2014 MK RECORDING DIARY

[foma]

Name all guitars is a piece of cake, but songs is a tough one. Especially when it comes to distinguish between ES-335 with different pickups and 1959 and 1958 Les Paul.

[JF]

Considering "Get Lucky", I thought Richard plays the National on "Pulling Down The Ride"?

no, when Richard is playing slide (lap steel playing), like on pulling down the ride, he uses his own national triplate with a big square neck, the one he uses on :
- old pigweed
- in the heartland
- all that matters
...

Mark introduce this guitar saying "it has a really really big square neck, very hard to play" during 2005 tour for all that matters, and specially at Botthbay 2006


for stand up guy, it's not clear :
on the album booklet it's written Richard plays his "hawwaian national" on both ATM and SUG, and on MK news, Chuck ainlay provided infos saying that he plays Mark's national on SUG....
so difficult to say....

[JF]

Name all guitars is a piece of cake, but songs is a tough one. Especially when it comes to distinguish between ES-335 with different pickups and 1959 and 1958 Les Paul.

yes agree, but clues exists....

[dustyvalentino]

Can't really agree that it was worth the wait.

Nice pics but no real insights, no info on rumoured collaborations etc.

And the recording process appears to be following that of what is generally regarded to be his worst album ever...

[Fletch]

Someone recently has mentioned a parody that Mark & Guy spend days/weeks checking which Martin will sound best on "the next two chords". That kind of epitomises what I dislike about the modern millionaire ex-rock star vibe.
I guess it really is retirement, in a sense, there's no pressure to pump out an album every year and therefore the artist can get comfy in the armchair and not push themselves.
Who can blame them? After Marks whole career why should he 'have' to bring us the cutting edge of Communique or Love Over Gold. He has earned the right to do what he wants, and that IS success.

[LoveExpresso]

SUG??  how I hate these abbreviations...

And Dusty, I agree. Although I do not fully understand what you mean by

And the recording process appears to be following that of what is generally regarded to be his worst album ever...


You mean his next one? Or do you think Privateering was his worst ever? Sorry for my daftness, it is just a grammatical thing, or maybe it's too early for me...
 
LE

[Dutchessy]

SUG is Stand up Guy

[JF]

SUG??  how I hate these abbreviations...

And Dusty, I agree. Although I do not fully understand what you mean by

And the recording process appears to be following that of what is generally regarded to be his worst album ever...


You mean his next one? Or do you think Privateering was his worst ever? Sorry for my daftness, it is just a grammatical thing, or maybe it's too early for me...
 
LE

Yes LE I agree about abreviations, and I try most of the time to not use them, but sometimes whan I have 2 longs song titles in the same sentence, I admit I succumb to the temptation...

I don't understand dusty's comment either, if it's about Privateering I find it a little bit harsh, but of course it's all matter of taste 

[LoveExpresso]

No problem, JF, I must admit that I used to use them myself, and of course it is Stand Up Guy, could have checked it, it was not so difficult after all...

after several cups of coffee it suddenly struck me that Dusty of course means Kill To Get Crimson, because the process of work is pretty much the same... working all alone with Guy in the studio, taking a long time to dive into the songs etc...

Right? 

LE

[Justme]

Considering "Get Lucky", I thought Richard plays the National on "Pulling Down The Ride"?

no, when Richard is playing slide (lap steel playing), like on pulling down the ride, he uses his own national triplate with a big square neck, the one he uses on :
- old pigweed
- in the heartland
- all that matters
...

Mark introduce this guitar saying "it has a really really big square neck, very hard to play" during 2005 tour for all that matters, and specially at Botthbay 2006


for stand up guy, it's not clear :
on the album booklet it's written Richard plays his "hawwaian national" on both ATM and SUG, and on MK news, Chuck ainlay provided infos saying that he plays Mark's national on SUG....
so difficult to say....

Ah, thanks! 

[LoveExpresso]

About Guy's forum, I sent another question to him about 8 to 10 days ago.. (can't hardly remember what it was I asked  , something about him losing his interest in keeping his site updated and something like that, but friendly-written and with the adequate praise for the upcoming GF3). It seems he doesn't answer questions not with the same consistency than he used to. There were times when really EVERY question was posted. Nowadays it seems he chooses what fits best and ignores the rest. First time I got knowledge of this was when the secret US gig took place last October. To be fair to Guy, I got a personal message from him that explained to me why he couldn't comment on it.

Somehow it seems there is some change in PR work. Maybe Mark has enough of the constant diary stuff following his work. And "just a lot of drinking of tea and chit chat punctuated with occasional flurries of activity" does not sound excactly like the big amount of work he was indicating in earlier comments, doesn't it?

I can live with it perfectly well as long as we have a great new album. All I want to say is why keeping the tension up with announcing something and not delivering it for three months and then coming up with stuff that could have come from recent diary entries just as well. guitars, desks, mics. Mics. guitars. Desks. Oh, and Mark!

LE

[foma]

I sent an answer for competition, but seems like it's almost impossible to be 100% correct (even for MK lol), although for 50% of songs there is a clues everywhere.

[Jules]

The diary entry says to me how naive were we thinking that the new cd will be out this year touring next...

It looks like they are in early stages yet, unless Guy provides with new (and valuable) information, my guess is cd out in 2015, tour on 2016.

[dustyvalentino]

Yes guys, I meant KTGC.

[yontwocrows]

The diary entry says to me how naive were we thinking that the new cd will be out this year touring next...

It looks like they are in early stages yet, unless Guy provides with new (and valuable) information, my guess is cd out in 2015, tour on 2016.

i fear you're right