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Chad Fischer is the producer of the album, and Colin’s creative partner in this lockdown endeavor. We had a brief conversation about his experience making the album. And as I discovered, a chance encounter decades ago led to a lifelong friendship between the two musicians.
Oct 4, 2024 · He had moved to L.A. in 1989 and four or five years later met Chad Fischer, the drummer for School of Fish, the alt-rock band who had a hit with “Three Strange Days” in 1991. Fischer had...
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Jun 17, 2021 · by Colin Hay, June 17, 2021. Announcing Colin’s newest studio album: “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” – out August 6th! The record features 10 versions of some of Colin’s favorites — songs tied to memories and eras in his life, including covers of The Beatles, Blind Faith, Del Amitri, Dusty Springfield, Faces, Gerry ...
Feb 14, 2022 · So we asked for the help of one Chad Fischer, my friend and best man, whose talent knows no bounds. My involvement was to go down to Chad’s place and shoot me singing and playing the song a few times, in different clothes, in front of a green screen.
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- Guest Starring on Scrubs
- The Garden State Soundtrack
- The “Down Under” Copyright Ruling
You’ve famously joked that the Best New Artist Grammy is the kiss of death for a musician’s career. Do you still feel that way? HAY: It’s just a bit of a gag, really. It wasn’t really that for us, the award per se. It was our band was destined not to last with the personnel that was in it. Which was sad in a way because we had great potential, and ...
HAY: We made a mess of that. We weren’t very good. Why do you say that? HAY: It was another band. It was another Men At Work, which wasn’t the original Men At Work. And we had an album coming out — that album didn’t really do anything. So we were already on the other side of the mountain, on our way out. Is there any reason why “Mr. Entertainer” wa...
When you started your solo career, was it a relief to be releasing work under your name, as opposed to dealing with band dynamics? HAY: You’re correct. It was a complete relief. And I felt like I didn’t have any reins on anymore. I felt, creatively, quite free. I made a record with a great English record producer whose name is Robin Millar, who did...
This is going to be a huge marker of my age, but my first Colin Hay memories have a lot to do with the show Scrubs. Zach Braff was a big fan of yours, right? HAY: Well, it all revolves around my best friend here in Los Angeles, a guy called Chad Fischer, who used to play drums in a band called School Of Fish. He worked on, I think, The Practice, Sc...
HAY: I remember sitting there on [the Scrubsset] one day, and [Zach] said, “I’m writing a film.” I said, “Oh, you’re a busy boy.” And he said, “I want to use one of your songs in the film.” And I said, “Well, you do that very thing.” So he used “I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You” in Garden State. And of course, I can remember specifically w...
When the Australian court ruled that the flute riff in “Down Under” was plagiarized from the children’s song “Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree,” you said in a statement: “What was born out of creative musical expression, became both a technical and mathematical argument. This ruling will have lasting repercussions, and I suspect not for the bett...
At home during quarantine in early 2021, he read that Gerry Marsden had died and found himself strumming the Gerry and the Pacemakers ’ Merseybeat hit, “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying.” He decided to turn on the tape machines and share with his frequent collaborator/ producer, Chad Fischer, who asked for more of the same.
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Mar 21, 2022 · Whereas that album was very intimate — mainly just Hay and his friend and collaborator Chad Fischer — Now and the Evermore is more of a band effort. All but one of the 10 songs are originals...
