Interview With Jean-Paul Gaster
Posted by: bufftbone on 7/28/2010 11:05:18 PM
Swedish mag Critical Mass has interview Clutch drummer J.P. Gaster (don`t worry, it`s in english). Below are some highlights.
…and then you’re touring Canada and the US throughout September to October. Does the tour end there?
– The tour never ends! (laughs) We’ll take some time off and then we might do some shows after Christmas. But for us, it’s not really about “end of the record”-cycle and then we start another record cycle. We try to write music the entire time, some times we’re better at that than other times, but we try to always be looking for the next record, but we never think of it as “this is the end of the ‘Strange Cousins From the West’ tour”.
Neil’s style of lyric writing is very much like storytelling. Where does his inspiration come from?
– Well, luckily, Neil writes all of our lyrics. My lyrics would’ve been terrible! (laughs) And Neil is really good at doing that. There’s so many visuals happening you know, that’s what I can say about ‘em… I’m glad it’s not my job. (laughs)
Does the band own all publishing rights to the old albums now then?
– Not the ones that were released on major labels, pretty much up through “Pure Rock Fury” (2001), those are owned by major labels and I don’t see them getting rid of those records any time soon.
Check out criticalmass.se for the entire interview
