![]() When it comes to playing live, Fowler, an avowed guitar nerd, says that he tends to bring as many as eight to 10 instruments out on the road with him, to make sure he always has “the perfect guitar for the song.” He estimates that his collection has swelled to somewhere between 30 and 40 instruments at this point, many of which can be seen in the photos he posts on his Instagram feed. ![]() Onstage I can just see it with production and projections and fire and all the fun stuff we’re gonna be doing soon. Regarding the former, he says, “I could listen to it every single day and it wouldn’t get old.” As for “Hole in My Heart,” he continues, “It has this eerie, dark sound, but Kellin does these really high little Seventies throwback, Zeppelin-style runs. Songwriting-wise, Fowler points to two songs on Gossip-the anthemic first single, “Legends,” and a swelling, atmospheric ballad titled “Hole in My Heart”-as standouts. He definitely took us all out of our comfort zones.” It was a lot of just sitting in a room with Bendeth and cranking out crazy sounds and crazy ideas, because that’s the kind of producer he is. “So all the weird noises and stuff you hear on the record, in songs like ‘Gossip’ and ‘Empire to Ashes,’ it’s things that sound like samples but they’re not. “There are certain songs on the record where I’d sit in a room with David Bendeth and he’d be like, ‘Hey, at the end of this song let’s just turn on every pedal and go for it,’ ” Fowler recalls. ![]() ![]() Some of those broken barriers, as it turns out, had to do with guitars.
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