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High Times
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Toby Smith about writing tunes in Jamiroquai
Toby Smith speaks about writing tunes in Jamiroquai:
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| "Virtual Insanity was the product of Jays chorus, written in Japan and my verse, both of which were written several years before we started writing the album." |
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| "The tunes that are any good, they take as long to write as the song takes to run," he explains. "So they take five, 10 minutes to write. The lyrics come later. But if you have to battle, say if it takes more than half an hour to get the framework together, they're never as good. Little L happened within a few minutes on this album, You Give Me Something, Virtual Insanity - all our best tunes happen very quickly. It is just the process of me and Jay sitting down at a piano and either he will have a melody or I will have some chords or he will have a verse and I will have a chorus. All our best hits have been that way." |
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| Alright -- a tune which Smith claims took just five minutes to write. "The troublesome tunes will happen over weeks, but the good ones will take only five minutes. On this album, nearly every tune happened very quickly -- me or Jay would come up with the idea and, bosh, the tune was there. When we had to record them, you have to overdub; that's what takes time -- getting them on tape." |
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jamirokaki
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 15:17 |
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the were the best writting team existing, and you can see it with those words...and listneing to the songs they did together
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High Times
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 15:23 |
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| jamirokaki wrote: |
| the were the best writting team existing, and you can see it with those words...and listneing to the songs they did together |
yes mate!! they were the best writing team in the world!!!!!! |
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High Times
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 17:13 |
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hi my friend gave this pic to me, i have not seen it before
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FunkEducation
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 22:13 |
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amazing pic! he still looked the oldskool Toby! haha
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Andrew
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 06:00 |
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Looks very hotel room-ish...
January 02 - Japan maybe? |
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deesh
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 06:11 |
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I think so too Andrew. The corner says 14 1 2002, which I'm assuming means January 14, 2002 and according to Funkin, they were in Nagoya on that date.
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High Times
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 04:45 |
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Re: Toby Smith about writing tunes in Jamiroquai
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| "Virtual Insanity was the product of Jays chorus, written in Japan and my verse, both of which were written several years before we started writing the album." |
Strange.. now we have new different version of how virtual insanity
was written http://funkin.com/news/?id=3742 |
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Tlum
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Location: Prague, Czech Republic
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 13:05 |
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Re: Toby Smith about writing tunes in Jamiroquai
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| "Virtual Insanity was the product of Jays chorus, written in Japan and my verse, both of which were written several years before we started writing the album." |
Strange.. now we have new different version of how virtual insanity
was written http://funkin.com/news/?id=3742 |
I think the explanations from authors of the song seems more arguably than the one from the music executive... |
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High Times
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 21:11 |
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yes of course. i have been thinking how cool it could be if the band had video footage of how twm was recorded |
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