SOULS OF WE - New Interview With Frontman London Legrand Available
October 14, 2009, 15 years ago
SOULS OF WE / ex-BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION frontman London Legrand is featured in a new interview with Classic Rock Revisited. An excerpt is available below.
Legrand: "When I heard George’s (Lynch / guitars) stuff, it had a Hendrix-y swing to it. It also had this element of something fresh, but not a carbon copy or anything trendy. Does that make sense? It was something that would drive the boat rather than something that was part of the boat that was already being driven. Because in the end, you just become flotsam and jetsam, you know what I mean? I’d much rather be part of something that’s creating something or starting something new even if it's reminiscent of something 20 years ago. A lot of people never got to see that, so this is us. This is us giving our respect back. I want to take what I was entertained by and ... yeah, and like trying to maybe take that a step further. We incorporate that psychedelia and do that whole … just true experiences we’ve ... life experiences we’ve all gone through along the way. Rather than bitching and moaning about it to your friends, it’s just like pick up and pen and then, like, for sure, you’ll get some listeners. And if that ain’t therapeutic, fuck dude. I don’t know what to tell you.
I hope it’s enjoyable. We do a lot of delay and reverb. It has this whole like ... the whole trippy experience when you go to see the show we’ve been working on, trying to hone in on this one sound where we can give audience the sound we want to give them. A big wall of sound. We want to make it like everyone’s on something. Like tripping. Someone, some band I used to love growing up on was JANE'S ADDICTION. 'Mountain Song' — just that opening was sick. After you listened to their ass, you feel you needed to go to rehab. I love that shit. That was the harder drug that, like, opened me up to a whole new world of, like, college rock and, you know, everything else."
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