Scott Amendola
which affected the entire band in a positive way. It brought the upper dynamic down and gave more room for lower dynamics. I’d been using 15" hats, and one day I switched to these 14" hats and Nels really noticed. There was more definition. It was getting back to something I’d let go of a little—texture and sound. It made me think more about the kit and my voice. I’ve also been using this
Craviotto 5.5" copper/brass snare. I’d never used a metal drum as my main snare. With snares, it’s a bit of a phase thing, but right now I’m just hearing this metal drum. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to
get my sound. And when I’m on the road and don’t get to play my drums, I know what I have to do to get that. MD: Regarding your duo recordings with Charlie Hunter, Not Getting Behind Is the New Getting Ahead is Charlie’s music, Pucker is your music, and you’ve done EPs covering the music of the Cars, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and Hank Williams. Was there a different approach to handling each
session? Scott: Yeah, we’re coming from different places when we’re writing. But when I was writing for Pucker, I was thinking about Charlie and what our thing is. I want him to be himself. We’d rehearse and arrange and play gigs and talk about things and see how
they felt. For my stuff I had specific ideas, but he was also totally open to my suggestions when we were working on his songs. That covers project was his thing. He had ideas for which tunes he wanted to do. But we would also drive around listening to rock music, so he wanted to do the Cars too.
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