Richard Butchins's Blog: Angels stand corrected... - Posts Tagged "guitar"

Well, it seems that true to form and somewhat depressing that you all read the posts about my celebrity interactions rather than extracts from my novel, but such is the way of the modern world.

When I was making my documentary the www.thelastamericanfreakshow.com I was at a loss for music to use. Now you may or may not know that if you use music in a film that is composed by someone else, or is commercially released, you have to pay a license, this can be very expensive indeed. So, what to do? I had a think and as I was living in Oxford at the time and had a passing acquaintance with various members of the band Radiohead (remember them?) and their crew. I was chatting to someone that knew Jonny the guitarist about the fact that I needed banjo playing on my film and they told me that Jonny had recently bought a banjo but that the band wouldn't let him play it with them (snobs....). Well, I happened to bump into him out and about one evening and I just asked him to watch the film and would he mind recoding some banjo for it if her had time - Oh and I couldn't pay him (I was tottally broke and had made the entire film on a credit card). He was fine about it - took the film and a while later sent me some mp3's with his banjo compositions on them. Thing was, they were terrible, really bad. He liked the film but had very little time I suppose (they went on a world tour shortly after) but I still have the recordings somewhere and as a result I had to learn the banjo and play the music myself ....cheers Jonny that was a result.

you can check out my novel here (on the blog) and here Pavement Thoughts of a serial killer