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When did you begin working on the songs for Keep Telling Myself It’s Alright?
There were a couple of songs that I wanted to do for a long time, but I just could never get them realized the way I thought they should to be. I usually work on things until I don’t hate them anymore. That’s the way I produce or write or whatever it is, I just keep plugging away until I feel like I can listen to that song a bunch of times and it’s not bugging me that much.
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That thing that really set me off and got me into wanting to play was going to see Pink Floyd at Giant Stadium. Going to see this massive show that touches on so many levels, such a sonic assault and visual assault and it made me go, you know, I don’t think I need to cut lawns for the rest of my life, you know, whatever jobs I was doing at that time, I was just thinking, what am I going to do? What am I thinking about? When I was sixteen, I decided, that’s what I wanted to do, I wanted to be a part of that.
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Josh played most of the drums, he is such a great drummer. He was probably extremely frustrated with me on this record for how many times I made him come over here and do it, but I think what we got at the end of the day was really good. I definitely took more time in crafting this record than anything else I’ve done in the past. Dean Sainz, another good friend of mine, played drums on it too. Maynard’s son, Devo, played cello on one of the songs, the last song on the record.
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Yeah, I produced it myself. And I ended up asking my friend Danny Lohner to come in and he ended up co-producing it with me. It depends on what songs and what time. In the beginning, I was doing everything, and as things started progressing… Danny was the one who got me to sing in the first place. I owe the courage in doing it to him, saying you got to do it, you’ve got a good voice, you need to step out and try it. And Maynard was really encouraging for me in the beginning.
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Mostly I did them at the recording studio I have at my house. A lot of it was me running back and forth from the computer hitting “record” and tracking something then trying to make mental notes on what take was what. Towards the end of the process for the last couple of songs Danny was over and I had him tracking some stuff which was really nice, having a producer sitting there saying, try it this way or try it that way, instead of going back and trying to chop it all together. It was really nice to get some of Danny’s time, which was hard because he was so busy producing other stuff this year, but when I did get some time with Danny it was just great.
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