Sean on working on his father's music : was always one of my favourite of dad’s albums. I grew up listening to it without realising it had to some degree been overlooked when it came out. So to me it has always been one of his strongest records.
The title track alone lives on the very top shelf of my favourite tunes. It’s an absolute masterpiece. To me it sounds like he was working very hard to make a more polished record after what had been a period of raw rock n roll activism with , (an album that was difficult for some fans to appreciate).
The fact that he was producing himself, and doing an incredible job without s help, while in the midst of a separation with my mother — it must of been a difficult time for him, and I think he really stepped up to the plate and did an amazing job. The music may not have been in sync with where the world was at commercially, but the songs stand for themselves and after all these years have come to represent some of his best work to many fans. I had an amazing time overseeing the mixes, and was really struck by the level of musicianship throughout.
The band is exceptional, and you can tell (perhaps unlike on ), that the musicians are really trying their best at every moment, and working hard to bring as much musicianship and beauty to each song as they can manage. My father famously made the album cover himself, an amazing collage with my mother as a mountain hovering over him as he recedes into the distance — a visually striking i.