![]() But the reason that we went with Dave Cobb in the first place was a conversation that we had about doing this record live. And then Dave, this is his place, he has great f**king gear, great old school analog stuff, and just really great s**t. ![]() ![]() I think that it had a great sort of positive, creative influence on all of us. It's something that is actually tangible, and all the seminal artists that have recorded there, you can feel it in the room. But the big thing was that studio has such a vibe and history. And there was a great sense of camaraderie between all of us 'cause we were just living together and doing that old school kind of way. We rented an Airbnb on the edge of the city in this big house. Our whole environment was completely different. īaltin: So for you being in Nashville, how did that affect you as a musician? Environment absolutely affects writing and recording. musicians of all the time, you're probably top five, top 10. Slash: When Dave, came into it, he has some great ideas on different stuff, and it was just really sort of a very explosive collaborative effort at that point.īaltin: I never thought about this before, but if I'm thinking about the most quintessential L.A. So yeah, they just evolved, I guess, is the best way to put it.īaltin: What did Dave Cobb bring to the project? So by the time that we got into actual pre-production where we were physically all in the same room, I'd say the songs are about 75 percent written and arranged, and then when we got to Nashville we sort of jammed everything out and we finished it up, and it was very spontaneous and very fast. And we'd send that to Myles and he would start coming up with different ideas, or he already had ideas and started coming up with melodies and just getting the arrangements together, and we'd send stuff back and forth. I did the sort of keyboard mock drums, and then I would have Todd fly in from Vegas and put a bass on it. I tape all that stuff, so I listened to all the accumulated recordings that we had, and I just started making demos. ![]() So I got those tapes together, we'd do board mixes, we'd practice this stuff at sound checks, so all through the tour we'll get up for sound check for half an hour and jam on a new riff or whatever. Slash: Most of the material was written and came from the previous 2019 tour. All things considered, you just think of things that you wanna do while you have that time, I suppose.īaltin: How did these songs change once you got everybody together, because I imagine they evolved a lot? I just started jamming with people, so it was just for the fun of it, it wasn't necessarily an opportunity that I was looking for a window to be able to fill. And then sitting there twiddling my thumbs and trying not to stress out over the reality of everything that was happening around me. I'm so in that sort of recording, touring, recording touring mode I was sort of jerked out of that. I think it was more because I had the time, I could do it for the fun of it. I think next month it's coming out, and then I did some other stuff as well, so I was busy pretty much throughout and I wrote a lot of material. I did the Black Puma thing that's coming out. So I did the Leslie West tribute record, I jammed with Tom Morello on his record from a distance. I did this and I also worked on new Guns stuff, and then I did a bunch of random sessions for different things. Slash: Yeah, I did a lot of stuff besides this record. Yeah.īaltin: For a lot of artists, COVID presented them the down time to work on stuff that they had wanted to do, but maybe otherwise wouldn't have time to do. So me and Dave started mixing and when the guys started getting better, all of a sudden I picked it up, and so it definitely had COVID residue all over it. So fortunately the record was done, we just had some overdubs to do and mixing. Then it turned out that Myles had picked up COVID somehow, and subsequently Brent and Todd got it. Then we took a tour bus to Nashville and recorded over at RCA Studio A, which is a famous great old studio, with Dave Cobb. Then after that we all got together in a room and hashed out to pre-production. I usually don't get that into demos, but I was sort of forced to this time around. I did all the demos during COVID by myself, which is a first. It definitely came out of the COVID situation. Steve Baltin: Let's start with the obvious, is this new album a COVID baby?
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