One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.
People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.
I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.
You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.
When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.
My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.