Behind The Tracks: ANGELES - Diamonds And Gold (Single) (2026)

"I'm not really sure. It just came out of nowhere, to be honest, like most of the things I sit down. And start to play my guitar. It's right at that moment that I usually end up writing something that is either good or not good. And this was the same with the lyrics. It took me a long time to try and figure out something to do with this, is that around for about 6 months. And I couldn't figure it out for the life of me. What to do with it? But I know I loved the music, and I thought it had something. And Danny thought it had something. And he said, you should work on that one. So I did, and I kept wrapping my brain over and over. And then 'Diamonds and gold' is this something that everybody desires? Everybody wishes they had, and I wanted to make something that just gave everybody. I guess a hope and then yo hoo yo came from the pirates of the caribbe i love that ride very much at disneyland i've gone so many times in my lifetime. The original one over my lifetime from living in california and that's always the first attraction that I go to, and then the Haunted Mansion.

I've been going there since I was just a baby. And I love that place, or I want to go there again before I pass it. Then I wanted to use the yoho yoho, it's a pirate's life for me, but that would be a copyright infringement. So I decided to just use yoho, yo hoo, which I just googled to find out that they can't copyright. That part, since it was actually used by many pirates.

So I've just let that out. The second half is a private life for me.

And then I was talking to a friend of mine, whom I have known my whole life, and she kind of sent me in the direction of maps and treasures, but basically a map to the treasure. And that's when I came up with the first verse and the second verse, and then I threw the yohoes in, I did my guitar Solo. I did everything, and less than four hours with doubling the vocals and doing group vocals for the yohos, I don't believe in taking a long time in the studio. In fact, my guitar solo out of five of them, it was the first one I just went and did 5 guitar solos, but I used the very first one I did, which just came out. I don't rehearse a practice. I spend hours and days alone before I go into the studio. I like to create it there, so I feel it. I'm exhausted by the moment on loudspeakers playing back at you in your head in your ears. You feel it instead of just trying to mechanically construct a sole that is technically correct? That's not me. I like to be inspired in the moment, and I love just creating in the studio. In fact, I didn't even know what the actual vocal lines were gonna go like, or how I was gonna sing them. I just naturally do it there. I kind of get it as close as I can for locals. I have to have something to go on. But I don't like to overdo it. I like to give a lot of leeway, because I believe that inspiration at the moment, on the spot, is more creative than trying to sit there and just be this perfect thing, perfect guitar player, having these technical runs, all this kind of stuff. It doesn't work for me.

I like to just have what comes out, comes. Out and it usually always works. In fact, the song Hollywood, that was the first take. Solo, many of my solos have been first takes.

And that's the way I like it. It just seems to work for me. Maybe other people have to sit there for days and days and days, but that's not me. I like to be on the spot in the moment and capture and capture the moment. I can't explain it any better than that.

But that's when the magic happens. Is in the studio."

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