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Down on the Road by the Beach by Hiett, Steve (Record, 2019)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelBE with Records, Bwrd

UPC4251648413356

eBay Product ID (ePID)2317098209

Product Key Features

FormatRecord

Release Year2019

GenreRock

ArtistHiett, Steve

Release TitleDown on the Road by the Beach

Dimensions

Item Height0.36 in

Item Weight1.01 lb

Item Length12.38 in

Item Width12.19 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks14

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Blue Beach - Welcome to Your Beach 1.2 Never Find a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do) 1.3 By the Pool 1.4 Roll Over 1.5 Beethoven - Out of the Beach 1.6 In the Shade 1.7 Looking Across the Street 1.8 Long Distance Look 1.9 Hot Afternoon 1.10 Crying in the Sun 1.11 The Next Time 1.12 Miss B.B. Walks Away 1.13 Sleep Walk 1.14 Standing There

Number of Discs1

NotesLP version. 140 gram vinyl; gatefold sleeve; includes 16-page insert with photos and liner notes. For the first time since it's inception in 1983, Steve Hiett's elusive Down On The Road By The Beach is finally made available outside of Japan. Most recognized in the fashion sphere as an English photographer and graphic designer, Hiett's transportive audio portraits amplify his serpentine guitar to the infinite blue, recorded across Paris, Tokyo and New York. A career devotee of Brian Wilson's groundbreaking harmonies, Hiett shot The Beach Boys for Rolling Stone - as well as The Doors, Miles Davis, and Jimi Hendrix - while establishing himself as a fashion photographer. Decamping to Paris in 1972, he began what would become 20-year collaborations with Vogue Paris and Marie Claire. In 1982, representatives from Tokyo's Galerie Watari visited him to propose a solo exhibition. Asking if he could insert a 7" of original music into the back of the exhibition catalogue, Hiett laid down "Blue Beach - Welcome To Your Beach" in a Parisian radio station, playing all of the instruments himself, and two more cuts in New York with Yoko Ono, The Doobie Brothers, and Steely Dan hired-gun, Elliot Randall. Once dispatched, there were requests for him to fly to Tokyo to record; it wasn't until he arrived that he discovered CBS/Sony had facilitated an entire album. Heitt hastily gripped some petty cash, bought a guitar, and retreated to his hotel room to start writing. Entering the studio the following day, he was further surprised by a waiting room of session players known as Moonriders - one of Japan's most acclaimed rock bands of the 1980s. Intimidated by their indecipherable sheet music, Hiett suggested Randall join them and with money being no object for major labels at the time, his wingman was on the next plane out of New York. Near-ambient arrangements that float in a space between The Durutti Column, Steve Cropper, and Ashra, Down On The Road By The Beach also crowns Hiett the master of recontextualization with his zero-gravity blues visions of "Roll Over Beethoven", Santo & Johnny's "Sleep Walk" and the 1967 Eddie Floyd soul hit, "Never Found A Girl". Produced in coordination between Be With Records, Efficient Space and the artist, this definitive reissue is restored from original masters; extensive liner notes penned by Mikey IQ Jones.