Donna Grantis Uncut magazine :
3rd Eye Girl is Prince, Hannah Ford (drums), Ida Neilsen (bass) and myself. The process of how songs are arranged is very organic, and often comes out of us jamming together. Mostly we're at Paisley Park, but we did spend some time in the studio in London. Sometimes we'll go in at two in the afternoon and stay 'til six in the morning. We're usually six days a week, 10 to 16 hours a day. At Paisley, I'm to Hannah's right, Ida is to Hannah's left, and Prince is in front of Hannah. We're set up to record the same way we play live. There is a song out called "Fix Ur Life Up", and that is a good indicator of what the rest of the album will be like: very guitar-heavy, very edgy, sounds huge. There's a very interesting message behind all of the songs as well. Musically, it's influenced by classic rock bands, and an older sound, although still combined with a fresh perspective. What really appealed to us was the idea of how bands would record back in the day. Like Led Zeppelin or Fleetwood Mac or Hendrix, where everyone's in the studio, everyone's playing together, and it's about the feel and the performance, rather than the digital sound that's popular now. We're definitely a lot more analogue, and it's about the way the musicians performed a piece, rather than just lighting things up and going through a ton of takes. When 3rd Eye Girl perform live we improvise all the time, so what's being heard on the record is just one interpretation of the songs. This album is a different style and direction from Purple Rain. But, in terms of how guitar-heavy it is, if you like Purple Rain, then this album is rockin'.

sounds good. bring it on

love2thenines2003 said:

Donna Grantis Uncut magazine :
What really appealed to us was the idea of how bands would record back in the day. Like Led Zeppelin or Fleetwood Mac or Hendrix, where everyone's in the studio, everyone's playing together, and it's about the feel and the performance, rather than the digital sound that's popular now.

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Hah. Fleetwood Mac were notorious studio residents, they lived there for aeons and did mountains of coke. Tusk cost one million dollars and was one of the most expensive albums ever at the time -- oh, and it was also the first ever recorded in a digital format.

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But of course such facts do not comply to the mythical BS Prince comes up with, so instead he promotes a romantic picture which has got ZILCH to do with reality.

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Hendrix? http://www.8notes.com/bio...endrix.asp

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Hendrix's studio perfectionism was legendary — he reportedly made guitarist Dave Mason do more than 20 takes of the acoustic guitar backing on All Along The Watchtower

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I mean, I've known this for decades. Dude named one of his albums after the studio he recorded it in (which he had built).

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This album is a different style and direction from Purple Rain. But, in terms of how guitar-heavy it is, if you like Purple Rain, then this album is rockin'.

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Such BS.

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I've heard 3rd Eye Girl, and they are no Revolution. And shame of them for thinking they are.

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IstenSzek said:

sounds good. bring it on

exactly. we're ready. bring it on. let's get a release, please!

"There is a song out called "Fix Ur Life Up", and that is a good indicator of what the rest of the album will be like"...needless 2 say that "This album is a different style and direction from Purple Rain."..pretty obvious...

oh bless, she described 'fix u r life up' as edgy!!! mega lols!

Please no more teasing. Give me the exact release date. Thank you!

tatocorcu said:

How ridiculous! She is saying positive stuff about the album she is promoting. She should have said 'it's shit, don't buy it'. Does she not read the org or what?

She's comparing it to Purple Rain, for fuck's sake.

Considering the known output of 3rd Eye Girl, that is just pathetic. It is crystal clear these girls and P are utterly unaware of how shiteous their output has been so far; you'd think that not managing to sell out a modest club tour (even after halving prices and giving away tickets for free) would have given them a clue, but noooooo. Of course it's because they're so far ahead of the pack, that people just don't understand their brilliance. And then of course they claim that it is up there with Prince's most iconic album.

BartVanHemelen said:

BartVanHemelen said:

tatocorcu said:

How ridiculous! She is saying positive stuff about the album she is promoting. She should have said 'it's shit, don't buy it'. Does she not read the org or what?

She's comparing it to Purple Rain, for fuck's sake.

Considering the known output of 3rd Eye Girl, that is just pathetic. It is crystal clear these girls and P are utterly unaware of how shiteous their output has been so far; you'd think that not managing to sell out a modest club tour (even after halving prices and giving away tickets for free) would have given them a clue, but noooooo. Of course it's because they're so far ahead of the pack, that people just don't understand their brilliance. And then of course they claim that it is up there with Prince's most iconic album.

What do you care?

Seriously what do you care?

Prince hasn't made you happy in way, musically or otherwise, for about a quarter of a century. He isn't going to start making you happy now.

Get over it. Go find somewhere else to play. We will all be happier - especially you.

inspiring empowering interview, thanks!

If the album sounds like "Fix Ur Life Up" then I guess I'll wait around for the next one.

Gohi said:

If the album sounds like "Fix Ur Life Up" then I guess I'll wait around for the next one.

that's kinda how I feel.I'm not a fan of that song.

Sounds cool ...Hope I like the album.

Donna Grantis said:
There's a very interesting message behind all of the songs as well

Oh dear

Gohi said:

WOW! Some people are so hell bent on bashing ANYTHING P does, it actually affectst the way they READ, or UNDERSTAND what they read.

She wasn't saying the album is as good or sounds like Purple Rain, she was saying, the vibe is guitar heavy like the SONG Purple Rain.

