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Doubt — Minus Gwen — In Early Stages Of New Album
No Doubt have babies on the brain — and it's not just because Gwen
Stefani is expecting a little one. The band hopes to create its own baby
— a new album — and has started sowing the seeds in the studio,
bassist Tony Kanal revealed.
"I wouldn't
even say this album is in its infancy," he said. "Its conception,
if anything. ... It's so super-early on."
Kanal, guitarist
Tom Dumont and drummer Adrian Young have regrouped to work on demos together,
while Stefani sits out until she gives birth ("She's due pretty soon,"
Kanal said; see "Gwen Stefani Confirms Pregnancy While Onstage In
Florida"). But Kanal's hesitant even to call the new material "songs,"
since some of the tunes are just in the idea stage. "We're easing
into it," he said. "We're taking it very slowly, kind of just
going in and writing here and there."
But as laid-back
as that sounds, the excitement is in the air, since the band's latest
collection of new material, Rock Steady, was released way back in 2001.
(No Doubt's last offering was a cover of Talk Talk's "It's My Life"
for a greatest-hits album). "Right now, it's all about the music
and being as creative as possible," Kanal said.
So what do
the new songs sound like? Kanal said it's too early to tell. And besides,
the bandmembers aren't about to map out a destination point just yet —
they'd rather just explore all the back roads, shortcuts and scenic views
while they can.
"We've
been doing this so long that if we try to set a place to go to, we'll
never get there," Kanal said. "So we're letting that road unfold
in front of us. I'm sure we'll have the same influences, all the reggae
and rock stuff we grew up on, and a bunch more, so we can go in a different
direction as well."
One of those
different directions could stem from the experience Kanal had executive
producing Elan's forthcoming reggae debut, Together as One, an album Stefani
also contributed to with the song "All Nighter" (see "No
Doubt's Tony Kanal Spends Band's Hiatus Producing Reggae LP, Remixing
Gwen"). "It's always a learning process, every time you work
with someone," Kanal said. "You take a bit of what their history
is and hopefully you give a little back."
— Jennifer
Vineyard, with additional reporting by Yasmine Richard
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Former Wailers
frontman Elan — who is putting together his debut solo album, Together
as One, with help from No Doubt's Tony Kanal — pulled an "All
Nighter" with Gwen Stefani. "It's about a girl and a guy, and
how they first meet," he explained of the reggae song they recorded.
"I compare it to 'Summer Lovin' ' in 'Grease.' It's like a dancehall
version. Gwen DJs a bit on it on the back end of the chorus." Gwen
fans needn't worry that their girl is changing her style. "She didn't
go into a hard-core Lady Saw voice," Elan explained. "She did
it like Gwen, her own way."
Lack
of Updates
Sorry for the lack of updates. The last week. Due some problems with the
provider I wasn`t able to come on internet. In the main while I worked
futher on the 20 Year No Doubt special. Witch releases this fall. Also
keep voting for the NDIFC Awards.
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