I also love stuff like System of a Down – I’m really a huge fan of Daron Malakian’s guitar playing and songwriting.Īnd Julee Cruise – those records where Angelo Badalamenti did the music and David Lynch did the words: I’m a massive fan of those, especially the first one, Floating Into the Night. I love the Pretenders Chrissie Hynde is a huge hero. Where do you take musical influence from? There’s rock, power-pop, glam, folk, piano ballads, punkier things. The songs on Rise of the Rebel Angels go in so many directions stylistically. I remember 20 years ago using the POD or whatever, and those things sound terrible, you know? For me, something like AmpliTube is totally essential, because I wouldn’t be able to afford to go into a recording studio and spend all day getting tones.Īnd I just think the technology has really come a long way. Really, I just use the pedals in AmpliTube. And I’ve got a ton of pedals, but they’re all the way across the room. I don’t even own an amp anymore, other than two little Marshall practice amps, one of which runs on batteries. So if a mic is up, it tends to stay up forever. I knock something over every day because it’s like there’s no space. Īnd then for mics it’s basically a Shure SM7.
I’m not gonna take that outta the house because, you know, it’s not my thing. One thing that I probably will never play in public, but that I love to record with, is a Schecter with a Sustainiac pickup and a Floyd Rose. Vincent model – a 12-string electric that First Act made for me a million years ago, a Squier Bass VI – that’s great! – and a bunch of acoustics. It’s a lot of the same guitars I always use: a Gibson Flying V, an SG with P90s, a Joan Jett Melody Maker, an Ernie Ball Music Man Goldie – the St. What guitars do you have in your apartment? If I had a huge budget I probably wouldn’t make the next record on my laptop all by myself. It’s really small.Īnd then I rented out a studio in Red Hook, Atomic Sound, for one day, and spent maybe 10 or 11 hours doing pretty much all the drums for the entire record. I use AmpliTube for the guitars, which is great, and I have their AXE I/O, which looks like half of a notebook. I record pretty much everything at my apartment in Manhattan. I use AmpliTube for the guitars, which is great, and I have their AXE I/O Jonny PolonskyĪs is often the case on your records, you’re playing all the instruments on Rise of the Rebel Angels, correct? So it’s two totally different approaches. Once we picked out the tunes, I had some time off from work and I just blazed through it. It was super-fucking expensive – I just put it on a credit card for a couple years – whereas this one ended up taking three weeks, start to finish, and it was super cheap. That one took a year and a half to make, and there’s an orchestra on two of the tunes and tons of guest musicians. The album Stone initially heard and signed me to his label for, that’s going to come out later in the year. Some of them were, like, half-finished 20-second iPhone demos, and between him and me and my manager and a couple other people, we started picking off songs that would be cool to finish. So I gave him dozens and dozens of things that I had done over the years. He also asked if I had any demos lying around of anything else, just because he was curious.
And then Stone loved the record, and he and I started talking. What happened was, I was working on a different record, and a friend of mine, Alain Johannes, who has played with Queens of the Stone Age and all these other bands, was mixing it. Stone told us about how he was blown away by the demos you played him.
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