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Sum 41 in total guitar
in the october issue of total guitar, there is an interview with deryck about his guitar, inspiration for UH, his relationship with dave since he left, and he says that avril can ACTUALLY PLAY GUITAR....dang. anyway, check out the article, its pretty neat.
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http://theresnosolution.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2620
I have a couple of questions from it typed out in that thread from over a month ago I'll type the rest up this evening because I'm in work now in thirty minutes.
Basically he explains the meaning of Pull The Curtain and Walking Disaster,talks about Dave,his guitar influences and says that neither himself nor Avril are better at guitar they both just use them as tools to create music.
Anyway I'll have the rest up later if it's not already done by somebody else
I have a couple of questions from it typed out in that thread from over a month ago I'll type the rest up this evening because I'm in work now in thirty minutes.
Basically he explains the meaning of Pull The Curtain and Walking Disaster,talks about Dave,his guitar influences and says that neither himself nor Avril are better at guitar they both just use them as tools to create music.
Anyway I'll have the rest up later if it's not already done by somebody else
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Ok this is gonna take a while!
For Sum 41, Canada's erstwhile leaders in brattishness, the days of comedy videos and gurning into cameras seem to be gone for good. After the departure of guitarist Dave Baksh, the band have evolved from gobby,spotty teens into a much more mature act on Underclass hero, their fifth album. with riff-packed songs that address George Bush, the perils of on-tour substances and Whibley's panic attacks, is this Sum 41 for adults? TG finds out...
Deryck, Underclass Hero is pretty heavy stuff coming from the band who wrote Fat Lip...
"[Laughs] Yeah! People are surprised that we talk about this stuff, but we've been writing political songs, and songs with serious themes since our second record (All Kill No Filler). As You Get Older, you can choose to ignore everything that goes on in life or you can be knowledgeable about it. I can't help but recognise what's going on"
So what inspired the new seriousness?
"Every song on this record is extremely personal. It reflects all the confusion and frustration in modern society. If anyone were to write down what they find frustrating about the modern world, they'd have about twenty pages, but it doesn't mean that everything is negative. Our record is actually very positive. I learned a lot about writing stuff that scares you and that you don't really want to talk about, but I have a lot of hope and that comes out on this record. This record means more to us than anything else we've ever done."
In Dear Father (Complete unknown), you write about how you never knew your dad. Writing that must have taken a bit of courage?
"Exactly. When you write about something that's so personal you end up scaring the shit out of yourself. You hit these subconscious brick walls and you don't even realise that you're stopping yourself because you're afraid. And I said 'I don't want to stop myself anymore. I don't want to make a safe record; I want to write about things that scare the shit out of me.' Then every song became about what scares me the most."
Pull The curtain sounds pretty scary!
"I was 22 and we were on tour in Japan and I started having severe panic attacks - just this crazy anxiety. I didn't know what was happening to me, I didn't know it was panic. For six or eight months I was having a panic attack every single day and I thought my brain had been fried from all the drugs I'd done, so I started going to see a drug's counsellor. I said, 'I've done something to my brain, I'm fucked!' As soon as I realised that it was anxiety and did some research on the internet I started getting over it.
"So that's what this song is about. My panic attacks always start because I think I'm about to die. I can feel my chest getting heavy as though I'm gonna have a heart attack. I understand them now, which is why I don't get them anymore. But at the time I was like 'What the fuck is going on?' "
The Song Walking Diasaster sounds pretty miserable, frankly...
"Actually, it's pretty positive. That song starts at that point when you're a teenager and you're uncertain of what your place is in life, or what the purpose of your existence is, and you're not getting along with your parents.
The city you live in sucks so you leave it and you end up living this seedy lifestyle. At the end of the song you realise what you actually had and why it was right, and you end up feeling positive and you go back home."
March Of The Dogs and The Jester both address George Bush's government and the Iraq war. Why did you write these songs?
