“We were just thinking about the music.”ĭownie’s terminal cancer diagnosis became a reality during the latter stages of recording “Lustre Parfait.” “This was so nonchalant that there is no video and barely any pictures of us together, because we weren’t even thinking about that,” Rock said. and Jamey Koch - contains sparse visuals of Downie in a vocal booth and behind the control board due to the impromptu nature of their gatherings. While there was little doubt the 62-minute work would be released as an album, there was no timeline for its release, nor much attention paid to the promotion and publicity that usually follows such a project’s completion.Įven the video for the single “Greyboy Says” - which showcases a live performance featuring Rock on guitar accompanied by Offspring members Dexter Holland and Noodles, ace drummer Abraham Laboriel Jr. or Vancouver, “till we finally got it finished.” “Lustre Parfait” was then recorded in piecemeal fashion: when Downie wasn’t working with the Hip, he and Rock would “grab a weekend, or two or three days,” either in Toronto, L.A. I guess, in a funny way, the studio is an instrument to me.” Rock explained that when he isn’t producing, he’s composing, which was the reason he had stockpiled so many instrumentals. “So I sent him a few things and they came back songs, and I thought, ‘Well this is cool.’ And he wrote 14 songs to the tracks that I had written and put together.” “He said, ‘Do you have any music? Can you send me some music?’” recalled Rock, who has helped sell more than 60 millions albums producing everyone from Metallica and Bon Jovi to Bryan Adams and the Offspring. I’m a Canucks fan, so there you go,” said Rock.) When it came time to wrap, Downie posed a question to Rock. (“We talked about Bobby Orr a lot because he was a huge Boston fan and I was a Bobby Orr fan, but we’d laugh because of the Canucks and Boston. The camaraderie between the two was sparked after the Hip, 10 albums deep into a career that spawned three million-selling albums - and still the only act, Canadian or otherwise, to achieve that sales summit domestically - hired Rock to produce “World Container” in 2006 and its followup, “We Are the Same.”ĭuring the sessions, Rock and Downie bonded over their love of hockey and family. “This is really just two guys that are friends making music that we love with all our influences.” “It’s a happy accident,” Rock said late last week from his studio in Maui, Hawaii. It turns out that late Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie had at least one more album in him.īut there’s a difference between “Lustre Parfait,” the brilliant work he recorded with Payola$ co-founder and über-producer Bob Rock that’s out Friday and recent releases “Away Is Mine,” “Introduce Yerself” and “Secret Path”: Downie, who died in 2017 from glioblastoma at 53, started this one on a lark.
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