Article: Jack Drag searches for the perfect pop song; Drag album's an adventure.

One of the advantages of landing a major label record contract is the increased recording budget, with allowances for big-time producers, high-tech sound processors and digital multitrack recorders. Or is it?

When Boston's Jack Drag went off to Los Angeles to record its debut CD for A&M Records, guitarist-singer John Dragonetti hauled along his home-studio-in-a-suitcase, which he calls Space 67. Dragonetti had recorded the band's previous releases, two albums and two singles, on Space 67's lo-fi four-track cassette deck. And he was hesitant to abandon his methods for mating wild sound treatments to catchy pop songs.

"I think I was being really ...

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