MOSTER MAGNET DAVE WYNDORF INTERVIEW 2013
MONSTER MAGNET IS BACK... WE TALK EXCLUSIVELY TO DAVE WYNDORF ON THE EVE OF THE RELEASE OF MONSTER MAGNET'S MASTERPIECE 'LAST PATROL'... |
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MONSTER MAGNET is on the verge of releasing their most essential album for years: 'Last Patrol' is everything you wanted Monster Magnet to be and sees the band back to their very best. We got the chance to speak to Dave Wyndorf to get the lowdown on everything from the stunning new album to the bands first headlining US tour in over ten years...
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Mark: Hi, Dave, its Mark from The Rockpit, how are you?
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Mark: It starts off really beautifully; “I Live behind the Clouds” with that simple introduction that is sustained all the way through, it’s almost the sort of song you can imagine Tom Waite singing.
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Mark How do you write? Do you sit there with an acoustic, or do lyrics come first?
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Mark: Great to see that optimism. I think they last two times we saw you were just before ‘Mastermind’ in 2009 and then for our Soundwave Festival in 2011. There’s no chance of seeing you in the second wave of announcements for Soundwave 2014?
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Mark: You’d think listening to the radio sometimes that we have forgotten about it! But it’s great that there are still plenty of people like us who like to get out and see some real live music as often as we can!
Mark: Like most of us over the years you’ve had your own personal ups and downs – where is Dave Wyndorf in September 2013?
Dave: Working really hard! I made a huge mistake by getting addicted to anti-anxiety medication, prescribed as sleeping pills. I almost died. That was a huge wake-up call, I was like “OK get back on the horse dude” and it totally helped me out on my outlook to music – meaning my music, and I was going to re-purpose my energy toward nothing but interesting music. There’s nothing inside me and no one outside me that can tell me what I should do, I’ll make music that interests me and if they are horribly uncommercial then so be it! I’m done with this trying to write that next hit single or anything else that doesn’t make complete sense to the album in hand. And I think that really was taught to me by the whole drug think – you know waking up and thinking what really makes me happy? It’s true – you go through something like that and it’s all about priorities, what really makes you happy but like from minute to minute. And the only thing that really makes me happy from minute to minute is making sense of music.
Mark: It’s great to hear that and it’s really worked on this album. In saying that did you really go back on this record and revisit any of those primary influences you had? Any that came through that made me think shit this is what it used to be all about?
Dave: Oh sure, yes, absolutely, it’s not as if I have to listen to old records to get that. Although we did play a couple of tours after Mastermind where we went out and played old albums all the way through so that might have helped me too. We did one tour of doing ‘Dopes to Infinity’ in its entirety then we did ‘Spine of God’ so I’m sure that was all lodged in my brain somewhere. That kind of old school attitude, recording techniques and the whole thing has always been in me though it’s not hard to summon them up.
Mark: It’s been hugely enjoyable to talk to you Dave and the time has just flown by. If we could end with a couple we ask everyone… If you could have been a fly on the wall for the creation of any piece of music at any point in time just to see how it came together and the magic worked what would it have been for you and why?
Dave spoke to Mark Diggins September 2013 |
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