DeadDavesRadio.com Magazine June 2014 Jun. 2014 | Page 21

DDR: Haha. That can help. Good old liquid courage.
What is the process when you write music? Do you get
together as a group or does one person come up with an
idea for a song and you work on it individually?
Shaun: It kind of depends on the song; I write all of the
lyrics and the process for me for that all depends. Sometimes the lyrics come almost at the exact same time I
come up with a riff. Like “Tell Me”, “Remission”, and “The
Great Unknown”, I sat there and found a riff on the guitar
and then started writing lyrics immediately and that was
that. Indecision was a bit different because I initially came
up with the chords but Jarrod tweaked the strum pattern
and made it what it is today. “Not This Way”, I had the
lyrics first and then came up with the riff. The songs that
Jarrod came up with the riff’s I would record what he did
then start working on lyrics, except for “The Way You
Move.” How we wrote The Way You Move was very jam
band-esque. Jarrod started playing the riff just fucking
around one day at practice and then each member started joining in. Then I started muttering words that were
essentially nonsensical at the moment but as we played
this song for probably 25 minutes straight eventually they
started to form the raw version of what now is our first
song we ever wrote, The Way You Move. The rest of the
songs like “Never Again”, “Nothing Less”, and “Halloween
Trip” all of which were riffs that Jarrod wrote and “Love
Lies Lust” which Sup came up with, followed the pattern
of once we had the initial riff figured out we would p