An amazing guitarist and singer-songwriter. “But the real moment, a crossroads moment, was Jeff Lang. When I was busking I always went through an amp and then I’d go to play these gigs and think, ‘This isn’t quite right.’ Then I’d have an amp and DI going at the same time so it was kind of a clean sound. “It came on really quickly when I think about it. How John Butler first fused the electric and acoustic worlds in his sound There’s something about that song that stuck.” I do record ideas but I’ve forgotten half of what I’ve recorded and then I’ve forgotten half of them before I hit the recorder. “I guess that song could only live through me, but I’m surprised it didn’t piss off! I didn’t forget it and I forget hundreds of songs. It’s like that Bruce Willis film with, ‘I see dead people’, or the Whoopi Goldberg movie where she sees dead people. But I was the only person who was going to help it. So I would have expected the riff for Just Call to do that. “When you have a good idea and you don’t do anything about it and you see it pop up somewhere else and you say, ‘Hey I had that idea!’ Well you had that idea and you did nothing about it. When you have a good idea and you don’t do anything about it and you see it pop up somewhere else. She says ideas will come to you and if you don’t help them come to life they’re like, ‘See you later’ and they’re off to someone else. Elizabeth Gilbert is an author and she wrote a book called Big Magic, it’s a great book for anybody who is slightly creative. Song ideas can drift away if you don’t use them, with rare exceptions… Sometimes we can let our egos ruin a song with technique.” Lightning in a bottle Technique is awesome if it serves the song. That’s me and my technique and it’s boring. I work for the song and the song knows best… and it’s not the double thumbing thing I’ve been really wanting to do for a long time. Because with my own preconceived ideas of being a guitarist and a human being, I might think things should be a certain way. “I’m not afraid to fight my own preconceived ideas I have to let my instinct prevail. And it totally made sense for the song at the end of the day. Because the song was played to a click I was able to get a delay right in time and ride the delays in and out on the solo. It was a boring solo… So by the end of doing 15 takes of that one technique I started doing that technique instead, which is on the album that psychedelic hammer on, hammer off Schism-y kind of playing. “But it was like the song, being the boss, was saying, ‘Boring!’ The song was so over it. I don’t usually practise solos but I’d sat on the song for so long and I’d really worked out how I was going to do this double thumbing technique. I continued writing the song over the next few weeks and I had a solo totally worked out and I had practised it heaps. He had gone to sleep and I was just playing, looking up at the stars and it came out. “I wrote the song Faith camping with my son. Serving the song can sometimes mean questioning your preconceptions as a player (Image credit: Olly Curtis / Future) Obey your master There’s a whole bunch of synthesisers I haven’t been able to get anywhere else.” And a lot of the sounds on the album come from the iPad. It was really quite a specific vision and I think it made the flavour of this album the way it is. Because I had to get those ideas out first. That’s why I probably had everyone stand back before I was ready. “As far as coming into the studio with formed ideas, this album was more so that way than any before. As a simple musician luddite like myself, I can do things really quickly! I play a lot of beats in the shower on the wall and the iPad helped me pre-produce the things I’m hearing in my head. “The coolest thing is I’ll have a beat in my head and I won’t have to wait for two months to be in a studio or soundcheck with G. I play a lot of beats in the shower on the wall and the iPad helped me pre-produce the things I’m hearing in my head It’s been the biggest tool for me and has enabled me to create the new worlds I’m going to go and play guitar over. I’m a guitarist but I have so many ideas in my head all the time. It was GarageBand, that’s how did the whole album. That was the thing that really allowed me to create something new. “The iPad was the biggest change in terms of gear for this album. How GarageBand on the iPad played a massive part in Home’s creation
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