Dara factor one (Zawinul) Erskine explained the genesis of "Dara Factor One" and "Dara Factor Two" to Brian Glasser: "The Dara Factors--that was one long jam. I remember they got this extra-large reel of tape, and when we were doing it they even ran a speaker out into the lounge so all the people working in the studio could hear it. We wanted to do a jam, and at one point I said, 'Joe, how about something like this? This would be fun,' and I played a kind of pocket groove. I thought it was cool. And Joe waved me to stop. He's standing in the center of the room, I'm in my drum booth, and he says through the microphones, 'What's fun about that? I don't hear anything fun in that.' So that's why Dara had that kind of ass-backwards beat, because he was always looking for something out of the ordinary." Brian Risner told Glasser, "Dara Factor was basically, 'Hey, we got an hour left. What are we gonna do?' And I was so efficient with the production on that record--we had two days booked, and we'd gone in and gotten two takes on everything, maybe three, and we'd gotten everything we wanted. So he had an interesting sequence pattern, probably on the Oberheim, and they jammed on that. There was a lot of work on post [- production] on it, because basically it was a groove and a basic melody, so we cut it and added a lot of the accents and stuff to make it work." |