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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Geddy Lee 12/19/18

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:00.0

So like a couple times in your career I guess you guys didn't have the songs all written before you went in

0:07.5

Yeah a couple of times big mistake it's such a big mistake

0:10.3

No, it's so bad, but you don't know that until you till you fucking your biggest episode 9 and not have episode 11 written. I mean you think in the back of your mind that

0:26.5

this is going to be exhilarating but then you're like your sphincter is like this small.

0:32.1

No totally because well you your sphincter is like this small. No, totally.

0:33.2

Because, well, you count on your subconscious

0:37.8

to be doing this work, don't you?

0:39.8

That's right.

0:40.8

But, and often it does, and then, but sometimes if you're not prepared ahead of time you really put yourself

0:47.8

in a yeah bad spot and as I got older and I tried to slow down my production schedule as I got older because I like to leave it and come back to it. Because that's the only way you can regain any

1:05.2

sort of objectivity right? Oh I love process stuff yeah this is great.

1:09.2

You're saying you would consciously build time in in the writing part of it or in the recording.

1:15.9

You'd want to be able to record, walk away from it, hear it again.

1:18.3

Both. You know, for me, my partner Alex, he's got a very different mindset.

1:25.0

So we would write something and demo it and then he would listen to it like 600,000 times.

1:32.0

And I don't do that.

1:33.8

You know, at the end of the day I walk away from it

1:36.2

and I don't listen to it and I come back in the morning

1:38.8

and I turn on the tape and I love my first impression

1:42.4

because that's the most objective I'm going to be all day.

1:45.0

And so as that process goes I try to maintain that and once we do a whole bunch of work together

1:51.0

I would walk away like we take a two-week break and during that

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