"I almost didn't write March Of The dogs because I thought 'I've said this before [on Still Waiting from 2002's Does This Look Infected? album}.' But if I want to be true to myself as an artist, I have to say it because it's the first thing on the list of confusion and frustration in modern society. War and politics are not a trend or a fad: they're reality. The Iraq war is on the front page every single day and it's relevant. A few people put us down for doing those songs and supposedly jumping on the political bandwagon, but I always say that I'm one of the few people in the music business who have actually been in a war, which gives me the right to talk about it."
Moving away from your new album, how is your relationship with Dave Baksh these days since he left the band?
"It's the same as it always was, which was a good relationship. We never really spoke outside of music and now that the music side is gone we just don't speak. I record all of our guitar parts now and it's a little easier because I don't have to write anything that I think someone else is gonna play. I used to always think 'Is Dave even gonna like this? Is he gonna want something more technical?" That's part of the reason he left, but he also wanted to do his own thing. He's the singer and writer of his own band now. Our new guitarist, Tom from the band Gob, is a good friend of ours and he's known us a long time."
Have your guitar influences changed over the years or are they still the same?
"When I was a kid, I was into Slash and Jimi Hendrix, and then Nirvana and Metallica a bit later on. I thikn Master Of Puppets is Metallica's best album and, even though I don't really have any guitar heroes, I think James Hetfield is a great guitar player. His downstrokes and the attitude they produced was just amazing. I like rhythm guitar players - lead guitar players who go really fast don't excite me at all. Guitar's to me are just a tool for writing songs. I wasnever like 'I'm gonna be this great guitarist!' "
Speaking of guitars as tools, tell us about your new costim guitar...
"It's a black Fender telecaster based on the 1972 Deluxe. It has the big pickguard but only two knobs instead of four because it's only got one pickup at the bridge. It has a Strat neck, just because I don't like the Tele headstock, and I changed the pickup from singlecoil to a Seymour Duncan Humbucker, which has a really smooth, classic distortion not like a modern sound from an EMG or whatever..."
How often do you practice these days?
"I don't! I get better because I play a lot, but I don't really try to play scales or anything. When Dave was in the band he showed me some shredding stuff, but I would never go and try and figure something out myself. He would always try to figure stuff out, but I could never stand to sit and listen to it over and over andlisten to the notes because I just don't care."
You're married to Avril Lavigne. Who's the better guitar player?
"Neither of us are the best guitar players in the world! We both play just to write music. We don't really play together because we're both established at what we do, and we have our own ways of writing music."
Marriage. Politics. Therapy. With all this new-found maturity, are Sum 41 still a pop punk band?
"Regardless of what you say you are, what everyone else says you are is what you are! We've said so many times that we're a rock band, but we'll always be a pop-punk band no matter what we say. To be honest, I really don't care anymore."
For Sum 41, Canada's erstwhile leaders in brattishness, the days of comedy videos and gurning into cameras seem to be gone for good. After the departure of guitarist Dave Baksh, the band have evolved from gobby,spotty teens into a much more mature act on Underclass hero, their fifth album. with riff-packed songs that address George Bush, the perils of on-tour substances and Whibley's panic attacks, is this Sum 41 for adults? TG finds out...
Deryck, Underclass Hero is pretty heavy stuff coming from the band who wrote Fat Lip...
"[Laughs] Yeah! People are surprised that we talk about this stuff, but we've been writing political songs, and songs with serious themes since our second record (All Kill No Filler). As You Get Older, you can choose to ignore everything that goes on in life or you can be knowledgeable about it. I can't help but recognise what's going on"
So what inspired the new seriousness?
"Every song on this record is extremely personal. It reflects all the confusion and frustration in modern society. If anyone were to write down what they find frustrating about the modern world, they'd have about twenty pages, but it doesn't mean that everything is negative. Our record is actually very positive. I learned a lot about writing stuff that scares you and that you don't really want to talk about, but I have a lot of hope and that comes out on this record. This record means more to us than anything else we've ever done."
In Dear Father (Complete unknown), you write about how you never knew your dad. Writing that must have taken a bit of courage?
"Exactly. When you write about something that's so personal you end up scaring the shit out of yourself. You hit these subconscious brick walls and you don't even realise that you're stopping yourself because you're afraid. And I said 'I don't want to stop myself anymore. I don't want to make a safe record; I want to write about things that scare the shit out of me.' Then every song became about what scares me the most."
