guitar harmony tradition was really fantastic. From a guitar playing standpoint, it was difficult, but very rewarding, to learn and play those parts live. So now you are back in Foghat around the year 2000. Let’s talk about that very first album you did with Foghat Family Joules – what do you think of that album and going in to record with them for the first time? It was great, I think. We had good material on there. I engineered – I engineer most of most of the Foghat record’s these days. But that was my first experience. I had just come out of 15 years working with King Snake Records as an engineer/producer. And so I bought a digital recording setup, and we had a big giant warehouse in Central Florida that a friend of ours owned – it was a massive, cavernous building – and we just set up there live and I set up a recording studio right off to the side all in the same room – and we just starting tracking and putting some songs on. So, I thought it was great. It was really great to do some original music with new guys. Which is why we still record now and why we continue to keep doing new albums of original material. We’re always going to play the hits, but just for our own creative need really, we still like to write and record. Your previous studio album Under The Influence was abso-
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lutely amazing. Will there be any new studio Foghat albums coming out soon? We have one in the planning now – in fact, I just bought a new board. We have a studio called Boogie Motel South in Central Florida – it’s a big 10-acre ranch, and we setup the same way we setup the live band in the same room with the recording gear. I think it will be very much like Under The Influence – which is of course tongue and cheek for under the musical influence and not so much under the influence of party stuff. But it’s going to be similar to Under The Influence – we’re going to pull in some old blues songs which is something Foghat has done over the years and rock them up a little bit. And try to get a couple new originals in there and record. We do it at our leisure – we have our own record label so there’s no time pressure. We’re going to start recording very soon and maybe next summer do a release if all things go well. And do you have any messages for Foghat fans who are reading this right now? I’d say come on out and rock and roll with us! I think we’re getting to the point now where the venues feel safe, and the musicians feel comfortable. So, it’s time to get our rock and roll back on!
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August/September 2021
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