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    Nels Cline's lack of involvement with the last album

    in Just A Fan

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    How did you take anything from that interview as proof of Nels not being happy in Wilco?

     

    Nels is in a pretty admirable situation, as he gets to tour the world and make a presumably good living with Wilco, then do whatever the hell he wants when Wilco's not touring. Not much to complain about, I'd say.

     

    gee folks, calm down. the world wont end just coz i got a different impression than you guys.

     

     

    » EXPRESS: Oh, really. Wilco has its own label now?

    » CLINE: Yeah, I don't know the name of it. Jeff was basically not wanting to be on a record label for a while — he didn't renew his contract with Nonesuch — so we're striking out on our own, our own label. There might be a 7-inch or something, a little souvenir when we do this Mass MoCA [solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Ma.] I'm not sure, really. Basically, Jeff and [Wilco manager] Tony Margherita are the masterminds, so I'm just cruising with what they want to do.

     

    » EXPRESS: Since we're on the subject, I do want to touch on the next Wilco record and what's going on with that. There was an interview from April in which [bassist] John Stirratt was talking about how you were planning to record this summer. Is that still happening?

    » CLINE: All I can tell you is I don't know anything. I know we're recording next month a little bit and we're recording a lot in October. The process of making the next Wilco record is going to be long in terms of the writing and arranging and demoing phase. I think that phase could go on for a while before the mastering phase. But that said, who knows? We may have this amazing productive time in October. I have no idea and there's been all kinds of verbal ideas bandied about, about what direction this record will take, but I don't believe in any of that stuff because everything changes.

     

    » EXPRESS: Has the Wilco writing process become a democracy in a sense, or is Jeff still leading the way and pushing you guys in different directions?

    » CLINE: Well, it's different for each record. "Sky Blue Sky" was very democratic although it was very Jeff-generated because that's the way things go, but "Wilco (The Album)" was a Jeff album. It was a total Jeff album — look at the writing credits. He walked in with this batch of songs. Basically, he had a lump of songs that had exploded out of him so that was a Jeff record that we arranged. All the arranging is done collectively he has specific ideas and also gives us a lot of latitude and I'm sure he has an idea for how he'd like this next record to go, but once we start playing all bets are off, to me. I think that one should be open to music taking its natural course and so I don't know what's going to happen. I'm very curious.

     

    So... just some random words here and there. As someone that has been playing in bands for a long time... this sort of wording is very familiar. In fact it is Bennett-esque. FLAME ON

    I Might as well have some gear geek topics too..

    in Solid State Technology

    Posted

    if you already love the sound but just want to knock it up a notch for solos i would go with a nice booster pedal - i sue my prescription electronics GERM for this very thing. a high gain pedal will simply just mush things up and probably muffle your tone more than letting it shine through. other than a boost, EQ pedals are an inexpensive and very effective way to cut through with your solos.

     

    as stated, if you are happy with the tone, look for something transparent for the solos.

    Writing Help

    in Solid State Technology

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    the band i am in recently had the pleasure of working with a truly great Australian songwriter when he produced our latest record. he said he treats songwriting as a job basically. 9-5 he spends writing and puts out 2-3 complete songs a year... in sum, its just something you gotta work at. some people are blessed with the ability to write heaps of songs and some have the ability to put out tremendously well crafted and well written songs. very few can do both, so I wouldnt sweat it too much :)

    Gibson Guitars

    in Solid State Technology

    Posted

    "to each his own" and all, but I doubt there will every be a day when I am more than a casual Dinosaur Jr listener....

     

    Either way I'm just not a Gibson guy, for the most part I dislike everything about their guitars (ascetically that is). My glaring exception being SGs

     

    Aesthetically? you for real? each to their own for sure... but cmon...

     

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    :)

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