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why I did it , but I did , so me and Mike would go out on lots of these hikes . He still lives in North Wales , in this beautiful country , and it ’ s a very outdoorsy kind of lifestyle , not so urban . So we bonded , and eventually , the guitars came out , and one of the last things to happen was , we started writing some tunes . And that became the first Coloursound record that we cut in ’ 98 . And we had some fun with it — I managed to finagle a trip to Maui to get Bob Rock to work on a couple of tracks because Bob is a mate and still is . So Coloursound it was great , and from my point of view , that would have been my contribution to the next Cult album had there been one in the late ‘ 90s . But there wasn ’ t , so we came out with Coloursound . But the thing got kind of truncated because I |
reimagined one of the songs during the first lockdown when everybody was doing everything from home . So we did that , and that felt good , and we re-released the first album , and that sold out in three hours . So we thought , okay — why don ’ t we use that to finance the recording of a new album ?” And that ’ s what it is — it ’ s kind of an honest , cottage-industry endeavor between Mike and me , just purely for the friendship and the love of each other as people , of music , and of rock and roll . It ’ s a bit of a teary , almost Hallmark kind of story .
IE : What ’ s the gist of the new record , as you hear it ? BD : Well , first of all , pre-lockdown , Mike had found this little cottage on the coast of
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Wales . And me being a rock-fan-geek , I ’ d always loved the idea of going away with your songwriting partner to a cottage in Wales and writing songs about California , which is how Robert Plant described the way they did a certain Led Zeppelin album . Oh , the irony . So we literally booked this cottage in Wales on the coast in January ( of 2020 ), which , as you can imagine , was a little bit inclement , and we just stayed in . We had a burning log fire and lots of tea , and there were loads of guitars around , and we said , “ Let ’ s see what happens .” And what happened was , we wrote eight or nine basic songs , which was the backbone of Coloursound II in that three days . It was kind |
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of like we wanted to see if we could do it again , and we felt good about it . So we just pursued that and eventually recorded the album with a drummer and a bass player . We kept it spontaneous , kept it simple , just to cut through a lot of chatter — people seem to be making a lot of artificial-sounding records , so we tried as best we could to keep this one organic and only use technology when you have to and don ’ t let it use you . And that was the philosophy , and it ’ s just for the kind of people who would be predisposed to listen to honest guitar rock . So hopefully , it isn ’ t predictable .
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