Skywriter from GARGANTUA by Ash Grunwald
Skywriter – Always a live favourite, Ash could hear Andy getting primal on the tom drums for Skywriter and he was not mistaken. Not only did Andy go to town but it was also the track where Ash saw first hand the true extent of both Andy and Scott’s incredible musicianship. ‘What you’re hearing – every hit of that drum,’ describes Ash, ‘is Andy jamming off me. It was the first time he’d ever heard the track and that’s the only version of it we did. It’s amazing and it’s spot on. As for Scott, there’s this sort of hammer on, pull off kind of thing that I do in the central riff on the guitar that’s a bit tricky to learn at first and Scotty sat down to work it out on his double bass and he asks me ‘how does that go’ and he did it in a few seconds?! How the hell do you do that on a double bass?? The guys a freak!’
