“ Crash was the one that Steve Lillywhite said, and I’m sure he was just trying to make me happy, ‘It’s going to be metal!’ I was like, ‘Whoa, really, okay!’ Then it wasn’t metal at all, of course. Nobody’s going to not notice that guitar part because you’re all playing it together, you know?… That was how we did it for the first couple of albums, like that. “You’d play all the parts that Dave does so they get so fat. On each side, there is a guitar doing the same thing and it sounds really fat… Everything that I've been doin' is all bad. Girl I been doin' you so wrong and I want you to know that. And I just wanna confess it's been goin' on so long. View LYRICS of 372 songs of Usher, including the top songs: U Got It Bad - Confessions Part II Remix - Confessions Part II - Yeah - Love in This Club. I've been telling you so many lies, ain't nothin' good it's all bad. I got a chick on the side with a crib and a ride. He said, “On the first couple of albums, Steve Lillywhite would have me double everything that Dave did so it would be stereo guitars in unison, kind of like when you do metal guitars. Everything that I've been doin' is all bad. DMB drummer, Carter Beauford, is an octopus on the kit, with seemingly more arms than any other percussionist. It’s bright with thick acoustic guitars and smooth horns. The music was produced by longtime DMB collaborator, Lillywhite. And Crash, the album, sold over seven million copies upon its release in 1996, becoming the band’s best-selling record.īoth the album and the song were recorded by the Dave Matthews Band with official-unofficial band member and expert, nimble guitarist Reynolds along for the journey. 7 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in March of 1997 and was nominated for a Grammy. The song, released in December 1996, was the third single from the album, Crash. This is going to be a hit because this song is so sweet.’” It was kind of silly stuff but I remember thinking, ‘Well, this is going to be a record, man.

I remember when we started recording the song, ‘Crash,’ he didn’t even have the lyrics. “Then with different songs, different people would add things.

With Crash, working with Steve Lillywhite, we just fleshed them out with the band. In an interview with American Songwriter, Reynolds said: “For the most part, Dave comes up with songs and then he brings them to the studio. For Reynolds, even the rough demo had that magic je ne sais quoi. Yet, like with many hit songs, once you even have the feeling, the vibe, the mood, it’s clear there’s something there that will last. When Tim Reynolds first heard his friend and musical collaborator Dave Matthews play the song, “Crash Into Me,” there were no lyrics.

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