Pull The curtain sounds pretty scary!
"I was 22 and we were on tour in Japan and I started having severe panic attacks - just this crazy anxiety. I didn't know what was happening to me, I didn't know it was panic. For six or eight months I was having a panic attack every single day and I thought my brain had been fried from all the drugs I'd done, so I started going to see a drug's counsellor. I said, 'I've done something to my brain, I'm fucked!' As soon as I realised that it was anxiety and did some research on the internet I started getting over it.
"So that's what this song is about. My panic attacks always start because I think I'm about to die. I can feel my chest getting heavy as though I'm gonna have a heart attack. I understand them now, which is why I don't get them anymore. But at the time I was like 'What the fuck is going on?' "
The Song Walking Diasaster sounds pretty miserable, frankly...
"Actually, it's pretty positive. That song starts at that point when you're a teenager and you're uncertain of what your place is in life, or what the purpose of your existence is, and you're not getting along with your parents.
The city you live in sucks so you leave it and you end up living this seedy lifestyle. At the end of the song you realise what you actually had and why it was right, and you end up feeling positive and you go back home."
March Of The Dogs and The Jester both address George Bush's government and the Iraq war. Why did you write these songs?
"I almost didn't write March Of The dogs because I thought 'I've said this before [on Still Waiting from 2002's Does This Look Infected? album}.' But if I want to be true to myself as an artist, I have to say it because it's the first thing on the list of confusion and frustration in modern society. War and politics are not a trend or a fad: they're reality. The Iraq war is on the front page every single day and it's relevant. A few people put us down for doing those songs and supposedly jumping on the political bandwagon, but I always say that I'm one of the few people in the music business who have actually been in a war, which gives me the right to talk about it."
Moving away from your new album, how is your relationship with Dave Baksh these days since he left the band?
"It's the same as it always was, which was a good relationship. We never really spoke outside of music and now that the music side is gone we just don't speak. I record all of our guitar parts now and it's a little easier because I don't have to write anything that I think someone else is gonna play. I used to always think 'Is Dave even gonna like this? Is he gonna want something more technical?" That's part of the reason he left, but he also wanted to do his own thing. He's the singer and writer of his own band now. Our new guitarist, Tom from the band Gob, is a good friend of ours and he's known us a long time."
Have your guitar influences changed over the years or are they still the same?
"When I was a kid, I was into Slash and Jimi Hendrix, and then Nirvana and Metallica a bit later on. I thikn Master Of Puppets is Metallica's best album and, even though I don't really have any guitar heroes, I think James Hetfield is a great guitar player. His downstrokes and the attitude they produced was just amazing. I like rhythm guitar players - lead guitar players who go really fast don't excite me at all. Guitar's to me are just a tool for writing songs. I wasnever like 'I'm gonna be this great guitarist!' "
Speaking of guitars as tools, tell us about your new costim guitar...
"It's a black Fender telecaster based on the 1972 Deluxe. It has the big pickguard but only two knobs instead of four because it's only got one pickup at the bridge. It has a Strat neck, just because I don't like the Tele headstock, and I changed the pickup from singlecoil to a Seymour Duncan Humbucker, which has a really smooth, classic distortion not like a modern sound from an EMG or whatever..."
How often do you practice these days?
"I don't! I get better because I play a lot, but I don't really try to play scales or anything. When Dave was in the band he showed me some shredding stuff, but I would never go and try and figure something out myself. He would always try to figure stuff out, but I could never stand to sit and listen to it over and over andlisten to the notes because I just don't care."
You're married to Avril Lavigne. Who's the better guitar player?
"Neither of us are the best guitar players in the world! We both play just to write music. We don't really play together because we're both established at what we do, and we have our own ways of writing music."
Marriage. Politics. Therapy. With all this new-found maturity, are Sum 41 still a pop punk band?
"Regardless of what you say you are, what everyone else says you are is what you are! We've said so many times that we're a rock band, but we'll always be a pop-punk band no matter what we say. To be honest, I really don't care anymore."
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