![]() ![]() ![]() I can play through a lot of different basses and amps that are nothing alike, and it will always sound like me. This record had to be done quickly, so I used guitar rigs for the basic sounds a guitar amp can give you a nice tone and some warmth. How did you create your tone this time around? I wanted to add that punchy “Paul D’Amour sound,” so I tried to do that thing, whatever that thing might be. The melodicism was already there, so I wanted the role of my bass to be powerful and make a big impact. I was just trying to find the power in the songs. What inspired your writing for Lesser Key? In the end, I knew leaving was the right decision. I’m not just a bass player I’m a creator, I wanted to have a bigger role, and it just wasn’t happening in that situation. I couldn’t be stuck in that paradigm-it’s too stifling. They’re set up where the bass player does the bass part and the guitar player does the guitar part and so on. I always wanted to do other things, and it felt like I was too much in a box with that band. Their creative process is excruciating and tedious, and I guess I never felt the desire to play a riff 500 times before I can confirm that it’s good that’s why it takes them eight years to write an album. I wish it had been a better vehicle for me to create in, but it just wasn’t. It gave me a lot of confidence to do anything I wanted to do.ĭo you have any regrets abut leaving Tool? All of a sudden, we were playing in front of huge crowds, and we had a ton of success. To go from 0 to 100 miles an hour in the span of a year was incredible. How did your time in Tool affect you as a musician? On the self-titled debut by his new band, Lesser Key, D’Amour is picking up right where he left off: coaxing signature tones from Music Man StingRay and Rickenbacker basses, and channeling elaborate rhythms and dark melodies in the pursuit of ultimate creativity. Paul d amour kicked out of tool full#Known solely at the time as the heavy-picking bassist behind powerful songs such as “Sober” and “Prison Sex,” D’Amour immediately began taking on projects that showcased his diverse range as a musician: He played guitar in the psychedelic pop band Lusk, formed a cover band called Replicants, flaunted his multi-instrumentalist chops with his solo project Feersum Ennjin, and composed music for movies and television shows.īut after years of redefining himself and sidestepping his identity as a bassist, the 47-year-old has come full circle. WHEN PAUL D’AMOUR WALKED AWAY FROM TOOL IN 1995, DURING the recording of Ænima, he had one mission: to avoid letting his role in that band define him forever. This interview is from the October 2014 issue of Bass Player magazine that I posted to this sub a while ago. ![]()
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