Chris Poland: The Guitar Channel interview



CP: You know, all music is good. Some of it is better than others but... what we [OHMPhrey] did in there was the same thing [as Polcat] - no baffles, no anything; just played live. And there’s a certain energy that you can’t capture when you’re doing overdubs, or if you sit down and really like... you know some guys will work on a song for two months. When you do that man you’re going to wind up with one of those songs that kind of sounds contrived, you know? So I’m glad that we don’t have really anything on the record like that. That’s why I like doing that. I’m thinking about doing the next OHM record totally live. Then if it needs to be filled here or there, I’ll use pads here and there on guitar, backing chords, but the core of the record is going to be live.

RM: Cool. When do you think that will happen?

CP: Pretty soon. As soon as I get a break here, because I know the OHMPhrey stuff is going to kick into gear. The reason it would be great to do it live is because it’s my studio, and I can leave everything there with all the mics set up. We can do songs as we go along - I can record a song tomorrow, then do one in another three weeks. Just go on like that until we have 15 songs... more

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