Does Meshuggah ever get together to just jam for fun?
T – No, never. We have never really jammed except for the few off time when we had a shitload of beers or whatever. We haven’t really jammed together for 10 years. The music is all very constructed. We write it on computers, program drums first for the demos and that’s how we go about things. Me and Fredrik did jam stuff up for the “I” EP that we released in 2004. That was somewhat of a jam album but to a very small extent. C – Did Fredrik use his Ibanez Iceman on obZen, or is that just recently acquired for the tour? T – Yeah, actually we had them shipped for the first show of this tour so we had never seen them before. So these are the first few times that he has used that. C – Will the Iceman be a production model like the RG or is it a one-off custom? T – No, I doubt it. The problem that you immediately run into with that is with the 8 string they have a longer scale which makes this one extremely front heavy. You don’t have the horns like with the RG style guitars so you have to p
