Our rifflord's latest audio interview, talking about the writing process and his double shot on it as songwriter and producer, enjoy! - Dan on the Adelphoi Show (Nov27th 2018) - part2 - "Int: How do you have to separate them, you as a producer from the writing process, band member….? Dan: It’s tough. You have to really leave your ego at the door. That’s the most important thing. Because you can get so stuck on realizing essentially, it’s your song, and you can really hit some serious blind spots and you really have to listen to everyone in the band. Not try to shut up shop. Realize your vision can find a way anyway, and sort of direct it down the path I want it to. I mean like yesterday was a particularly tough day where we were loggerheads about a song. There were two different choruses and Justin and I really liked one, and Frankie and Ru really liked another, and it was like, head to head. It was literally like sitting down at school and I as the producer had to hash it out, no one’s seeing eye to eye, and we got there in the end. It was a toil. It ended up to be the best of both worlds and everyone was really happy. It’s difficult. Normally, I would’ve just stuck my heels in, as a musician. But as a producer, you have to be open to that stuff. It’s difficult sometimes. I used to arrange it so I would just have the rest of the band drilled, so well-rehearsed so when we went into the studio, whatever studio, I could just focus on primarily engineering, and then switch into performance with an assistant helping to, you know, press “record” when I’m playing along. But as we discussed earlier, it’s kind of all happening at once now. It’s pretty stressful." - Transcription by @sstrgrl Studio's pic by #theactualdarkness - Via @sohoradio https://www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/the-adelphoi-show-27112018/ - #danhawkins #interview #newinterview #latestnews #news #producer #producing #engineering #assistantengineer #writing #playing #recording #recordingengineers #recordingstudio #recordingexcellence #recordingartist #recordingsession #studio #studiosession #studygram #guitartech #guitarist #guitarplayer #musician #artist #songwriter #thedarkness #danlingforever (presso London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsV3cV3hfRd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gjcv9m0fvocj
