{"id":174619,"date":"2007-10-18T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/recordcollectormag.com\/articles\/andy-fraser-alive-and-free"},"modified":"2020-05-21T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:26:01","slug":"andy-fraser-alive-and-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/recordcollectormag.com\/articles\/andy-fraser-alive-and-free","title":{"rendered":"Andy Fraser alive and free"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a founding member of Free, Andy Fraser – along with Paul
\nRodgers – crafted some of modern rock’s most explosive, bluessoaked
\nsongs, including the quintessential anthem, All Right Now.
\nSince Free’s demise, Fraser has enjoyed success as a songwriter,
\npenning songs recorded by the likes of Robert Palmer, Joe Cocker, Chaka
\nKhan, Frankie Miller and Joan Jett. Twenty-one years since his last solo release,
\nFine Fine Line, the former Free bassist returns with an impressive new solo CD,
\nNaked … And Finally Free. He’s also come to terms with being gay and coping
\nwith AIDS. RC pointed out that recent rumours of his passing were indeed
\ngreatly exaggerated…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n“I first heard that it had appeared on the internet that I’d died from a guitarist
\nfriend, Stewart Smith. A reporter sent me an email asking for a statement and
\nshowed me all the obituaries that were already out. Lucky none of them said,
\n‘about time’! (laughs). In a sense, it galvanised me to reveal all this stuff that I’d
\nbeen casual about. It’s time to let people know I’m alive and kicking. The crux of
\nthe title of my new CD is having to come to terms, so late in life, with being gay.
\nOne can’t stand on the stage unless one is comfortable in one’s own skin. It’ll just
\neat you up. I think it’s an artist’s job to be able to find the honesty within themselves
\nand to provoke the listener to respond in an open way. And I’ve been hit
\nwith so many emails, people telling me their whole life story, it’s amazing and
\noverwhelming. Life feels very positive now and I feel liberated.<\/p>\n

\nWhen did you find out you had AIDS?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s probably been three or four years. Obviously somewhere I was not as vigilant
\nas we must be. But I feel great today.<\/p>\n

\nThe song Yours Faithfully addresses how you’re coping.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It portrays what everyone with AIDS goes through for a moment. Fear came first,
\nand acceptance came later. For five minutes, you’re frozen and then you realise,
\nyou’ve crossed the line and there’s no crossing back. I suddenly felt, ‘OK, you’ve got
\nless time than you thought you had, no more messing around’. It galvanised me.<\/p>\n

\nThe album includes world music, jazz and calypso.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nFree had the ability and potential to go there. But they started to get into this
\none-dimensional rock band thing. It was too closed. I didn’t want to get locked
\ninto playing All Right Now when I’m 50, so I had to move on. My father is from
\nGuyana, hence my slight tan and affinity for reggae, which is a derivative of
\ncalypso. Now that I’m allowing myself to be free and open, that’s coming
\nnaturally. Some of the stuff that I did in the past was really cringe-worthy, but
\nI’m really happy with this album.<\/p>\n

\nHands Of Time reflects on the forgiveness of your ex-wife.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nThis has all been tough for her – she felt it was her fault. When I was starting to
\ncome to terms with being gay, she’d got into Eastern mediation, being celibate
\nand singing “ohm” all day. I tried hard, went to India, but I wasn’t buying it at
\nall. So we were going in different directions.<\/p>\n

\nYour voice is very strong. Why didn’t you sing with Free?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nI’ve gained confidence as a singer, so maybe with Free it may have not been as
\nappropriate as it is now. Paul Rodgers, being as a strong as he is, neither wants
\nnor needs another singer.<\/p>\n

\nSomeone Watching Over Me has a powerful emotional pull.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nIt’s obvious through a few of the songs that faith in God has found a way into my
\nlife. It surprised me as much as anybody. The religion I was exposed to as a kid
\nturned me off. Funnily enough, when I found myself to be gay, I also found God,
\nwhich is the strangest kind of thing.<\/p>\n

\nYou last performed with Paul Rodgers at Woodstock in the 90s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nPaul called me up a couple of days before. This was a rare occasion where he was
\nupfront about why he was calling. I respond very positively to that and I said I’d
\nbe happy to play. I met him and everybody else in New York. We had a couple of
\ndays’ rehearsal. One of the guitarists was supposed to be Brian May, who came
\nexpecting to play some Queen songs. Paul had omitted to tell him that wouldn’t
\nbe the case. He figured he’d tell him in New York. When Brian found out,
\nhe flew back to London. They’ve obviously got past that and I think they’ve
\ndeveloped a camaraderie, which will serve them well in their new project.<\/p>\n

