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Post by mrguy on Oct 28, 2010 5:05:25 GMT
So, I have secured an interview with PRR (specifically Jon). I have drafted most of my questions, but if any of ya'll have anything you'd like to ask, let me know, and I'll see what I can do (I can do the whole "X, from Z country, Y town, of P age" thing if you want). Fire away  |
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Post by Stefan on Oct 28, 2010 11:36:27 GMT
Hi mrguy,
I don't know your questions but you shouldn't ask about
solo projects. You wrote that before. This interview is
about Hammer And Anvil.
Start with an intro like "Because of the release of
Hammer And Anvil I would like to ask some questions etc."
Questions:
1. Does the final result of Hammer And Anvil sound like
of what you have expected before starting with the
recordings?
2. Was the recording process of Hammer And Anvil different
from recording the previous albums?
3. What's your favourite song of the new album?
4. How did Tom Bellamy get involved?
5. Are there any songs too complex to perform
it live?
6. Do PRR play longer concerts in the future
(maybe a standard length of 90 minutes)?
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Post by flyingswordfish on Oct 28, 2010 14:28:53 GMT
1. Is there any instrumentation that you haven't gotten to work with yet that you'd like to in the future?
2. What kind of books have you been reading lately?
3. Will there be any music videos for Hammer and Anvil? Would you like to do a video/videos?
4. How do the music-writing and lyric-writing processes work for you? Does one come before the other, are they simultaneous, or does it vary depending on the song?
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Post by stumoo on Oct 29, 2010 10:01:23 GMT
When are you going to be doing this interview?
Anyway, those questions above are all very good. I would maybe add a couple like:
"How many studio/production hours do you reckon you put in to get a result like H&A"?
"What do you do to keep yourselved occupied on long tour journeys (besides having dance-offs in fast food restaurants)?"
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Post by robfoot on Oct 29, 2010 22:21:50 GMT
"How extensively are you planning to tour on the album?"
"How do you see the band's musical direction moving in the next few albums, will it return to solidly guitar based stuff like TDT, or will you continue to experiment with electronic stuff?"
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Post by ryan on Oct 29, 2010 23:45:30 GMT
There's bits of the programming and stuff on TDT though, they added quite a lot of that to Nimos compared to the old single version for example.
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Post by the dark fourth on Oct 30, 2010 12:38:37 GMT
Ask him which is favourite out of Batman Begins and the Dark Knight. Now there's a question.
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Post by Lawrie on Oct 30, 2010 13:32:01 GMT
Ask him which is favourite out of Batman Begins and the Dark Knight. Now there's a question. Assuming Jon has excellent taste in movies, I can answer for him: he'd say that both films are okay-to-good, but nowhere near as brilliant as many people make out and that even Nolan's best film, Inception, was technically and intellectually excellent but was a bit lacking in the getting-an-emotional-response-from-an-audience department. He'd then go on to say that if you really wanted an impossible choice between excellent films, you'd be agonising over whether Park Chan-wook's Oldboy was better than Terry Gilliam's Brazil... but equally that you can't wait for the UK releases of future exploitation classics Machete (directed by Robert Rodriguez) and Hobo With A Shotgun (starring Rutger Hauer) in the coming weeks and months. That's definitely how he'd answer! |
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Post by the dark fourth on Oct 30, 2010 17:53:45 GMT
Ah, forgot we had a freakish anti-Batmanist on the boards...Admin, can't we get some kind of filter on the membership form to prevent them from joining? What's this, the anti-Batmanist IS an admin? Damn!  |
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Post by ryan on Oct 30, 2010 18:38:27 GMT
the actual answer is Begins because TDK is a touch long and sags slightly in places.
you're welcome.
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Post by Lawrie on Oct 30, 2010 20:20:09 GMT
Ah, forgot we had a freakish anti-Batmanist on the boards...Admin, can't we get some kind of filter on the membership form to prevent them from joining? What's this, the anti-Batmanist IS an admin? Damn! I like Batman, and I think Begins and Dark Knight are perfectly solid films, The Dark Knight being my preferred movie of the two. It's just that the Nolan films are overrated in the canon: clearly the best Batman film was Tim Burton's "Returns" with Michael Keaton as Batman and Danny de Vito as The Penguin. Obviously the Nolan films are light years ahead of the terrible Batman & Robin with Arnie et al, but they're not ALL that - not even the best Batman films, let alone two of the best movies ever as IMDB would have you believe. I just rant on because they're more popular than I think they should be: bah humbugs all round! ;D Anyway, sorry all for hijacking what is supposed to be a PRR-related thread: as you were... |
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Post by matthew on Nov 3, 2010 3:27:02 GMT
I'd love to know which H&A song took a last minute change of direction. I remember Jamie referred to this on twitter weeks before they began mastering.
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Post by the dark fourth on Nov 3, 2010 12:16:26 GMT
Yeah - and also which song was Jamie talking about when he said it was "pure DOOM"? LMLR? OI?
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Post by briggsy on Nov 3, 2010 12:45:15 GMT
Could you ask Jon if he is at all embarrassed by having padded out both AVO and H&A with such obvious 'filler' tracks?
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Post by ryan on Nov 3, 2010 12:59:44 GMT
Could you ask Jon if he is at all embarrassed by having padded out both AVO and H&A with such obvious 'filler' tracks? Hey look everyone, look! This guy doesn't like bits of some things! Look at him! Check him out! He wants to share his opinion with us in an unconstructive way! Let's give him his own thread! |
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