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Green Romance Orchestra's debut: Play Parts 1 and 5. Dave Abbruzzese,ex-Pearl Jam drummer, born in Dallas, Texas, returned to his native soil to jam with a pair of musicians he'd always admired, Darrell Phillips, whom he played with in a funk band called Dr. Tongue before the Pearl Jam era and guitarist Doug Neil. As to how he ended up with vocalist J. Paul Slavens, formerly of 10 Hands, a Dallas band that was also one of Abbruzzese's favorites, the drummer said he just got lucky. "The three of us got together to play and I called up a friend at a studio in town and asked if he knew any singers who could come out and jam. Paul happened to be there when I called and we got together and created so much music in three days, I said to them, 'fuck, what do you guys think about doing this for six weeks?'" said Abbruzzese, who described the 13-song debut as a mix of swing, jazz, slinky, funky and freak-out rock. Joining Abbruzzese for the six-week recording session that took place in Denton, Texas were singer/pianist Slavens, Gary Muller, also of 10 Hands, on the progressive rocking Chapman Stick and Neil on guitar. Abbruzzese moved his home studio down to a ranch in Denton, turning it into what he calls a "house of music" for more than a year. "I just said, 'it doesn't matter what we come up with as long as we enjoy doing it,' ". Luckily for him, the collaboration gelled and the band cranked out 50 hours of material, some of which made the record and some of which is now sitting in a pile of more than 200 hours of multi-tracked music that Abbruzzese is still working on. "Every song on the album is sonically and instrumentally different. The only concept was to get into a room and jam, work the jam out and while it was being mixed, tear it all down and set it up again," said Abbruzzese about the making of the album.
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