![]() ![]() With “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong,” I completely winged it and fell on exactly what’s there in five seconds. The moment to decide what the solos were was in the studio because as a three-piece playing songs live, you’re just chugging along and not really playing big solos. Another good example of that is the second guitar part in “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues.” ![]() I play two chords together-a G and an A chord-which is reminiscent of “Tomorrow Never Knows.” I remember recording this poly-chord, which is two major chords together, and having this thought in my head that, “This is just gonna sound great.” There’s a great second guitar part in the song “Refrigerator Car” when it comes back in after the guitar solo. In a lot of instances I had something in my head that wasn’t realized and I got to try it to see if it worked. With this record, I did have a chance to do second guitar parts. There was a little bit of interest and it was enough of a record contract and enough time to do the guitar overdubs. I was lucky with this record because when we finally got in to do it, we had a little bit of freedom. Once you got into the studio, you had already thought about the songs a lot? “Two Princes” we slowed the tempo down and of course we were just a trio and I really had in my mind a lot of second guitar parts going around in my head from not having a second guitar player and wondering what it would be like to actually ever get into the studio. When we went in to cut it, we had at least a couple of years of heavy club gigging behind those songs and there had been changes that came because we recorded some of those songs more than once. ![]() #TQO PRINCES SPIN DOCXTOR FULL#When you recorded the Pocket Full of Kryptonite album, were you trying to bring out all these different influences in your playing? In the early ‘70s, I learned some fingerpicking and 12-string things like Dave Van Ronk and Mississippi John Hurt kind of stuff. My mom’s brother was always giving me jazz records so I have a big heavy love for tenor saxophone. I listened to the pop stuff of the ‘70s and my dad was a classical musician so a lot of classical music filtered in. When I grew up there was a lot of music in my life and I had a musician father who had lots of records. I was inspired by a lot of varied guitar players and music. Who else did you listen to back in the day? It’s never really an adequate tool to describe what you’re trying to describe. Everything I do on a guitar is meant to represent a lot more or a lot less than I’m actually doing. Probably came from listening to those guys. The feel of the rhythm part you played was sort of sloppy but cool in a very kind of Keith Richards and Jimmy Page approach. No, that song formed around Chris’ lyrics really but the rhythm in the guitar parts and changes are a big part of it. It’s a great song and I love to play it and I like it when I hear it.ĭid “Two Princes” get written around your chord changes? We just knew if it saw the light of day then people would like it. That little bit of a lesser tempo made it so we all knew for sure. When we recorded it a second time for the record-we recorded it for a cassette earlier on-we slowed it down a little bit. We always knew “Two Princes” was a great song because it always got a really great response when we played it live. When you originally worked on “Two Princes,” did you have any feelings about how cool the song was? “Two Princes” particularly and the songs off that record are recognizable still to lots of people. It’s amazing that your music is still important to people 30 years after making it. Spin Doctors guitar player Eric Schenkman was recently interviewed by UG's Steven Rosen, covering various topics including their hit song "Two Princes" which gave rise to the band's success. ![]()
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