Bunbury
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Especially in view of the fact that recording technology has developed so much since the first recordings, did any of the original recordings undergo any significant digital processing, production or re-recording?
GB: ?No, no re-recording. Obviously the unreleased songs are new recordings, and because it was unreleased stuff with Michael?s voice we went in and did some bits and piece on that, because it was unfinished. The old stuff we had remastered by Don Bartley in Sydney, and spent painstaking hours going through our tape vaults, which we needed to do anyway, because the stuff has a shelf life, and needed transferring to different mediums for storage. Because we want to hang on to all our masters for obvious reasons. But we picked the songs and remastered them, so that they all sound a bit more sparkly.?
How has INXS reinvented itself following Michael Hutchence?s tragic death? Where is the INXS?s new music heading?
GB: ?I guess we?ll see. I guess we?ll all have that happy journey together. The songs that we?ve been writing sound awesome, and Jon Stevens is a permanent member now and fitting in really well. And also it?s a different thing in many ways, because we?re all based in Australia. And we?re all a phone call or a jump-in-the-car away. Before it was conference calls to Paris, and blah, blah blah. Things can get bigger than Ben Hur, and in the end, quite often the music suffers. We?re really enjoying it, it?s not like starting again, but it is a lot fresher the way we?re doing it, and a lot more organic. So we?re enjoying our music more than ever. And all the world?s experts were telling us to break up when Michael died, but we?ll happily stick it up their noses, because now the band?s still one of the best live bands in the world. And John Stevens, besides being a good mate, is an awesome front man and a great singer. And Americans had never heard of him before, but when we went over there they were like, ?My God, who?s this guy!? And it?s all guns blazing at the moment, it?s feeling really good.?