Guitar Player, April 2009 issue – scanned and typed out
In some countries, they’re celebrating Hinamatsuri today; in some others, they only remember the inventor of telephone as he was born on 03.03, too. On Invisible-Movement.net, we’re embracing the power fo more modern means of communication and the beauty of new media…
…in other words, John is featured in yet another magazine that’s out. It’s Guitar Player, April 2009 issue. Many thanks to Gizem who, once again, spotted this and sent the scans by the speed of light. You can see all the pages in the gallery; or by clicking on the individual thumbnails below:
I have typed out the article already for everyone who likes it as text only. Click here to read it; and remember to be nice and buy the magazine. Guitar Player website still displays the contents of the previous issue, so don’t be confused.
Here’s a nice quote from the article:
Musically, I wanted the songs to be more keyboard based – using electric piano, organ, and synthesizers – and not have so much jangly rhythm guitar, because the sound of a rhythm guitar eats up the sounds of the other instruments. When you write songs on guitar, you tend to hear them that way, and I’ve made a lot of records where I just recorded the same guitar part I was playing when I wrote the song. On this album, I played rhythm gutiar on the basic tracks to serve as a guide as to how the songs should feel while the other musicians were tracking their parts – but we very seldom used what I’d played in the final mixes. That way, the musicians’ interpretations and embellishments combined to create parts that sounded very magical when you took away the guitar – like the instruments were floating. Something’s holding the parts together, but you don’t know what it is. Sometimes people do that sort of thing with a click track, but we don’t use click tracks. It was just my human groove.
If you have missed any of the recent magazines, click here to look ’em up as they’re all scanned already and 90% typed out.
