Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me Page #4

of evolving as a musician

and being able to do

that in a studio.

Once you step into that

and kind of discover

what you can do creatively,

I don't know that there is

any kind of feeling like it.

# When my baby's beside me

We should have done

"When My Baby's Beside Me"

acoustic.

One, two, three, four...

Very quickly we became

sort of an organic thing.

We jived with each other,

we bonded.

I think a little bit less vocal

and a little bit more guitars

A little less of the other

vocals

The focus was original music.

Alex and Chris

were creating music

that was as relevant

and connected

as emotionally to me

as all this cover material

that I had been doing.

Those two were like

a couple of comets

or shooting stars

or something like that.

Jody and I were

kind of caught up

in the bow wave

of Chris and Alex.

Tell me when.

Now.

I didn't get to hear

much Big Star music

because they usually

wouldn't write in the studio.

When they showed up

with the first songs

for "#1 Record,"

they basically

had the arrangements

completely together the way

they wanted to do them.

They came in, they set up

as a four-piece band

in the studio,

everybody playing

on the basic tracks

simultaneously

and that was the first time

I was hearing those tunes.

Rolling.

# Years ago my heart

was set to live, oh #

# But I've been trying hard

against unbelievable odds #

Sitting down to go through

"The Ballad of El Goodo"

it seems like we'd run

through that song one time

and then the next time

it just all clicked

and it was pretty much realized

the way you hear it

on the album.

# And there ain't no one going

to turn me 'round #

# Ain't no one going

to turn me 'round #

Even just hearing the tracks,

two guitars, the bass,

and the drums, I said,

"You know,

if they've got any lyrics

that are halfway decent to go

with this, we've got something. "

# Ain't no one going

to turn me 'round #

Al Bell at STAX

came to us and said,

"STAX would like

to have a Rock brand.

Would you be interested

in having

Ardent Records be that brand?"

And I said, "Well, of course. "

Chris knew that

that was coming.

I told him, I said,

"You know, if you guys

get a good album together,

we've got a good vehicle,

I think, for putting

some of this music out. "

I can't get over

how really nice

the mellotron sounds on that.

This one wouldn't make

a bad single probably.

I think the name Big Star

was just desperation.

We needed to have a name

and nobody could

think of a name

and when we were

sitting out in between

the old shack on National

and the actual

storefront studio smoking

I don't know what,

smoking something,

and there was, of course,

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