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[[ | '''WHAT WAS THE FEELING IN THE BAND WHEN YOU MADE ''PINKERTON''?'''<br> | ||
It went straight from relentless touring into the studio, and it was ''far too soon''. There was a tragic element to [...] started at the same studio we recorded the Blue Album in, in New York. I remember doing one version of "Tired Of Sex" and a few other things, and we quickly found out, "Oh, we need to take a break." We didn't have anybody-well, it's possible people ''were'' telling us to take a break, but it's possible we were at the point where we [...] couldn't hear them anymore. Because we just marched straight into it and found out for ourselves. | |||
'''WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU PLAYED THE ALBUM?'''<br> | |||
When I went home for Christmas last year, someone gave me an iPod, and one of the first things put on there was [''Pinkerton'']; I hadn't heard it in nearly 10 years. The feeling I took from it was a sense of liberation. I felt that [...] reins were not being pulled in on us, and that is part of the benefit of jumping into something without thinking about it too much. The ambitiousness of the playing really struck me as how loose it is. It sounds progressive-not [...] the big big sense, but compared to what we started from. Like, "''Wow'', that bass is moving around a lot! There seems to be a bass solo in every song!" [''Laughs''.] | |||
'''DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE SONG ON ''PINKERTON''?'''<br> | |||
Well, when I think of that record, the one song I always think about is the one song I didn't play on-that I didn't have ''anything'' to do with-which was the last song on the album. I just remember we were all staying at a hotel while recording, and Rivers brought me a recording he had done with Karl [Koch, band companion] playing this [...] tom for "Butterfly." He came to me to get my take on it, and to ask if we should include it on the album, even though, Pat, Brian and I weren't on the recording. As soon as I heard that song, it spoke to me as the song that summed up the overall emotions of the whole album, even though most of us weren't even part of it. I remember expressing to Rivers as directly as I could that that song was essential to be on the record, and as far as I know, that's the version on the record. | |||
'''WERE YOU KICKED OUT OF WEEZER, OR DID YOU LEAVE OF YOUR OWN ACCORD?'''<br> | |||
Well, again, the memory is selective, but I seem to recall the other three guys coming up to me and telling me I was fired. | |||
'''WHAT WAS YOUR LAST SHOW?'''<br> | |||
[...] played a benefit concert for those girls [Mykel, Carli and Trysta Allan, who died en route to a Weezer concert in 1997], and that was the end of the band, in that incarnation. [That show] really closed the book on that era. -''Scott Heisel'' | |||
==Gallery== | |||
<gallery>Image:Matt Sharp AP Interview 2006.jpg</gallery> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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