Spin Doctors

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Spin Doctors' Bio: Nice Talking To Me (Ruff Nation/Universal) is the first new studio album in eleven years by the original Spin Doctors: Chris Barron (lead vocals), Eric Schenkman (guitar, vocals), Mark White (bass), and Aaron Comess (drums). But that's not all.

Nice Talking To Me is the Spin Doctors' most musically accomplished album-a mature work that sums up their individual artistic growth over the past decade. It's the end product of a three-year period during which the band renewed their dedication to songwriting, live performance, and the creative process. Finally, it's the best-sounding album the Spin Doctors have ever made, with Matt Wallace's state-of-the-art production framing band performances that have the freshness and energy of first takes.

This exciting new chapter in the Spin Doctors' unfolding story began in September 2001 during the closing week of Wetlands. This Lower Manhattan club had been like home to the band in the early years, and was the scene of their debut live recording. As he arrived to rehearse for the Spins' 9/7/01 show, Chris Barron admits to having had "all these feelings of trepidation, of not knowing what the payoff was gonna be."

"I had a list of all the songs from our first two albums," he recalls, "and the first one I called was 'What Time Is It.' Eric went into that signature riff of the intro, I started singing-and it was like wow. The synergy of this particular ensemble just came flooding back, and to be a part of it was indescribable."

"I'd left the band on Labor Day, seven years before [in 1994]," Eric Schenkman notes. "So it seemed like the circle was coming complete. The chemistry of the ensemble is unique-that was instantly apparent-and together we started clawing our way back."

Reuniting for an ecstatically received one-off show was one thing, whereas a joint commitment to renewed touring and writing was something else again. But gradually, one thing led to another…

"In the spring of 2002," says Aaron Comess, "we did a two-week club tour and had a really good time. Then we got another bigger tour offer for that summer, and Chris and Eric started writing a little bit in hotel rooms…We took our time, worked some gigs, got together every few months for songwriting sessions-and eventually began playing those new songs live."

He continues: "There's an old saying that a band has its whole life to write the first album and about two weeks to write the second one. This isn't our first album, of course, but Nice Talking To Me has had the longest gestation period of any album we've made since Pocket Full of Kryptonite. An individual song may have been written by Eric, or by Chris and me, or by all four of us-but this album contains the best material from all those sources."

Nice Talking To Me was recorded at Sound City in Van Nuys, CA-the classic "old school" studio where Fleetwood Mac made Rumors and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers created Damn The Torpedoes. The process began with ten days of intensive rehearsal spearheaded by producer Matt Wallace, whose credits includes production and mixing for everyone from Faith No More and the Replacements to Sheryl Crow and Maroon 5.

"Matt's thing was to break the songs down to acoustic guitars, rather than just going into the studio and start pounding away on our instruments," Aaron explains. "He wanted to hone in on the melodies, the chord changes, the real nuances of the songs. We had to feel sure that the song and the arrangement. … Read more