{"id":17880,"date":"2020-01-07T05:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T10:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=17880"},"modified":"2019-12-09T12:12:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:12:26","slug":"samantha-fish-more-than-just-a-girl-with-a-guitar-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/07\/samantha-fish-more-than-just-a-girl-with-a-guitar-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Fish: More Than Just a Girl with a Guitar (Part Two)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Continued from Part One<\/a> \u2026 <\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cKill or Be Kind\u201d is as far away as you can get from the idea of a song that\u2019s merely an excuse for a guitar solo. I get the sense that you\u2019ve got a confidence that you don\u2019t have as much to prove as you did in the past.<\/b><\/p>\n

Honestly, to me I know what I like when I go out to a show. If I see a guitar player who just keeps going forever, I\u2019m probably going to get bored in the first three songs. That\u2019s just me personally. And I know that it\u2019s not all about my personal taste, but when I\u2019m making a record, I want to please myself. <\/p>\n

But that song is all about what I wanted to do with the guitar on this album. And I didn\u2019t get it, I got really close. It\u2019s all about putting the guitar in there as a texture. I layered it so many different ways that there ares these subtle nuances that you might not know that\u2019s a guitar, but it is. There\u2019s so much guitar on this record, but you wouldn\u2019t freaking know it in a lot of ways. The big solos are in there in a lot of ways, but not every single song calls for it.<\/p>\n

I want to serve the song. That\u2019s my job. If I\u2019m not serving the song, I can play guitar any way, but if I\u2019m going to go in there and make an album and write songs the way I do, we\u2019re going to make them to fit that.<\/p>\n

Listening to some of your early stuff, I can hear that your vocal range and vocal control have progressed. What kind of formal vocal training have you had?<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh, man, I\u2019ve gone back and forth and done lessons for years. I started doing vocal lessons when I was like 18 or 19 years old. <\/p>\n

You can watch somebody play guitar and go, \u201cOh, damn. I want to figure that out,\u201d or you can hear something and then try and pick it out on the guitar. Singing, it\u2019s all about the muscles inside your throat. I can\u2019t just watch a singer, get better, get a new idea. There\u2019s so much going on, you have to really learn how to control it. <\/p>\n

And to be honest, I think a lot of it had to do with nerves. When you go into a studio, you put these headphones on and everything sounds fucking crazy, and it\u2019s really hard to relax. I could really fucking belt it at the shows, but if you listen to the [early] albums, it\u2019s like I [eventually] figured out how to control it a little better. And you can kind of hear that in the studio. It\u2019s a little less restrained. I got to take some chances and really go off like I do in the live shows.<\/p>\n

You started out playing drums, not guitar. How do you think that that foundation affected your approach to the guitar and to songwriting and arrangement?<\/b><\/p>\n

I think every musician should start with the drums. I really do. I think everybody should take drum lessons, because you\u2019ve got to learn how to count. Counting and rhythm are the most important building blocks for music. It\u2019s what people dance to. If you can\u2019t count, you\u2019re so lost. <\/p>\n

Playing the drums really helped me because when I started playing guitar and singing at the same time, I got to skip some steps, in a way, because I had that foundation already there of being able to play in time. And it did help. <\/p>\n

I wish I had more time so I could go home and spend it on my kit because it does help in so many other areas. Especially when you\u2019re playing with a band. It helps to know what the drummer\u2019s going through.<\/p>\n

Have you found that you have to work harder to gain a foothold in the music scene because you\u2019re a woman?<\/b><\/p>\n

This is a dicey question because I\u2019ve only ever been a woman. So, I don\u2019t really know what it\u2019d be like if I was on the other side of it. It definitely feels like there are limitations, but in a lot of ways, it\u2019s kind of hard to back up with any kind of scientific facts. I don\u2019t have any data to prove it, but it feels like it. <\/p>\n

I mean, I think it\u2019s difficult for women, period. In any industry and any job environment. You\u2019re dealing with pay equality. And if we\u2019re still having a conversation about pay equality, you\u2019re Goddamn right it\u2019s harder for women. <\/p>\n

For me personally, I\u2019ve found that it\u2019s a double-edged sword in some ways. I love being a woman. I feel like we need the female perspective in art and music. I see a lot of young girls come to the shows, and that makes me really happy; I wish I would\u2019ve had more representation when I was younger. Maybe I would\u2019ve started sooner. But all I can do, as far as that goes, is just keep doing what I\u2019m doing. <\/p>\n

When I first started, some people were coming because it was like, \u201cOh, a girl that plays guitar.\u201d It\u2019s kind of silly, right? Almost like a novelty or a gimmick, and it used to really piss me off, but then it would get people in the door and they\u2019d be like, \u201cHoly shit. This is good music,\u201d and they\u2019d stay with us. People were like, \u201cWow. Girls can play guitar too. That\u2019s interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been kind of a weird social experiment and a journey, and I\u2019ve found a lot of fans who came out of curiosity and then stayed for the music. So, in some ways it\u2019s worked out. I don\u2019t know if I was a man, would I have had that same curiosity about me or would things have been a lot easier for me? Would I be a huge mega superstar right now if I was a guy? Who fucking knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continued from Part One \u2026 \u201cKill or Be Kind\u201d is as far away as you can get from the idea of a song that\u2019s merely an excuse for a guitar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,41,49,62],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-17880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americana","category-blues","category-interview","category-new-release","category-rawk","tag-samantha-fish","cat-6-id","cat-9-id","cat-41-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17887,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880\/revisions\/17887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}