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Crystal Method Gets 'Tweek'-ed, STP's Weiland Not Thrilled With Collaboration
07/31/2001 10:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Neal Weiss
(7/31/01, 10 a.m. ET) -- Crystal Method returns to record stores today (July 31) with its second album, Tweekend, from Geffen Records. The electronica duo, perhaps best known for the 1997 single "Busy Child," sought collaborations from Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello, Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, and Beck turntablist DJ Swamp, among others.
The work with Morello has already proven fruitful, with the song "Name Of The Game" continually climbing the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart with each successive week since its debut a month ago. The collaboration even prompted Method's Scott Kirkland to offer, "[Morello] told us, 'I would be in your band if you guys only worked faster.'"
That might not be the case with Weiland. The singer told LAUNCH that he wasn't completely comfortable with the duo's collaborative process on the song he did with them, "Murder."
Weiland explained, "The making of that song was...it was fun because it was a challenge, but it was one of the most impersonal, roundabout ways of producing and writing a track that I'd ever experienced."
Weiland added, "You know, they sent me over, like, 10 songs that were basically just rhythms and beats and I picked one that I felt like would lend itself to having some kind of song structure. And then, wrote some melodies and some harmonies and lyrics and then rearranged the song in my ProTools so it had some kind of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-break-bridge thing and then sent it back to them. So we never actually worked even in the same studio.
"It's like, I had my arrangement idea of how I felt it should be, which is more song-based, and then sent them the files and then they chopped it back up and they had their own arrangement," he said.
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
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