Talk:Chewing Hides The Sound
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Notes From Ralph
"There's no point in me doing what The Residents are doing because they're already there doing it. As far as I'm concerned, they've gone much further out than most people are prepared to undertake or understand. [...]
My conclusion in LA was that there needs to be a stepping stone between where rock is today, the newest rock, and where The Residents are. The Residents haven't left anything to hold onto for those people. If you've listened to Eskimo, it's practically not music at all, as far as I'm concerned it's an absolute masterpiece and maybe one of the most important records of the decade, I would say without a doubt it is. But my point of view is to give the roots to the people that need the roots to hold onto to grasp the music and that's what I'm doing, giving the roots and taking them further out, leading them along, perhaps eventually to The Residents and beyond. But at the moment that's where I'm going. [...]
I play all of the guitars. I play slide and regular guitars basically never sounding like ordinary guitars hopefully. I also have a guitar orchestra, basically if you play a chord, you're playing one note after another note, every time you play a chord you're playing one string individually over a period of time. What the guitar orchestra does is that it plays that chord, but it plays that chord, but it plays it all at the same time, which is a sound that no one's ever heard before. It's generally overdubbed but unless you can get about 5 or 6 people to form a guitar orchestra it's the only way it can be done. So basically this is a completely new sound, it's the guitar orchestra, it's basically all the people do is play one note each, but they play it simultaneously as in a piano chord. This is what forms a lot of the backing of what I'm playing on my new album."
Chewing Hides The Sound. It does in fact. If you're eating Smiths Crisps.
- Snakefinger, 1980
The first one just just like a total experimental shot in the dark, searching around for a feeling of how I wanted to get across what I wanted to do.
- Snakefinger, 1982
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