00:02One more straight away.
00:05Woo!
00:07One, two, three, four!
00:21Hi Gary, I'm Peter.
00:22Hi Peter, I'm Gary.
00:23Nice to see you.
00:25You got that one done.
00:26I'm Peter Buck.
00:27I am rhythm guitar player.
00:28I'm Gary Lightbody.
00:29I sing and ham-fistedly play the guitar.
00:38The first day in the studio with Tired Pony.
00:40Like literally the first day.
00:43I hadn't played anybody else in the band any songs or anything.
00:46Just because they weren't really ready.
00:48I felt like I was so underprepared.
00:51And Peter really put mine and everyone else's mind at ease when we got in the studio.
00:56I was just like, you know, just don't worry about it.
00:59Let's just go for it and see what happens.
01:02And you know, he was right not to worry.
01:04I was wrong to worry.
01:05So yeah, that was trial by fire.
01:07But it was, it was, it was, it turned easy.
01:10It turned easy quickly.
01:18Well, it was just, it was an, it was a loose-limbed idea of mine to get, um, to get
01:25people together to record a bunch of the songs that I had been writing, um, at the time.
01:30But when I got into the studio, I realized that the songs that we were writing in the studio were
01:33better than the ones I had already written.
01:35So, but I had written a bunch of songs, um, and, uh, wanted to record them.
01:43You know, I respected Gary's work and, uh, my understanding was we were going to work very quickly.
01:49I had no idea what the musical was going to be.
01:51Country, folk, blues, whatever.
01:52I was prepared for a punk record.
01:54I brought my mandolin.
01:56Um, but as long as it's spontaneous and improvised, it was, it sounded like a very exciting thing to do.
02:01It was a constant sort of stream of people coming in and out of the studio.
02:04Just sort of, some, some of them popped in and ended up playing on the record.
02:06You know, it was like, oh, right, brilliant.
02:08You're here.
02:09There's a guitar.
02:10Go for it.
02:11You know, every day we're going to invent something new.
02:13We don't really know how many songs we have.
02:15We don't know what's finished.
02:16Uh, if we brought in, say, a pedal steel player, which we did one day, who also plays trumpet,
02:20well then, we do a day of pedal steel and trumpet playing.
02:23And, uh, some female vocalists and fiddle players.
02:26And, uh, it was a really nice thing where every day we, it wasn't like the previous day.
02:30You know, it was a song you haven't heard.
02:31Maybe a couple of people you haven't played with.
02:34Um, but really quick and spontaneous.
02:36And very much, you know, the songs were written and performed within an hour.
02:41And that's, you know, for whatever faults the record may have, it's fresh and it's completely what we were feeling
02:49in the moment at the time.
02:56Quite a lot of blood on this record.
02:58Quite a lot of blood dripping from this record.
03:01But you have to really go deep into the record before you find it.
03:05But, um, it's in there.
03:07It's alright.
03:07It's quite a lot of dark tales of bad deeds.
03:10Uh-oh.
03:14It's okay.
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