Interview With Gary Husband - Page 3

Gary Husband: Well ... it's the power, the genius ... people who have greatness at their very core, and that's about as best as I can put it. Anyway the music does the talking. John's as important as Miles to me. Burt Bacharach, another one, and so unique ... but from a totally different world. Bjork, another one. These are three people who I chose to depict inside of some original music I write for Force Majeure. Maybe I was saying "thank you". I should really point out though, really, Allan's in there too, Miles Davis also to a great degree, a lot of the classical influences I had, certain film music, Kenton, a lot of different pop music ... everything that ever affected me. Everyone that ever affected me, deeply. And at the centre of it all - the mixing of the idioms, the way it runs, the way it develops, and unfolds in this way, is, I guess, me.

MuzikMan: What do you find most challenging in music today in comparison to when your career began?

Gary Husband: The music, of course. What I do, where I go, how I hear it and what I'm going to do it ... it'll be an eternal challenge I'm sure. But that's the way it is with this mystical thing we do! And I'm addicted to the search and the discovery. I need it. Second to this (!) as probably every musician will tell you right now is the general state of things in terms of the business of music. It's a fight, more now than I can ever imagine it would have been before in quite this way. These are worrying times. We've all got to be very careful and pretty canny about what we're doing. If you want to look at the sales of CD's for example right at this moment it's actually quite alarming.

MuzikMan: Your ability to multi-task on stage is an incredible thing to witness. How is that you are able to play the drums and piano so proficiently then totally change gears and lead a horn section as the conductor. How does one’s brain work in such a fashion?

Gary Husband: Well for me it's not in the brain. Profiency? That's down to work - hard work, that's all. Drums, piano, keyboards, those are my instruments ... and they are all number one instruments for me too. It's kind of the way it's always been. There's no one over the other. To be conductor, though, is a specialised skill - something I don't pretend to have a huge handle on just yet ... but I needed to direct, and it's pretty hard to do that from drums. In the Force Majeure show, what with nerves, and a not over abundance of time to rehearse it was a big experience for me. A colossal responsibility ... but, that's what it's about too. To stretch, and go for it.

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