They’re all the same things in our world.”ĭave, weren’t you tempted to grab a guitar and lay down some tracks?ĭave Grohl: “Not really. It’s tough to say where one title ends and the next begins with producing, recording or engineering. Josh Homme: “And when it came to the actual project, Al and I are very symbiotic as a creative team. It was just perfect just as you hoped it would be.” Do you have any more of those!? “It was nice to be able to go in the studio and have such a natural recording process. "After maybe a month, John said, I’ve got some riffs, do you want to hear some? Fuck, yeah! So he plays the riff to Highway One and we’re saying, Oh. So we were recording plenty of Josh’s ideas Daffodils started with a Josh riff, Scumbag Blues was basically a jam, as was Caligulove. So instead of this being like some riffathon, let’s write and arrange some really good songs that people will sing and will be memorable. I said, Look we can fill the Grand Canyon with riffs, but what we need to do is write songs. That was the first e-mail I sent to him after we started jamming. Josh has many ideas and he’s never short of a riff. Johannes was one of the founders of the critically acclaimed band Eleven, and as a producer and engineer has worked with artists from The Arctic Monkeys to Chris Cornell.ĭave Grohl: “There was one track we didn’t put on the album, Highway One, which we play in the live set, and it illustrates how things went sometimes. As well as a MotorAve guitar, there’s a prototype vintage arched back (yes, arched back) Les Paul, a 1968 Fender Jazzmaster and a Gibson SG that tech Ally Christie claims is the only year of SG that Angus Young doesn’t have! A three-quarter scale bass equipped with flatwounds also makes an appearance when JPJ is using one of his alternative instruments.
His guitar rack is similarly equipped to Homme’s, with some neat twists. “I brought Al to the interview because he recorded all those guitars on the album, he’s the best guitar player in our band.” Josh Homme is quick to point out his standing as part of the live act. Much of the eighties gated reverb stuff for snares and things such as that, they don’t really travel the same way.”Īlain Johannes is the fourth quarter of Them Crooked Vultures and, like the songwriting trio of Grohl, Jones and Homme, he’s much more than a guitar player doing the second guitar parts. Those are the key factors to great production value in my mind. It’s natural, it’s timeless and its tonality sounds great as you turn it up, or even when it’s down. When you listen to a Creedence Clearwater Revival album it sounds better and more current than a current album, in my opinion. Josh Homme: “Recording-wise, I always like it raw, that’s my preference. It was never about whose idea it was, it was more about what idea. If we really thought it was worth pursuing, we’d put the instruments down and walk into the big room, plug in, turn on and then jam. If someone had a riff you could say, Hey I have this idea, and I’d pick up a guitar and start playing something, Josh would pick up a guitar and start playing along and John would pick up a bass or mandolin or…”ĭave Grohl: “Yeah! And we’d start playing. You just walk into the room, see what happens and you let the dynamic create itself.
So much talent, one studio and control room – how on earth did that work?ĭave Grohl: “It was funny going into the studio with three multi-instrumentalists who’ve all written and produced albums. It was never about whose idea it was, it was more about what idea Dave Grohl That injected a lot of fun into what we were doing.”Īnd Homme? “Josh can be dark and Josh can come from a heavy, deep place, but with John and I underneath making peoples asses shake, it’s the perfect balance of those things where you really enjoy going to this fucked up place and the two of us can do that in a fluid manner – playfully too.” Well then, let’s get down to business… Zeppelin were famous for mixing styles with really dirty blues/hard rock. John and I connected in that and like to groove together. They’re both entirely different, but the same, in that it’s based on this simple groove foundation. “I’ve never played like this before,” enthuses Grohl of JPJ, “because I’ve never played with someone like that! I love listening to disco just as much as I like listening to AC/DC, both for the same reason. We caught up with them on their recent UK tour, amid soundchecks, pre-gig prep and impromptu jams. I’ve never played like this before because I’ve never played with someone like that! Dave Gohl on John Paul Jones
Alain Johannes, no stranger to Homme/Grohl liaisons and other big collaborations, was the last piece of the jigsaw, brought in to cover guitar and bass live (he also contributed to the album).
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