Like “2000 Miles” come from Otis Redding. There’s a kind of tradition, like Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders’ “the purpose of a man is to love a woman.” So I wrote “Message of Love,” and I took the title “Message of Love” from Jimi Hendrix. See, the thing about rock is there’s rules but there’s no rules. But, I still feel the Pretenders sound is very much in the tradition of the sound that was invented by the original band. People now say it’s just you now isn’t it? I supposed to be honest in many ways I write the songs, it’s my voice and I’m determining the sound. It’s a sound that Jimmy had created, along with the great live feel of Martin’s drums and having Chrissie’s vocal really loud in the mix, leaving no doubt that she’s in control of the song.”Ĭhrissie Hynde talked about trying to continue with the sound that was created by Jimmy Honeyman-Scott when she explained, “ I’ve tried to keep the music going in tradition of the sound. I had a delayed reaction to the trauma about losing these guys.”Įngineer Steve Churchyard who helmed the boards during the Learning To Crawl and “2000 Miles” recording sessions described what Jimmy Honeyman-Scott’s guitar sound meant to The Pretenders when he said, “ Invariably, when we’d get to guitars everything would be layered.
We were going to be miserable either way so we decided we might as well be miserable into the studio. The drummer and I decided we could either we could not go in the studio to record “Back on The Chain Gang” or just go in to the studio. He had a lot of drug problems and we found it hard to work with him. In fact, we had just sacked my bass player. Did you know that The Pretenders most famous holiday song wasn’t inspired by Christmas but the passing of guitarist Jimmy Honeyman-Scott? Scott died before the recording of Learning to Crawl as Chrissie Hynde explained when she said, “I n 1983, when Jimmy Scott my original guitar player died we were booked to go into the studio, two weeks after he died. If you love X-mas music, it has to be your most wonderful time of the year. Don’t Forget the Songs-365: Mach Dos: Day 318
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