mattchuck2
07-26-2007, 04:18 PM
From http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2007_07_24.08.phtml
RR: You sent Trey “Skip the Goodbyes,” because you wanted him to hear it and he ended up playing on it. Did this experience serve to initiate his desire to get back to songwriting with you, early in 2006?
TM: This may have broken the ice, you’re right—the Cook Cabin Sessions. We went up to Gore Mountain—a fantastic getaway, we’ll go back, for sure—and wrote some great songs. I hope I’m not saying too much by saying Cook Cabin in Gore Mountain. I don’t think it will matter. The funny thing is that when we went last time, Trey instantly blew our cover. We went to the most country bar when we first arrived. We were meeting some friends and right away, he walked in and he was mobbed—BOOM. I kind of bodyguarded a little bit. We made a corner where they had to go through me to get to him. Everyone was very nice; there was no real reason to do that. There was a mob at first but then, everyone calmed down—Wookish, not really college types but more like Gore Mountain locals and very nice people. The bartender rang the bell, turned off the music and made a big toast—this was during the 2006 Winter Olympics—and he made a
speech. He said, “To American athletes and to…American Ingenuity and to…American—” and I said, “IDOL!” Everyone cracked up in the middle of this guy’s wonderful toast. He angrily finished, “and to American musicians,” because of Trey. He toasted but I was happy to get in “Idol” because Trey and I had both been watching it.
Dude has to stay within 50 miles of Whitehall because of a drinking and driving incident . . . maybe he'll be in the area again . . .
RR: You sent Trey “Skip the Goodbyes,” because you wanted him to hear it and he ended up playing on it. Did this experience serve to initiate his desire to get back to songwriting with you, early in 2006?
TM: This may have broken the ice, you’re right—the Cook Cabin Sessions. We went up to Gore Mountain—a fantastic getaway, we’ll go back, for sure—and wrote some great songs. I hope I’m not saying too much by saying Cook Cabin in Gore Mountain. I don’t think it will matter. The funny thing is that when we went last time, Trey instantly blew our cover. We went to the most country bar when we first arrived. We were meeting some friends and right away, he walked in and he was mobbed—BOOM. I kind of bodyguarded a little bit. We made a corner where they had to go through me to get to him. Everyone was very nice; there was no real reason to do that. There was a mob at first but then, everyone calmed down—Wookish, not really college types but more like Gore Mountain locals and very nice people. The bartender rang the bell, turned off the music and made a big toast—this was during the 2006 Winter Olympics—and he made a
speech. He said, “To American athletes and to…American Ingenuity and to…American—” and I said, “IDOL!” Everyone cracked up in the middle of this guy’s wonderful toast. He angrily finished, “and to American musicians,” because of Trey. He toasted but I was happy to get in “Idol” because Trey and I had both been watching it.
Dude has to stay within 50 miles of Whitehall because of a drinking and driving incident . . . maybe he'll be in the area again . . .