GravityTree.com
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Gravity Tree - prog rock times two - official web site
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First, thanks for visiting our website! I wanted to try to answer upfront one of the big Gravity Tree mysteries, that slogan at the top of the page " 2 musicians, 4 instruments, 1 prog rock band". How can 2 people play 4 instruments at the same time? It's even hard for fans who's seen us live to grasp. I think that's because we live in a time where even live performers use computer sequencers, sampled loops, drum machines and have other musicians hidden behind the scenes playing parts. We buy "live" albums by bands who have many many extra musicians onstage helping them get the album's sound, not to mention computer operators running sequences that may have 50% or more of the music tracks the audience is hearing. Then they go into the studio and re-record many of the tracks, and still release it as a live record. I can understand why some groups want to use machines to play parts live. It's very hard to perform a complex arrangement in a live setting. So bands get assistance, and that can be fine for them, depending on how an audience perceives and enjoys it, or not. But Gravity Tree is not about all that.
We decided long ago that the best, most honest performance we can give you is where we actually play everything you hear, so that's what we strive for. To this end, Linc has had customized instruments created or modified. These 'combo guitars' as we like to call them, have both bass strings and guitar strings on the same instrument, with special pickup and electronic configurations to allow him to process these 2 distinct sounds individually. So he plays the bass part and the guitar part at the same time. I have a keyboard and synth triggers mounted on my drum kit, to allow me to play keys and drums simultaneously. When you see one of our live shows, you won't hear pre-recorded anything; nothing is sequenced and we play it all right in front of you. We may at some point add a person to the live line up, but right now there's just two of us. We've been told that at times our live sound is fuller than our recordings. So I'm trying to make our recordings better!
In the studio, there are some overdubs and many of the usual things one does to make an album sound as good as possible. We don't have the facilities to perform and record all our songs live, and there are technical and temporal sacrifices to that process which usually make it too cumbersome for us to initiate. But we play everything you hear on the CD. Linc often plays the guitar and bass parts simultaneously, just like he would at a live show. I don't pull up the latest coolest drum loop off some prerecorded CD library; I figure out the parts and play the drums myself. Sometimes I trigger samples by playing drum pads, many times I play a real acoustic kit, but I always really play what you hear. Same with the synths. If there's some big arpeggiated line, I sat down, practiced it and played it. There's no session guy brought in to fix the guitar or drum parts, no keyboards programmed by some wiz tech guy. We write the songs, tune the guitars and drums, tweak the synthesizers and sing the vocals, record all the parts, arrange, mix, everything.
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