(jazzy bass line)
- You know, my thing is if you were a kid
and you at home and you don't pay rent
and your parents is listen to my music,
by the time you get your own apartment,
you'll probably be playing my music in your house.
(funky guitar)
(electric guitar riff)
(indistinct singing)
My friend said I can never pull it again.
But they might be right
It's just particular track, I'm definitely going for
an Isley brothers track.
I'll make the bass line kind of bounce.
You know.
(bass playing)
I'll make it bounce.
Cause I'm all about basses bouncing and drums bouncing.
(drums playing)
Most of my songs I've written in my hole career.
started with guitar.
I love chorus, I love these tiny little circles.
Listeners on neighborhood where
people who's driving, you know, 1965 Falcons and Mustangs
and do some of my quarters
they had all these beats in the cars.
And then when I would play
I would try to emulate that feeling.
You know, of belts records sweeping, flanged
and this surround sound, this...
distorted fades.
Really beefy Telecaster type. I like byte.
(guitar playing)
This guy is responsible for recording
everything I'm doing right now. Alex Jang.
- Hey hey hey, my name is Alex Jang.
- I said that already
(both laughing)
- This...this song was crazy.
I felt just sat on the Stevie wonder chair
started strumming some chords
just came up with this progression
and he's like, Oh, did you catch that about the loop?
And it's going through a Princeton reverb.
I believe it's 1968.
And I mean, that amp is just classic.
You don't really need to do too much to that amp.
RCA, 77 DX ribbon, chorus and a delay
got some distortion and played that.
- What I tell them was a basic beam.
- Yeah. Went right into the room
played the drums real quick, laid down the base.
Yeah. Ray just looked at me and said
"let's send us to Rob me".
- Me and Rob Bacon come from the same school.
He's from Detroit. I'm from Oakland.
He's my go-to.
Now there's some bad ass guitar players out there can play
and we'll play solos all day, but nobody will never
ask them to play a solo in a session.
(Distorted guitar playing)
The whole song was leading up to a guitar solo
which you don't hear guitar solos today
this is missing.
So I was like, I'm going to be the one head guitar solo
in the middle of the record and is not going to be a bar.
It's not gonna be 16 bars.
(distorted guitar playing)
That grows the premise of something keeps calling but
what was calling was guitar.
(distorted guitar playing)
(concert playing with distorted guitar)