![]() ![]() The journey that had taken Hunters and Collectors from being somewhat marginalized, Krautrock devotees, to become Australia’s greatest pub-rock exponents had involved some considerable soul-searching along the way, certain band members felt that the recording of Cut had compromised the band’s sound and general creative aesthetic in a quest for hit songs. The introduction of electronic percussion and drum loops into the mix certainly added a commercial sheen and lustre to the song, it charted #30 and the album #5 for the Hunters most successful single and album thus far.Īt this time the group comprised Mark Seymour (guitar/lead vocals), Doug Falconer (drums/vocals/programming/percussion/and tape loops), Barry Palmer (lead guitar, below), John Archer(bass), and the renowned multi-instrumentalists “Horns of Contempt” – Jeremy Smith (French horn/keyboards/guitar/vocals), Michael Waters (keyboards/trombone), Jack Howard (trumpet/keyboards/vocals) and Robert Miles (live sound and art design). The rest of the Cut album was produced by American Don Gehman who had previously worked with Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham, John Mellencamp and REM. Successive albums had marked the new direction that the band were charting, Jaws of Life (#89 in’84), The Way To Go Out (#76 in ’85), Human Fraility (#10 in ‘86), What’s A Few Men? (#16 in ’87), and Ghost Nation (#7 in ’89) had generated classic singles which signposted the band’s journey towards rock and roll immortality – Throw Your Arms Around Me, Do You See What I See?, When The River Runs Dry, and Where Do You Go? – the latter song was lifted off the band’s seventh studio album Cut, recorded at the Festival Studio (Syd) and the Platinum Studio (Melb) co-produced by American Nick Sansano and the band. The Hunters were evolving from their period of Krautrock-influenced esoterica into a blue- collar pub rock band, taking cues from Ian Rilen’s band X and delivering sharp, hard-driving energetic music which connected with their growing army of stalwart fans in the beer bans of Australian suburbia. Where Do You Go? (M Seymour) 1991 and True Tears of Joy (M Seymour) 1992 and Holy Grail (M Seymour) – Hunters and Collectors 1993 ![]()
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