(Capricorn Records - 1998)


These Real Audio clips require that you have a 56.6 speed modem or faster.


Stanton Moore - drums
Robert Mercurio - bass
Jeff Raines - guitar
Rich Vogel - keyboards
Theryl DeClouet - vocals
Ben Ellman - tenor & baritone sax

Produced by Dan Prothero and Galactic
Recorded at Brilliant Studios, San Francisco August 18-22, 1997 except "Cafe DeClouet" and "Start from Scratch" recorded at Greyboy Studios, San Diego. All songs written by Galactic except "Hamp's Hump" by P. Hampton

Hidden track: "Get a Head On"

"We recorded it at Brilliant Studios in San Francisco," Mercurio explains of the Crazyhorse Mongoose sessions. "It was totally in in the middle of nowhere, which kind of helped us out. It had living accomodations, so we stayed there for five days. No one really left the area so we were all on the same wavelength the whole time. We really dug the idea of being secluded."

"A lot of time we'd be waking up, in our underwear, eating a bowl of cereal, and someone would start recording at about noon," Moore says. It would keep going later and later every night 'til the point where we were wrapping up at about five in the morning. This record's got more songs that we developed live and brought to the studio, where on Coolin' Off, Dan [Prothero, producer for both records] really wanted to get a vibe that was kind of off-the-cuff, like we'd just walked into the studio and started playing."

When asked about the title of the CD, Moore explains "We named the tune that first, some body I know took that name and started calling himself that. We just thought it was a cool name. I was like, "Hey man, check this out Crazyhorse Mongoose" and we were like "ah cool". So we named the song that and then later that same guy started calling himself "Quiet Please" and that's the last tune on the record. So that's kind of neat."

home