{"id":7974,"date":"2012-11-11T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T22:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7974"},"modified":"2012-11-11T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T22:15:17","slug":"the-wallflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/11\/the-wallflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WALLFLOWERS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stuart Mathis, Jack Irons, Jakob Dylan, Greg Richling, Rami Jaffee<\/p><\/div>\n

THE WALLFLOWERS<\/h1>\n

Regrouped, refreshed and ready to prove that time off does a band good \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Taking a break isn\u2019t the same thing as breaking up, and the Wallflowers\u2019 frontman Jakob Dylan reveals the band needed the former but never considered the latter. In the years since the group\u2019s last album, 2005\u2019s Rebel, Sweetheart<\/em>, Dylan released a pair of solo albums in 2008 and 2010, and his bandmates pursued other projects. In 2011 the Wallflowers regrouped, and early this year they spent a month in Nashville recording their new release,\u00a0Glad All Over<\/em>, their most collaborative album yet. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since we\u2019ve felt this purposeful and this confident,\u201d says Dylan.<\/p>\n

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Was the hiatus longer than expected?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We never had any set time on it. We all thought we\u2019d get back together when it felt right. Everybody wanted a break. We all needed to spread out\u2014but we were always in touch and supported each other. If you want to do this for a long time, those\u00a0breaks are necessary.<\/p>\n

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What were the benefits of time off?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chances to work with other people you wouldn\u2019t get to within the confines of a group. There\u2019s another benefit: being able to gain perspective and appreciate having a band. As you continue, it gets harder and harder to keep a group together\u2014and putting a new band together seems really daunting at this point. With a little distance, you really appreciate having something in common with the guys you work with.<\/p>\n

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Did those outside collaborations affect the band dynamic?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost the opposite. I learned the chemistry the band has is unique, and it was important to leave that intact. You can play with fantastic musicians all day long, but at the end of the day you\u2019re always going to be lacking a full vision that a group has to offer. It takes those guys and the chemistry they have to\u00a0make something unique.<\/p>\n

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How was the process different this time?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Up until this record I\u2019ve written the majority of the band\u2019s songs. This album was different in that we had a commitment to work out new songs together. That gave everybody the chance to get in there and make music, and then I\u2019d attach lyrics where I could\u00a0find spots for them.<\/p>\n

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Were you comfortable working that way?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was great. It\u2019s just another way to do it. Especially coming right off the last two records, which were not really collaborative at all. Those were really isolated\u2014just me writing those songs. I was ready to let everybody else get in there and help out.<\/p>\n

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You explore different sounds like<\/strong> <\/em>\u201cReboot the Mission.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

That was inspired by some of the deeper cuts the Clash had done on records like Sandinista!<\/em>. It\u2019s been a love of ours since we were kids. That song had these great grooves that didn\u2019t have a lot to do with the structure of the song. It was just that bassline, and the song kind of dictated itself after that.<\/p>\n

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Did the band have a particular direction in mind with this record?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We had our eye on playing live, which is something I\u2019ve never invested too much in. While I think the last two records stand well as records, they didn\u2019t exactly offer a lot of variety in what I was able to do in the shows. We wanted to make a record that we would also want to go out and play live.<\/p>\n

\u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n

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THE WALLFLOWERS Regrouped, refreshed and ready to prove that time off does a band good \u00a0 Taking a break isn\u2019t the same thing as breaking up, and the Wallflowers\u2019 frontman Jakob Dylan reveals the band needed the former but never considered the latter. In the years since the group\u2019s last album, 2005\u2019s Rebel, Sweetheart, Dylan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[5344,2373,5342,5345,5077,5343,5341],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7976,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions\/7976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}