{"id":3036,"date":"2013-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museonmuse.jp\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T05:08:43","slug":"vol-19-richie-sambora-january-2013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonmuse.jp\/?p=3036","title":{"rendered":"Vol.19 Richie Sambora \/ January 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richie Sambora<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nPhoto : James Minchin<\/span><\/p>\n

Richie Sambora has led the worldwide monster band BON JOVI as the guitar player as well as being responsible for taking duties as the group\u2019s songwriter. He definitely brings the best out of BON JOVI\u2019s music with his guitar performance and sound. Richie has released his 3rd solo album titled \u201cAftermath Of The Lowdown\u201d and proves his talent not only as a guitar player, but also as a singer and songwriter. With his extraordinary talents, Richie has undeniably succeeded in crafting out an artistic album. Richie Sambora talks to MUSE ON MUSE about his new solo effort.<\/p>\n

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\nPhoto : James Minchin<\/span><\/p>\n

Interview \/ Text\u00a0 Mamoru Moriyama<\/p>\n

Translation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Louis Sesto (EAGLETAIL MUSIC)<\/p>\n

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Muse On Muse : Your new album \u201cAftermath Of The Lowdown\u201d displays a great magnificence of musical aspects both as a guitarist and as a singer. The album seems to sum up what Richie Sambora is all about as an artist.<\/span>
\nRichie Sambora : Exactly\u2026 My new album Aftermath of the Lowdown brings everybody up to speed and sums up who I am, both as a human being and as a musician and songwriter.\u00a0 Just a reflection back over the last 7 years of my life experience.\u00a0 Stories about what I have learned and how I grew up over the past and it\u2019s where my musical journey has led me.<\/p>\n

MM : You have released \u201cStranger In This Town\u201d in \u201991, and \u201cUndiscovered Soul\u201d in \u201997. It\u2019s been 15 years since your last solo album. What was the concept behind this new album?<\/span>
\nRS : The concept behind \u201cAftermath of the Lowdown\u201d is as I said, brining everybody up to speed as to where I\u2019m at.\u00a0 Both as a human being and as a musician.<\/p>\n

MM : Not only the vocals sound great, but the new album also has a very \u201clive\u201d feel with the guitars, featuring various techniques, sounds, and ideas. The album is definitely something that both guitar fans, as well as mainstream music listeners would enjoy. Did you think of a balance between the guitar music\/mainstream aspects in the making of the album?<\/span>
\nRS : On this particular record and all records basically, I just follow the songs.\u00a0 And in this particular album the songs are very personal to me, they are about my life so I approach them from a production stand point as a guitar player.\u00a0 As I just try to color with the paintbrush of the guitar, as much as possible.\u00a0 And also try to leave as much of the spontaneous jamming that I can leave on each song.<\/p>\n

MM : Producer Luke Ebbin is also credited for songwriting among a number of collaborations with other writers. Was there any particular way you divided duties, such as writing the music\/lyrics? Please tell us a bit about the songwriting process.<\/span>
\nRS : The song writing process my co-writers help me tell my story about my life experiences, obviously. And we were in the same room writing music and lyrics, except for the track that Bernie Taupin, \u201cWeathering The Storm\u201d, which he handed me the lyrics to it, after many conversations about how I was feeling.<\/p>\n

MM : Where do you get your imaginations for songwriting? Obviously, being able to write songs doesn\u2019t come from just learning how to play your instrument or learning music theory. I\u2019m sure it has to do a lot with life experiences as well. What is your perspective regarding songwriting?<\/span>
\nRS : Usually my song writing comes from my own life experience or observation of different cultures and the way people feel and the way I feel about that.\u00a0 I seem to have a knack for writing about myself that somehow, has a ripple affect. People all over the globe seem to take it as their own.<\/p>\n

MM : \u201cBurn That Candle\u201d is a great opening track featuring a good combination of big guitars with your energetic vocals. Did you improvise the solo for this song? The guitar performance is excellent with a lot of rock n\u2019 roll spirit!<\/span>
\nRS : Yes, actually all the solos were improvised, nothing was thought out.\u00a0 I walked in the studio and just kind of either played it with the band right there\u2026 and Burn that Candle down was right off the floor.\u00a0 And some of the other songs were overdubbed but, again\u2026 spontaneous.<\/p>\n

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\nPhoto : James Minchin<\/span><\/p>\n

