In June 1972, the band reconvened in Los Angeles to begin work on their next album at the Record Plant . With more time in the studio, the album saw the band experimenting with new textures, such as strings, piano, orchestration and multi-part songs. Recording was plagued with problems, many as a result of substance abuse issues. Struggling to record the song “Cornucopia” after “sitting in the middle of the room, just doing drugs”, Ward was nearly fired. “I hated the song, there were some patterns that were just … horrible,” the drummer said. “I nailed it in the end, but the reaction I got was the cold shoulder from everybody. It was like, ‘Well, just go home; you’re not being of any use right now.’ I felt like I’d blown it, I was about to get fired”. Butler thought that the end product “was very badly produced, as far as I was concerned. Our then-manager insisted on producing it, so he could claim production costs”.
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