Patti: 'We recorded a lot of the record, and there was a lot of lament in the record. Patti: Well, this a song that Michael Campbell handed me that track to, right?' So hey, speaking of sounds, let's have a Rumble Doll doubleheader, and listen to the guitar sound this thing starts out with.'īruce: 'So how did the sound of your first record develop? Did you guys just get together, and something just chemically clicked, and that's the sound that came out? Or was there a decision made, as far as, you know, having those …īruce: '… jangly guitars and poetic lyrics? He was just very sensitive.'īruce: 'Not to mention, on top, the guitar sounds he's got …'īruce: 'Which is his ace in the hole. So I would always play him the song, whatever we were doing, on the instrument I wrote it on, and basically he copied my … like that muted triplet on guitar. Patti: 'Mike Campbell did a brilliant job, and he was just very sensitive to how I wrote the songs. And I think it would be the only record of your three that I would call a pure rock record. I felt … and you know, we recorded on analog, in his garage, so we had, I felt, we just had a really organic approach to the record, which was really fitting, I think, for the material.'īruce: 'Yeah, and that record, to this day, stands out from your other two due to its particular sound. Michael's arrangements, and your arrangements, were very austere …' You know?'īruce: 'Yeah, and it never really breaks from that. He didn't write that line, but, I mean, he produced the Rumble Doll record.'īruce: 'And the record is an interesting record because it really doesn't reach to catharsis, the recording is built on a tension throughout.

And I just liked the word 'Rumble,' and then, 'Rumble Doll.' I think that a lot of women are familiar with that kind of broken doll syndrome, so you're kind of a cocktail of seduction and taking stock of your own limits, your personal limits.'īruce: 'I just love the image of the broken toy.'īruce: 'And that's why I love that first line, 'Baby, take a walk in toyland.' That's a great opening line.' Patti: 'You know, there was that movie, 'Rumble Fish,' do you remember that?' And, let's start by you telling me where this song came from, where were you when you wrote it, and where did that title come from? One of my favorite titles on that record.

And, uh, what do you say we get started?'īruce: 'That was the first cut, Patti, from your first album. 9,' titled 'Rumble Doll,' and I have as my guest today my lovely wife, the beautiful and the talented Miss Patti Scialfa.'īruce: 'Because today we will be featuring the music of my red-headed Jersey girl, and her great albums, from Rumble Doll, 23rd Street Lullaby, Play It As It Lays.

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