A good example of each of us kind of throwing our ideas in the hat was Dressed to Kill Myself. We just sent little movies of songs and bits and bobs to each other. How did that process go down?ĭeLeo: We would just send stuff back and forth, utilizing our phones. There are some tracks you two wrote individually, while others are co-writes.
Any sound you hear on the record that’s really bizarre and unusual, that’s Dean. Tom Bukovac: I would say I’m the meat-and-potatoes guy and he’s like the freak-out special sauce that makes everything sound cosmic. There were probably several times throughout making this record where, if I was in the room with Tom, he might have just grabbed the guitar from me and said, “Let me just do that”. I’m pretty good at what I do but I take more time to get there. He plays on thousands of records it’s just what he does, six days a week, and he’s paid to work quickly. Can you break down the differences in your styles?ĭean DeLeo: Well, like I said, Tom can play anything. It’s stunning how alike the two of you sound on this record. You can get fierce guitar duels somewhere else.” No, what we wanted to do was share cool music with each other and celebrate our friendship. “This record wasn’t about showing off our virtuosity,” he says, “although I can flatly and honestly state that I’m nowhere as proficient a player as Tom. Which, according to DeLeo, was pretty much the idea all along. What’s striking is how seamlessly their styles match up – at times, it’s difficult to tell them apart. Chilled tracks such as Dressed to Kill Myself, The Bird Returns and Saturn We Miss You (the album’s lone vocal track, which features Yes legend Jon Anderson) spread over listeners like blissed-out hallucinations, with DeLeo and Bukovac allowing each other ample room to shine. What the two guitarists made – a vibey, psychedelic experience that blends rock, country, jazz and lounge music – is almost as surprising as what they didn’t, which is to say it’s not a shredfest.
There was no way we weren’t going to make a record.” “It was like we knew each other for years and were friends already,” adds Bukovac, “It was freaky, The more we spoke, the more I felt like I was chatting with my long-lost brother. “We found out that we had so much in common,” says DeLeo. Their first phone conversation lasted more than three hours by the time they hung up they’d decided to make a record together. Williams put the two musicians in touch with each other.
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