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COVER STORY GRETA VAN FLEET IGNITES THE REBIRTH AND RE-EMERGENCE OF CLASSIC ROCK A WITH FIRST FULL LENGTH RELEASE AND 2019 TOUR! At first listen to GVF’s first two EP’s, I took the position of most hardcore, old school, salt of the earth rock and roll fans and said HOW DARE THEY TREAD ON SUCH SACRED GROUND!.For years we have been clamoring for the return of true rock and roll to the airwaves and now it is here, at our doorstep and I thought, HOW DARE I! I sat down with Jake Kiszka after he got off stage from the Austin City Limits show. His deep knowledge and respect for his influences melted my skepticism into gratitude. They are as true to the music as they are true to themselves. You Guys have done alot of shows over the fast few months. When did you guys have time to sit down and record the record? Pictured above: Jake Kiszka Taken from the video “When The Curtain Falls” JAKE: That’s an interesting thing. You know we have been consistently touring, and there was pretty much very little time to pause and do that, so a lot of the writing really consisted of writ- ing on the road. We have a lot of these songs that were previously written and recorded and we decided to take at least 2 weeks off to go and record more of these songs that we had. We seemed to finish quite a bit of songs on the album, so we continued touring after that. And then we decided if we had 2 more weeks in the studio you know we can finish this, and we did. Was there any on the spot writing done in the studio? JAKE: Yeah! it’s interesting that a lot of the songs were pre conceived and a lot of things during the process of recording the album were premeditated. Other things, not so much. That was one thing that none of us really expected to Page 16 happen, but yeah there are quite a few songs that were written during the recording process. Working with a producer, how much influence is in Greta Van Fleets recordings and how much do you guys rely on that? JAKE: It’s interesting, because the way that we see the producer is like a translator. Some- one with the ability to have an existential point of view on certain things. Especially when your in it, it was good to have another opinion from someone we trusted as far as input. The produc- ers input.. it’s very little I would say . If there’s ever a question of “what do we here, we’ve got 3 options?” Then he’s good to have an opinion and it’s always good to have someone standing there saying play that better. That’s part of it as well. (Continued on next page) GVF Facebook GVF Twitter GVF Website Buy GVF Music Photo Credits: (Cover, Opening Spread and Above) Travis Shinn Page 17