\nHow did it feel to play with Rodgers again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nPlaying the show with Paul took an almighty deep breath, because there was no
\nreal connection between us, which was difficult, because we’d been brothers in
\nFree. I’m very used to going on stage with a brotherly sense that we’re together
\nand we’re gonna conquer the world. There wasn’t that feeling. When you go on
\nand there’s 400,000 people in front of you and a camera crew, it sucks an awful lot of energy out of you. But, for most of the gig, it was pretty good. Paul
\nproved himself way up to the challenge. Even when it all falls apart he can
\nstill sound like a good singer, which takes some doing (laughs).<\/p>\n

\nWhat’s your approach to bass? <\/strong><\/p>\n

\nI’ve never thought of myself as a bassist. I think McCartney’s done some
\nincredible things. Listen to Sgt. Pepper and his bass is unbelievable. I liked
\nJack Bruce, James Jamerson, all the people at Motown\/ Stax. I love that. I
\ndidn’t work at coming up with bass parts in Free. Paul Rodgers is very
\nskilled and fast with things, Simon Kirke is like a metronome, Kossoff’s
\nessence is unbelievable and may have been the nucleus spirit of the band. He
\nwas essentially a blues solo guitarist. He literally cried each note. Maybe Free should have got a rhythm
\nguitarist, because it was so tough for him. To learn chords was a real chore
\nfor him. Me coming into the band took him on a complete curve. He
\nthought this was going to be a Rod Stewart\/Jeff Beck kind of thing. We were
\nplaying songs, as opposed to Stewart\/ Beck kind of duels.<\/p>\n

\nHow did he react?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nHe loved us, but it took him by surprise and put a lot of pressure on him.
\nEven for him, learning the riffs and chords for All Right Now was a major
\ndifficulty. But when he got it, he could play it better than anybody. So,
\nwhenever Free got together to work on a song, the main thing was first to
\nget Kossoff’s part together, except for his solo. So I was mainly thinking
\nabout that and doing whatever was necessary on the bass to make it happen.
\nI didn’t really give much thought to the bass at all. When it comes to the
\nsolo in Mr. Big, there was not too much thought. I approached it like
\nKossoff would play a solo, whatever came naturally. We worked up the
\narrangement and I refined my parts. I have to give credit to Binky McKenzie
\n– this absolute wildman who was probably the most genius bassist who ever
\nlived. His intensity was way beyond, and you throw a few drugs in there,
\nand he killed four cops with his bare hands.<\/p>\n

\nHave you missed being a part of a tight band like Free?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nYeah. We were a family. We used to speak of the fifth member, the
\nBrotherhood – that fifth member being bigger than all of us. We had
\ncamaraderie. When you lose that, you lose everything. There was madness
\ngoing on, but as long as we had a bond, it worked. We had intimacy. When
\nthat disappeared, the band fell apart.<\/p>\n

\nFree’s music succeeds because of what’s left out, not what goes in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nI totally agree. It’s the space in between the notes. I love Soon I Will Be
\nGone – that was Free feeling free, not feeling like we had to comply with
\nany rules. This is what came naturally.<\/p>\n

\nThe same goes for All Right Now – the quintessential Free song.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nChris Blackwell convinced us it had to be a single. We said, ‘You can’t be
\nserious. It’s a two-chord trick with the most superficial lyrics’. It was a rainy
\nTuesday college date in Hull or Leeds. There were 30 people there – rubber
\npeople, because it was during that time when everybody was doing mandrax,
\nwhich was a real downer. These people were bumping into each other in
\nslow motion, oblivious to each other and us. We could handle playing for
\nourselves, but we sucked that night and we were depressed. There was this
\nhorrible silence in the dressing room after, so I began singing like a parent
\nchiding a kid, ‘all right now’. It was time to ‘kick out the shits’, which was
\nSimon’s phrase. It broke the ice. Life wasn’t over after all. That was the start
\nof All Right Now. The guitar riff came later and the chorus was transposed
\nfrom my piano part. It’s very difficult playing piano phrases from piano but
\nKoss did it. I came up with the opening chords on guitar. I came up with
\nthe music, and Paul wrote the lyrics. I still feel the song is a very superficial
\nteenage-lyric two-chord trick. It’s treated me well over the years, though.<\/p>\n

\nWhat Free songs are you most proud of?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nI love the feel of Don’t Say You Love Me – it was heartfelt.
\nA lot of things were written in the studio. Fire And Water came very naturally
\n– I think Paul’s lyrics are great. I love Simon’s drum at the end, which
\nhe wasn’t prone to doing. I think we may have just heard a little drum thing
\nthat Ringo did on one of The Beatles’ last albums. He resisted at first, but
\nwhat he did was great.<\/p>\n

