I only know a couple chords, but I know how to play them well, and we'll figure out how to make music no matter what.ĭoes it sound cool is a big one. So the approach of just figuring out how to do it no matter what is brought in, not only to playing music, but it also comes into the writing. We would set up in parking lots, and we would set up under overpasses and skate parks, and all the gear would be plugged into an outlet that's 50 feet away next to the public bathroom that you find. So I think, in reality, when I look back on it, nobody would do it for us, so you just made it happen and do it ourselves. I always say the shitty part about DIY is you got to do it yourself. At the end, we'd get out at 10:00 PM, I would learn how to use the gear by writing songs, and the first songs that I wrote were basically the first record for FIDLAR. I was working at Kingsize Soundlabs, and then I eventually moved and became engineer assistant dude for this dude, Rob Schnapf. I wanted to see how music was being made. I moved to LA, and I wanted to be a producer. Yeah." And sometimes I hear it, I'm just like, "oh, dude, is that what I sound like?" But then at the same time, I'm just like, "Yo, that's me." Fuck it. So I just have this Southern California accent accent like, "Hey, yeah, dude. We kanak attack afterwards, yeah?"īut I had to move to the mainland, as we called it, and I had to take English classes, and all I did was hang out with surfers and skaters. It'd be like, "Ho brah, how's it going? Oh, yeah, yeah. When I moved to California, I had to take English classes because all I did was speak Pidgin and Pidgin's, like the Hawaiian slang. But I just do tens now, and I've been getting into lower tunings, you know what I mean? So the Mammoth one I like. Somehow it just reminded me of action sports, or Back to the Future or some shit. Everything's kind of 10 years behind over there. It was the color for me because my dad's surf shop, his brand is very eighties looking, you know what I mean? And Hawaii in the nineties is basically the eighties. Jelly's music in Hawaii, and I remember buying the Ernie Ball thing, and I just loved it because it was neon. It was a little crossover of punk reggae. I was like, "whoa, what is this?" Korn, Slipknot. I remember hearing Deftones for the first time. It was also through surf videos and skate videos. I was 12 or something when Enema of the State came out. They're all kind of modded, Frankenstein'd and everything like that, so it all kind of feeds into each other, especially surfing. Surfing and guitars and everything, music wise, for me, it's all connected.
I think in other schools they give you a flute recorder. My first introduction to playing music was the ukulele. I think when I play guitar, it shuts off a side of my brain that helps me be able to sing and be who I am. It's also the most basic form of expression for me. The goal for me is to write songs, and guitar playing is my tool. Zac Carper: Guitar playing is really a way to write a song.
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