Taking Tiger Mountain (by Hilsinger)
OK, this one’s a few years old, but I don’t know that most of you have heard it.
Doug Hilsinger, one of the two guitarist extraordinaires from my band Bomb, and all around great guy, released an amazing record a few years back…A complete reworking of the Brian Eno record, Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy).
I loved the original Eno record from age 12, and still love it. It was one of my formative desert island discs my whole life. And I love Doug’s versions even more.
Doug arranged and recorded covers of the complete album. He plays drums, bass and guitar, and my buddy Caroline Beatty sang. I think it’s pretty amazing. And so does Brian Eno. Eno loves Doug’s record and even wrote the liner notes for the CD. Listen to an MP3 of Eno’s answering machine message to Doug here.
Listen to two minutes of one of the songs (”Burning Airlines Give You So Much More.)
August 30th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Doug told me that he was worried that he might get type-cast in the industry as
“the guy who did Eno”
Whats wrong with that? What an accomplishment!
Oh well ,his own original music is also awesome and more important to him than this record, Im sure.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:53 am
good to see some kudos for hilsinger… check out the jukebox on his site…