daves writing process

jmasta · Post by **jmasta** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:50 am

I am doing a project for school involving daves writing style as opposed to his music. I am having a hard time finding anything out there that says what exactly daves writing process is, are there any interviews or anything you guys know of that would be able to help me out with this?

thanks

dmbandummer · Post by **dmbandummer** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:25 am

BATSON: Got any lyrics?
DAVE: Nope.

Trippin Hillbilly · Post by **Trippin Hillbilly** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:26 am

Music first. Then he mumbles some stuff at soundchecks to find a melody. Then plays the songs at shows and makes some rough lyrics. Then goes in to the studio and finishes the lyrics.

hofdaddy · Post by **hofdaddy** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:28 am

Trippin Hillbilly wrote:Music first. Then he mumbles some stuff at soundchecks to find a melody. Then plays the songs at shows and makes some rough lyrics. Then goes in to the studio and finishes the lyrics. profit

FYP

paulaitchison · Post by **paulaitchison** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:27 pm

on the latest storytellers, he talks about how his approach has involved to be more minimalist, "dont try and put 100 world in four bars of music"

...........then on the otherhand he was talking about dreamgirl.....solid but not his best lyrics.

i think i heard him say that he wrote dreaming tree as a poem when he was younger.....but im unsure where i read it......maby an artical, maby in a forum

Nitro1515 · Post by **Nitro1515** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:58 pm

Trippin Hillbilly wrote:Music first. Then he mumbles some stuff at soundchecks to find a melody. Then plays the songs at shows and makes some rough lyrics. Then goes in to the studio and finishes the lyrics.

Thats the way he used to do it.

Kukini · Post by **Kukini** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:48 pm

Nitro1515 wrote:
Trippin Hillbilly wrote:Music first. Then he mumbles some stuff at soundchecks to find a melody. Then plays the songs at shows and makes some rough lyrics. Then goes in to the studio and finishes the lyrics.
Thats the way he used to do it.

Pre- Everyday and Stand Up

Look at how down hill it went...

dmbandummer · Post by **dmbandummer** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:52 pm

I wonder how long he took to write the Some Devil songs. Some of those lyrics are great.

Trippin Hillbilly · Post by **Trippin Hillbilly** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:32 pm

Nitro1515 wrote:
Trippin Hillbilly wrote:Music first. Then he mumbles some stuff at soundchecks to find a melody. Then plays the songs at shows and makes some rough lyrics. Then goes in to the studio and finishes the lyrics.
Thats the way he used to do it.

He still does it that way sometimes. Examples: Sugar Will, Hello Again, Joyride, Crazy Easy.

Davy28 · Post by **Davy28** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:26 pm

Now he goes into the studio, plays three or four notes on his guitar at random and out of the blue batson jumps up, runs over to him, and, figuring that those few notes might make a nice backing loop for a hip-hop song, has the band write a whole song around them.

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:38 pm

shut up

jellyfish · Post by **jellyfish** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:56 pm

Dave writes his lyrics as he sees fit. Im sure he writes them both before & after he creates the music for the song.

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:58 pm

I just remember an interview on the Today Show (day before the Central Park Concert) when dave says he wishes he woudlnt have to write lyrics to every song, and that it is the last part of the song that gets completed. If he had a choice, he wouldnt have to write lyrics.

Davy28 · Post by **Davy28** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:02 pm

Who then would write them, Stefan?!

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:03 pm

Davy28 wrote:Who then would write them, Stefan?!

It was just if he had a choice, he would rather not have to for every song.