Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett made a bold open offer to The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards to jam in a new Reddit AMA.
You’ve gotten to perform and record with so many prominent musicians. Who’s one that’s still on your bucket list?
“KEITH RICHARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! keith if you’re in this reddit thread please invite me to jam sometime…”
Who’s your biggest influence as a guitar player?
“that’s changed over the years – keith richards, mick taylor, ritchie blackmore, ace frehley, randy rhoads, andy mccoy, don rich, etc… i just love guitar playing.”
Hey Chris- big fan here. Thanks for doing this!
My question is about writing guitar parts. Dave has said that the three of you (Dave/Pat/Yourself) Have very distinct guitar playing styles that complement each other well. I’m curious to know how your playing had to evolve once Pat started writing with you again with Wasting Light. Did you have to re-think your approach to accommodate another layer? What’s the process of stacking all those guitar parts like in the writing process?
Thanks again, and best of luck with your new album!
“when pat first came back we spent a lot of time figuring that stuff out and now it seems like we just kind of all fall in to playing different parts. i guess it’s become more intuitive.”
Record producer and mixer Chris Sheldon has a lengthy resume to his career including working for artists such as Foo Fighters, Garbage, Pixies, and many others. On a recent edition of Produce Like A Pro, Sheldon discusses what Foo Fighters frontman, Dave Grohl was adamant about banning from the recording process of their iconic studio album – The Colour and the Shape. Alternative Nation reporter Mike Mazzarone transcribed Sheldon’s comments.
Sheldon: The one thing that super important about making this record and Dave [Grohl] was adamant about – no compression on drums. This is a big thing for Dave, he didn’t want any compression on the snare drums so I’m guessing everything. Normally it was the default setting. Particularly on the SSLs, like boom, up goes the compressor at the end of the channel. That was verboten, we weren’t allowed to do that. I had to sort of find a way around it and sort of make the drums sound as punchy as possible without using compression. Which is fine, no problem. No samples we used on the kits, it’s just, I mean that’s just a drum kit. Expertly recorded by Bradley [Cook]. I mean, it sounds great, we killed producing it and it was always going to be a great starting point.