MM : \u201cEvery Rose Leads Home To You\u201d has a great melody with deep vocals, and seems to have the Richie Sambora trademarks. The ending of the song with acoustic guitars was quite impressive too.<\/span>
\nRS : Thank you, Every Road Leads home to you\u201d is a song that I wrote about me being on the road and missing my daughter, and missing home.\u00a0 I think everybody has a home that they want to come home to and I think that\u2019s how I tried to color this particular track.\u00a0 And at the end it comes down to a very intimate voice and guitar by itself.\u00a0 I thought that was a good way to conclude it.<\/p>\n

MM : Songs\u00a0 \u201cSongs like \u201cNowadays\u201d and \u201cSugar Daddy\u201d have a very catchy and impressive melody, but we can also hear a lot of fine guitar performances included in the songs.<\/span>
\nRS : Songs like Nowadays and Sugar Daddy are completely different styles. There are a lot of different styles I explored on this particular record.\u00a0 Nowadays has a bit of \u201cpunk\u201d to it and Sugar Daddy is actually more of blues, modern blues thing\u2026 kind of nasty blues thing and I had an extended solo obviously in sugar daddy, all of the place and then Nowadays, I played a very different solo than I\u2019ve ever played in my life on \u201cNowadays\u201d.\u00a0 Kind of strange for me.<\/p>\n

MM : On the vocal songs, obviously the rhythm guitars take up a large portion of the song. When you write the guitar riffs and rhythm guitar parts, what do you keep in mind in regards to maintaining a good ensemble for the song?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nRS : When I\u2019m writing the rhythm guitar parts and also the riff for the songs, you have to stay in line with the emotion and what your trying to sing about.\u00a0 Luckily for me it did support a lot of guitars on this record. I used the guitars, as I said, as a paintbrush many, many times.<\/p>\n

MM : The lyrics from \u201cSeven Years Gone\u201d and \u201cYou Can Only Get So High\u201d show struggles in life, nevertheless the songs do not portray a negative vibe, but rather something positive to the listener. What is your perspective regarding this point?<\/span>
\nRS : Songs like Seven Years Gone\u201d and \u201cYou Can Only Get So High\u201d, they don\u2019t come off as negative, they are actually positive songs.\u00a0 Because at the end of a struggle you always learn something, and if you do come out on the other side of a struggle, usually you have survived.\u00a0 You have weathered the storm and there\u2019s an optimistic new beginning to life after that.<\/p>\n

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\nPhoto : James Minchin<\/span><\/p>\n

MM : \u201cWeathering The Storm\u201d has a dramatic structure and sound. The guitar solo brings in a dynamic tone. Very impressive!<\/span>
\nRS : \u201cWeathering the Storm\u201d is a song I wrote with a genius lyricist, Bernie Taupin.\u00a0 And Bernie and I got together and talked about what the record kind of was about theoretically. And how I was feeling.\u00a0 He came back to me with a couple sets of lyrics and \u201cWeathering the Storm\u201d was one of them.\u00a0 It was the first time I\u2019d ever written like that, in my life, where I wasn\u2019t the lyricist.\u00a0 So that one was just me as a musician and I wrote all the music and he wrote all the lyrics on \u201cWeathering the Storm\u201d.<\/p>\n

MM : There are many great guitar players that are also great singers. You are definitely one of them. Can you tell us how you view the connection\/relationship between singing and playing guitar?<\/span>
\nRS : The relationship and connection between singing and guitar playing\u2026 I think if you are doing them both at the same time, you are actually accompanying yourself with the rythym guitar.\u00a0 But when you are actually playing a solo, you are actually singing through your fingers.\u00a0 When an improvisational person, gets a chance to just sing through his fingers from his heart, that\u2019s when you know you\u2019ve become good.<\/p>\n

MM : \u201cWorld\u201d is a great closer for the album with your beautiful acoustic guitar and voice reaching out to the listeners\u2019 heart with a message. You also had a strong message in the last song of the \u201cStranger In This Town\u201d album called \u201cThe Answer\u201d. What exactly did you try to express in these two closing songs\uff1f<\/span>
\nRS : Both \u201cThe Answer\u201d and \u201cWorld\u201d are trying to tackle large subjects.\u00a0 In a very intimate way, so there\u2019s not one answer to life, for sure.\u00a0 So I was just questioning if there was or not.\u00a0 At the end of the song I concluded that there wasn\u2019t just one.\u00a0 That there was just how you lived, is the answer to Life.\u00a0 And \u201cWorld\u201d was kind of a question and answer between one man and the planet that\u2019s been around for 10 million years.<\/p>\n

