#Gorillaz clint eastwood ghost license

Earlier this week, the group snagged six nominations for the U.K.’s 2002 Brit Awards. 14 on The Billboard 200 and has sold more than 1 million copies to date, according to SoundScan, while Clint Eastwood” is nominated for a best rap performance by a duo or group Grammy. The group, masterminded by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewlett, is coming off a very successful year. “G-Sides” will be released in conjunction with the quartet’s first North American tour, which, as previously reported, kicks off Feb. The nine-track set includes the new songs “Faust” and “The Sounder ” remixes of “19-2000” (one each by Soulchild and Wiseguys/House Of Wisdom remix) and “Clint Eastwood” (Phi Life Cypher remix) from the group’s eponymous debut the B-sides “Ghost Train,” “Hip Albatross,” and “12D3 ” and videos for “Tomorrow Comes Today” and “Rock the House.” That was some real shit that just happened to blow up because it was so great.U.K.-based animated act Gorillaz will release the B-sides/rarities album “G-Sides” Feb. It’s not like it was some throwaway shit I just did to try and make a hit. And the people that were involved in that project, I have a lot of respect for too.

A lot of people coming to the performances, they were introduced to me through Gorillaz. I knew we were going to make stuff creatively.”ĭel The Funky Homosapien: “I still perform it. The second me and Damon hit the studio together, we hit it off. I thought it was going to sell Blur numbers.

#Gorillaz clint eastwood ghost license

You have creative license to do what you think it’s about from there.’”ĭan The Automator: “I didn’t think it was going to sell millions of records. So I’m like, ‘OK, and what else? That’s it? I’m supposed to write something with just that?’ He’s like, ‘Just be creative. And there’s a ghost living in his head of a dead friend I believe or something like that. He told me the song came from the point of view of Russel. “Dan gave me very little information to work with. He kind of kept pushing like, ‘You know you could do it in 30 minutes.’ Which he’s right. “So late at night, we’d already finished recording and stuff, and I didn’t want to do nothing else. Could you clean up these lyrics for this song I got on this Gorillaz project?’ I was like, ‘Man, take me home, dude.’ At the last minute, he was like, ‘I kind of need you to do something for me. So, we were finishing up Deltron, and was supposed to be taking me home to the other side of the bridge. He was simultaneously working on the Gorillaz project. But a lot of reggae influences creeped into my work, and probably more of the alt-y space stuff crept its way into the Gorillaz.”ĭel The Funky Homosapien: “Me and Dan was finishing up the first Deltron album. I think the heaviest influence the Gorillaz had on me is a lot of reggae. There’s some truth to the sense that the Gorillaz sound, the Deltron sound were being developed at the same time, so there’s some overlap.

“When I got to Gorillaz, there were demos. He had called me up and said, ‘Would you be interested in kind of this new project?’ I was a big fan of Blur and whatnot, so I went from Germany right to London. I was on Handsome Boy Modeling School’s promo tour. Note: 'Heavy Gorillaz' is my nickname of the Heavy Seas line-up (featuring Mike Smith and Jeff Wootton of Gorillaz) that feature Gabe 'Manuals' Wallace of Gorillaz as the drummer, making the lineup 4/5 Gorillaz (exception is Seye Adelekan) Clint Eastwood. Dan The Automator: “I was in Germany, and Damon tried to find me.