![]() ![]() ![]() “He didn’t know who I was, but he wanted to understand why I would want to work with him because why would anyone want to work with him? In his mind, he was done,” Rubin said. When Rubin first met Cash, Cash had no idea who Rubin was, nor could he understand why anyone would want to work with him. And his choice was to die or to carry on, and he chose to carry on Rick Rubin And his choice was to die or to carry on, and he chose to carry on.” “He wasn’t well enough to tour anymore,” Rubin said. While Johnny Cash never made it onto the desert island with Rubin – spoilers: none of the albums he produced did – he nonetheless spoke at length about their work together, which then, as now was radical and invigorating, presenting Cash as a melancholic troubadour who had seen it all. He also revealed that he has just produced a new album with The Strokes, and the follow-up to 2020’s The New Abnormal was recorded on top of a mountain in Costa Rica, overlooking the ocean. Anthony Kiedis on Rick Rubin: “I'll see people look at him like, ‘Shouldn't he be getting to work now?’”.He chooses to listen to the takes barefooted, in repose, eyes closed, because only then in this relaxed, quasi-Zen state can he tell if the music is eliciting the required emotional response. Where some producers micro-manage, Rubin is famously hands-off. In a wide-ranging interview – ostensibly to find out which records Rubin would take to a desert island with him – the producer, whose credits include Beastie Boys, RHCP and Metallica, discussed his much debated methodology. ![]() “Johnny was wary! And I think I did a demo where I had a guitar player play it, and I said the words the way I imagined him saying it, and then when he heard the lyrics, and he heard the format of what it could be, he said, ‘Let’s try it.’” “I played him the song first and Johnny just looked at me like I was insane, because the Nine Inch Nails version of the song is very noisy, aggressive,” Rubin said. Rubin had to sketch out how it might sound with acoustic guitar before Cash could see the cover’s potential. When Cash heard the original, taken from Nine Inch Nails’ seminal 1994 album The Downward Spiral, he had his reservations. But speaking to Lauren Larverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Rubin admitted that Hurt was a tough sell. Best of 2022 : Rick Rubin has been recounting his collaboration with Johnny Cash, and revealed how the country icon thought was “he was done” before a late-stage revival that saw the Man In Black make some of his most successful records of his career.Įmblematic of Cash’s revival was Hurt, the Nine Inch Nails song that he made his own. ![]()
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