![]() It was a lot of fun and both T-Ray and Fatal were good guys to work with, there was quite a lot of piss-taking in the studio and general larking about. We obviously liked hip-hop music but we’d never done anything with a rapper before so it was a great experience. ![]() Michael McKeegan: No, not all all… We just though it was a cool collaboration to be involved with but still to this day I hear a lot of people talk about it and quite a few say it was their first exposure to hip-hop. When you were recording for the soundtrack, did you have any idea that it would have the lasting impact and long-term legacy that it did? Do you look back at the soundtrack and overall experience fondly? At one stage we came back to find him attempting a freestyle rap for the Fatal’s guys, which was met with much hilarity. So whilst we were in the live room working out the tune with Fatal, he was sat in the lounge area “relaxing” with Fatal’s buddies. Talking of rapping one funny story I do recall was that we had a friend over from Northern Ireland on the tour who was hanging out in the studio with us. Likewise we were enjoying how Fatal would just keep rapping different lyrics until it sat well over the music. I remember everyone getting really excited when Andy first played the doomy riff that ended up being the intro and outro. ![]() Andy kept coming up with loads of great riffs and I think T-Ray and Fatal were enjoying that, how we would just play things slightly differently or give it a twist. Michael McKeegan: As I said it was all very spur of the moment and we all clicked good from the off. Interestingly the “DIE” sample on the song is a down tuned version of the one we had on our sampler for our song “Meat Abstract.”Īnything remarkable happen within the recording session? Then we just fine-tuned it a bit and added some samples and overdubs. Fatal was there getting a feel for it and then he’d go into the rec room and write some lyrics and then try them out until we got something we all felt comfortable with. It was good fun, quite hypnotic just grooving off the loop. It was a new process for us, T-Ray had a basic drum loop which he played through the headphones and the 3 of us just jammed around various parts until we had an intro, a verse part, chorus part and so on. I don’t think we had any of the music written at the time or at least I hadn’t heard Andy play any of the riffs previously at soundcheck for example. Apparently the studio was owned by Gary Katz and had done some of the famous Steely Dan and Donald Fagen albums there, so I remember thinking that was pretty cool. We’d played a show the night before so we drove up to New York after the show and loaded in to the studio the next morning. Michael McKeegan: It was all pretty spur of the moment in the studio as we were on tour and the session was booked for a day off. What was the creative process like for you with the Judgement Night soundtrack? Did you come up with the arrangement before hitting the studio? Were you in the studio together? It sort’ve made sense to pair us up as at the time we were “new” to the American rock scene and he was just working on his debut album. T-Ray the producer of the session - who’d done Cypress Hill and was going to do the Helmet/House Of Pain collaboration as well - also did the Fatal single so we were excited to be working with both of them. Michael McKeegan: Yes, Fatal was the choice we were given and we got sent an advance tape of his “Timber” single which we quite liked the sound of. More on all things Therapy? can be found online at Were you paired with Fatal? Did someone ask for Therapy? Were there any other artists originally paired with you? McKeegan kindly answered questions about collaborating with rapper Fatal for the Judgment Night before tackling what Therapy? will be up to in the near-future. That “past” wonderfully includes the Judgment Night soundtrack, as released 25 years ago, which paired up key hard rock and hip-hop artists of the early 1990s on each track for innovative collaborations. I had the pleasure of doing Q&A with McKeegan, the group’s founding bassist, about Therapy?’s past, present and future. ![]() Consistent as ever, on SeptemTherapy? - which includes lead vocalist and guitarist Andy Cairns, bassist Michael McKeegan and drummer Neil Cooper - will be releasing its 15th studio album, Cleave. By 1992, Therapy? had a major label record deal with A&M Records. By Darren Paltrowitz 0 Michael McKeegan Of Therapy? On The “Judgment Night” Soundtrack & Upcoming ProjectsĪn alternative metal band from Northern Ireland, the roots of Therapy? go back to almost 30 years ago.
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