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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 02/06/2013 : 08:38:57
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Interesting new interview with Reid ahead of their joint tour.
http://www.pghcitypaper.com/FFW/archives/2013/02/06/extended-interview-reid-paley
"What was the impetus for this short tour?
Oh, I don’t know what’s going on — it’s not my tour! It’s Charles’ tour. I think he’s going to be doing a little bit of recording in Nashville, and we might do some as well.
Have you been doing more writing together as a pair? I understand that the last record was written very quickly, before recording.
Yeah — we just spent three short days here writing, then — we normally don’t break it up like that, but this time we came up with the music together, then kind of split the lyrics. We each took five, then came back to Nashville to put it together. Which I think is a good thing. To be able to do something that I think is good, that quickly. It’s not like we weren’t paying attention, nor were we hurried. We’re just motherfuckers. We’re fast. I realize we live in a world where, engineers, in a studio, if you walk in and intend to play a song all the way through, they kind of look up and their eyes start to glow. Generally, people go in, [makes guitar-riff sound], loop that, it sounds like crap. I’m not a Luddite, and I’m not anti-digital, but one of the problems with digital is that it’s kind of reduced music — Jaron Lanier said that — the reason vinyl sounds so great is it’s a physical process. There are grooves, there are squiggles in the grooves, the vibration is picked up and amplified, and you’re hearing a thing. It’s like life; it’s how your eyes see things. Whereas digital is kind of like watching a movie, where your eyes are extrapolating between the 24 frames per second. Music is now a series of beeps, if you look at it closely.
But yeah, we did it pretty quick, not because we don’t care; not because we’re being arrogant; because sometimes there’s not much time allotted and you do what you can and sometimes it works." |
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The Maharal
= Cult of Ray =
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Posted - 02/06/2013 : 09:31:04
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Good stuff. I was hoping his Tweet about the 'random' button on Wikipedia signified a new album.
Paley & Francis is a good album - I quite like Paley as a guitarist. I'm happy to hear the two work together again but I think this will be a BF solo album with maybe a duet or something with Paley. |
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pixie punk
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 02/07/2013 : 02:58:13
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He’s got certain other commitments, in terms of family and … ANOTHER BAND. He does a lot of stuff. When there’s time, we do this stuff. This time, we’ll see what we can write on the way down to Nashville.
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Jason
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 02/07/2013 : 04:47:57
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I hope so. That Paley & Francis album has emerged as possibly my favorite Frank-related release since Bluefinger. The songs are so well-written and full of an often subtle beauty. And neither of the two guys ever overshadows the other.
It also made me finally buy Reid Paley's own albums and those are really good, too. |
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
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Posted - 02/07/2013 : 05:37:07
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I'm all for a new BF-RP album.. but why in Nashville? Why don't they just go to his place and record in his living room, live to 2-track? The songs on Paley & Francis are great but I hate the recording. Lame production and the piano part gets on my nerves.
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More Nashville/Reid Paley collaborations?
