This Is Interesting.
Because this was my exact experience and those were my exact thoughts when we made Nate’s record last year. Headblock, simultaneous playing in a circle, and waiting to make this record my whole life.
Stereokill: Out of the Ryan Adams & the Cardinals records you’ve perfomed on – do you have a personal favourite?
JG: Yeah I do: Jacksonville City Nights. There are a few reasons. It was my entrée into a hugely important four and a half years of my life from a musical perspective. I remember walking into the studio control room when I got to the first session and seeing the guys aligning an eight-track headblock on the two-inch tape machine – that got my attention. Then I walked into the live room and saw that the studio was being setup in a way that indicated that everyone would be playing and recording at the same time, in a circle. No starting with a drum track and building up the tracks one by one as a lot of records are made these days! Then we started on the first tune. If I remember correctly, it was the song, “The End”, and, with the things I’ve already mentioned, I said to myself that this is the record I’ve been waiting to make all my life.
