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\n<\/a>\u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever know my craft or if I\u2019ve got my diploma on the wall or whatever, it\u2019s one of those things I\u2019m working all the time to just explore and get better at what I do or at least try to figure it out as to what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n

From album bio: After 25 years in rock n roll, the Artist otherwise known as Mark Lizotte has delivered an album that melds all the varied sides of his musical personality \u2013 and reveals a few new ones besides. World, meet \u2018Let it Fly\u2019<\/em>. \u00a0\u2018Let It Fly\u2019<\/em> is Diesel at his timeless best.\u00a0 An album of twelve new songs, \u2018Let It Fly\u2019<\/em> is a superb display of the diversity of the multi-instrumentalist\u2019s musicianship working in harmony with his singing, song-writing and production skills. \u201cStylistically,\u201d says Diesel, \u201cit\u2019s got the R&B DNA in it that\u2019s very me.\u201d\u00a0 That Diesel DNA, so familiar for 25 years, has sprouted new strands \u2013 new instruments, new friends, new stories, new insights and a glimpse at the next generation.<\/p>\n

We chatted to Diesel about his new album \u2018Let It Fly\u2019 as well as touring and looking back at the album that launched his career some twenty four years ago now\u2026<\/p>\n

So, to start it seems like it\u2019s been non-stop touring machine this year\u2026<\/strong>
\nJust this year? *laughs*<\/p>\n

Well you\u2019re hitting the road again, this time regionally with the Velvet Curtain tour and then with the band on the album run where as you just finished another solo acoustic tour, do you have to prepare different mentally playing a band show compared to a solo show?<\/strong>
\nWell I guess the band instantly puts me in a different space, so I don\u2019t really have to think about it, I think about more stuff with the solo thing because I\u2019m so exposed *laughs* but yeah the band show feels really luxurious, especially when I\u2019ve been doing so many solo shows, but having said that I really do enjoy the challenge and the space that I have when I do the solo thing.<\/p>\n

I saw you at the Vanguard a few months back and have to say it was amazing, how much fun is it for you to let the crowd essentially choose your set for the \u2018Solo and Select\u2019 shows?<\/strong>
\nWell look, if I did that all the time I\u2019d feel like I was missing out a bit on having my own choice *laughs* but it\u2019s definitely a good thing to do, especially I think periodically as it gives me an idea of what people want to hear out of my catalogue as well, otherwise you\u2019re just assuming or guessing. You can\u2019t get a better indication than people coming to your shows and actually asking for songs, so it\u2019s very direct.<\/p>\n

What can fans expect on this upcoming band run in October?<\/strong>
\nI guess we always play a little bit of a new album when we have it, sometimes more than others, with a few of the records I\u2019ve made they\u2019ve been quite sort of tricky to get into at first and take a while to meld into the set, but I think this one is going to mesh in quite naturally, especially having Tim to come out and do this run, and he played quite a lot of stuff on the album and of course there\u2019s a song on the album that we did together and that will really fortify things and amalgamate the whole sound I think.<\/p>\n

You mention you worked with a good friend of ours in Tim Chaisson on a track, how did that come together?<\/strong>
\nIt was just kind of by chance I suppose because he\u2019d been doing some supports with us here and I\u2019d made plans to go over to Canada to do the East Canada music week and East Canada music awards which all happens in the same week, and I guess it\u2019s like the SXSW of that part of the country and actually a lot of people on their way to SXSW stop in at this one as it\u2019s the same period. I\u2019d already made plans to do that and I heard Tim was going and a mutual friend suggested that we write a song together for this songwriters breakfast thing that they do there, which is very early in the morning *laughs* and they get everyone down there into a part of the hotel where the whole thing is happening and you perform these songs that you\u2019ve just written quite quickly or quite recently and the whole idea is that you smash two atoms together and see what happens or two artists in this case. So we did a writing session over Skype as we knew we didn\u2019t have much time before we arrived and that was a bit of a weird idea to start with but once we got rolling and we could hear each other it didn\u2019t really matter where we were, he was just driving back from New York and I was in Perth, twelve hours difference, that was kind of weird, I was having a cup of tea and he was having a red wine. We wrote a song in about five minutes, well it felt like that anyway, and we got to Canada and thought we better check out what we did a couple of weeks ago, so a quick rehearsal in my hotel room and bang, we performed it. It couldn\u2019t have been much more of a fresh song, the smoke was still clearing, so we just kind of took the indication of what happened that morning, it was such a good reaction we thought \u2018hang on, maybe we did do something *laughs*, maybe we should pay more attention\u2019 and that\u2019s what we did, we just paid more attention and next thing was that I wanted to put it on my album and the next thing to come out of it was that we recorded an EP that is coming out in October as well, so I\u2019ve got an EP of just Tim and I doing one of his songs, that song, an old song of mine and a cover which is we also found out we\u2019re both big Tom Petty fans so that was kind of cool. I guess when you grow up listening to radio you take it for granted a little bit, take him or his presence and then I guess now as the dust is clearing you start to see his brilliance and it was after the documentary I saw recently by sheer accident on an airplane, they really did come from \u2018against all odds\u2019 I think is the phrase, so yeah I\u2019m even more of a fan than ever.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2018Let It Fly\u2019 is out now, and amazingly it\u2019s been five years since your last studio release, so why was now the right time for new material?<\/strong>
\nWell I guess I could\u2019ve done one in the normal kind of space, two-ish years, I guess that used to be a really standard thing for artists, there are reasons, due to touring and needing a little headspace, that sort of thing, but in the meantime I made these other two record, so that\u2019s probably why. When we started talking you mentioned the non-stop touring, and it\u2019s really been because of the three albums in five years\u2026 that\u2019ll kind of do it\u2026 *laughs*<\/p>\n

