Quality control

listen to things on a micro scale. loop 4 bars/8 bars/whole sections. if it gets boring, it probably is boring.

with band based stuff, i try and play with people who i respect so much i'd never question what they're doing. granted, most of our stuff is improvised. i think of my drummer as some sort of self generating beat machine. i'll play something he'll complement it. of course. same goes for the rest of our players. looking back at older bands it was those horrible "hey mr bass player, why don't you try doing this kind of groove, look watch me play this" moments that really killed everything.

Anyways, there's usually a consensus on what's working and what isn't, but I think I'm a little pickier than the other members, and there have been one or two songs that I took out of the set because I didn't want to play them anymore. It isn't so much about crowd reaction as it is about how I feel when I play the songs. If I feel awkward or unrocking when I play them, they generally fade out of the set pretty quickly.

Yo just reminding y'all that this is mad import

My quality control method is basically 1) write a lot of songs, 2) throw most of them away.