3/11/2024 0 Comments Shapeshifter blues tablature![]() ![]() “On the negative side, it’s just some kind of weird form of musical cotton candy, but on the positive side, some of the absolute, most amazing guitar players have risen to the occasion and have figured out how to wow you in those few moments just playing in front of a camera. I don’t know what that is, to a certain extent. “There are people writing and playing and practicing and performing in front of a phone for a 15-second moment of wow. You were interested in creating a new standard in instrumental guitar music. Some of the absolute, most amazing guitar players have risen to the occasion and have figured out how to wow you in those few moments just playing in front of a camera We’ll forget about the vocal record, and I’m going to start working on the concept of a new instrumental release.' I called the guys and I said, 'Look, change of plans. “They’re not thinking of a supplemental series of releases to support a record that was at the beginning of the pandemic. I realized so much time, emotionally, has gone by for the public that people are going to expect just a new album. We’ll do it in ’21.' And then that started to look really bad. That dragged on, unfortunately, so all of a sudden it’s like, 'Oh, all right. ![]() “Because we weren’t aiming for hit singles or something like that we were actually just introducing ourselves as a new band to the audience. We decided, ’Well, let’s do a sprawling instrumental record where everybody gets to solo like crazy, and then a sprawling vocal record where we’ll just have fun with our roots.’ The newest member in this circle was Australian Rai Thistlethwayte, who’s an amazing musician – a keyboard player, guitar player, singer – and I really wanted to give him some room to do what he can do as a frontman and a singer. And then as we finally do get back on the road, maybe we give these away, like free albums that are supplementary to Shapeshifting. “And I started thinking, if there’s going to be this big lag, six months before we show up on stage with this new album, maybe we could take advantage of that off time to create some music that would showcase the band. Then I got back to San Francisco and everything shut down. I think the last thing I did on stage was join Steve at one of his NAMM performances. ![]() I was doing some press down in L.A., the NAMM Show, that kind of stuff. I had just done a video for the song Nineteen Eighty. In January 2020, I had a new album ready to come out. The Elephants of Mars saga began with your plan to make two records: an instrumental album and one with vocals. ![]()
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