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Kevin Miller
(October 2005 Issue)
Selection Process Fuel's
Kevin Miller had a "ta-dah!" moment while the quartet was recording their latest release, Natural Selection.
During
pre-production with producer Michael Beinhorn, Miller felt his
parts were being snipped a bit too much. "I was mad and said,
'Okay,
wait a minute. If there are going to be album tracks, let me shred a
little bit. If a song is going to be a single, I
know the
meat-and-potatoes routine.' I flew home after pre-production and my
girlfriend said, 'don't take it so
personally. If they don't like the
part, just give them a better one.' I was like, 'Wow.'"
When
Miller
returned to the studio, his new outlook eased his tracking dates. "I
ended up recording the whole record in seven days,"
he says. "I was
very happy. That attitude adjustment has changed everything for me. So
if Carl [Bell, Fuel's
songwriter/guitarist] doesn't like a part, it's
like, 'Okay, I can do something cooler.'"
While
the whole album encapsulates that vibe, one of Miller's favorite
songs to track was "These Things." "I'm a huge Pink
Floyd fan," he
admits, "and that song is very Floyd-esque. Having played their
material in cover bands for years, I put myself
in Nick Mason's shoes,
thinking how he would approach the song."
David John
Farinella
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