next couple weeks, that I look more stressed another chorus or whatever, but if it’s an entire that we’ve done. I’m definitely enjoying it, it’s
than most people on stage. Usually I’m kind of intro, if it’s messed up I’d just have to figure it been fun.
micromanaging a lot of different conversations, out. And we tried so hard not to overdub stuff a lot of different people. For example Joel would because we wanted it to feel as authentic as [WM] To paraphrase something that Matty
be out on the B stage, out in front quite a ways possible. So even Joel’s “Good Grace” vocal, said in the interview he did with JD in this issue,
away. Anyone who is out there is getting PA in it is one hundred percent live and you can hear sometimes it is the music that really opens
their microphone, so that makes it harder for the audience in the mic, when he’s yelling or things up for people to receive the message
them to sing. A lot of people don’t like singing whatever, you can still hear the crowd in there. that’s woven into the lyrics. Separate from
too loud when they’re out there because they At first it was annoying to work with, but after a solo’ing tracks and muting the vocals to check
feel insecure. So there are all of these types of while you realize that these were the parameters a blend between instruments, do you ever just
situations where I have to say, okay, I know it’s that we agreed to live within so we’re just going mute the vocals to listen to how the tracks are
not going to be awesome but you’re going to to have to try and work with what we have. ‘speaking’ on their own?
be able to mic you up too loud because the P.A. [WM] Matty was talking about your work ethic, [MGC] I think one of the hardest things that
will pick up and it’ll feed back. So just trying and I’ve never heard you boasting about any of we deal with is when we’re working on music
to manage all of the different complexities of your successes. But I’m kind of curious, do you and the lyrics aren’t written, sometimes we
nailing it. ever wake up and just kind of pinch yourself don’t know what the song is going to be about.
going, “this is all so amazing...”? When the song “So Will I” was written, a lot
have to sing on the mic, and we’re not going to
Then at the end of the day we just press record
of the lyrics were already there when we were
and we go up on stage and it just is what it is, [MGC] I definitely look back on the journey running the song for the first time. So if we
we just end up capturing it how it is. There’s a and I think its so fascinating that we’re here made it so the music was constantly evolving
certain amount of fixing you can do, like if I hit now. I feel like we’re contributing a lot to good and constantly moving, it never really stayed
a wrong chord I can copy and paste one from worship music, and I’m really proud of the stuff completely the same, that would be a really
interesting way of portraying what the song is
all about. I really enjoy listening to lyrics. I’m
not much of a lyricist, but having a lyric and
knowing what the song is about definitely
makes the musicians job a lot easier I find.
[WM] Some this sounds chaotic, how much
does this impact what you do?
[MGC] I think recording live is really chaotic
and I think that the more people are stressed
out the worse their performance and the worse
the singing they do is. People speed up or slow
down if they feel insecure onstage, so I do try
really hard to make it feel more easy going. But
it is stressful, especially recording a live album.
And we could just overdub everything, but we
said that we wanted to keep it live and that’s
how we wanted to do it. The fun thing about
the way we recorded is that we recorded three
nights all out, so if “Another in the Fire” from
Sunday night was terrible, then we can use
Thursday night. With “Whole Heart” we had
a performance that would have been good,
but just not as good as the one we ended
up using. Recording live is just pretty chaotic,
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April 2019
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