As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
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I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.
I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.
In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.
When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get on that one little track.
The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
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