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InVettagating: Venice - Michael Lennon August 2005 page 3
Welcome to page 3 and the rest of the InVettagation. In this InVettagation an interview with their guitarplayer, Lennon family member, singer, songwriter and responsible for their recordings. Thanks go out to all the Venice bandmembers, their crew and management, they have been very kind and helpfull.
Ever thought of a tabbook or something? We are thinking of making a tabbook with Venice songs since theres a lot of returning questions for it. I really wanna do this but I have to find the time. So maybe in a near future we can work on it I actually already tought about it to have a Venice DVD with an extra bonus DVD with all the tabs and a video of me playing the songs with the exact fingerings. Because more people could use that, since not every-one can read music or tablature. So if people can watch me do it then it could be "understood" by more people. We are gonna do a sheetmusic book / tablature book and do little video with it. In it I can literally explain how I came up with the idea or how it got me started, evolved and then play the part itself. When I was younger and I listened to songs I always wanted to figure them out and you could allways buy the sheetmusic but it sometimes isn't transcribed correctly, like how I'm really hearing it. But I could watch someone on TV doing it one time and I could go, "ooh, o.k. he's playing the third position bar chord. Once I know where he is I can figure things out pretty good. I always wanted the buy photo's and always wanted that there were photo's. Now with the age of Internet there's a lot of great possibillities, so.. I'm hoping to make it a more of an audio/visual thing then just a book with a bunch of notes on it.
Michael I know you're involved in songwriting together with the rest of the band, can you shed some light on the proces? Of course Vinny, happy to elobarate for you. What we say that we try to have a song 'fully realized' as we put it. Sometimes there are songs from just one bandmember with lyrics and music and it fits right in the other Venice songs. With fully realized we mean that the one person took it from point A to B without being stuck in the middle. Sometimes I could have a guitar idea, and it's a beautiful idea, like Family Tree for example. The music was written. I had the guitarpart, I had the melody to sing. I just didn't know what the words should be, but knew that they should be about you know, that what comes from your heart. I got together with Kipp and John Vester, played them the music and hummed them the melody. It touched them in the same way without even having words.. I just thought wow. Then we worked on it and it became fully realized. We reached from where I was going to point B but didn't know how to get there necesarily, let's say I got halfway there and they helped me to get through the rest of the way. Some songs like "Think Again" is different. Mark just woke up one morning and had this melody in his head and was starting to write down these words. He have to know he doesn't play an instrument but he can pretty much tell me what he needs. He just says, do that chord and stay on it, bit longer.., now switch. Then he says, whell there's one other chord and he sings me the notes to that chord. So he sings me the notes to play without playing guitar. It's pretty amazing... In this proces we could change one chord or say: you should take those words out and repeat another part because we think it better. But generally he wrote that song and it fits into Venice, the harmonies come in and it sounds like something we would write. The proces is never the same it's always a bit different and changing. There's songs that Kipp and I write together. There are songs that all three of us write together. There's songs that Pat comes to us like "Blue Ocean Park Waltz". He just brings us the whole idea called the waltz and we changed it to Blue Ocean Waltz, we write a few other parts to it. So it's really always changing and that's exiting to not being stuck in the same proces every time. It's always evolving and new ingredients and new ways of doing it. Then al of a sudden you bring a computer into the mix and you acidentally hit a button that turns the guitar backwards you know all that stuff is always stimulating our creativity and changes things. We always try to find new combinations, not only in gear but also in the way we build a song.
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