Damon: Nothing's gonna proceed unless firstly Graham is into it.
Graham: I remember listening to the demos and getting a pad and trying to jot down the chords and thinking bloody hell there's a lot of chords here. But good chords. Chords you can really get into. There's such a lot of opportunity for melodic stuff and more emotional things when chords are that much more deeper.
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Graham: Damon has really allowed me on this record, and probably over the years, to play some of my favourite guitar stuff. That's because of his ebony ivories. It's what I was saying earlier on, what is given to you via those chords to explore, and the notes you come up with in the parts you put down eventually after many run-throughs and getting it right.
Damon: When I stopped playing the piano at the beginning of Blur, it was because my chords sound too rich. It's like we are like an indie band, it's not helpful. So I learned to play the guitar, obviously not very well and I still really haven't... I've got a little bit better but not much. But now I'm not worried about playing the piano.
Graham: I think that's a lot of what sets us apart from a lot of the other people that we may have been lumped in within the 90s. The songs are written on a piano, that's a completely different thing.