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AFI's Jade Puget and Hunter talk to UltimateGuitar.com about Crash Love (and their songwriting process for it), choosing producers, their solo projects (Blaqk Audio and Hunter Revenge) and of course, what they look for in a guitar (a couple of the quotes might be mixed up on this part when they have Hunter talking about a new Gibson Cloud (YUM!) that Jade later refers to planning to bring on tour :)

Jade - "I’ve always loved shredding but I haven’t tried to bring too much of it to AFI ‘cause it’s not really appropriate. It gets corny if you do it too much. There’s only one other AFI song in the 11 years that I’ve been in this band where I’ve really shredded. And that was a couple of records ago. It was a song called “Dancing Through Sunday” on our Sing the Sorrow album. So I think doing it rarely makes it more impactful. So if all of a sudden you go a few years and all of a sudden you do another solo, it’s a rarity. So it’s not like, “Oh, he’s doing another solo.”

Hunter: "Let me interject this – as for basses, I had Fender send me just a variety of stuff and I have over 20 basses in my collection. I brought everything to the studio and I would sort of do shootouts between things and it ended up coming down to this brand new stock P bass that Fender sent me that sounded better than everything. Even like these basses from the ‘50s and stuff. So I ended up using that on almost everything."

Great stuff... along with an interview with Adam recently by one of his gear sponsors about drum tracking on Crash Love, it's always nice to read more about the song writing process and musicianship by the guys in the band who don't hppen to be the lead lyricist/vocalist :)

You can read the entire interview here on Ultimateguitar.com