***De Facto***, discussione generale

From grand royal's 09/27/2000 "tick's corner":
"A friend of the band made a CD of De Facto material for super producer Mario Caldato Jr., who actually knew nothing of At The Drive In. They all met for lunch, and Mario wanted to do some tracks, and they wanted to bring the El Professor down, but they ended up recording the more rootsy material. They recorded a new song in those Mario sessions, and cut and pasted parts. Omar and Mario shared tons of the same musical influences and the entire De Facto band just loved getting turned on to records by Mario and loved the atmosphere. Jeremy says that the MCJ sound studio was very warm, and they could have stayed there for weeks and never would have run out of instruments. Cedric recalls the keyboards and drum sounds. "Ikey got up on the Hammond B3 and all I can say is Ikey!" Omar and Cedric add, "If we record again, Ralph will come back again for sure…he is like Monty Python…he is like a Mexican Sun Ra!!" Ralph will play one to three notes and have a very magical look on his face! They re-recorded "120 East 7th Street," and on record they lifted an old Lee Perry lyric, but they dropped during the Mario session, it was the Soul Fire lyric and a good chant for the live show. They dropped the lyric because they did "Not want to bite after Master Perry."

They said they'd partly recorded a new album with John Frusciante before Jeremy died and that another one might get released as a tribute.