Cherry Beat - Recording Sessions (Part Ten - The Band's Ninth Album)

Mid - Late 1978
Unlike it's predecessor "A Girl's Mind", the band's eighth album "Rocky Road" did not manage to top the charts in October 1978. Instead it reached #5. All four of the band members were not surprised that their eighth album failed to top the charts, and they were not pleased with the finished product.

Peter McDonald said that "Rocky Road" was not a very pleasant album to record, and it was the first album not to have been recorded under the same united process as it's predecessors.

"Our relationships had grown more and more tense" Sam Whitby had explained "We weren't really getting on so much at that point, which explains why we recorded several tracks as solo artists backed with session musicians, rather than playing together as a group".

"We all couldn't even achieve a consensus as to who should produce our albums" added Torquil Dohrn. "Peter wanted our music supervisor Chudley Maron to stay in place, but Sam wanted Riley Ganz to be their producer".

"Each of our contributions were recorded under our own individual directions" said Peter "I would produce or co-produce the tracks that were solely or predominantly composed by myself, Sam would produce or co-produce the tracks that were his, and so on".