video?
How’ve things been with the new record
over the last few weeks?
It’s going really good. We’ll find out again
later today how sales are going and all of
that, but apparently it’s doing quite well.
People seem to want to hear it!
People are really taken with it when
they talk about it on social media. I got
a chance to listen to it over the last few
days, and something that stuck out was
how it sounds so alive, a little like you’re
in the room while you’re recording it.
That’s the way we record, we all get together
in the same room like they used to do. We’re
bleeding into each other’s tracks, so we can’t
really do much in the way of overdubs —
but we like that. We like that it makes us pay
attention and get it right.
INSIGHT
And you all know what you’re doing.
Your backgrounds as session musicians,
probably between the 10 of you you’ve
got more than 200 years of experience
as musicians. But it seems like y’all really
do Time Jumpers stuff as a way to relax
more than anything. Is that how you
view the band?
Absolutely. That’s why we started, is because
we all have spent so many years playing on
other people’s projects and trying our very
best to give them what they want. Sometimes that’s a lot of fun, and sometimes it’s
not all that rewarding, depending on the
project. We started this band to feed our
own souls and play music we wanted to play,
and the way we wanted to play it, and not
really care if anybody is overplaying. When
you’re playing in the studio for someone
else, you really have to have the bridle on
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