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What does it take to maintain a career in music? We track down members of bands that we love and find out what their lives are like now.
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Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
We are extremely honored to welcome back producer Bob Rock to deep dive The Cult's 1989 breakthrough album Sonic Temple. We learn all about Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy's mindframe when they created it, how Bob achieved the sound they were looking for, how classic songs like "Fire Woman" and "Edie (Ciao Baby)" came to be, and how the Cult relate to other Bob Rock affiliated bands like Metallica, Motley Crue and Bon Jovi. We are so lucky to hear from legends like Bob. Enjoy!
4 months ago
I liked what this interview could have been about, and I didn’t like it. Great opportunity, and of course, the interviewer had control over the content and the questions asked. But for me, Sonic Temple is one of the greatest guitar albums of all time from the 80s, Rock is one of the greatest guitar sound producers of all time, and the lack of any real talk about Billy and his guitar tech and how this album was recorded just blew my mind. I get it, Ian’s a good point of conversation, too. Also you and Bob skate on the edge of what was going on with the album at the time with other bands nearby, but it’s in interviews - John Sykes had been recording the Blue Murder record next door at the time. RIP to that man. But anyway, Billy got touched on just one time in any detail here, regarding his Gretsch and Gibson signature sounds, by Bob, and I’ve always wanted to know more about this. As a guitar tech, I’ve always believed the Cult’s unique guitar sound has always stemmed from Billy mixing the Gretsch Filtertron humbucking pickup in his White Falcon, with a basic Gibson humbucking sound on tracks. It’s too bad you didn’t go into more of that. You try to touch on it briefly when talkijng about American Horse, also a doozy of a power chord towards the end of the song when the song temporarily stops at the end of the break (you didn’t play that part), would love to know how Bob and Billy engineered that. Soul Asylum is a deep and powerful song, I’d like to hear about all the engineering on this. You asked the questions you wanted to ask, and I don’t fault you for it. Great interview. Just a few contructive critiques, and as I said, this album in particular and deep diving on it with Bob, once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing. I’d have just asked many more guitar questions. lol.
5 years ago
Outstanding!