Såhär säger svänget personifierat, Ian Paice, om clicktracks, han har tyvärr helt rätt, kvaliteten på musiker är generellt mycket lägre idag än på tex 70-talet, finns det inget klick så hoppar de runt som yra hönor och vet inte vad som försiggår. Musiker har glömt vad sväng, jamma och spela ihop bandet inför en studiosession innebär istället sitter de och bögar och klipper i logic och pro tools för att man inte kan få det att låta bra om man spelar in live.
Jag vet inte hur många gånger jag ståttbakom scen och sett trummisar och gitarrister sitta och öva med metronom och pads och skit precis innan spelning, hur rock n roll är det?
Över till "The Buddy Rich of Rock n Roll".....
Looking back, the freedom we had then to do so much. You're so limited in the studio now because nearly everything is dominated by click tracks.. There's this terrible criteria of having to try and match up to a machine. And for a drummer it's really difficult. You can put on any modern record you want and you can tell every fill is a square. There's no swing in it at all. No matter how good a player you are, what makes things swing is that it isn't totally strict time - it does move, it does push, it does pull. And we're having to deal with that because now we have musicians who rely on it being strict time - who actually can't play to something that moves around. If you go back to the fifties recordings and listen to things like the Little Richard band, the tempo's all over the place, but they all do it together so it doesn't matter - it just feels great. Those bands relied on the feeling of it being good - not being perfect. You can get something perfect and it just sits there like a piece of lead.
You really feel then that we're too wrapped up in this perfection thing then?
Definitely. We're paying now for the eighties when `Techno' started taking over and people didn't use drummers - when they started using machines with simple programming and the thing didn't budge. People got used to it, but it's not the way humans play. A `middle eight' comes - you push into it, the verse comes - you pull back, someone takes a solo - you take a breather and pull back, things get exciting - you push forward. Those things are human nature.
And if you're not allowed to do that, it takes a lot of hard work to try and give the impression that you're doing it when you're not. You've got a very small, very limited, space inside the metronomic clicks, part of which is in front of the click and part of which is behind, but it's such a narrow band and you've got to try and give the impression that you're pushing into it but you're not really doing anything. It's very difficult.