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by Mason_Archive
I really enjoyed that interview. Now I feel like picking up a Pro Jr. and a 2x12. For to Crunch.A part that stood out was the bit where FM Andrew B. Cohen talks about how he never sees guitarists playing in anything like his style, how they think about their playing too much. I kind of smirked when he said (words to the effect) that it's relatively easy to play how he does. That was great to hear. Because so few people play that well or that distinctively, clearly, but at the same time, his playing makes me feel that he's on kind of an emotional autopilot. It's very informed, you can hear the skill and the practice, but it comes across like it's all impulse. So it checks out.Hearing the second song from Unreality this morning got me thinking ”to keep talking like he's not here ”about his lyrics. Which I think of as coming from maybe the opposite of an emotional autopilot. But that could easily be wrong ”the little I've read/heard him talk about lyrics has made them seem pretty impressionistic at times, not always about something.I'm not a big process dude, but if FM Andrew B. Cohen felt like talking some about his lyrics ”what drives the songwriting, how the ideas come together ”that would be rad.