Andreas, what is the one song that is toughest for you guys to nail in a live setting? It seems like most of your songs are technically challenging, but I imagine there's one or two that everyone sweats about.
Hi!
I can't answer that for all of us since sometimes a song can be quite easy on guitar and horribly difficult on bass or vice versa.
For me personally Destiny Calls is the toughest one on bass all together I think. Not an angel is not difficult but tiring since it is quite fast. Black parade and King of Whitewater have some challenging stuff because I play som fast runs on the thickest strings which is much more difficult.
What I've Become is quite challenging too.
Then I must cobfess that I thought it was very difficult to play in pitch on the fretless on Long Way Home, but that is another kind of difficult.
But like many other things it is also a matter of practising. There are some licks in both Unbreakable and Welcome to Mercy Falls that were quite hard to begin with but after playing them on tour for two years they feel ratehr simple, so that too is a factor.
Then it is difficult to say and be fair since Walking Tall is a very simple song, but of course has the bass solo which is tricky to get to sound the way I want it. Does that make the song difficult? No, I guess not...
From a band perspective longer songs are always more difficult and songs with many different moods might also be more difficult to get to sound good live. I think we are quite skilled at that though so I don't really perceive that to be a problem.
Obviously The Great Escape would be the most difficult one since it is so long and there's so much music. It did start to sound ok when rehearsing before the recordings though, so nothing is impossible.
Just a matter of practise!
