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The work on
the new song continued after the snowy night and soon it was time to bring
in a producer. The legendary New York producer was in town working with
Primal Scream and Ocean Colour Scene and was brought in to help them out.
This was a great move, Miller produced the first version of "Into Tomorrow"
but fall asleep over the mixerdesk being pissed it of his head. Paul sacked
him on the spot. On 26 of February he re-recorded the song with Solid Bond's
"in-house" engineer Brendan Lynch. This was the beginning of a
long working relationship. The young studio technician now took on production
for the fist time. Lynch was a talented, open-minded operator who draw inspiration
from the early days when there was no digital recordings. He put a more
organic fell to the music, and draw inspiration from real soul. Weller blasted
through the new song, which was the most passionate guitar-led music he'd
made in over a decade. |
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After
the session Weller and Lynch shared a cab home. When Paul got out to leave
the cab he turned back to Brendan, offering him his hand. Brendan shaked
it and now in that moment that Paul had found the spirit again. Weller -
'I think it's quite an original song and sound. It's me trying to get a
grip on becoming thirtysomthing and the great grey mass that lies between
the simple black and white world of my youth'. Weller had a song that he
believed in and believed that it would give him a kick-start of the new
era of his career. But, there was no record deal. After they had dissed
a few opportunities they decided to release it themselves. He created the
label: Freedom High and took help from some old friends to help out with
the release and the promotion. This made it quite cheap and despite the
not know how to release and promote the record was released in may and pushed
up into the Top 40. |
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