Nor was she implying that their approach in the studio mirrored, 100% of the time, the way the referenced bands recorded. Studio perfectionists have "jam sessions" in the studio too. Geesh, backdafucup

MIRvmn said:

Gohi said:

If the album sounds like "Fix Ur Life Up" then I guess I'll wait around for the next one.

If she had said that it sounds like 2y2d then I would be a little bit excited but now I'm worried

i'm guessing that one will be on the album too since they did a very nice version

of it during some of the 3rd eye girl shows early last year. it sounded a lot more

heavy than the snippet prince premiered at the dakota show dj set. i have been

having a bit of a feeling that it'll be the next single and it will feature in the "new

girl" episode.

I'm not crazy about FixUrLifeUp--but she was talking to an audience that has not necessarily been following what's been going on for the last year. FixUrLifeUp is a 3rdEyeGirl song that was actually released, readily available for people to hear. All the vids and streams and (sshhh) bootlegged shows--we've heard them, we know how the band sounds, we've made our decisions about whether we're interested in what's coming (if it comes). The readers of Uncut, though, probably have only a vague awareness (if any) that 3rdEyeGirl exists, or that Prince has been dropping stuff the last year. I'm guessing the general sound of the album will wind up resembling the various reworked Prince tracks more than it does FixUrLifeUp, but it makes sense that she would mention the actual single rather than all that other stuff.

I agree that the emphasis was on 3rdEyeGirl being more guitar heavy than a lot of Prince (not on saying it's the greatest thing he's ever done), and again, she chose what people would be familiar with. Sure, they're actually playing a lot of other more obscure tracks (and digging into them more)--but she's talking to a non-Prince-based crowd. How helpful would it be for her to say "We're doing a fuzzier, fuller version of a Chaos and Disorder vibe, or we're trying to bring the live "Fury" sound to the studio (or whatever)? It wouldn't help a general audience at all.

I do however like Bart's use of the word "shiteous"--he used it some other time and I thought it was great. I'm an American, so I can't actually force myself to say it correctly, but while I can't use it, I think it's a clever coinage. I'm sure it's not original with Bart, but I like it anyway.

I'm not sure what Fleetwood Mac's drug habits have to do with anything--she's saying the work's growing out of a band playing in the studio (and live, where she claims they do a lot of improvising as well), not a track built piece by piece (of course, much of Prince's greatest output was built just that way--though analog instead of digital). Not that it's a single take or anything--it's not meant to be a lesson in the studio obsessiveness of Buckingham or Hendrix or Prince himself.

Gohi said:

If the album sounds like "Fix Ur Life Up" then I guess I'll wait around for the next one.

"FixUrLifeUp" is garbage...

New album coming!!! It's exciting waiting on the release to hear how Prince explores and plays with classic rock styles. That's a nice new sound for us to hear from him and I know he's gonna turn it out. We've not had a rock-oriented album from him since Chaos and Disorder so I'm real curious how far he'll take it. "Fixurlifeup" is my jam so I am down with getting a full studio album following in the same kind of vibe.

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Donna spoke well and did a great job with her interview. By the way, I think her comment regarding Purple Rain was simply meant to use it as an easily understandable point of reference to inform people of what kind of sound to expect from the new album, not to equate or compare 3rdEyeGirl and The Revolution. Therein lies madness. 3EG need only be concerned with marking out their own unique territory.

So long as Prince is singing I'll be excited. And I loved Fix ur life up.

BartVanHemelen said:

love2thenines2003 said:

Donna Grantis Uncut magazine :
What really appealed to us was the idea of how bands would record back in the day. Like Led Zeppelin or Fleetwood Mac or Hendrix, where everyone's in the studio, everyone's playing together, and it's about the feel and the performance, rather than the digital sound that's popular now.

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Hah. Fleetwood Mac were notorious studio residents, they lived there for aeons and did mountains of coke. Tusk cost one million dollars and was one of the most expensive albums ever at the time -- oh, and it was also the first ever recorded in a digital format.

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But of course such facts do not comply to the mythical BS Prince comes up with, so instead he promotes a romantic picture which has got ZILCH to do with reality.

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There's more than 1 Fleetwood Mac period ...

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Chill guys, she isn't comparing the album to PR, just that this album's got guitars up front and centre, which we already knew given the make-up of the band - that's it, she literally says she's not comparing the two in terms of style and content. Sheesh.

BartVanHemelen said:

Jboogiee said:

BartVanHemelen said:

She's comparing it to Purple Rain, for fuck's sake.

Considering the known output of 3rd Eye Girl, that is just pathetic. It is crystal clear these girls and P are utterly unaware of how shiteous their output has been so far; you'd think that not managing to sell out a modest club tour (even after halving prices and giving away tickets for free) would have given them a clue, but noooooo. Of course it's because they're so far ahead of the pack, that people just don't understand their brilliance. And then of course they claim that it is up there with Prince's most iconic album.

This album is a different style and direction from Purple Rain. But, in terms of how guitar-heavy it is, if you like Purple Rain, then this album is rockin' And also nowhere in there did she compare them to the Revolution. Reading is fuckin FUNDAMENTAL!

You know all-time haters/complainers....at some point they have to make things up to keep complaining...

Well, I guess I'm one of those lucky ones, who actually loves the heavy guitar of 3EG.

I think Donna is a great guitarist. I loved how the band rocked hard in Paradiso, so if the CD is a reflection of that energy, I'm a happy fan.

Strangely, I have a good feeling about this. Also, I liked "Fixurlifeup", both musically and lyrically, and I would consider it great had it a real chorus to round it off.

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