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'LIVER'
- 1995 (produced by Steve Taylor and Russ
Long)]
(liner notes
to 'Liver')
Dear Sir/Madame
You hold in your hand all that remains of a single night's concert performed
by some band and myself during the fall portion of the Squinternational tour
in the year of our lord 1994 so if you're buying this because you weren't
there to make an unauthorized recording you should know that this is not
one of those so-called live albums where everything has been replayed and
resung in the studio except some drums and an audience and even the audience
has been enhanced to make it sound like a bigger crowd that's a whole lot
more excited than they actually were because this album is so much liver
than any live record you've ever heard that you can actually close your eyes
and pretend you were one of the paying thousands who watched me sing and
fall over every night both of which I did on purpose even though the falling
over part hurts more than the singing part so if you can't take the naked
truth of a live concert with occasional bad notes and buzzes and feeback
of the undesirable variety then go buy some Yanni so-called live record but
I guarantee you when you close your eyes he won't sign and fall over because
it might mess up his spacesuit.
Your friend,
Steve
Some Band:
Wade Jaynes - Bass
Mark Townsend - Guitar, backing vocals
Greg Wollan - Guitar, backing vocals
Chris Kearney - Drums
Recorded in one take on October 22, 1994 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Engineered and mixed by Russ Long
Recording assistance: Marc Chevalier
Mixed at The Carport
Mastered by Hank Williams at Mastermix
Road Manager: Joe Nero
Production Manager: Mike Jones
Sound Engineer: Russ Long
Monitor Engineer: Marc Chevalier
Lighting Design: Scott Moore
Lighting Operator: Anthony Kordyjaka
Drivers: Guy Johnson, Dave Fancey, Doug Rioux
Merchandise: Curtis Swartzenruber
Proper Management: Norman Miller, Jeff Quistad, Nancy Kronemann, Glenda McNalley,
Amy Kyker
Booking Agency: Jeff Roberts & Associated (615-859-7040)
Art Direction: Buddy Jackson
Design: Karinne Caulkins for Jackson Design
Photography: Ben Pearson
Without Whoms: Guardian, Hokus Pick, Dakoda Motor Co., Split Level, Neal Joseph, Barry Landis, Chris Hauser, Jim Chaffee, Mark Hollingsworth, Carol Anderson, Tom Beard, Marc Whitmore, John Davis, Randall Waller, Ruth Ann Bowen, Scott Rath, Jim Sturgeon, Dave Steunebrink, Wes Campbell, Peter Furler, Jamie and Isabella Kearney, Suzanne and Danielle and Ashley and Victoria Townsend, Sue and Jordan and Jaclyn Nero, Natalie Jaynes, John Painter, Fleming McWilliams, Mike Mead, Jerry McPherson, Richard Green, Lynn Nichols, Dave Perkins, Dig Hay Zoose (for the cover of the cover), and the lovely, talented D. L. Taylor
Dedicated with gratitude to our concert promoters and to all of you who paid to hear this concert twice
Fan club: P.O. Box 150669, Nashville, TN 37215
Faster: AOL-Keyword Warner (alternative folder)
Compuserve-Go WBRecords
All songs written by Steve Taylor except "Escher's World" and "Violent Blue" written by L. Nichols, D. H. Perkins and S. Taylor.
"The Lament of Desmond R.G.
Underwood-Frederick IV,"
"Bannerman,"
"Jesus Is For Losers,"
"The Finish Line" © 1993 Warner
Alliance Music/Soylent Tunes (Adm. by ICG) ASCAP
"Escher's World,"
"Violent Blue" © 1991 MCA
Publishing/GMMI, a division of Gerd Muller International/Sadoshrimp ASCAP.
Rights administered by MCA Publishing, a division of MCA INC., New York,
NY 10019
"I Want To Be A Clone" © 1982
Birdwind Music/Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co., INC/C.A. Music ASCAP
"Hero" © 1984 Birdwing Music/Cherry
Lane Music Publishing Co., INC./C.A. Music ASCAP
"On The Fritz" © 1985 Birdwing
Music/C.A. Music ASCAP
"Jim Morrison's Grave" ©
1987 Soylent Tunes (Administered by Music Services) ASCAP
© 1995 Warner Bros. Records Inc. Made in U.S.A.
Please note: "Jim Morrison's Grave" and "On The Fritz" were changed from the original set order to accomodate the sequencing on the cassette; the fire alarm incident was borrowed from the 10/7/94 concert at Judson College
REVIEW
The All Music Guide says:
One listen to this CD and you know why Steve Taylor is both a popular and
a controversial performer. The hook-laden
"Jim Morrison's Grave" shows
that the man and the band can rock.
"The Lament of Desmond R.G.
Underwood-Frederick IV" shows that he can infuse heavy music with a sense
of humor that is arch, sarcastic, and intelligent. So it goes through the
CD, with Taylor's engaging stage banter creating a sense of what the show
was really like on that particular night. His Christian outlook is expressed
passionately and without a hint of the pompousness that mars most god rock
for the average listener, and it's a shame that so many minds were closed
to any hint of religious sensibility that this album was overlooked. The
anthemic closer, "Violent Blue,"
is one of the greatest songs ever written on the topic of boy meets girl
who is so wrapped up in herself that she doesn't notice, and you have to
wonder why it wasn't a hit. Liver is a great album, one of the rare releases
that is smart, literate, passionate, and really rocks.