Maroon 5 (Adam Levine & James Valentine)

0:00Credentials because I had played with real big fish and so it's don't ever say you had Scott credentials I asked Scott credentials Dear master plug Yeah, they're talking shit to us and we were playing with them. Yeah, no, then then they went on stage They like apologized the answer. Sorry. We didn't like that man. Yeah. Oh Yeah, like sorry how to endure that is that code for me like is that something in the musicians world like you just don't do that I don't you don't talk shit about a man You're playing with you on stage right after they just played number one That's the worst and then you just don't talk shit about bands unless your name is fucking mustard So I've been on this big cross-fistles Nash kick lately yeah

0:51That that wormhole on sure you guys know that on YouTube where you just end up Yeah, I was on end doing the same thing usually it's not cross-fistles Nash Yeah Sorry So anyway, Graham Nash was saying a story about like funding like your first game. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, well he So crazy like I've been we were family friends and I was friends with his son Willie and I was over at the house one day and I was probably night 20 1920 and and Graham sat down He always had interest in the band and know what's going on I was like hey man, what's going on and at that point we were kind of out of high school we had lost our record deal we were fledgling didn't know we were gonna do and

1:38The game was like well, let me put you in the studio make a demo and that was Amazingly that was the demo that got us resigned again And so he did put up the money for the demo which was so incredible Tell me a lot about checks later on well It was the best check I ever wrote my life honest God was that was the check repaying Graham the band wrote to him afterwards Sent him a platinum record which I know that he loves and I mean that's cool You gotta be I mean it was so great Graham talks about it It's such a he talks about really fondly word getting that album platinum album was just like the coolest thing and knowing that he played Well speaking of platinum albums I have this feeling this new ones gonna be doing the same issue is fingers crossed. Yep. So it ain't no mustard plug I

2:25Talk shit about my room You got a really cool riff on the intro like the slide pull off whatever that thing is on the oh maps Oh, yeah, this thing that everyone's gonna hear it. Yeah, it's it's a cool. It's a cool riff I think it's very it's very much maroon 5 this song. I think it has a lot of the Sort of hallmark maroon 5 elements like what you're what like minor key sort of we invented the minor key Yeah, cuz no there's no other songs in minor keys Bock Beethoven I'm not sure that's the order, but yeah, like we're like in there somewhere second Five Mozart Mozart Beethoven Van Morrison mustard plug and welder mustard plug

3:12I There's yeah, the minor chords is like you know a little bit of the fun guitar That's not so much on that song so that just kills my whole fucking microphone. I'm sorry I Then you know, I think Adams vocals, you know because stylistically we're kind of all over the place on every record But then Adams vocals and his vocal performance sort of ties everything together Absolutely speaking of vocal on that like the way you you drag up the knees the ease and knees and I need I think it's a good record man. I love that song Yeah, it's so funny because it was it was definitely one of those like tweak tweaky ones where we had to keep tweaking it and changing it and

3:59That's usually the ones that are wind up being the strongest or the ones that don't I mean sometimes they just come out of thin air And they're done and all of a sudden they're finished a couple of them a couple of them not many We were really hard on them, but yeah, we finally got that righteous at the tail then just good just in time The album yeah, no, we're still we're not done yet. We could go being in the oh we're still there. Yeah yesterday We have these five songs completely finished that you heard a couple of songs are on mixed yeah Yeah, we only have a few mixes in yeah, and then so we got like five more to go and Cool we'll be there. Let's keep going down the songs that I've heard at least so people can kind of know what to expect animals Animals what animal you think you know when you know smell your scent for models like an animal Well that was a metaphor

4:47Referring to a fox And a deer I don't know animals like we're no as Was that band I Harder opens a really special song and see it wrote that one and Collaborated with see on that and and that was like it all started with see ya I mean heard this we heard a demo of it and fell madly in love with it And it's very rare that I will hear a song like like that one and say this doesn't really need anything, you know, it's it's done Or it's close to it being done at least you know We did some retooling of some lyrics and stuff, but man that song is really beautiful and really special

5:36And she wrote it and we kind of co-wrote it with her and It's just one of those great. It's just one of those songs that feels classic You know, that's why I love it. It feels like it could have been a song 15 years ago It could be song now It feels like it's gonna work really well to live show everyone can sing along and like in a big room It's a big anthem if you guys ever write like with the live show in mind like thinking this will work really Definitely I mean, I think every every song We don't have any songs that we don't think you're working in arena I think that's already something you haven't played yet live or have you done everything from every record? Oh, no I always like playing songs from our albums There's I mean, well, that's that's a product. I don't even know half of our songs. We I learned them We learned in the studio. We really record them and I don't know I think that making an album and full of songs is very different than the songs that work live and and it's some songs don't work live

6:24Some songs were great on an album like, you know, if you go see a Beatles concert back in the day that they might not have done certain songs They wound up on their records. It's just like it's one of those things that sometimes living just in your ears is one thing But in front of an audience, it's a very different presentation But we also have this great problem Which is that in the 90 minutes or two hours that we have on stage We can't play all the songs, you know, and there's certain songs that people are expecting to hear like You know, we're not gonna not play she will be loved or this love And so once we get through all those songs There's not a lot of time left to play some of those deeper album cuts That's called boredom

7:10But also the only song very like, spiritual and like very well then Well, it is true I mean because we have played these songs so many times that you have to find new ways to connect to them Because it's really easy to get detached because you can just play it completely on muscle memory if you want to And I can be thinking about dinner afterwards or whatever because we've done it so many times So you have to find new ways in to stay inspired because people can tell if you're not, you know, really feeling it I like to my best way to the way that I've alleviated stage fright I don't have that at all anymore like I go up there and I'm totally even and I don't ever get nervous but The greatest thing ever I've decided was my key I go to and we get on stage is I just pretend I'm Frank Sinatra You know why Frank didn't give a fuck That's what's his vibe, right?

7:57So you just get a cocktail in one hand, you know And like even sometimes you even have the cigarette and the cocktail in the same hand someone would hand on my head And he'd be like and I you just start singing and I think that's the coolest thing in the entire There's this really great tour of his where he came out and was just it was the most It was honestly like he walked out there and all of a sudden those a mic in his hand And he was singing and that's the best the most casual approach is the best, you know the more you kind of Anticipate it, you know the more it'll get in your head But I love how just whatever go for it play your songs run around entertain people have fun then go home Does he influence your writing ever? And you go to Frank when you're writing? He influences me just as far as his showmanship his showmanship was just so like I mean he was just one of those guys that He just honestly was It's crazy with him because I love I don't have this kind of voice and I've always envied that in certain singers

8:47There's a certain kind of like There's a violence to it or there's like there's an angstyness to it, you know Where the it's not so silky smooth and perfect. It's kind of rough and cool and and confident, you know I love I love that about you and you think you have these silky smooth well I mean it's certainly not very rough or angsty or mad It said his voice is very soothing it helps people shop in grocery stores because in fact it's played in grocery It's true. Whoa Music gods did not like that comment much applied Comment mark take two before I let you go we got do something called five questions five quick questions one word answers Everyone gets the same ones cool rotor studio Ryland's answer these me neither Oh rotor studio neither

9:34You don't understand the game home Roto studio studio cuz I'm home studio sorry Pass McCurney if you hear a song what usually hits you first lyrics melody or rhythm rhythm Rhythm if someone's never heard maroon 5 before what song do they start with This love Sunday morning in one word maroon 5 greatness Those arrogant fucks we're not arrogant for cocky that a difference