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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Sep 29, 2023 ^^
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People say Billy is arrogant or full of himself. In an interview like this what do you want him to do? Hold back? Play dumb? He's thinking big about his craft and he can articulate it like this. Some day interviews like this will be the ones people watch for historic research. We'll wish that every rock star could discuss their music like Billy does here. Great stuff.
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One of my favorite quotes from Billy was in the back of the Siamese Dream tab book (or some guitar hero magazine interview), where he says, "There is no right way to write a song, but there is definitely a wrong way!" Billy's an under appreciated songwriter and I know that at times he may come off with a big ego, but I still remember when my girlfriend and I were standing outside their bus when they played the Oz in Seattle. We asked if they could get us in to the show (as both shows were sold out), but he said that the list was full and to stand at the front of the door because they were going to be playing REALLY loud! About halfway through the first song, his manager came out and gave both of us all access passes. Show was amazing and afterwards, he came and found us to make sure we got the passes and then signed a promo pic for us.
He'll always be a good guy, a hell of a guitar player, and a brilliant songwriter.
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The baseball analogy is the best piece of advice. Just write a lot. You have to have a lot of failed at bats to have hits. And you really only need to convert on a minority of the songs you write. But just keep swinging. Love that modesty. I'm an amateur song writer and sometimes you just get one that's actually good and people seem to like it. Then you show them something else you've done and they don't like it at all. Kinda cool that you can't turn it on. It just comes to you when you need it.
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Interesting how different musicians/writers have different viewpoints on the process of writing/composing. A great interview of Wire back in the day and a journalist said that they didn't "play the song like the 'original' version." And their response was that the original version was not even what ended up on the first recording. So "nothing" is really the 'original' version. I thought that was a great response.
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@rickbeato2
7 months ago
Full Interview Here: https://youtu.be/nAfkxHcqWKI?si=vqZ3cZAWPN7nvcq8
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