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Vote:   | After you've come and seen the band, maybe two or three times, they stand down in front, in front of Vivian or in front of Phil. Immediately they know we're playing live, because there isn't a gig we've done where somebody hasn't made a bum note or wrong word or been slightly out of tune. We're not the most perfect band. |
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Vote: | By the time it fell into place, everything else was already in place. The only thing missing, and that came from the experience of playing a lot, was learning the craft from people like Mutt, in the studio. The craft on stage came from our own DNA from the age of 12 onwards, watching 200 hundred bands and soaking up all the best of it and spewing out the bits that we thought was cheesy. |
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Vote: | Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it. |
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Vote: | It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create. |
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Vote: | Then you get up onstage and you become part Roger Daltrey, part Jimmy Page, part Robert Plant, part Davey Johanson, part Mark Bolin, and then part you. Eventually the "you" comes out and you disregard the other bits, but they got you to be somewhere. That's the way that we've always worked. |
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Vote: | There is a load of people out there who may be over it now, but throughout, I would say, the mid-90s, were just dying for G'N'R to come back. Believe it or not, amongst all the Nirvana and Pearl Jam euphoria that was going off, there were a lot of people in America who didn't care for it. They wanted G'N'R or Motley Crue or Rolling Stones or something that was alternative to the alternative. |
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Vote: | There's a lot of songs that we do that are based around the idea that we really need a Satisfaction on this album. We pull that title out of the air. Like you turn on any AM radio anywhere in the world and you'll hear it within a day. It's not like we have to rip off the riff, it's catching that energy and the attention of that song. That's what we do. |
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Vote: | Wasted was written in an evening. |
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Vote: | We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing. |
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Vote: | We have never used tape. Never, ever. The only thing that we've ever used that you could deem not real are drum loops, because Rick basically, with one arm, I think more so than anybody else has got an excuse to use them. Any drummer you see who has headphones on is playing to drum loops. |
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Vote: | We'd borrow from James Taylor's "You've Got A Friend" if we have to. |
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Vote: | We've made one of the most over-produced records of all time, and also one of the most successful records of all time too. |
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Vote: | When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy. |
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Vote: | Why not? It's a song. If it takes four people to pretend to be eighty people, that's using studio technology to your advantage. |