Nick Cave has spoken about working in the studio with legendary guitarist Robert Fripp.
Even for the most respect artists, there is always someone who they are afraid to work with. Hell, even Bob Dylan had his doubts about trying to match Roy Orbison when the Travelling Wilburys came around.
For Nick Cave, working Robert Fripp was both a pleasure and an extremely intimidating experience. The songwriter invited Fripp to work on a recent B-side, a re-working of 'Heathen Child'.
Re-tooled as 'Super Human Child' the track featured a scorching guitar solo courtesy of Robert Fripp - apparently one of the Australian songwriter's idols.
"I've just always loved him, and I think that Grinderman are the kind of group that allow us to do things like that. The Bad Seeds historically haven't been. So it's just a different kind of band. Grinderman is pretty much anything goes. We'll just do what we like, and that's the end of it. There's no kind of legacy or history. And I just love Robert Fripp" he insisted to LA Weekly.
"We kind of hunted him down and went to the middle of England and went into a studio with him and, well, he considers himself to be a stylist, so it's not insulting to ask him to play something like he played 20 years ago — he knows how to play that style and he knows how to play what's played now."
Continuing, Nick Cave revealed more about the actual studio process. "I said, "I want a kick-out guitar solo on the end of this song." He took all his effects pedals out of the amp and just plugged straight in, and off he went. He was great, really amazing. He was a real weird guy in the studio, too. Really kind of humble and referred to himself constantly in the third person. He would say, "Well, the guitarist feels that his performance the last time was better than the one before," and so on. He was kind of an odd character. He was very humble — his whole attitude is he is there to serve. Whatever you want. Which is kind of amazing from someone like that."
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