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Vintage Guitar Magazine, April 2009 – scanned and typed out.

Thanks to Biagio who took his time to scan the images in a good resolution, we can now enjoy the Vintage Guitar Magazine April 2009 issue interview with John. You can see all the pages in the gallery or hop to individual pages using the thumbnails below.

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And the magazine is too big for a normal scanner, the pages were scanned bit by bit and I merged them as precisely as I possibly could. Of course, it’s not perfect. That’s just another reason to buy the magazine, as it’s totally worth it. As some people said on the board, this is the most-detailed article on John’s equipment in the last 2.5 years.

Here are two excerpts from the interview:

In the middle of the process, something shifted in me, where I started thinking of music as only the act of doing it, and stopped being concerned with the prospect of making a record. I started just thinking in terms of making music that I would want to hear coming out of my speakers late at night. When people start thinking about putting out a record, there’s a whole egotistical kind of investment in it. Even if you’re an independent artist making small records, when you’re thinking in terms of making music, you’re denying a huge aspect of the powers of creativity. I think it’s a more wholesome, natural approach. That mindset has worked well for me, made me look back with fondness to when I used to record on my four-track. When I did my first album, it was music for me to listen to late at night with my friends. And when we were mixing this album, that’s totally what it was about. Like I said, I like to create environments, so when you turn on certain music, your room seems like a palace.

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If someone was coming over and I was only going to play them four songs, I’d play Before The Beginning, Dark/Light, Central and After The Ending because they are specific points in the album. The music and subject matter of the lyrics arc from a low point to a high point. I wanted the feeling of reaching and then giving up, then reaching again, then giving up, then reaching again. Every time you start reacing, it keeps going on to a higher peak. I wanted the music, lyrics, and subject matter to conform to a specific idea. It’s not that I like them more than the other songs, it’s just that I like how well they work. To me, Before The Beginning starts in the murky depths of some weird place,a nd I like how well it does that. Originally, the album was going to start with much more of a bang, but I realized that didn’t fit with what I was trying to do in terms of the arc of the theme.

If you’re not a fan of scans, you can read the whole article in text-only form here, as it’s already been typed out. FTW!

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