changes he made was the drums‌go figure. LOL Our drummer, Holly is an amazing and very skilled drummer. Her style, and what she is actually capable of shows a little on the album, but only about half of it. The reason why is because Phil had her play so much less than what she would normally do. For example, on the song "Feeling Alright" (which, btw, happens to be Phil‘s favorite JA song) her original drum parts were much funkier and intricate, but he changed them to a totally stripped down, basic beat. He did that on a large portion of the songs. His reasoning, "less is more". It turned out to be a better song, but I commend Holly for being such a good sport.
the songs too fast. He made us slow a number of them down to groove more. Which brings me to the part where we talk about how funny he was too. While we were getting to know him, we started to see his personality emerge and he would say the funniest things. So, when we would play too fast he would say "Whoa Nelly!" Which, in and of itself isn't really that funny, unless you heard all of the other stuff that he would come up with. We started to keep a journal of some of his sayings. Anyway, one of the songs he made us slow "waaaaay down" was AC/DC's own "Sin City". I'll never forget the day we played it for him. We were so excited for him to hear it. We couldn't believe we were going to have the chance to play it for him and that he would also fill in and jam it with us on it. We just knew he was going to love it. Instead, he said "Whoa Nelly! Crap! That was plain crap! It's too damn fast and you've ruined it." We stood there, shocked and devastated. LOL But he was right. We slowed it down and it was so much better. He took that approach with "Shot of Gasoline" too. It was twice as fast before he changed it. Also, I learned to make the song intros shorter. He said, "Get to the point faster. You've got 30 seconds or less to reel them in". One of the biggest
<CVNW> How, in your opinion, did that record do? <Leo> Not as well as it could have done, to put it mildly. The reason I say that is because the label went bankrupt before the album was released, so it never got released and nothing was done about it, or the advertising for it or anything else that had to do with making a successful record. Nothing got done. It wasn't until Do It Records took over in 2011 that it even got officially released, and by then it was too late. We had lost momentum and the band had broken up. <CVNW> Did it meet your expectations? <Leo> Sad to say, but no. It was a huge disapointment because, it never got released and never sold. People aren't going to buy a record they don't know about. It didn't get played on the radio, wasn't available anywhere, and the band wasn't working anymore. <CVNW> Jaggedy Ann achieved a ton of success, played a bunch of shows across the world but band ultimately split up. What happened? <Leo> We never officially broke up, and it wasn't because we didn't like each other, or couldn't get along, or anything like that. After the label went bankrupt we went through many personal tragedies. Deaths in our families, births, car accidents, divorces, and everything we lost due to the record label closing down, all this left us no choice but to retreat into financial, emotional, mental, and physical recovery. We are still the best of friends and