![]() ![]() Matt McCaughan and Sean Carey, I think, were there more in the beginning for me to help flesh out some of the drum parts. A lot of the songs were pretty fleshed-out by the time I brought in a lot of the people. JV: Yeah, I mean, I played some keyboard and I played some drums. But you were playing, like the keyboard and slide guitar? JG: Your rough draft, your demo version of the songs - you eventually had other great musicians you brought in to play the parts for the record. So the writing process was sort of intertwined with that. And I think that gave me this unique opportunity to make sure I was recording the guitar or keyboard or whatever instrument I was using in a particular song to set it up to be something interesting sonically that was going to be fun and interesting to write around in the studio setting. So all the songs on this record were written as they were recorded. ![]() It became impossible for me to just sit down with the guitar and start writing a song. JG: So did you start out writing, just you and your guitar? And then bringing other people in really helped me take the songs to another place. But just trying to explore some new sonic space with different instruments and different ways of recording those instruments and seeing what I could come up with that way. I don't how to say it without sounding like a totally uppity artsy guy. But the songwriting was sort of a part of some subconscious ramblings and attempting to discover new sonic space. I involved a lot of other people in the sort of second phase, as I call it, and coming in to make musical colorations. JG: How much songwriting did you do for the album? ![]()
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