AUDIOSLAVE Guitarist Talks About Songwriting Process For Third Album
November 2, 2005AUDIOSLAVE guitarist Tom Morello recently spoke to MTV.com about the songwriting process for the group's third album, which is tentatively expected next year.
"When we wrote and recorded the first AUDIOSLAVE record, we had played zero shows together as a band," Morello explained. "Then, we had that year-plus of touring, and I think the band continues to jell. I think we've never played better as a live band, and to be able to take that evolving live chemistry and weave it into the songwriting in the studio is something that's exciting to do."
AUDIOSLAVE have been performing some of this fresh material — which will be recorded and whittled into the band's third LP — live. "We've been rotating about five that we're comfortable enough to play live," Morello said of tracks including "One and the Same" and "Sound of a Gun". "We've been playing one a night," he explained.
"We were home in Los Angeles in our rehearsal studio, writing the songs like we do with everybody in the room, with just a free exchange of ideas," Morello added. "There's a great deal of confidence we have in each other and in anybody's ability to bring in an idea that will blossom into the next AUDIOSLAVE song. These songs came together fairly quickly because we write on sort of a song-a-day pace. It feels like a very special and unique thing with this band that we can have, at the end of a day, pretty much a complete song together — with riffs, verse, chorus, melodies, guitar solos all pretty much there."
Read more at MTV.com.
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