\nDid you relish taking in influences like The Band, on Highway?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nHighway had a great overall groove. It was written, recorded and mixed in
\none night. We were on a real high. Be My Friend has a soul to it, really
\nhonest and open, and a real simple, straightforward sentiment. Love You So
\nis nice but a little sentimental. Simon had input there and he was the
\nmost sentimental of us.<\/p>\n

By the time the Free recorded Little Bit ’O Love, there was a commercial
\nelement creeping in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nI started that song the day we were set to play the Royal Albert Hall. I played it
\nin the dressing room and everyone said, ‘That could be good’. We were on a
\npretty good high, and by the time we got on stage, Kossoff was five minutes
\nbehind everything we did. The whole audience was crying for us – it was the
\nmost painful hour. The next night, Paul helped finish the lyrics. It was the only
\nsong that we wrote together on that album.<\/p>\n

\nWhat was the spark in the Fraser\/Rodgers writing team?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nIt was a bit like Lennon and McCartney – two people that couldn’t have been
\nmore different. But when they found common ground, they could include the
\nwhole world in there. There was a long time when me and Paul could finish each
\nother’s sentences. When we lost that intimacy, it was very difficult to get back on
\nthe same page. The title Fire And Water may describe us. We complemented
\neach other, especially at the beginning – we both had what the other lacked.<\/p>\n

\nWhat are your memories of the first time Free played together?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nIt wasn’t a gig. We rented the top of a pub to practise in. It was total magic.
\nThe three of them had been through quite a few bass players and felt they hadn’t
\nfound the right one. Alexis Korner put me in touch with Mike Vernon, who said,
\n‘I know this guitarist who’s looking for a bassist’. Me and Koss came down to The
\nNag’s Head, and it really clicked. It was Alexis’ birthday. He showed up for the
\nlast 10 minutes and caught what we were doing. He said, ‘This is happening’. He
\ntook us out as his opening act and did whatever he could to make it happen for
\nus. I took it for granted that we were going to make it; never gave it a second
\nthought.<\/p>\n

\nWhat’s your favourite Free album?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nFire And Water. It’s cohesive. The albums before were really leading up to it and
\nthe albums afterwards, we were under pressure to have an album within two
\nweeks. There’s other albums where I pick tracks: Soon I Will be Gone, Get
\nWhere I Belong, and one of our best songs is Paul’s Guardian Of The Universe,
\nwhich is a lullaby for his newborn son.<\/p>\n

\nWhat made Paul Kossoff tick?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nOne could see that Paul was mouthing each note as he played. There was a sound
\ncoming out of his mouth and it was hopelessly out of tune (laughs). He actually
\ncried each note. As with all of us, his was an expression of his life so far. He had
\nproblems with his family; he didn’t connect that well with his father. This was all
\nan expression of his frustration and his need to get out of that.
\nI remember the first time I went around to his house and we were jamming in his
\nbedroom and his father came and said (in stuffy voice), ‘Paul, a word please’.<\/p>\n

\nWas Kossoff on a self-destructive path?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nNot at the beginning. But there did come a point, probably the time we lost our
\ncamaraderie, and that was his way of dealing with our falling apart. I wasn’t the
\nleast surprised when I found out he died. It was a slow suicide – it was just
\na question of when. I wasn’t invited to his funeral. His father wrote to me and
\na lot of others a note saying, ‘You killed my son’. He was obviously in great pain.<\/p>\n

\nWhat’s your favourite moment with Free?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nIt’s the little things. One of our very best gigs was in some Welsh club with 12
\npeople. We were really unbelievable and the 12 were pinned against the wall.
\nDuring the break, there was one guy with a big beer mug made out of glass. He
\nsaid, ‘I bet you £10 I can eat that’. We were up for it. Here’s the £10 – and he
\nate it! (laughs). Apparently, he did so quite regularly!<\/p>\n

\nAny chance of a Free reunion?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nI’m into this right now and Paul’s involved with Queen. Whenever we talk, and
\nI don’t think it’s either of our fault, we just can’t seem to get back on the same
\npage. My sense is, if we got back together, it would be harking back to the past
\nand we’d be doing old songs. It would feel like a 70s band doing the circuit and
\nthere’s no way I’d be part of that. If there was some way we could start from now
\nand look forward, that’s a possibility.<\/p>\n

\nWhy do you think Free’s music endures?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nThere’s an honesty about it. We were free and open enough to invite people in
\nto feel free and honest. The reflection I get back from people is, they have some
\nkind of special place in their heart for Free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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