Acoustic Songs

[HY]

It amazes me how well so many of your songs work acoustically. You guys can rock acoustic better than anyone I've heard. Most bands seem to step back and tone down a song when they play it acoustically - but you keep all the rock in.

Now the question.

Do you think about that aspect of a song while you are writing it?

I'm sure a lot of the song-writing process starts out acoustic, while you are working out lyrics and melody - but do you think about the end product and how "Rock" it will be, or whether it will be better as an acoustic song?

Hope I'm making myself clear here - it sounded better in my head.

Thanks for the music,
Lyn M.

[martinxavier]

If it doesn't work acoustically then I question if the song is actually any good. When you peel away all the production, glitter and gloss there has to be the essence of a true song at the foundation. We rock the tunes as best we can acoustically but I am actually trying to go the other way with a few songs and deliver the true feeling of the song that I got while writing it.

Marty