| As Chip recalls, "Gino Martino couldn't do the tour and the tour started in December last year (1995). Because of that we had to find someone. We were gonna do a three piece, that's the way we've been recording our records the last couple of years. We found a great guy on our own label, called Stoney Records and we were looking at a couple of bands and we found this band that opened for Enuff Z'Nuff at the Free Fest last year in Chicago. It was after Jerry Garcia passed away and we didn't expect that many people but we had like 50,000 people out there. They were all on the top of the hill and everyone was smoking grass and playing the drums and paying tribute to Jerry. These guys who opened for us, they are called Pinch, and the guitar player's name was Monaco. He was a big enough fan, we talked, he knew all the tunes, every solo, knew harmony, every melody. He was an all around concrete player and big fan. So when it came down when Martino couldn't tour we asked him if he wanted to come out with us and he was totally into it. We went on tour and it was such a successful tour, we did 63 cities, that we decided we should keep things the way they are for right |
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now. Maybe have him play on some stuff on the
next record. The guy is really an accomplished player. It's funny
where he came from, he used to be the guitar tech for Paul Gilbert
and Billy Sheehan of Mr. Big, on their last tour." Chip describes Peach Fuzz as "A very eclectic record. It shows a bunch of different sides of us. Why should it sit in a vault? There are a lot of people out there that want to hear some new rock n' roll, or fun pop, new songs. If they sound good fidelity wise, and they trip out trigger, well then we hope you guys dig 'em too. When asked about Peach Fuzz's "Message Of Love," Chip offered: "It was recorded at A&M Studios while we were on a break, while recording our third album, 'Animals With Human Intelligence.' Donnie and I were in studio B, we had two rooms locked out. That's when we had huge budgets, and believe me we didn't ask for them either. We were just trying to keep ourselves busy. In one room we were tracking and the other mixing. We spent a lot of money but we recorded a great deal of tunes on the side. That song was written during the L.A. riots, we gave the song to Clive Davis, and he said, 'We have enough material for this album, let's keep it the way it is.' We knew sooner or later it would surface." |
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The band was
soon asked by Epic Records to participate in a Cheap Trick tribute
album called "Cheap Shots." The project would later be cancelled,
but the song they recorded (Everything Works If You Let It)
would later appear on the Enuff Z'Nuff CD Paraphernalia.
Enuff Z'Nuff gets word that director Cameron Crowe decided to use the Animals With Human Intelligence
track "Bring It On Home" for the Tom Cruise movie Jerry Maguire, but
unfortunately learn that the song was cut out in editing and only appears on the ending
credits. With Tweaked and Peach Fuzz still fresh, the band had to wait awhile to get Chip & Donnie: Brothers released domestically. In early 1997, the album finally hit the U.S., with two bonus tracks and the band's name reinstated. Enuff Z'Nuff had recorded Seven in two weeks on a shoestring budget of only $12,000. "We knew we couldn't afford to pay anybody a half a million bucks to make a record," Chip remarked. "So we tried to work around it by being very well rehearsed. When we came |
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into the studio it went like bing, bing, bing. We saved a lot of time,
and I'm not so sure we would have taken a different course even if we
had had a huge budget. There's something organic about this recording.
Everybody played at the same time live in the studio -- you don't get
that a lot anymore." This time around, Enuff Z'Nuff managed themselves, as Herbie Herbert had retired. "We've been in the situation where the inmates are running the asylum." Chip said. "You always need someone to represent you. But the next manager we take on has got to be the right one. It's important that we find someone who's really focused and knows how to take these songs and reach people. We've been having a hard time finding that someone." Fortunately the band did find that "someone," Tom 'NFL' Feeley, who manages the band to this day. |
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