I think that when we started out, everybody had very clearly delineated parts: I took care of my corner, he took care of his corner, you know. How did your bass playing and your approach to music in general change as that production changed? Listening to the Duran Duran discography, there was a time when you slowly evolved into that world. About your music - I’m a bass player myself, but I grew up in an era where recording bass was always, in one way or another, accompanied by the production capabilities of a computer. Albums almost represent for me, you know, a contest of wills - but also, harmony, compromise and democracy. That’s really what it’s about for us, you know? There’s not a group of guys with one mind there’s a group of guys with a group of minds, and we have to align those minds long enough to produce something that we can all feel comfortable putting a name on, putting the band name on. That’s such a big part of our life’s work, and as we get older, it’s not something we take for granted… There’s a certain success that is attached to just the completion of it, just the fact that we were all able to align ourselves for it. I’ve always loved the completion of an album. How has it been, coming out of quarantine and then suddenly having this album that you’re putting out into the world? And FUTURE PAST is of course a perfect exemplification of that. That’s interesting, because I feel like you in Duran Duran intentionally work yourselves hard - every new album adopts some kind of a new sound, style, for example. Especially if you want a certain quality of life, and a certain quality of existence, you’re always going to have to work hard for it. I’m going to be able to coast.’ But it’s just not like that. And, I had a couple of health things, like, I got a fucking diabetes diagnosis…It’s complicated, you know? I was talking to a friend last night… and I think we all kind of expect life to even out, like, ‘I’m going to get to a point where it’s just going to be like that. Getting back into that is intense at times. Obviously, an album launch is always a high-energy situation… You’re just doing everything that you can do to try to give the album a good launch, and then you have to be off on the road for a couple of years.
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