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"I feel like it doesn't become a Mastodon song until everyone has some input on it."
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“It’s democratic. Everyone contributes. It happens a whole bunch of different ways. I could write something at home. Everyone writes a little bit of something at home. Or, we come in and we have one riff or two riffs. Someone else has a riff that goes with that one, something like that.
“I feel like it doesn’t become a Mastodon song until everyone has some input on it. Everyone touches the song in a certain way. It does something different and it brings something different to the table to make it sound like us.
“If it’s just one person by themselves, it doesn’t sound like Mastodon to me. Everyone gets in there and contributes a little bit.”
