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Can you catch the readers up on the history of your involvement in music? |
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| I've been doing music for a bunch of years before starting this band, from recording, session work and just playing in random bands. |
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| MSJ: If you weren't involved in music what do you think you'd be doing? |
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| Novelist |
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| MSJ: How did the name of the group originate? |
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| I just thought it sounded cool, I don't remember much more than that. |
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| MSJ: Who would you see as your musical influences? |
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| My tastes are too varied to answer that. Currently I'm listening to a lot of Red Fang, Queen's of the Stone Age, Black Angels and Modest Mouse. |
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| MSJ: I know artists hate to have their music pigeonholed or labeled, but how would you describe your music? |
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| Different ideas forming one idea. |
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| MSJ: Do you think that illegal downloading of music is a help or hindrance to the careers of musicians? |
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| Music is meant for anyone and everyone-If someone wants to steal my music, I'm flattered, and it can only be a help to my career. |
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| MSJ: In a related question, how do you feel about fans recording shows and trading them? |
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| Like baseball cards? Rad. |
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| MSJ: If you were a superhero, what music person would be your arch nemesis and why? |
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| Pitchfork. Because. |
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| MSJ: If you were to put together your ultimate band (a band you'd like to hear or catch live), who would be in it and why? |
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| Five clones of Prince, all dressed in matching outfits because that would shatter reality and likely cause the universe to implode. |
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| MSJ: If you were in charge of assembling a music festival and wanted it to be the ultimate one from your point of view who would be playing? |
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| Five clones of Prince would headline. |
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| MSJ: What was the last CD you bought and/or what have you been listening to lately? |
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| Lots of heavy music, lots of dance music. |
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| MSJ: Have you read any good books lately? |
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| I'm still reading the same book from last year. It takes time to enjoy a book. |
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| MSJ: What about the last concert you attended for your enjoyment? |
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| Red Fang at The Know. |
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| MSJ: Do you have a musical “guilty pleasure?” |
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| Listening to music, whilst eating ice cream. |
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| MSJ: What has been your biggest Spinal Tap moment? |
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| Quoting a Spinal Tap quote, only to immediately turn red because of how lame it is to beat a dead horse. |
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| MSJ: If you could sit down to dinner with any three people, living or dead, for food and conversation, with whom would you be dining? |
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| My ancestors. |
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| MSJ: Are there any closing thoughts you would like to get out there? |
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| I'm off to grab a coffee. Much love!
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| MSJ: This interview is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2015 Volume 2 at lulu.com/strangesound. |
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