Influences: Mick MacNeil / Simple Minds
Working on another new song today, one we started in January titled either Humanity or Illuminaut. Not sure yet. Anyway, we've had the pleasure of Don Harrison do a very effective guitar part on this song so it's starting to sound really good. I was attempting to build a more dynamic lift for the chorus and just spent a few hours messing around with a few different synths before finding a good part. This afternoon I dialled in a really nice wide lead synth sound on my novation and suddenly this very Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination era part came thru my hands. It occurred to me that over the decades I've probably referenced the album and more specifically Mick MacNeil' s keyboard playing hundred of times. What a great player; some of his parts were so simple to play but they would expand a chorus or bridge way more than the guitar could. I have always enjoyed the way he could layer sounds or add effects, usually a quick sixteenth note delay or ...