by Stuart » Tue Mar 18, 2014 8:53 am
Hello from PledgeMusic,
Echo & The Bunnymen posted a new update for Meteorites:
Market Town
This was one of the first songs I started writing immediately after finishing my solo album "Pro Patria Mori’, on which I’d played some of the bass guitar lines.
Because I’m not a bass player, I was able to not think like one, which I tried to turn into an advantage. I enjoyed making bass lines weave around and inside a song, using it as a way of propelling it in a cyclical circular way.
It felt really new (even though I’d come up with, and played bass lines on songs before) and exciting to me in a more creative way than it ever had. And really importantly, I felt the way I had to play the bass, – due to my limitations, – gave me a unique angle and a positive naivety.
I made a decision to write the skeletal structures for the next set of songs on an unplugged (I don’t own an amplifier) cheapo bass guitar. In the first hour or so I’d written the skulls, ribcages, ulnas, metatarsi, vertebrae, femurs, etc. to ‘Market Town’, ‘Holy Moses’ and ‘Is This A Breakdown?’.
I knew I had discovered the new sound for the Bunnymen.
The sound which I would fall asleep to, dream to, and wake up to.
The sound I’d been waiting for for so long.
The sound of Meteoric storms.
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It wouldn't work if Mac was a slaphead would it.