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There's one passage in the book Neil And Me - that your father Scott Young wrote about you that I found highly revealing of the way you work. Apparently Cortez The Killer which is probably...
"Some of my best guitar playing ever, yeah!" he interrupts
... Was being recorded and you had several other verses written and you were playing this one perfect take when...
". . .When there was a power-cut in the recording studio, yeah. They missed a whole verse, a whole section! You can hear the splice on the recording where we stop and start again. It's a messy edit. But yeah that's true . . . incredible!"
What I'm asking is was the whole effect of that song its pacing, the lyric flow, everything - just an accident based around that powerfailure?
"Yeah it was a total accident. But that's how I see my best art, as one magical accident after another. That's what is so incredible. You see, with lyrics I try not to edit anything. I just let it all come through. I actually believe that if it was meant to be written down in the first place, it has a place there. I only ever edit at all after I've actually performed a song live. And I like to record 'em fast. Record 'em quickly and move on to the next batch."
"Some of my best guitar playing ever, yeah!" he interrupts
... Was being recorded and you had several other verses written and you were playing this one perfect take when...
". . .When there was a power-cut in the recording studio, yeah. They missed a whole verse, a whole section! You can hear the splice on the recording where we stop and start again. It's a messy edit. But yeah that's true . . . incredible!"
What I'm asking is was the whole effect of that song its pacing, the lyric flow, everything - just an accident based around that powerfailure?
"Yeah it was a total accident. But that's how I see my best art, as one magical accident after another. That's what is so incredible. You see, with lyrics I try not to edit anything. I just let it all come through. I actually believe that if it was meant to be written down in the first place, it has a place there. I only ever edit at all after I've actually performed a song live. And I like to record 'em fast. Record 'em quickly and move on to the next batch."
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