The Ghost Inside: Andrew Tkaczyk nennt Will Putney als Inspiration, für das neue Album am Schlagzeug zu sitzen

The Ghost Inside haben Anfang Februar verkündet, dass ihr neues Studioalbum im Kasten sei. Die Platte markiert den insgesamt fünften Longplayer und das erste Werk der Band aus Los Angeles seit dem schweren Busunfall 2015.

Wie Drummer Andrew Tkaczyk nun in einem neuen Interview im BREWtally Speaking Podcast verriet, habe vor allem einer ihn dazu gebracht, wieder neues Material zu schreiben: Fit For An Autopsy-Gitarrist und Produzent Will Putney.

Will Putney hat The Ghost Inside motiviert, ein neues Album zu machen

Andrew Tkaczyk verlor bei dem Busunfall ein Bein. Wie er erzählte, dass er in der Anfangsphase des neuen Albums in Erwägung zog, das Schlagzeug zu programmieren. Will Putney wollte das auf keinen Fall und sei guter Dinge gewesen, dass Tkaczyk und er das schon hinbekommen würden.

„When we first approached Will to do the record, we got on a conference call with him. We were telling him ‘we have some songs, blah blah blah, we wanna do this, we wanna continue writing and have you produce and this and that’ and I was like ‘yeah, I think to make the process go faster I just wanna program the drums’, and he’s like ‘no’. He’s like ‘you should play the drums’, he’s like ‘it’s fine, we’ll make it work’. I was like I know I could, but I know It would be very VERY difficult to be playing drums everyday for like 2 weeks, or a week or whatever. But he is the one who convinced and pushed me to actually play the drums on this record. Before….a year and a half ago, going into ‘OK we’re writing a record’ I was like ‘Ehh we’ll just program the drums, like, whatever.’“

Es sei sehr schwer für den The Ghost Inside-Schlagzeuger gewesen und er habe kämpfen müssen, um die Drumspuren aufzunehmen. Letztendlich sei er sehr froh, dass Will Putney ihn so motiviert habe und er das Schlagzeug selbst eingespielt hat. Er sei stolz auf die neuen Songs.

„That was literally my mindset, and then he convinced me and pushed me to do it, which is an example of him digging in deep and getting involved with it and wanting to do it right, and I’m SO glad that he made me do it. And I struggled a lot. It was very hard and it was a thing of… we had a few songs ready to go and then continued writing in May of last year and I was used to all these songs, but while we were writing. we were programming drums to write guitars and put vocals over. So I knew how the songs went, but going down and playing them for the first time during tracking sessions. That’s hard if you’re able bodied, that can be difficult. And for me there was some times where I got very frustrated and I would get really mad. I’d be like ‘sorry’ and Will’s like ‘it’s fine’. Super calm about it. He put up with me, and worked with me through it. I’m just so glad I did that instead of the way originally my thought process was of programming. I’m glad I didn’t do that, I’m glad that’s actually me playing.“

Das ganze Interview mit Andrew Tkaczyk könnt ihr euch über den unten eingebetteten Player anhören. Er spricht außerdem darüber, mit welcher Technik er arbeitet.

Wann genau wir mit dem neuen Album von The Ghost Inside rechnen dürfen, ist bisher noch nicht bekannt. Neben Putney hat auch A Day To Remember-Frontmann Jeremy McKinnon an der Platte mitgearbeitet.

Im August spielen TGI ihr erstes Konzert hierzulande seit 2015. Das Ganze findet im Rahmen des Full Force Festivals statt.

Foto: The Ghost Inside / Offizielles Pressebild