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July 7th, 2010 |
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Filter opens for Buckcherry at Club 101
Frontman talks new album, sobriety, NIN |
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 Platinum-selling
band Filter will be hitting the
Club 101 stage in support of
Buckcherry on Tuesday, July 20.
We caught up with frontman and
founder Richard Patrick to talk
about the new album, adopting
AutoTune and waking up in
strange places in his
pre-sobriety days.
Q.
You had a side project, Army of
Anyone, with Robert and Dean
DeLilo of Stone Temple Pilots.
That band played its last
concert here in El Paso. Did El
Paso have something to do with
the dismantling of the band?
(Laughs) No. It wasn’t really
dismantling. We toured. We did
what we wanted to. I think Scott
(Weiland) had just left Velvet
Revolver and was looking for
something different. Robert and
Dean were like, “Yeah let’s do
that.” But Filter is my baby.
That’s what put me on the map.
So I was just like, “I gotta get
back together with that.”
Q. You’ve been sober
since 2002. Your latest single
is called “The Inevitable
Relapse.” Is this about your
temptations? Or have you started
using again?
No, no.
It’s a love a song. I would go
out all the time and look for
things that were going to f*ck
me up to a certain degree. I
thought about writing a song
about the rationality of my
desires and what I want and how
it wasn’t a logical conclusion.
It was something that was purely
emotional. The phenomenon is the
relapse and we’re doing a video
and you’ll be surprised at what
the addiction is in the video.
It’s not just about drugs; it’s
being drawn to something. What
they’re drawn to can be people,
places or things. I’ve been
happily sober seven years now.
Sobriety for me has done amazing
things, but I still like to talk
about what it was like before.
Q. I noticed you used
AutoTune on this track. Why?
A lot of my time was spent
in clubs and kind of waking up
in some strange environment. I
would wake up and kind of come
to in a club in full swing with
pop music – AutoTune vocals and
the whole bit. I wanted to make
it sound like that. So I just
grabbed one of their tricks they
use called AutoTune. And because
it hasn’t really been done in
rock before, I thought it was
time someone break that rule.
This was the perfect song
because I wanted it to sound
like the voice was a fish out of
water, like I’m in an
uncomfortable situation and
you’re hearing my voice
AutoTuned, and then you have
this breakout moment where I’m
screaming, “I’ll give you
something that you’re waiting to
see!” Most of my addict friends
at the time didn’t want me to be
sober. They wanted me to be the
nut and the lunatic I turned
into because misery loves
company. So I felt going from
AutoTune to this screaming
pre-chorus gave this interesting
dichotomy between this
slick-sounding club music to
this chaotic rock heavy metal
sound. I love it. I think it
sounds awesome. It appears to
have been quite controversial, I
guess.
Q. I know you
remixed your 2008 album,
“Anthems for the Damned.” Have
you thought about remixing “The
Trouble With Angels”? And if so,
would you consider someone like
El Paso resident Al Jourgensen,
or someone in his camp, to remix
it for you?
El Paso.
Wow. Al Jourgenson is obviously
a hero of mine and I’ve always
admired him. We actually use a
guy of his. His name is Clayton
Worbeck. He did a remix of the
“Inevitable Relapse,” plus “Drug
Boy.” So look, for those, they
will be on bonus tracks. We got
a lot of bonus tracks. There’s a
deluxe version of the album, and
it’s going to have like remixes
of four other songs.
Q. What happened that made you
part ways with NIN back in the
early ’90s?
Trent asked
me to join for an eight-week
tour and it was just kind of
playing guitar. He invited me to
be creative, but the manager
would call me up an hour later
saying, “You know you can’t own
any of these songs, you can’t
have any publishing, you can’t
have your name all over it.” It
was weird … like, “Wait a
minute, then why am I being told
to be creative?” So I offered
him “Hey Man Nice Shot,” and he
was like, “Yeah, it’s really
cool, maybe we can do an EP.” I
played it to Warner Brothers and
they were like, “We’ll give you
half a million dollars, you’ll
have three videos, we’ll put you
with any producer you want, you
can pick any studio. We’ll do
anything you want to have this
and put this out.” It was like,
“I can be in Nine Inch Nails and
never see the light of day or I
could quit and just be in Filter
and be the master of my own
destiny,” It was the right thing
to do. It was a blast! I was in
Nine Inch Nails! We had a great
time. It was a lot of fun. Nine
Inch Nails is Trent’s thing and
that’s the way it should be. I
wasn’t trying to infringe on
what he was trying to do – it’s
just there wasn’t much of a
future for me.
Buckcherry and Filter
with Nothing More and Atom Smash
Club 101, 1148 Airway
Tuesday, July 20 – 8 p.m.
$36
plus fees, all ages
Tickets
available at Club 101,
All
That Music or
Ticketbully.com
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