"After Malpractice broke up in late '77, Kevin (GG), Merle and myself all stayed in touch on a regular basis - especially guaranteed was a phone call from either party on the Holidays. Kevin called me one day in 1979 and asked me if I would go down to his apartment in Manchester to listen to a couple of new songs he had written. My brother Dan and I went down. We spent the better part of an afternoon with Kevin who plinked out the 3 or 4 chords he had written to these songs on a crappy acoustic guitar. In those days none of us were big partiers, but we all laughed our asses off talking old days etc.
A week or 2 later Dan and I went to the studio. I brought a 1977 wine colored Les Paul custom the studio had a Marshall there, or some small amp with a distortion box. Kev had brought me a Vox Mcartney copy bass, which I used on both songs. He had a drum kit set up. They had a small 8 track studio in the basement of some house. We had my set up & Kev's in the same room of the main open-air part of the basement + an iso-booth for the engineer. There was a guy with the standard then - a Fender/Rhodes 88 piano. We cut the drums/bass/guitar/lead overdubs & vocals. I sang harmonies and so did Dan. Everything went down real quick and we laughed our asses the whole time. In fact the only time things stopped - is when we're laughing so much we had to re-take a vocal.
When Kev said "...you make me cream in my jeans" I think he made that revision up on the spot - like we used to put in perverted words while playing live in the Malpractice days. We died laughing and had to briskly walk away from the main vocal mike as we had not yet heard that version on words. When the guy was doing the piano track on "1980's Rock 'n' roll" he had headphones on but we were listening on the monitors. He was into his groove and HUFFING and PUFFING! We were delirious with laughter laughing at him!! Finally we figured we had knocked it out in time - not bad for songs that I had no idea how to play just hours before.
We did the mix - at least the roughs that day. The engineer was so new at what he was doing that he was all impressed when I walked over to help him do a punch-in. I guess he had never seen one done and didn't know what it was! Out of all this I probably was paid a hamburger, a few beers and maybe $20.00 for gas! A couple years later Kevin stopped in Bethel, Maine to do the same return Favor for My brother Dan and myself by playing drums on one of our songs. That's the kind of cool set-up we had with each other. All in all GG was not the "bad-guy" in those years that he would later turn out to be..."
(Jeff Penny - Radio DJ & musician who formed and played in Malpractice)
Jeff Penny
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