We've been doing gigs since 2006 and then in 2010 or 2011 when Tim decided to retire, we got Pete and continued doing it.ĬA: Pretty much the same way. We got together with all the band members this time at Randy's house and McCarty would come in with some chords and riff ideas and then we would just put the ideas together. We'd rehearse and say, "Okay, how about we do that for eight bars, that can be the verse. Jim, what do you think?" talking to Jimmy Kunes. ![]() How about we go up tempo?" The title song, "Black Dawn," I actually did the key, the chords, the arrangement on my iPad, on Garage Band. I showed it to the guys and they liked it so McCarty learned what I did he plays it a lot better. Once we got like four or five songs, we put them down on tape. We ended up on either twelve or thirteen tracks, but we didn't do it all at once. We'd do the first four or five and then McCarty would go back to Detroit and then a couple of months later, he'd come back and do more. This album, over a period of time, probably took a year and a half at least.ĬA: Not really, because Tim has calmed down a lot in his old days. Pete really does a great job of being Tim-like. In the song "Headed For A Fall" there's that middle section where he's headed all over the bass. It sounds very much like something Tim would do. I miss having Tim around because we go back forever, and I love the guy like a brother, but. ![]() McCarty had a problem in the old days, just like Jeff Beck. They both had a problem after a while with Tim because he doesn't play groove. When the solo comes, there's a guitar solo and there's also a bass solo, where Pete doesn't do that. When there's a guitar solo, he's still there laying the bottom end with me, which really makes it a little bit more of a groove. ![]() When the solo would come and Tim would take off, then I'm playing by myself. There was a brilliance to Tim's playing like that, but after a couple of years of playing like that, Jeff Beck got fed up with it, and so did McCarty.
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