Perry’s solo band. What things did you do that have been trying to be more teachable earlier
set you up to be able to get that gig, and what on. I sort of let some of the internal dynamics
were the most valuable music lessons you affect that a little bit. And then I think I would
learned from playing with Steve? have been more encouraging to Steve. We
[Lincoln] In terms of setting myself up, I don’t were planning on doing a shed tour following
know. I practiced, or I’ll just say this, I played our theatre and arena tour, and in retrospect I
a lot. I’ve always been a believer that you can
practice a lot, but I like to encourage people
think I probably could have made that happen
Steve Perry Live in Toronto, Canada 1994
to play music a lot. Because I wanted to get
had I been more encouraging to him. But
back then some of the things that had been
good at playing music, not at practicing. So, I groove around the drums, and I could move the happening to me hit a boiling point and I didn’t
just played a lot. I wrote, I demo’d. I worked at a bass way behind the drums and it still felt great. handle it very well. I think more things like how
leather store. I worked on construction sites to As soon as it got five milliseconds in front of can I be more supportive, how can I encourage
make money for enough gear, so I could make the drums it was like a train wreck. So that left this. I always want to come into a room and
demos at home. When I was seventeen and a real impression on me, play on the backside make the room better, and that takes specific
eighteen it was roll out of bed every morning of the beat and let the drums lead. I’m certainly effort to be able to do.
and sit down in my little studio, which was right no Steve Perry, but I’ve tried to incorporate that at the foot of my bed, and write something and too with vocal phrasing. Don’t rush the music [WM] You sold more of Line 6’s HD500’s than
demo it up. I tried to do that almost every day. because it makes it feel unsteady. anyone on the planet, so what does your rig
I eventually had a little four-song demo that I
made.
look like these days?
Those were huge lessons, Steve is very
passionate and works very hard. We didn’t use [Lincoln] I’ve got a little bit of everything. I
So, I think it terms of setup, when the opportunity tracks live with him, it was all us. The amount have been using my Kemper quite a bit, and
presented itself with Steve I was ready and I of rehearsing we had to do to get it to sound I definitely record with it. I moved studios, so
was available. Obviously, all of this was God’s like it did was staggering. We rehearsed for that I can record a lot more things. I can record
construction, so I’m not taking credit, but I did tour for four months. You don’t hear a lot of that drums, which obviously means I can record
at least try to be ready. The reason I say that, anymore, but I could have played that show guitar. I’ve got a late ’68 early ’69 Plexi 100 watt
by the way, is I think a lot of people want the probably for five years afterwards just because Marshall amp that I’ve been using. Right now its
opportunity first, and then see if they want to do it was so dialed in. Again, that’s another thing running through a Universal Audio OX, but I’m
the work. I would never trust someone like that. that gets lost nowadays, no one really wants to building a cabinet room, so I’ll be able to mic
That means that when the opportunity is not rehearse that stuff and get it really dialed. them up. It’s kind of my roots, and anything I’ve
there, they aren’t going to work at it, and you’ve
got to be passionate about it way before that.
ever used modeling is using a Plexi Marshall,
I’d say the whole timing thing, and the feel and whether it’s the Pod X3, HD500, Amp Farm,
pocket was where he left a real mark on me. Pod Farm, Kemper, Axe FX, all of them were a
In terms of playing with Steve, I learned a lot
Plexi. That’s what I love.
from him. Steve fundamentally is an old Sam [WM] What are some of the things that you’ve Cooke fan, he’s very old school. He started off learned since that time that you would have [WM] You have a new Christmas album out
as a drummer, which is funny because so did done differently in that situation? that includes your take in “Miraculum”. I found
I, so there is a lot of focus on feel and timing. If
a great version of that on YouTube. Can you
you ever listen to Steve sing and listen to how he [Lincoln] I started with Steve when I was tell us about the inspiration behind doing an
phrases his vocal lines, his timing is way on the twenty, so I was literally a kid. So, I’d say the instrumental version of that song, as well as the
backside of the beat and nothing ever sounds number one thing is that I would have been record?
rushed or anxious, its always really soulful. And way more encouraging to him. There are he drilled that into me, play on the back, nothing things obviously from a playing standpoint, [Lincoln] The most fun album I’ve ever made
should hit before the kick drum. I’d mess with preparedness, I would have been a lot broader in my life! Its kind of like I’m trying to get back
this, I would go home and mess with my little in my approach. I showed up to our first session to some roots on a lot of levels. Why was I
sequencer program in my apartment in LA and with Steve with one guitar and one amp. I just passionate about guitar, what made me start,
play with this idea. I remember one time putting didn’t know any better, so there were things what mattered to me? I think for a season of my
down a drumbeat and then putting down a like that which I would have changed. But the life I was more focused on being a pragmatist
bass groove with it, and then I moved the bass number one thing I would have changed would with music, like whatever works best. And
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