What inspired you musically to create the songs for this record?<\/strong>
\nA lot of it was to do with the other two records we made which was a blues record and an album of my influences of guitar, they definitely influenced not only my song writing but the way I treated the songs when I\u2019d written them and the style of instrumentation, and that\u2019s probably why the banjo emerged on this album just because of Project Blues, that was my first kind of recording of banjo, and in the meantime Russel Morris approached me and said I could play banjo on his album and it was quite random, it was like I\u2019d never thought I\u2019d get\u00a0 call for someone wanting me to play banjo\u2026 but yeah I\u2019d heard the track and I was delighted as soon as I heard the track and was quite honoured that he\u2019d picked me to put something on it, this great song, so that was cool. So it was just a natural thing, I had this idea kicking around, I thought it was actually probably inspired a lot by a Neil Young track I think it was on \u2018After The Gold Rush\u2019, and I just love the way he plays, he\u2019s got a dirty sort of laid back not caring approach to playing banjo that I really like, it\u2019s a lot rougher around the edges than his guitar playing which is kind of nice. I just wanted to have something of a different nature, a different sound, it just gives the soundscape a real nice departure, especially after the opening track which is just a full on wall of guitars and then it\u2019s not what you expect in song two which is kind of cool. *laughs*<\/p>\n

Is there a story behind the album title and track you can share with us?<\/strong>
\nI mean it\u2019s just a classic sounding title, it was actually Warren Costello who\u2019s worked with me on the last couple of records from Liberation who just said something about \u2018Let It Fly\u2019 and I said \u2018what?\u2019 and he just assumed the album was called \u2018Let It Fly\u2019 I think so I thought I\u2019m not going to argue with that, I think I was calling it by its working title \u2018Album Thirteen\u2019 or \u2018Thirteen\u2019 unlucky for some, and you know what this might be a title finally that people don\u2019t get misconstrued or mispronounce it or put the words the other way around and jumble them up, so far so good, the three little words seem to work well.\u00a0 I just like the imagery or the connotations, it\u2019s nothing meaningful or anything it\u2019s just a clean simplistic image on the cover and the title fits nicely with it I think. Maybe that\u2019s what\u2019s about to fly off on the cover, the Gretsch Falcon\u2026<\/p>\n

I dig the \u2018Wind Cries Mary\u2019 kind of groove to it too\u2026<\/strong>
\nOh that song? Yeah! That groove was one of the ones that just kind of evolved, I know what the song was in terms of the chords and the melody and that kind of stuff but it wasn\u2019t until we just started playing it that it came to life and I thought there it is, there\u2019s the pocket, and it was kind of a just make it up as you go along kind of thing. It just kind of played out itself I found, and I love that kind of R&B old school, around that time actually when we were recording that song I\u2019d just discovered one of my favourite bands at the moment which is Alabama Shakes so I just thought I\u2019m going to go full tilt with my Memphis Telecaster and get as Steve Cropper as I possibly can *laughs* he\u2019s one of my biggest influences\u2026<\/p>\n

I particularly loved the takes on some of your classics if you like, in particular \u2018Soul Revival\u2019 which got a revival of its own. Do you enjoy putting a different spin on the songs?<\/strong>
\nYou know what? I just let the instruments that I\u2019ve got at the time if it\u2019s a band or whatever I\u2019m holding, I sort of let that take the reins and with the solo thing it just makes more sense to try something different and have a go at a song, maybe add harmonica or something to take it out of its birthplace of the record where people get in scorched into their head. I think the song has a chance then to show itself even more, that\u2019s what I feel anyway, with a song it\u2019s like \u2018OK guys, you\u2019re really familiar with the version you know of this, you\u2019ve got it on your iPod or a CD or whatever, but here\u2019s something completely different, now you\u2019re really going to hear the song as you won\u2019t be distracted by the usual familiar things.\u2019 I think that\u2019s kind of a nice thing, it\u2019s also a good thing for me that I\u2019m not forced to do the same kind of version or try to muster up the same sounds, in one sense it\u2019s hard, almost impossible for me to replicate myself and it just seems pointless as that was a moment that happened and you kind of move away from it. I\u2019ve always loved when artists do different versions of their song that you know, having said that I\u2019ve been known to get a little annoyed when someone plays something way too fast or way too slow and it\u2019s like \u2018what\u2019s going on with that tempo? It\u2019s throwing me right off\u2019 but it happens with adrenalin and stuff and sometimes you\u2019ve just got to go with it and accept it, it\u2019s live.<\/p>\n

