your question:

08/26/2022 DV

Hi Trevor, I was hoping you could answer two questions about Disco Volante:
1. Was it a conscious arranging decision from the start to have no bass guitar on Techno Allah, or was this because you weren’t around for the basic tracking sessions of that song and the rest of the band adjusted?
2. Were there additional sections of The Bends that didn’t make it onto the record / were the sections conceived of in that order or did its structure take form in the mixing/sequencing stage?
Thanks for indulging!

my answer:

1. That was Trey’s orchestration choice to use synths instead of bass guitar.
2. Patton was on tour during a lot of the writing for DV so he recorded The Bends on some early, portable multitrack device. I have no idea if there were leftovers but probably not. If there were they probably ended up on his solo Tzadik record. We took what he recorded and added to it in the studio as you can probably tell.