Mike Burns

[slunken]

There's a lot of stuff that's really fun to play, but...When we're bored at practice, we down-tune our guitars and play like Soundgarden for 20 minutes. It's fun, and I certainly don't mean that as a negative statement about Soundgarden. I'm just saying that there's a lot of things that really don't hit home in the way we'd like them to hit home.

A great rock riff gets you about 60 seconds, and then you've got to have everything else to back it up. Montrose is a good example of that [laughs]. Always with the great opening riff, but Sammy [Hagar] could never deliver! So I just keep switching perspectives, which is why it takes me a long time to write a song. I run through all of these different processes until I think, O.K., that's about as far as it's going to go.

The first day we started working on "Soma," I said to James [Iha, second guitarist], this is going to be a long song, so let's try to make it shorter. After we'd turned it into a short song, it didn't feel complete, so then we started hacking out new parts. By the time we got to the studio, the song was probably about a minute and a half longer that it ended up, so we cut out a bunch of stuff at the last minute.

Here's a good example of the "anal" me: I had this riff that went A-C- G-F, and I wanted to do this thing that my dad showed me, which is, when you get to the F, modulate down one half step and then start the riff again, which then forms E-G-D-C. This part comes right after the lead, after which we modulate back into the chorus and back into a B. But I wanted to carry that modulation idea through seven times, so we recorded it that way, and even though it was fun to do, it sounded fucking boring as shit [laughs].

Ultimately, we cut all those other modulations out and only modulated once, which ended up as the best decision I could have made. Up until that point, one part of me was taking the song somewhere, and it took this other part of me to say, hey, that's fucking lame.

[Bread Regal]

good stuff there.

[Trotskilicious]

do you think bill did the chris cornell vocals

[slunken]

Here's another good example of the "anal" me:

[Order 66]

[Iha, second guitarist]

[Trotskilicious]

wait...is bill parenthetically notating his own story

[Trotskilicious]

oh i know what it is, it was dictated...

[Trotskilicious]

goodnight everyone

[Banana]

We're just one step closer to the eventual original lineup reunion. I predict they will perform together or at the very least all attend together at their rock and roll hall of fame induction.

[Catherine Wheel]

Originally Posted by Banana

We're just one step closer to the eventual original lineup reunion. I predict they will together or at the very least all attend together at their rock and roll hall of fame induction.

more hyperbole

[juliana]

Originally Posted by amoergosum

Thanks for asking.

I found out that nicole is on the same track as Jimmy but she isn't playing bass, she is just singing.

http://allabouttravelokc.wordpress.c...friends-album/

[amoergosum]

Originally Posted by juliana

I found out that nicole is on the same track as Jimmy but she isn't playing bass, she is just singing.

http://allabouttravelokc.wordpress.c...friends-album/

...can't wait to listen to the three tracks (with Jimmy on drums).
>>>

[pavementtune]

"the insanely fantastic Jimmy Chamberlain playing drums"

so insanely fantastic, but not fantastic enough to spell his name correctly.

[Starla]

I heard a little rumor that billy is gonna retire in 5 years and go stay with some members of the source family in Hawaii. There's some other stuff, but I won't divulge where I got this information, because it's mine..... and for once I know something that Monte doesn't.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

yay, the source family yaaaaaaaay

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by juliana

I found out that nicole is on the same track as Jimmy but she isn't playing bass, she is just singing.

http://allabouttravelokc.wordpress.c...friends-album/

they weren't even in the studio at the same time

I don't think Nicole has even ever met Jimmy

[juliana]

What if she did meet Jimmy & she got turned on by his drumming and they had a 15 mins affair and 9 months later she had his lovechild but for fear of people finding out about it, she left the baby on Billy's door step but billy didn't get to it in time and monte ate it.

[MyOneAndOnly]

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by juliana

What if she did meet Jimmy & she got turned on by his drumming and they had a 15 mins affair and 9 months later she had his lovechild but for fear of people finding out about it, she left the baby on Billy's door step but billy didn't get to it in time and monte ate it.

seems legit

[MyOneAndOnly]

it could happen

[Starla]

Jimmy is married. He wouldn't do this.

[juliana]

Ya married people never cheat on people in fan fic, thanks for the reminder, starla.

[Trotskilicious]

wait wait isn't nicole gay

[juliana]

Isn't Jimmy a lesbian?

[Trotskilicious]

girl, u wish

[juliana]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

girl, u wish

Hahahahhahahaa!

But on a serious note, gay people experiment just like straight people. I have more than one gay friend who tried to be straight.

[Morlock]

Gay people having straight sex is unnatural and should be banned. This is not what God wants from them.

[amoergosum]

EDIT.

[amoergosum]

Tyson Meade & Kerry Brown via Twitter:

tyson todd meade ‏@DadaCamelTalk 13. Feb.

Hey @studiodog regarding the mixes-JimmyChamberlainSEZ "These sound great!!!" I indubitably agree!!!

Kerry Brown ‏@studiodog 13. Feb.

“@DadaCamelTalk: Hey @studiodog regarding the mixes-JimmyChamberlainSEZ "These sound great!!!" I indubitably agree!!!” Love you

[juliana]

Hey fun boys, get a room!