פיט ויישס בריאיון חדש!

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פיט ויישס בריאיון חדש!

פיט ויישס (טלוניוס מונסטר) מדבר בריאיון על התחלה שלו כמוזיקאי על החברות עם אנתוני ופלי ועל העובדה שהתארח בשיר גיב איט אווי. הנה המ שהוא אמר:


We have to talk about Give It Away and the Mouth Harp. You were credited on that
one. I heard you became like the only person in the musicians union for Mouth
Harp after that?

No what do you mean, It was the Chili Peppers. So they figure they should have Jew's
Harp. I don't know why it's called a Jew's Harp but every society has one. Throughout
history there's always been that instrument. The day before we went down to Memphis
to make Beautiful piece of shit, I went down to McCabes and purchased an A minor
Jew's Harp, I didn't know they had different keys but I guess they do. I was somewhat
adept at playing the Jew's Harp. I was actually flying out later that day to make a record.
I was really happening in those days. I had just met my soon to be wife like two days
earlier. We had just met, weren't really even going out yet. So I went over to the
Houdini mansion…You ever listen to Chili Peppers records before.(LAUGHS)
Right, me neither. If you listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magic
record and you hear the track before Give It Away, you'll hear someone say "Crank It". I
had never heard the song before, I put on the headphones and said "Crank It" . About
half way through I figured out a different part, so after I'm done with the first take,
Brendan O'Brien's like I think we got it, I was like Woah, I just figured out what I was
going to do let's do it again. He's like, no man I think we got it. I'm thinking oh yeah, it's
so bad we got it.

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סיפור מדהים מתוך הריאיון!

Yeah…Back in the day I used to do like a week or two with the Chili Peppers on every cycle. Didn't happen this tour. The tour before, when Frusciante was still in the band, Flea gave me a call, like 2007 or something like that, Dude let's go golfing in Scotland. You buy the plane ticket, I'll cover everything else. Alright. So we go and it's dope. We're 5 starring and private jetting around Europe. Scotland, Ireland, Manchester. They had a four night stand at Earl's Court in London. We were sitting in the Hotel lounge the next day, me and Anthony, he's like Pete, last night I was listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers performance on the album Blood Sugar Sex Magic and particularly the song Give It Away. It was an international hit. It occurs to me, that the Jew's Harp is the loudest instrument on that song. How come we have never tried to recreate that scenario in a live rock and roll situation? I go, well Mr Kiedis, a dear friend of mine, I'm sure you don't remember but when the record first came out at the Roseland, in New York City, in New York state, United States of America I got up there one night and attempted to play the Jew's Harp but the amount of air that Flea's bass cabinet was moving rendered my twee little instrument mute. There's so much vibration coming from his bass cabinet that it would just cancel out that vibration of the Jew's Harp. So he goes, what do you think the odds are of recreating that scenario at the Earl's Court Palace in London might be? I say well I'm well familiar with your sound technician Dave Rat, and if you'd like i could procure a instrument in London, perhaps we will give that a go and see what happens. He goes, that would be fantastic. We get to London, I think we had a day off before the gig whatever. I find a Jew's Harp. We go to sound check and we decide that the best thing to do would be me on the side of Frusciante's amp kinda towards the back of the stage there, so it wouldn't get the force of the amplifiers. So right before, the encore's Give It Away. I come up, the guy gives me a little earwig, goes in my ear, where I'm supposed to be able to hear myself, I go up to my little microphone, Everyone's rocking out and you're just like boing boing. I'm sitting at my microphone, I can't hear it, It's not in my mix in my ear piece. Thanks monitor guy. I didn't throw anything at him or whatever. Show's over, walk off stage. Frusciante comes over like that was fucking amazing. He was the only one in the entire Earl's Court that heard it. No it wasn't in anyone else's mix, No one heard it in the crowd. Only Frusciante heard it. The dudes didn't even know I was on stage. Flea, Chad, Anthony…Frusciante didn't know I was onstage. Because I was at the back. Cut to the next night, stop the show, this is the first time ever, the guy that played on the album is here, jumbotron, Hello everybody. The weird thing is, in that situation, it really became clear to me that I don't give a fuck about being onstage in front of 25,000 people. Oh wow.