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Johnny Mac:
Has anyone else bought this yet?

I bought it last week and it arrived promptly.

Very different sounding kinda stuff to cable, I quite enjoy it so far though.

And the cd packaging is very nice.

Pete Cable:
I love it - you have to remember Matt is the drummer - I'm not really sure what his input is song wise - he might have had the urge to be 'creative' with a guitar beaten out of him. I think we thought pretty similar when choosing what to do next music wise - (a) something different from cable, to try and avoid comparrison and (b) not be so heavily involved in the songwriting.
With cable, being in a band lost many aspects of the fun of it, once we got on a treadmill of write songs, argue with record company about new songs, agree which songs can be recorded, record songs, argue with record company about recordings, remix/master songs, argue with record company about the new mixes, prepare artwork, argue with record company about art work...(do you see a pattern? :D) And what made it specially hard would be the deadline set...we would literally finish touring one album, when the label would say 'you have 13 weeks to write a new album'. That meant 13 weeks to write around 15-16 songs (10 or 11 for the album and b sides to cover all single releases). Infectious were pretty hot on us releasing an album every year - they were worried that anythign longer would mean the kettle would go off the boil. Soo it was hard work and we all contributed to the writing - Richie didn't just wack stuff, he would input into arrangement, had a great ear for vocal melodies - we all made suggestions and not just on our own instrument - Matt would often pick up the bass and go 'i imagined something more like this' or I'd pick up a guitar and suggest a change on the rhythm, or swap the chords round, or like I did in song1, just go 'how about this in the middle?' and play one chord for like 16 bars!
so when it came to doing HS6 - I knew what sort of band I wanted to form, but I wanted the others to have more of an active input than me - because If I drove the ideas too much, it would just end up all cabley.
So as a result, there is a backlash - I worry that HS6 is too cabley, I also worry that Cable is all I'll ever really achieve and yet many a cable fan is disappointed by how not-cabley we are.
I'd been listening to alot of stuff like early zz top, sabbath, ac-dc, zeppelin - fuzzed up sleaze rock and I fancied starting a modern blues band with a punk ethic to songwriting. I wanted it to twang and swagger, rather than hurtle along like an express train - just wanted to break away and try that. I remember thinking it would be great if we could make blues rock cool again by giving it a fresh coat of paint. Like what the whole baggy thing did for psychedelic 60s type stuff.
So I was hoping JSA would be at right angles to cable and I was pleased when I heard it. I just wish Darius' work had seen the light of day - it was probably the most imaginitive out of everybody - I contributed some drum loops and a bit of scratching here and there, but what got used in the final mixes, I don't know.

Johnny Mac:
Awesome post Pete. Thanks for all the background stuff.

I can see why you would want to try something different and deliberately try to get a sound away from Cable and to be honest I really like HS6 stuff. In one way I suppose, at least we get everyone from the band producing different output now and see different influences in everyones work!

Greg:
HI Pete,
             Hope your feeling much better now. Do you play any other instruments as well as Bass and Decks?

Oh, And you do what you do, and don't care if no one else likes it, if your into it. Thats all that matters!!!

Matt's got great feel in hiss playing. Niceone!

All the best ;)

Greg.

Pete Cable:
I started out on turntables in 1984. In 1990 I bought a drumkit, which suffered personal abuse for a few years before I decided I couldn't play for toffee. I then, on a whim bought a squire stratocaster and played guitar for about 2 years before buying a bass, which was done just to fill in for a band who had no bassplayer. I have a lovely rare old roland SH2000 keyboard, but I wouldn't claim to be able to pay that either - i just coax it into making bubbly squelching noises that I sample. I never refer to myself as a musician. The HS6 guys roll their eyes at me because I don't recognise 'Em7', I just go 'that one, with the finger here'. I'm happier thinking I'm a songwriter, arranger and performer and the above things are the tools i use to to carry that out. If I'm recording a guitar by strumming it, or hitting it with a stick makes no difference to me, i'm just after a sound to do the job I'm imagining in my head.

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