![]() ![]() Like a process of elimination until the tracks couldn't possibly, to our minds, be any better. Then we kept demoing and re-demoing until we whittled the songs down to exactly what we wanted sound wise and arrangement wise. "We spent a lot more time in preparation before we actually recorded it. The breaks and the bridges are more intuitive and the interplay on those parts between guitar and keyboards and rhythm section is a lot more confident." I think the last LP could have given the impression that there were a lot of different ideas being thrown about but this one seems to have more of a direction. "It's very much a group sound on the LP," says Talbot. The environment makes for good musician's talk. You can't buy that."īreakfast in the studio canteen has been arranged to discuss the current state of the Style Council and Our Favourite Shop, the new LP recorded, naturally, at Solid Bond. The technical side of things you can always bring up to standard but you can't upgrade the atmosphere of a place. When they put it up for sale I didn't really consider the equipment it had in it, I just liked the fact that the room was good and it was well located. "I've always really liked this place though. The biggest change it will undergo in the future will be when we get a Solid State desk which should really get things moving. ![]() Technically we only had to make a few embellishments but the main thing we did was decorate it. "It was the chance of a lifetime blah blah blah. "This place came up for sale and because we'd done so much work in here they offered it to us first," Weller explains. Formerly Polygram studios, Paul and father/manager John took over in September '83 and set about making it their own. The other project which became a target for a lot of Weller wealth channeling was Solid Bond Studios. This not only served as an excellent outlet for contemporary British Soul but provided a showcase and a stepping stone for many young musicians - a sort of musical YTS that paid properly and got results. Firstly he was able to shake the debris of The Jam from his shoes and inaugurate the Style Council. ![]() This wealth tempered ironically with Weller's socialist principles has produced a number of good things. His gifts as songwriter and guitar player would comply with the various creative criteria by which musicians are judged but he has certainly made money from making music. "That's what I understand by the term musician."īy this definition Paul Weller is a musician. "It's a fact that if you make money from making music then you are a musician," concludes Talbot. So the term musician is no longer a dirty one? You can develop in ways that you don't even appreciate yourself." "You may reach a peak as a musician but you develop and learn all the time if you stay in it. "Although you develop anyway," adds Talbot. There's been much more of an incentive for me to come up to standard." That's probably because I've worked with Mick and Steve White who are both really good musicians. "I definitely take myself more seriously as a musician these days. "I suppose it depends a lot on your definition of the word but I am a musician," decides Weller. Breakfast with the Style Council was a strange enough notion but nobody had expected to get into elementary musical existentialism before the croissants. Weller furrows his brow and munches thoughtfully on his toast, Talbot sips his tea and suddenly looks very old. ![]()
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