Please scroll down to see information about Gordie Johnson Social media accounts. Wiki and Biography world. British Musician. Sign in. Welcome, Login to your account. Forget password? Before we dig deeper into that, what to you is eternal? Gordie: It is a coffee question! The meaning behind the song is the ability and willingness to let go and walk away from something. Leaving people and things behind to an eternal past and walk towards an eternal future and making your peace with that.
MR: That goes along with how you described the process of redoing this album. You mentioned it was kind of cathartic. Gordie: Pretty horrible couple of years between people bailing on us, people betraying us, people getting sick and dying, people getting sick and getting well. The record will eventually come out. For so many decades, everyone focused on the record, the tour, the show, the record, the tour, the show, the video, the promotion…go go go.
Everything else took a backseat to that. There are a number of things that went on in our lives that made us go: Okay. So, we assessed everything. All of a sudden, the creative flow was a lot easier to get into.
The album kind of wrote itself, after that. Oh…I suddenly have thoughts about a lot of things…. But pressing Delete…that moment in your head when you pressed delete…what did it trigger? Gordie: It was real creative freedom. There have been some calamitous events throughout our whole career. I can just make another song! Working in the studio for as long as I have, it helps to get comfortable with the idea that sometimes, you lose the best take.
Sometimes, there is an issue with the data, the tape or the machines. Something happens and a performance is lost. Some never get over that. Something else great will channel through you, if you are relaxed and open to it. MR: I definitely believe in that. There are lots of deeper lessons there, that we can go for hours talking about how that relates to life. The initial making of it was a crisis with tragic loss of life and negative influences. You self-quarantined yourself with your wife.
You refocused and rebuilt it. How different is the DNA of the new album from what you left behind? Maybe someday, they will be relevant. It just seemed there was an entire record about a certain thing, that involved a certain group of people, with a common cause. Now…hold on a second…after all that, you are going to up and leave and I will continue to do the work.
You will collect half the money for no longer doing anything? That was not the point of starting on that endeavor. We have always been creatively very generous with people in the band.
It has never been a democracy. It makes a richer experience for everyone, as opposed to just do what I tell you…here are the parts…learn them. Instead, how do you filter it through what you do? Gordie: Kind of, yeah. Staying open, involving people and making sure everyone is rewarded fairly for their contribution, unfortunately, every once in a while, comes back to bite you. It can be a nasty business. People hold on to control, and feel entitled to things, without the knowledge of how much money gets sunk into something.
The previous record became more about things like that. It was supposed to be the rebirth, a new positive attitude and about moving forward. Then, it just became this horrible negotiation…lawyers…stuff like that. Know what I can do? I can make another record! You can go pay your lawyer and go fight about it all day. You go ahead and do what you do…I can just write more songs. MR: This represents the Abundance Mindset, that there are tons of creative ideas.
You are better off to keep creating than holding on to them, as if you are all greedy about these old ideas. Gordie: Yeah. There is no love loss for old ideas, even since making Eternity Now , when Garry passed away. I was left with a heavy heart, but also with this great legacy of unreleased recorded music. Great bass playing and rhythm tracks, songs that never became songs.
I keep Garry with me every day in the studio. I feel he can still speak to me. Gordie: He was a hard dude to lose. Dozens of dozens of songs. I reached out to our friends in the Reggae genre and asked people to write songs on these rhythms, send me vocals and mix it.
I have this entire catalogue of Reggae records we are going to put out at some point. Yeah, man. You also released the new Big Sugar album Eternity Now earlier this year, unfortunately at the start of the pandemic. How have you been adapting since then? It has motivated me to spend more time in our studio writing and creating. I've even become a badass video editor. Our house has become a content creation factory day and night. There have been many changes within the band since Hemi-Vision.
How would you describe what Big Sugar represents for you at this moment? Big Sugar is what it has always been: An unrestricted avenue for my musical vision. Although I have other creative endeavours and other bands—and even other musical personalities—Big Sugar is still my central identity.
It was amazing to see the outpouring of love for Garry Lowe after his passing in Were you surprised at all by the range of artists from across the musical spectrum who came out for the tribute show?
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