Frank bello and dave ellefson biography

It was so what I wanted. Dave and I really chased Ace for a while because he was so busy. It meant so much to us and the solo came out incredible. He really liked the track and I was psyched to hear that. It was a great thing. Obviously you guys have a million contacts in the industry. How did you go about selecting the guest guitarists on the album?

He made a lot of suggestions. I was so thrilled to have Christian [Martucci] from Stone Sour. Sort of the unspoken, un-heroic guitar parts that really fill a record out. The guy that could play a Rickenbacker through a Vox with that chimy sound or add an arpeggio to the second part of a verse to build up to the chorus. Christian was that guy. Ace was a childhood hero.

I wrote it on a 5-string and laid it down with the 8-string as you hear it. I thought we needed something else. Jay suggested Russ. He just took that song to a whole other level. It sounds like something that blew my mind like the first Michael Schenker Group album. It went deep down into these other avenues I would have never thought of. In using several different guitarists, did you give any thought to having a cohesive sound or mix it in any way to have a consistent tone?

Or did you want people to recognize these players as individuals? Bello: I think they all did a great job of speaking for themselves. Working with Jay Ruston, he knows all these players.

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He knows how they work. He gets it out of them. These players, I say this will all fondness: They came with it. They really matched the songs, it fit. Frank and I are already famous enough [ laughs ]. The two of us coming together is the hook.

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Bello: You just hit it on the head. You open the windows in the car and put it on with your buddies and have a great time. Did you have a preconceived idea of wanting to make a very song-centric album or was it more of a natural direction based on your collaboration? You let the creative process take you instead of always having to direct where the creative things go.

The other day someone asked me in a master class about creativity, modes and scales and I said when I create I forget all the rules. I set all theory and music knowledge aside because that is where you really take down the walls of creativity. That was a real joy for me. One night in London I leaned over to Frank and I said 'You know, you and I should really write some of our own material so we have our own backing tracks for these clinics.

I had some stuff that I brought in, and David had songs that he brought in, and then we got together in the studio and started putting it together.

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It worked out really easy; it was always about writing the best songs. That was the impetus for getting this started. He really worked on my guitar parts and made them what they are. I love working with him. Unknown to us, Frank and I both had these songs inside us that really needed to come out. He was sensitive to how all that fits into our lives, and he really became the fifth Beatle for Frank and me.

We want to give it the best shot that it has, in between the schedules of our main bands. Quite often the intro and the verses are dark and pensive and in a minor key, and then the chorus explodes into a really groundbreaking major key that really lifts it harmonically to a place where you get excited. It was rhythm guitar; our friends played the solos.

He also came up with great guitar parts, so I really enjoyed the process. They bring out a whole other kind of melodic counterpoint bass playing in me. We thought they were really strong songs. It was one of those things where it all clicked. Jay knows where you want to go before you say it to him. I introduced Dave to him and it all clicked really well.

I knew the parts already, so it was easy enough to go right in the studio and play the songs I played in my house. Going to the studio was an easy process. It was like an open canvass, and David did some really incredible work on it. Whether it was an 8-string bass, 4-string bass, 5-string bass, all great stuff. Writing these lyrics was a cathartic experience for the Anthrax bassist.

Everybody has hardships in their life, and these are my hardships. When growing up, my dad took off, and my brother was unfortunately murdered. A lot of that stuff builds up inside of you, so I found it very freeing to write about it and be honest about it. It felt good getting it out of me. Whoever was abandoned in their life, I think could relate to this song in some way.

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