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Dave Champagne & Pink Cadillac - Marlena

from Buy American - 1984: the Year at So​-​So by Joe Harvard

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1984 was a transitional time for a lot of old school Boston musicians including John Felice, Matthew MacKenzie and Dave Champagne.

Champagne had enjoyed some success with Pink Cadillac, developing the band into a headline draw while moving it from a pop-based to a rockabilly, and thence to a more garage-oriented sound. This last reorientation brought Dave and Joe together. Joe would, in fact, play in the group briefly when these recordings were finished, replacing Jonathan Paley for a few rehearsals and a show. At that point Dave and Mark Sandman found one another -- and Joe was out of a guitarists job -- adding Jerome Deupree and Paul Q. Kolderie as the new band's first rhythm section (before long the more orthodox four-piece of early rehearsals gave way to the eventual line-up of Treat Her Right: Mark Sandman on low guitar, Dave on gtr. & slide, Billy Conway on cocktail drum and Jim Fitting on harp).

Joe notes: "On these two So-So recordings you can practically hear the old 1984 Pink Cadillac morphing into the Swampop of 1985's Treat Her Right".

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from Buy American - 1984: the Year at So​-​So, released January 4, 1985
written by Dave Champagne, performed by Pink Cadillac.
produced & engineered by Joe Harvard at So-So Sound Studios, 117 Columbia Street, Cambridge MA. on a Fostex A-8 1/4" 8-track, mixed onto a Fostex A-1 1/4" deck.

Jeff - drums
Jeff - bass
Dave - guitars, vocals

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Joe Harvard Asbury Park, New Jersey

"VU & Nico" author, producer-artist-musician
LP creds: Dinosaur, Jr, Pernice Brothers, Throwing Muses etc; spiritual midwife to tons more as co-founder/owner of Fort Apache '85-'93.
An East Bostonian based [One Banned Man, Dub Proof, Doctor Danger, Cockwalkers] in NJ & MOTH NYC Storyslam Champ '01; loves cats. Asbury Music Awards: Top Americana '09/Top Multi-Instrumentalist & Top Avant-Garde '10.
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