I rejoined the band in 2001, I’ve been back like 20 years, it just shows you the longevity the band has had. I think John and Simon were having a conversation with somebody and they were describing the sound of the record to them, and somebody said, “Oh, it’s like your future and your past all mixed up together.” And I think John liked those two words together, so it became a very apt title for the album.Īnd you had, what, 10 years where you weren’t in the band or the music industry at all? So I would say this record’s got one foot in the past and one foot in the future.ĭid the title Future Past come in early as a deliberate description of the recording approach, or was that thought up later in the process?
So you’re kind of going to the past a little bit and fishing out the way we used to record these early records but kind of pushing it into the future. He wanted to kind of reintroduce that factor into this record. That’s one of the things Erol Alkan, the producer, wanted to achieve - because he’s a DJ and he was playing a lot of our early 12-inch records, which are all played completely live. Yeah, there’s a lot of live playing on here. I have my real acoustic drum kit in front of me, then I have the electronic pads to the side, because I think people still like to hear the shit that went down on the record, don’t they?įuture Past gets a little electronic, but it still sounds like a live band, is it kind of a hybrid thing on there? When you play live, do you have electronic pads with your set to play those parts? I just really liked that sound, so I thought “How are we gonna work that Simmons kit into the album?” So I just used the toms as overdubs and it kinda worked. But I tried the tom sound, which has now become the classic ‘80s kind of synth drum sound - which is on “Hungry Like the Wolf” at the end of the choruses.
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I think the Simmons drum kit turned up at the studio one day, and I didn’t want to use a full electronic kit. I read Annie Zaleski’s 33 1/3 book about Rio recently, and I found it interesting that when she interviewed you for the book, you pointed out that you played an acoustic drum kit, but then played the tom-toms on electronic drum pads. When a lot of the early ‘80s bands were just going completely electronic, we still kinda held on to that band thing.
But always used real guitars, and the gigs were always a big part of our story. I know it’s a very wide array of people that get in there, but we’re as rock’n’roll as I guess Dolly Parton. But you never really know, do you? Because I guess Duran Duran’s not really a rock’n’roll… We’ve got a bit of rock’n’roll in us, but I wouldn’t say we were a down-the-line rock’n’roll band. I think Depeche Mode got in there fairly recently, so when they got in there, we thought it was a possibility. Eurythmics are also nominated this year, so it’s interesting to see your generation get that recognition. It seems there have been more ‘80s bands getting consideration the last few years, even though they’ve been eligible for a while.
And I gotta say, I nearly fell off my seat at that point, because it’s one of those things… You think maybe it’s gonna happen, then you kinda start to think maybe it’s not gonna happen. I just got a call on the morning saying that we’d got the nomination. Nobody said, “Oh, you might be getting nominated this year” or whatever. Roger Taylor: I think yeah, it was a surprise, because we didn’t get any lead up to it. You guys have been eligible for over 10 years, so was it a surprise that it happened this year? SPIN: Congratulations on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination. Also Read Duran Duran Plots 2023 Tour With Nile Rodgers and Chic, Bastille
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