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So many riffs and song ideas come from that. It might seem monotonous, but I do that for hours. I’m trying to run all the modes, all the way up the neck and back down, and be comfortable with making the right movements from that. In the last couple months I haven’t done anything but play scales and modes and arpeggios. I’m trying to harness that pulse more, and I feel like that’s the key to how bass players should be playing, regardless of the song, the time signature, or the tempo. Even if they’re playing a simple line, I know in their heads they’re hearing that 16th-note or maybe even a 32nd-note pulse that drives everything they’re playing throughout the entire piece. Lately I’ve been focusing on what I call “the pulse.” I’ll never be Jaco Pastorius or Rocco Prestia or John Paul Jones or Louis Johnson, but they all have the pulse. Has that changed your outlook on your playing?įor sure. It does a lot to the song to play something rhythmically different from what Tom is doing on guitar, and it can make the riff more funky and three-dimensional. We’re always focused on locking in and playing riffs together, but for this album I was focused on not always doing it that way.
Tom brought in that guitar part, and I tried to figure out something that worked with it.
Your playing is heavy, but with a lot of funky undertones, like in Take Me Higher. I jokingly called it Killing Sandman when we first started working on it. That song is kind of a mixture of Metallica’s Enter Sandman and Rage’s Killing in the Name. He said, “How about unfuck the world?” And I loved that. That was the first piece of music I came up with, and it came from a phone call I made to Chuck where I asked him to give me something to chew on - a vocal hook or a lyric or anything. Unfuck the World has a seriously grooving bass line in the verse. My tone is always a work in progress, and the stage is my laboratory. Experimenting with amplifiers and basses is just a part of me. I used to run just a clean tone when we first started out, but now I know that switching from clean to dirty channels makes the heavy parts feel so much bigger, because of the drastic contrast of the sounds. We did a little club run that made me re-think how I do things. Everything sounds so good, and my bass is so touch-sensitive. Right now my amps and basses are at an all-time high. I’m always going for the same thing, which requires a clean amp and an overdriven amp, but in this situation I had two overdriven amps that blend with my one clean amp. I love how it came out on this record and how my tone sounds on all of the songs. I made that clear to him going into this record and let him know that I wanted to be psyched with my sound. What was it like working with Brendan O’Brien this time around?īrendan always knows what I’m going after, but I wasn’t really happy with how my bass sounded on that first EP, and I knew I could have done better. If being in a band were like playing a video game, we choose difficulty level: extreme. Being in a band that writes about politics is tough, but we’re used to it.
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It’s an obligation.Īll you have to do is open up your computer, grab a newspaper, or turn on a TV and there’s always something fucked up happening in the world. We’re more than an anti-Trump band, but it’s outrageous what’s happening every day, and writing songs that have something to say about it isn’t a choice for us. Donald Trump being in office makes it easy to write songs - especially angry ones. Well, now it feels like it’s getting worse and worse every day. The album is very politically charged, which has always been your M.O. There isn’t one primary songwriter it’s been that way in every band I’ve been in, from Rage to Audioslave to this. Brad would bring in beats, too, or Chuck would have a vocal hook that would lead to something. I brought in a ton of material, and so did Tom, and then we let the songs write themselves. We just got another message from B-Real saying we should make another record this winter.
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Coming from the hip-hop world, they do things differently, so it was neat to figure out how to work and do it. Brad, Tom and I know how Brendan works in the studio, so everything went smoothly and efficiently, and Chuck D and B-Real fit right in with that. We recorded it the way we know how to record. Three months later, we had the record mixed and ready to go.
A couple months later, we were in the studio, and we just rode that wave of being a band.
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B-Real was the one who said we needed to put out a full record when we got back. During the tour we did right after our EP, we had so many soundchecks and so much down time on the road to jam and write together, it all started to really gel.
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