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🗓️ 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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