Duran Duran have a superb new album, 'Future Past,' out this Friday. I spoke with bassist John Taylor about the band's 40-year evolution, from MTV stars to iconic career artists,
I spoke with Taylor about the band's evolution, dealing with that early fame, the group's diverse musical influences and much more. John Taylor: I did actually. I'm quite eclectic, and sometimes I buy things, I don't know this artist but I just had to have it. She's an African singer. But then I also got... I love these soul jazz compilations. So this is a new England band. This is Lovers Rock, they're a London-based company and that all of their compilations are amazing.
Baltin: I'm sure for you personally, when you go back and hear this record, you can hear, you're a way different and probably more skilled bass player than you were, when you were doing"Reflex" almost 40 years ago. Suddenly everybody's programming, f**king funky base lines, and it's a journey. I think it's a journey for any instrumentalist, really, it doesn't matter what you play. I've been saying for years,"I feel like I'm going the way of a cellist." It's like we're an endangered species, electric bassist.
Taylor: It's been an evolving awareness, shall we say. I think we still kind of have that tendency rather like the Rolling Stones to sort of front-load our albums with tempo. 'Cause it seems like it's the quickest response to ageism, play fast and loud. So I think there's this kind of standard. The opening track on the album,"Invisible," is actually by our standards a slow tempo. And right as we were mixing it, somebody ups and says,"I think this is faster.
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