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I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.
Beck
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Beck
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: July 8
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With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
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When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.
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I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.
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Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.
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There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.
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It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.
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Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.
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Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.
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Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.
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There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?
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I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.
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