About ‘The Rectory’ The concept of ‘The Rectory’, is partly tied together by stories that happened in Dave Gilbert’s hometown and surrounding areas. Personal stories and experiences, family experiences, a ghost sighting, and questions/warnings to the listener.
The development of our music is quite simple. Dave writes the lyrics and the melody of the music, and then records all of his parts. The music is given to the other guys to listen to, and then we talk about things if someone feels we need to change something. Alex then plays his parts, followed by Gary. Once this has been finalized, Dave mixes the music and Alex lends an ear, helping with the overall production. We then always ask Gary’s opinion. Once we’re all happy, Dave masters it all.
The music style is something which we really don’t think about. If we had to describe it we’d say it’s naturally doomy, heavy, progressive rock. We just play our own style of hard rock. It just happens. We really don’t want our music to be anything but our own style and creation. We’re all lovers of the music of the 70s and Alex and Gary have been a part of the NWOBHM movement. But genres really aren’t something we dwell on.
Black Sabbath is definitely a huge love and influence for Dave, but there are so many others too, especially early Judas Priest, The Sweet, Thin Lizzy, Rush and many of the 70’s hard rock/prog bands, NWOBHM bands, and progressive rock/psych and folk bands. Of later bands, Porcupine Tree is one that Dave loves.
Gary’s first influence came from The Sweet and Steve Priest, plus other glam rock bands. Steve Priest is the reason why Gary chose the Bass as his instrument. Later influences were AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple.
Alex has many influences from early Slade, Wishbone Ash, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Queen, UFO & Thin Lizzy but the biggest influences have to be Michael Schenker & Gary Moore and the later additions of Paul Gilbert & Joe Satriani. |
