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Michael Krumper | Mrs. Robinson | Angelina Jolie

Guitar Hero

by American Way Staff

 

1 The simplest songs are best, if you can find them.

"I made the demos at home on a four-track on cassette," Dando says. "The demos are just a few tracks of me singing and playing the song twice. That was about as advanced as I could get on a four-track at the time. It's just a guitar and vocals. It's nice. "I was going crazy looking for them. Michael Krumper, who works at Razor & Tie now - he used to work at Atlantic [the Lemonheads' label] - had them. And thank God he had them, because now we've got a DVD, nine previously unreleased songs, and the record. It's very exciting. It just brings the album to people's attention one more time."

2 If Dando had to do Ray all over again, he might have hidden the hit "Mrs. Robinson" in a hiding place where no one ever goes.

"I wouldn't have put 'Mrs. Robinson' on the album," Dando says. "But I can't really complain about it at this point. It really did help get us exposure. Luckily, people ventured further and heard the other stuff."

3 He didn't find Angelina Jolie's famous lips to be all that memorable.



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