Roger Andrew Taylor
Roger Andrew Taylor
Roger Andrew Tayloris an English musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Duran Duran from their inception until 1985, and again from 2001 onwards, the band selling in excess of 70 million records in the process...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth26 April 1960
initial
You never know how you're going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States.
lucky reclaim special
We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives.
almost band call drift finally moment music slowly
I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed.
people
Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.
needed
When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
months ragged record seven six tiger took
Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.
finished period recorded time
It was over a three-year period that we recorded this album. Everything sounded very different by the time we finished the album.
until
The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that.
beatles complete plug room
It's a complete collaboration. We just set up our instruments in a room and plug in, much as The Beatles would have done 30 years ago.
nonstop
It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.
deciding drum everybody groove guitar involved process
We're a real democracy. We go through a whole process where everybody is involved in deciding on everything from a drum groove to a guitar sound.
trigger
We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.
music pro putting record stuff taking
We used Pro Tools, a music system, to record the album. You can just keep putting stuff on and taking stuff off and re-recording.
directions five gone lives people together
That's incredible, if you think of five people who have all gone off in different directions in their lives and come back together again.