Interviews [Topic Unique]

[MaTThieu]

ahah bien poilante cette interview merci down

[phoenix_striker]

Stef : Une version acoustique de Cherry Waves ? Je ne sais pas. Je n’ai rien à voir avec ça, je ne l’ai même pas entendue à vrai dire.

Abe : Moi si.

Stef : J’imagine d’où ça vient cela dit.

Abe : En gros il s’agit juste de la même piste vocale que sur l’album avec Chino qui a enregistré par-dessus des parties de guitare en acoustique.

Stef : Deftones c’est 4 mecs d’un côté et Chino de l’autre

Merci en tout cas, super questions

[down_in_a_hole]

Les interviews de Lorenzo cartonnent vraiment toujours, du bon boulot

Et le Stef ...

Peut être une possibilité de les voir apparaître en face B de single ou sur des compilations ?

Stef : Non, on essaie de garder ces titres exclusifs pour les utiliser lorsque le groupe se séparera (rires). Lorsque tout s’effondrera, lorsque que ce sera le chaos (rires).

Faudrait sortir un livre sur ses interviews enfumés un jour

[cookie]

rien que la photo elle promet pour la suite

très sympa l'interview en tout cas. merci down pour le lien

[Lnkjuice]

Yeah excellente interview

*essaie de terminer la transcription de la sienne...*

[Aegehn]

En effet très sympa cet interview.

[Mélisende]

une interview politico-religieuse de stef

[Lnkjuice]

Interview de Steph réalisée pour Guitarist Magazine, dans laquelle il annonce qu'il va bel et bien passer à la guitare 8 cordes et à un accordage en Mi (E) mais un octave plus bas... Le malade... C'est Chi qui va apprécier.

The man responsible for Deftones' furious wall of sound lifts the lid on playing guitar and fighting your corner in one of the world's heaviest bands...


Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter has one of the most instantly recognisable sounds in rock and metal today. His monolithic downtuned powerchords are the key to the intense soundscapes that have made several of the band's albums essential purchaces for fans of heavy music. On the accompanying Guitarist DVD, Steph discusses his approach to the guitar and the way that conflict fuels the band's unique writing process. Backstage at Bristol's Carling Academy venue, we find the seven-stringer somewhat tired and emotional, but more than willing to talk guitar.

As we persue a formidable collection of signature ESP electrics with EMG-707 pickups, we discover that the band's most recent album, Saturday Night Wrist, was recorded with the lowest string on Carpenter's instruments tuned down to a bowel-troubling F#. That would be more than low enough for most people, but he doesn't intend to stop there:

''I'm gonna have some eight-strings made pretty soon. I'm gonna go all the way back to E, a whole octave lower.''

WE CAN'T HELP wondering exactly what kind of backline can cope with such gratuitous low end...

''My system has always been Marshall, Except for in the very early stages of the band. I was using Marshall back then too, but with an ADA MP-1 preamp for distortion. Then that company disappeared and i wasn't going to try to scour the planet looking for one of those to make sure i got my sound, so i switched over to Marshall. Everything Marshall makes is pretty much great and I've been using the JMP-1 and 9200 power amps since 1998. I turn the low end up and add to it to make it sound like a big old mess! Since about 2001 i haven't had a clean sound at all. I just wanna play stuff that's loud and piercing.''

IT HAS BEEN speculated that this love for all things loud and heavy, in contrast to frontman Chino Moreno's more abstract tastes, has been that cause of some dysfunction within the band. How does the Deftones' songwriting process work these days?

''There's no specific method we use when it comes to writing. It all generates from someone jamming, whether it's all of us or one of us. But it all starts with a jam for sure. Chino constantly wants to play stuff that's mellow and quiet all the time and it's just not fun to me at all. If it wasn't loud or heavy on (fourth studio album) Deftones then i just wasn't on it. I initially came to Saturday Night Wrist with the same mentality, but i was like, I'm gonna start playing other stuff. And that sparked my mind to the point where i want to learn to play some nice proper leads, I want to start shredding!''

COMING FROM SOMEONE famed for their huge rythm sound, that's quite surpsing! Who are your favourite lead players?

''My favourite is Eddie Van Halen. In my opinion that dude is the baddest guitar player ever. The guy transfers from lead to rythm in a blink, and it's all so perfect, so tasteful all the time. It's never obnoxious.''

WHAT OTHER MUSICIANS inspire you?

''When i'm working on something, whether it's by myself or with the band, my only focus is playing something that sounds good to me and that i can play consistently. There's not a direct point of inspiration at that point in time for me.''

YOU GIVE THE impression that you're reluctant to think about your guitar parts outside of their exsistence as component parts of the songs themselves...

''I'm not one to ever look at it from a perspective where i'm trying to promote myself, like, This part's fucking awesome, check this out. The songs people hear from us are the songs that filtered through all of us, where we actually get along and it all sounds the way we like it. Otherwise it's us arguing and battling and the song never makes it to the final stages.''

ONE ASPECT OF your style is a fondness for unusual, dissonant chord voicings, are there any particular favourites that you have?

''I don't really know any chords. I know some, I guess, but i'm really just playing what sounds good to me. I like stuff that sounds more out of place than what's in place, otherwise it sounds too pretty to me.''

SO WHAT IS the difference between the way that you approach the guitar and the way that Chino does?

''Chino plays like a girl, I play like a boy. That's the main difference. No, That's just me cracking a joke, but i love metal-style playing and he loves a more rock'n'roll, punk attitude. I enjoy playing guitar with Chino and i enjoy spending a lot of time with him as well. I definitely think that our relationship is misinterpreted by many people. I have many complaints about the man, I could sit and verbally rip him for days untill you go insane, but what for? He's still my friend. All i ask is that when we play the guitar together he plays the same parts. There should be a definitive part so i can count on that being there when i'm doing mine. That's all i ask from any player in the band, him included.''

WHEN IT COMES to recording those parts in the studio, Deftones are Pro Tools devotess. Does that mean that as a band you are more pragmatists than purists?

''I think Pro Tools is the most awesome thing in the world. You can actually make stuff get to where it's perfect sounding. Now i know that the total organic musician or recording engineer out there is like, Oh God, that's disgusting, but you know what, who cares? There ain't nobody that's going to put on the CD, the record, the tape or whatever they listen to it on, and tell the difference. A good song can sound like crap and it will be a good song forever. A bad song can sound great and it will still be a bad song. But then, what constitutes a bad song? You can make the worst piece of garbage ever known to man and somebody out there will love it. Somebody will be out there to market it and somebody else will be out there to sell it. It's incredible really.''

source : deftonesworld.com

[Aegehn]

"Toc toc! Professeur Kjuice! Est-ce que vous auriez prévu de poster votre interview des Deftones, dans votre topic Interview?"

[phoenix_striker]

On aurait presque oublié

[phoenix_striker]

Up ?

[AyunO]

Et bien c'était un beau fake en fait

[cookie]

le pauvre a enregistré l'interview sur une cassette qu'il a malencontreusement perdue ou alors qui etait inexploitable et le temps passant il a oublié ce qu'ils ont dit ...
vous etes durs de lui rappeler

[HollowLife]

Interview Ultimate Guitar de Stef

Très bonne interview, où Stef apparait en gros métalleux frustré (ça c'est pas nouveau d'accord ) qui regrette que ses ptits camarades (Abe et Chi en tête) ne s'entrainent pas plus souvent à jouer du "gros son" ! Entre autres...

[Lnkjuice]

http://www.musiquemag.com/interview-def ... s-2064.htm

Interview sympa de Chino pour MusiqueMag.