MM : The guitar sound on this album was fantastic, always creating a good match to the song. Is there anything you keep in mind when making your guitar sound? Do you have any tips for sound making?<\/span>
\nRS : Basically, I\u2019m lucky enough to have a great vintage instruments and a lot of great amplifiers, and a collection of pedals.\u00a0 So I\u2019ve been collecting these things for almost 30 years now so for me, I just kind of put them together and see what actually fits in to each song.\u00a0 I know specifically if I\u2019m looking for a Strat or a Les Paul coupled with a Marshal or a Fender Twin..\u00a0 you know, the different sounds that that would make.\u00a0\u00a0 So you gotta\u2019 do what\u2019s right for the song.<\/p>\n

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\nPhoto : James Minchin<\/span><\/p>\n

MM : Every note in your guitar solo, and every chord that you play seem to have some kind of \u201cspirit\u201d living inside of it. What do you think is necessary for one to reach such a level when playing the guitar?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nRS : I try to put as much feeling as I can, obviously, in every guitar solo.\u00a0 When a player gets good, you can hear the sincerity in the notes that he plays.\u00a0 I think that after doing it for a few years it just happens naturally.<\/p>\n

MM : In the past, you have participated in compilations such as \u201cGuitars That Rule The World\u201d with the song \u201cMr. Sambo\u201d as well as Steve Vai\u2019s Xmas album \u201cMerry Axemas\u201d with \u201cCantique de Noel (O\u2019 Holy Night)\u201d, which were both great pieces of music with fantastic guitar performances. Do you have any plans in the future to make a guitar instrumental solo album?<\/span>
\nRS : Right now I don\u2019t have any plans to make a guitar, solo instrumental album, but never say never.\u00a0 Maybe down the road I will.\u00a0 But my solo albums are basically going to consist of me singing and playing.<\/p>\n

MM : Please tell us about your gear. What guitars, amps, effectors, foot pedals did you use for this recording?<\/span>
\nRS : As I said before, I have an amazing amount of vintage guitars and amplifiers, pedals.. basicaly I have one of everything.\u00a0 At least one good version of every instrument, one good version of every amp that anybody would ever want so I just kind of put them all together and that\u2019s the way I make records.<\/p>\n

MM : What kind of guitar picks did you use? What kind of guitar strings did you use?<\/span>
\nRS : On this particular record I think I used a lot of Herco picks, kind of medium thin, gold Hercos.\u00a0 And also just a fender medium, that was my two picks of choice for this particular record.<\/p>\n

MM : It seems like we\u2019ll be seeing a new album from Bon Jovi soon. What do you have coming up next for both Bon Jovi as well as your solo activities?<\/span>
\nRS : The new Bon Jovi album will be out sometime in March of 2013.\u00a0 And a subsequent tour after that.\u00a0 So I think people will be seeing me a lot.<\/p>\n

MM : Please give a message to your Japanese fans.<\/span>
\nRS : I\u2019d like to say thank you to my Japanese fans for always being there and being loyal for the last 30 years and I\u2019m looking forward to coming and seeing you guys.\u00a0 Sorry I couldn\u2019t come there on this particular tour, I just didn\u2019t have the time.\u00a0 Thank you for everything, you guys are great .<\/p>\n

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\nRichie Sambora Official Site : <\/span><\/a>http:\/\/richiesambora.com\/<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0
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AFTERMATH OF THE LOWDOWN \/ Richie Sambora<\/strong><\/p>\n

UICN-1018\u00a0 \\ 2,600\u00a0 THUNDERBALL667<\/p>\n

1.Burn That Candle Down
\n2.Every Road Leads Home To You
\n3.Taking A Chance On The Wind
\n4.Nowadays
\n5.Weathering The Storm
\n6.Sugar Daddy
\n7.I’ll Always Walk Beside You
\n8.Seven Years Gone
\n9.Learnin’ How To Fly With A Broken Wing
\n10.You Can Only Get So High
\n11.Backseat Driver (Bonus Track)
\n12.World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richie Sambora Photo : James Minchin Richie Sambora has led the worldwide monster band BON JOVI as the guitar player as well as being responsible for […]<\/p>\n

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