So I left it on Jason’s voicemail, and it was the beginning of ‘Jekyll And Hyde’. This rhythm popped into my head - this quick 4/4 beat - and I knew that Zoltan would be sleeping and Jeremy hates when I call him late. At the very bottom, there was a media release saying that I had died - that I had overdosed in some club in New York. and I was up writing, and I looked on the Internet and saw that somebody had posted on my Facebook page - but I don’t even have a Facebook page. Ivan clarified, telling the magazine: “What happened was that it was, like, 4 a.m. I sent it out to everybody and said, ‘I don’t know what you think, but this is something that Ivan left on my voicemail a year ago,’ and they were, like, ‘Ooh! That’s pretty cool!’ That actual voicemail ended up staying in the song! What you hear in the first verse is all from that voicemail message.” He sketches out the lyrics and vibe for this one idea, so I start laying a little riff underneath it, and then I start creating another section where I cut some of his words and made a little chorus. I open this session and I start listening through these voicemail song ideas. He’s always, like, ‘I had a great idea last night, but I had no way of capturing it.’ So one night I told Ivan, ‘No matter what, if you have ideas, call me and leave them on my voicemail.’ A year later, I’m at home looking through old hard drives and old folders on my computer, and I come across this Pro Tools session that had a bunch of voicemails from Ivan dumped into the computer from my phone. In 2015, we have every device known to God for recording yourself or capturing an idea in MP3 and e-mailing it somewhere, but he has no technical savvy at all. Regarding the song’s inception, Hook told U.K.’s Metal Hammer magazine: “ Ivan is a total caveman. A three-minute video of FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH guitarist Jason Hook and drummer Jeremy Spencer talking about “Jekyll And Hyde”, the first single and video from the band’s sixth album, “Got Your Six”, can be seen below.
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