Now with hindsight, I’ve no issues at all with it being released because it is a historical document now, so people can agree with what I’ve just said - or disagree." "But down the road people will then say it’s completely raw compared to Hysteria or something like that. "When we later got into the studio with Tom Allom, one of the few things we said to him was, 'Don’t make us sound weedy.' In comparison to the single that Nick did, some people may argue that On Through the Night is over-produced. We didn’t fight for our corner hard enough during those early sessions. If you listen to the guitar sound on Wasted, it literally sounds like the might of an acoustic! And that wasn’t who we were. "It’s great to say it had a rawness, but it just wasn’t well-produced rawness. We didn’t fight for our corner hard enough during those early sessions Joe Elliott Nick had worked with, oddly enough, a bunch of pop bands previously where he did add a lot of energy to it, and he had also done Whiskey in a Jar by Thin Lizzy, which was the only thing we were aware of at the time that he had done. "We did four songs, Wasted, Rock Brigade, Hello America and Glad I’m Alive. It was literally recorded live, but we overdubbed the guitar solo, the lead and backing vocals in a day or two. Joe Elliott: "It was raw in the wrong sense, as to us it sounded flat. The new box set includes an unreleased and much rawer-sounding version of Rock Brigade, originally produced by Nick Tauber.
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