we ended up paying him to teach Phil the parts. and played bass to my drums, the two of us a Yamaha Recording Series 9000. We used it
It was very sweet of him, he was a sweet guy together really worked. So there was this thing on the “Take Me to Your Leader” tour, we used
and I hope things worked out for him. So that’s that happened, maybe when I was rushing he it on a lot records, used it on a lot of stuff. With
how Phil got in the band. was dragging, I don’t know. It just felt right. the Perfect Foil, I used the Yamaha, John had
one in the studio and that was the first time I’d
Phil ended up being, especially in the studio, a I can always remember that thinking, because seen one in fifteen years. They’re a great kit,
really great bass player… he’s got great ideas I was producing those early records with Steve probably my favorite kit still today. Something
and his technique is awesome. In those early Taylor, and thinking that the drums sound about the thinness of the shells and the way
days, especially as a drummer, I was trying great. But, you zone in, like hearing yourself on they resonate.
to figure out my parts. I was playing drums an answering machine where you’re like, “Do still when John was the lead singer on the I really sound like that?” But then Phil would [WM] Who’s idea was it to do the spinning
early records. I was just figuring out my part in come in and get a good bass sound and he’d drum set thing?
making the song sound as good as it could. play along and I’d be good.
[Peter] There were a few of them, there was
And I remember, you couldn’t fix anything with
[WM] What was your preferred kit back then?
twenty-four tracks on a two-inch tape. If you’re
Tommy Lee. I think for us it was the really early
days, I think it was 1991, and I think we wanted
the drummer, in my mind you had the hardest [Peter] I don’t know if I had a brand, it was to stand out. We were at all these festivals
job because you really had to punch in and really whatever was in the studio. where you had people like Russ Taff and Amy
chop tape and that kind of stuff, you had to get
it right from the start to the end. So there would
Grant, who are actually talented artists, and
[WM] On the tour what were you using?
be times where I’d feel like something was the
best I could get it, but when Phil came along
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we hadn’t figured out the songwriting process
yet. We hadn’t figured out really anything,
[Peter] One of my favorite kits of all time was
January 2019
so it was like, “How could we stand out at
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