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While Joe does give Fig direction, what Anton does with that is largely left to his own discretion. It sure is. It all comes from the blues. Growing up musically, Anton was especially fond of what the British acts were doing.

Just like Joe was. Playing with Joe is also a great challenge for Fig in the best way because it requires his ability to improvise and explore within the space of the music as well as to create his own drum parts. Obviously there are sections that we all hit together but there are also sections where we improvise quite a lot.

I have a reason to pick up the guitar. If you take the stage away, it takes away the impetus to play. We did nine shows and I felt we were just starting to warm up by the time the tour ended.

Did you have to do a lot of preproduction for this record because of that? Did it feel like a cold start? We did a pre-rehearsal for our mini-tour in May before we did the record. So we rehearsed out of the blue for nothing, just to get these other songs working. Then we went into the studio, playing a little bit, and did the record, then we went back and rehearsed again and did a little mini-tour in May. Location always matters when playing.

The context, too. Your guitar style is conversational. It needs a crowd, or at least some people to work with. I need an audience. My Dad was playing in front of an audience.

This is cool! I am not really an influencer. Nor am I interested in making that kind of content because that is just not who I am. It would be disingenuous of me to do so. It would be a pivot, an unnecessary pivot. I had a riff. And he had the idea for the lyric, and we wrote the song [Notches]. But also, I personally think that I am either on the verge of being aged out, kicked out or shut out at any particular point in time, and I am okay with that.

I'm on TikTok! I mean, they set one up for me! I have never been on it. For what? Am I going to sit here all day making videos? People have a very, very skewed strange view of how I live, and I think a lot of that is because of what they see on Instagram. They see me on Instagram, and all I do is sit around and fuck around with guitars. That is not the truth! I have good days and bad days like everybody else. I have days where I hate the way I play.

I have days where I think I am a fucking fraud! This has been a wild adventure. Or the Albert Hall. Same thing at Red Rocks. This whole adventure has gone way further than I would ever have thought.

Maybe the next adventure is simply to be found in the act of creating. Was Time Clocks always going to have a progressive feel, maybe with those Chris Squire influences coming to the fore? Prog music has always been in my nature. I also like trad blues so you just kind of ram them together until it makes sense, or at least is all in the same key! No one ever gave me a copy of a rulebook.

And if they did, I misplaced it. My Dad was a guitar dealer. We were around old guitars. I had old guitar books around when I was a kid. My whole childhood, all I wanted was a Blackface Fender amp. Not all of them were featherweights. We could grab the bathroom scales. We went to a blues gig in Nashville.