Korgscrew
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Posted: May 13 2002, 16:56 |
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I think it's mostly that people change, especially when it comes to artistic motivation and inspiration. Also a factor, I think, is that after a while, it can seem like you've exhausted all the possibilities (which is as much of a point of view thing as anything else).
An artist I find interesting to look at in this case would be John Paul Jones (once bassist with Led Zeppelin). After Led Zeppelin broke up, he stepped out of the limelight for a long time, doing little bits of arranging work and various other things. He released his first solo album 3 years ago, and has recently followed it up with another, and to me at least, it sounds like he's anything but old and tired (he must be a bit older than Mike, I think in his 50s).
I think the fact that he took such a long break from recording is probably important - it meant that when he came to record his first album, it wasn't just a case of same old same old and he had fresh energy to approach the project with. If he'd been sat in the studio virtually every day for the past 30 years, it might have been a different story.
External influences can be important as well - I think that Tom Newman was probably very influential in bringing out the lively side of Amarok, for example, and I think that someone like that could do it again with Mike, if that's the way Mike wanted to go.
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I don't know if I'll show him how to love MO that way !!
