Noodles: “Bob encourages us to experiment. So what kinds of things have you learned from him? He really has an encyclopedic knowledge about all that.” He’s a player himself and loves guitar sounds. We love to hear it – especially about guitar stuff.
With this record we did kinda want to go back to the basics and do an album that sounded like The Offspring Noodles Whenever he finds a box or piece of equipment or even just a fact he learned about an old piece of music, we talk about all that. Bob’s great for that, because he loves talking about things and he’s always learning himself, too. Noodles: “We’ve been picking his brains for 12 years now. It must be fun picking the brains of someone with that kind of experience… We’re always tinkering away with those kinds of things and Bob Rock is so good at that stuff in particular… he’s a guitar guy first and foremost.” You don’t want everything super-distorted it’s got to have a little bit of a bite to it – that’s how you make it sound good. Holland: “But there’s an art to making them sound good. Noodles: “Just call them licks, I guess!” “Even on a song like We Never Have Sex anymore, we still have those… I don’t know what you call them. It can make it sound thicker or gloomier or however you may want it to sound. Holland: “It’s all over the place! You can do so much with guitars, but if you have a really heavy track and put one that’s semi-distorted underneath, it can really change that whole vibe and flavor. Other than that, it’s pretty much all guitars. Though we also wrote a song with horns on it and a song that was all piano. Heavy guitars, bass and drums, and usually a melodic song underneath all that. With this record we did kinda want to go back to the basics and do an album that sounded like The Offspring. Noodles: “Guitars are always important to us. What felt different from a guitar perspective on this record?
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