When playing live, is reproducing Kings X guitar parts an intricate process?
Ty: It depends on what part of the tour we’re in. In the first couple of weeks it’s not easy at all. At the end of the tour it’s done in our sleep. After a while we get comfortable with what we’re doing, but it does take some work, and it’s a lot to remember. Sometimes it’s just a matter of putting some [studio] parts together that can’t be done with one guitar, so that live I have to adapt it in a different way to suggest the parts. The live thing is always a bit different. We try to record albums while not worrying about how it’ll sound live, and then we just figure out how we’ll do it. I’m a huge King’s X fan; I’m especially fond of the ‘Faith, Hope Love’ album. One thing I always liked was the band’s particularly clean and precise sound, pristine chordal structures and Beatle-esque harmonies, that Lennon sound. Ty: Well, John Lennon was probably my favorite singer growing up. I was a huge, huge Beatles fan. But I didn’t even realize, I guess because I grew up singing along with the
