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Post by Ticket Mouse on Apr 1, 2008 17:08:52 GMT -5
I think it's because as a performer, you have to be a different sort of guy onstage - loud, a little arrogant, bigger than you normally are. I think the head has reached the size that is humanly possible... |
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Post by cowtownmike on Apr 1, 2008 17:09:59 GMT -5
What is the process on the arrangements? Some are slightly different from how you play on stage. Are you Avery-like in that you have an idea of how things should be and you don't leave any room to mold to the strengths of your players? In all seriousness, do you guys take the directive of the producer or is it a collective effort? Good question. |
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Post by rp on Apr 1, 2008 17:17:49 GMT -5
The arrangements on the record are made with several different things in mind. Usually, we try to make the songs as short as we can, so some instrumental breaks are always cut. Sometimes if there are new instruments on a song an arrangement has to accommodate that. Some smaller fill ideas or licks were encouraged by the producer, but we made almost all of the big decisions before going in the studio. This is totally opposite of how we made BTSO, where we relied heavily on the producer to make decisions for us, because at that time we didn't know what the hell we were doing.
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Post by rp on Apr 1, 2008 17:23:05 GMT -5
Oh yeah, the epiphone. I got it the day before we left on tour. I needed a backup acoustic and like this one - it's not too expensive, it sounds good, looks cool to me, and it's a jumbo. I used it on 11 hours because that song is tuned a whole step down to accommodate my voice. It was tuned that way the whole show and if something had happened I would have just put a capo on the 2nd fret to raise it back to normal tuning.
I would use my Taylor and just find different voicings but the little finger-picking part doesn't really work any other way. I also like the deep sound of the tuned down guitar during the walkdown in the verse and during the chorus. It sounds more full and warm. The epiphone, being a jumbo and having a different pickup system than the taylor, lends itself to this.
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Post by cowtownmike on Apr 1, 2008 17:31:48 GMT -5
I do get nervous sometimes. Probably more than the other guys except Gabe. But it's still few and far between and for odd reasons that I can't usually pinpoint. At the Granada I was a little nervous, but it pretty much went away after the first few songs. I thought I was going to be a wreck, but I wasn't. Sometimes just out of nowhere I'll get it though. Maybe it's a small show with nobody there, or maybe at Andy's where I've played a hundred times, maybe a festival.....it's random. It's easier to perform to strangers. They don't know me and will never know anything different than they way I act onstage. I tend to let loose a lot more at these types of shows. I think it's because as a performer, you have to be a different sort of guy onstage - loud, a little arrogant, bigger than you normally are. Making this change in front of people who know me is hard to do sometimes. Why do you think it's harder to make that change in front of the people you know? |
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Post by rp on Apr 1, 2008 17:41:10 GMT -5
I don't know it's just kind of weird. It's kind of like when you go visit a friend or girlfriend at work, and they are in their work mode and are different than they normally are just hanging out. It's always a little funny to me.
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Post by cowtownmike on Apr 1, 2008 17:46:37 GMT -5
Yeah, I can understand that. Do you think people you know would give you a hard time if you tried to be "loud, a little arrogant, bigger thank you normally are"?
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Apr 1, 2008 17:48:25 GMT -5
My short arms can't accomodate jumbos...
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Post by rp on Apr 1, 2008 22:35:36 GMT -5
Yeah, I can understand that. Do you think people you know would give you a hard time if you tried to be "loud, a little arrogant, bigger thank you normally are"? No I don't. It's just a sub-conscious thing. But it's not always there - and it's not something that I really think about. |
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Post by cowtownmike on Apr 2, 2008 8:16:04 GMT -5
Good answer. Shows you are your own man and are not swayed by the opinions of others. You would never make it in politics.
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Apr 2, 2008 9:27:05 GMT -5
Rodney, Pat Green once said that Carry On is the musical brother to George's Bar. Jack Ingram has Beat Up Ford Part One and Two. He also says the Hey You record is one song written 11 different ways and the Electric record was an extension of that one song. Which of the songs, if any, from the LD would you consider the musical brother of any cuts off BTSO?
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Post by cowtownmike on Apr 2, 2008 9:35:37 GMT -5
Does it bother you if people (like me) don't always get all the technical or symbolic stuff(Stubbs, Rhonda, etc...) in your songs? I mean I like your music for all that deep stuff that I DO get, but mostly I like it because it makes me feel good when I listen to it.
Do you look out at the audience and see a guy like me and say, "I work my ass off on these songs and some of these people would be happy if I just sang the freakin' alphabet? Because if I were you, I might.
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Apr 2, 2008 9:46:36 GMT -5
Rhonda called me yesterday to ask if 11 Hours was about AP. I told her she was so misguided. I haven't really listened to it much b/c 1) it's at the end of the record and 2) it's hard to hear at work but I analyzed it quite heavily last night.
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Post by fischer on Apr 2, 2008 9:51:27 GMT -5
Adrian Peterson?
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Apr 2, 2008 9:51:48 GMT -5
yeah...
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