...The next album – we won’t just put it out for the sake of putting it out. We’ll put it out because we feel it’s worthy of putting out. That’s the one benefit of being in the place we are. I have my life that I do and I like what I do, and I know all those guys feel the same way. This is just an added thing for life that’s something we believed in that’s finally getting appreciated and we’re getting to revisit it. And we don’t have to be this touring group to support it, so we can truly be engulfed in the creative part without worrying about making money from it. The money means absolutely nothing to Winter, really, as far as survival...
...I definitely want it to have that same depth, and all the same voicing and stuff. I definitely want keyboards on it. I definitely want Tony involved in the writing. He might not be the guy to go on the tour with or anything like that, but I definitely want to write with a real organ player, and I definitely want to keep some of the tonal qualities that makes Winter what it is. Like the guitars I use for Winter, Winter has guitars that are in their own tuning, and used just for Winter, and it could be mutated and it doesn’t work with other groups, but for some reason, it works with what Winter does. All that same equipment, we still have. It’s been in the fucking basement in road cases for 25 years...
...That was the one thing when we played the Power of the Riff. Greg pulled us aside and he was like, “I’ve seen so many groups come back and they use all fancy new gear and everything. They forgot the most important thing: the tone of their sound.” And he’s like, “You guys sound exactly like you sound on the record,” and I’m like, “Dude, we used the exact same equipment as we used on the record!” Nothing’s really changed. That guitar that I had, that’s the guitar my friend made me in high school. All these cabinets that I use, and all the shit I use, the pedals and shit like that, it’s the same shit I used from then...
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