. Your brilliant singer recorded the vocal “live” while playing an acoustic plugged directly into the soundboard, over-Dylanizing a 20 year-old larynx and creating a tinny “PLINK-PLINK-PLINK-PLINK” racket with the acoustic. I repeatedly refused engineer Eric Rachel’s offers to redo the vocal or acoustic guitar line. No guitar overdubs. All in the name of authenticity. DUMBASS!!!!

“I Wanna Be Bob,” of course, is “Tombstone Blues” by way of Sayreville. Suffering brother and bass player Evan Harrison loathed that goofy country bass line. No doubt the hatred was magnified by the vision of the singer pacing the control room a la Derek Smalls with Nigel and David battling over Jeanine behind the soundproof glass.

“You used to turn me inside out/Now I’m standing on the outside looking in.” Whoever wrote that line should be shot!

I’ll be the first to admit there are many cringe-worthy moments here but I think there’s also a youthful exuberance to the bumbling session. Nobody seemed to get the joke on the
album cover though.

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