In order to lighten the mood, I change tack and pick a bone with Foy about the wording on his website, which lists Signs Of Life as album number four. This is just not the case. He released two great records in , From Muscle Shoals and To Memphis , recorded in those fabled music locations.
I could hardly accuse him of failing to keep the bubble in between the lines thus far, but anyway…. It was fucking crazy. But going up to Memphis, I sent them eleven songs thinking any five of these is good.
I had to stretch, and it was a beautiful stretch. When I got Matt Ross-Spang in as co-producer, I told him I wanted people who eat, sleep and breathe this shit every day and have done since they were nine, and fuck me did he pick them. Speaking of Southern connections, Vance was both wee and most likely baldy when his family moved to Oklahoma — his father, a preacher, was given the opportunity to spread the good word there.
I definitely have a sensory memory of it. Growing up, we always had a sense of America as the land of milk and honey. What he lacked in understanding of how my world worked, he more than made up for with enthusiasm. Why the fuck did I do that? My Dad passed on the 30th of January, , and the night that he passed I was playing a gig in a pub called The Jellyfish in Lanzarote where I lived for a year.
I was making up a song, I used to do that to keep myself interested. The thing beyond that people understand. Listen: I would give up songwriting for sixty seconds with my father. It changes your whole life in ways it takes you years to realise. What a pain in the dick but life is like that, it takes death for regeneration to happen. When he died, I got art, and I got a relationship with my own self. It sounds like someone trying to adjust back to living the normal life with people around them.
Imagine being Bono! I know in Ireland we love to hate him, but let me go on record as saying I think Bono is a fucking legend!
I can deal with anything like that but I guess in that moment…". What the fuck are you doing? I was white as a sheet and my wife and daughter were changing the bedsheets three times as day because I was sweating so much. It was tough.
For me it was like a litre bottle of vodka a night, easy. Two bottles of white wine, fifteen or sixteen beers, no bother, because it had just become so normal. But I am back on the drink and, as you can see, the cigarettes. It just came like manna from heaven. Something had changed and every song that was on the record fell away: they were inconsequential, no longer relevant. Vance posted on social media about another moment that formed the record, when his pregnant wife waddled in — his words, not mine — looking otherworldly and the title song came to him.
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