The essentials of what we needed.
It had like 15 bedrooms and great equipment.
It had a kneeboard, 150 vintage guitars,
I think, and amps
and all these old whacked out keyboards and stuff.
So we. We thought we had a bunch of toys we could experiment with.
Did everything analog. And it had such a great vibe.
I think that’d be good. Kind of keep it real.
Yeah. Right at the end of it,
me and the guys in Dance Hall Doctors,
we’ve always felt like that part of what excelled or propelled,
I guess, our career early on,
even in clubs when nobody was showing up,
was the fact that live was our,
our favorite thing to do. I mean,
Darren and I and John Marcus have gone back at 12 years.
It seems like we felt like we created more energy in what we did.
Kind of more so before our records than after the records were made.
We felt like we propelled a new energy into that music.
So we always felt that that was a big drive behind career.
It’s something that we’ve been doing for years and years and years
on stage and playing songs that were cover songs
and songs that were demos that we thought we might record.
And we practice with a man and learn and did on stage for a while.
So we thought that we would take the live show into the studio
pretty much, and try to capture That on a bunch of songs
that we felt like we could wrap our hands around
and really do a good job on.
I was too.
Oh, I was just figuring out how,
when y’all came out of the last bar,
if we put it around chords
instead of just playing that.
To hear my band on the radio
playing a record with me after so many years.
It’s like when a bunch of guys record a record,
and they’re driving in a van,
and they turn on the radio
and they hear their song for the first time.