Not to make you feel old, but it\u2019s been 24 years since \u2018Johnny Diesel and The Injectors\u2019 released that iconic Australian album, looking back, tell us a bit about how the album came to be?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s twenty five years since we crossed the desert, from Perth that is, then we went to Memphis and made that record and put it out in 89. For what it is I\u2019m happy we didn\u2019t get over produced and turned into something else for a first record we definitely put our hearts and souls into it and the producer allowed us to just be us and I think that was a really lucky thing as there was definitely a lot of crazy over production going on at that time *laughs*with bands that were called rock and roll bands or rock bands or whatever it was like well if you rock you\u2019re going to get turned into the stadium band over there that wears spandex and all that, so you know, we were just left to do what we do, I think going down to Memphis instead of maybe Los Angeles or somewhere else in the world for that matter, but definitely going down to Memphis to make that record was the right thing to do. The record producer was quick to tell us that nobody goes down here as far as the industry people go, that\u2019s why he loved working down there because he got left alone *laughs* there\u2019s no pesky A&R guys from the record companies coming down telling him how to make his records. So yeah, we were in the right place just to be ourselves and because of that I think there\u2019s always those warts that you look back on and blemishes and looking at an old photo you wince and go \u2018ahhhhh\u2019 I\u2019m just comfortable with the fact that the record is us and that we didn\u2019t get turned into something we weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Ok, I have to ask as I have a friend when I said I was interviewing you asked me to ask you \u2018what exactly is on the tip of your tongue?\u2019 as she\u2019s always wanted to know?<\/strong>
\n*laughs* well doesn\u2019t it answer that in the song? Three little words that I want to say\u2026 I don\u2019t have to tell you what the words are do I? *laughs*<\/p>\n

Is there one song from your entire career that you feel defines you as an artist?<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s really hard because I\u2019m so all over the shop, some would say eclectic but that\u2019s maybe too flattering *laughs* I really have a hard time with just being one facet of music, when I say a hard time, I\u2019m just not what I\u2019m good at, I love a lot of different types of music, so it would be hard for me to say one song as then I\u2019d be closing off the doors to lots of different types of things, but I guess I don\u2019t know, a bit of everything, an amalgamation of all of them\u2026 this record, there you go. *laughs*<\/p>\n

The evolution of Diesel\u2026<\/strong>
\nWell yeah that\u2019s kind of what you do\u2026<\/p>\n

It has been a great evolution for you, different names, different styles has it been hard for you along the way to do that?<\/strong>
\nWell I guess the different name thing was just by default, I didn\u2019t definitely plan it out or anything, the band was named after the bass player, and I think I\u2019ll be explaining this for the rest of my life, I had to just go a long with it because I was in the middle of the stage. I was just Diesel for that period before I went to New York and that was fine, that just worked as a solo artist I thought that would work for that bit, and then the label I signed to in New York were worried about the clothing company of the same name, so putting up big billboards all over the city at that point, so I had to appease them and go under my own name for that record and they seemed to think that was fine and that was fine, until I put the record out in Australia and no one knew who the heck I was *laughs* I had a crash course in branding right then and there, but you know it is a work in progress the whole thing, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever know my craft or if I\u2019ve got my diploma on the wall or whatever, it\u2019s one of those things I\u2019m working all the time to just explore and get better at what I do or at least try to figure it out as to what I do.<\/p>\n

Essential information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From: <\/strong>Australia<\/p>\n

Latest Release:<\/strong> Let It Fly (Liberation) out now!<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> \u00a0http:\/\/www.dieselmusic.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n


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DIESEL \u2018LET IT FLY\u2019 NATIONAL TOUR DATES:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday Oct 11th \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE BASEMENT \u2013 Sydney, NSW<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday Oct 12th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE BASEMENT –\u00a0 Sydney, NSW<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday Oct 17th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FRIENDS RESTAURANT –\u00a0 East Perth, WA (Solo)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday Oct 18th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FLY BY NIGHT –\u00a0 Fremantle, WA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday Oct 19th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CHARLES HOTEL \u2013 Perth, WA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday Oct 20th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RAVENSWOOD HOTEL \u2013 Ravenswood, WA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday Oct 25th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE GOVERNOR HINDMARSH \u2013 Adelaide, SA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday Oct 26 & Sunday Oct 27 Sydney Blues and Roots Festival shows<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday Nov 1st\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE ABBEY \u2013 Canberra, ACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday Nov 2nd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE PALMS AT CROWN \u2013 Melbourne, VIC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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