Subj: th intv Date: 97-10-27 15:02:43 EST From: starkid59@rocketmail.com (doug jones) To: starkid59@AOL.COM by Aron Weir and Maren Dick (transcribed by Peggy Shanks)
On June 2 (election day), the Grudge Match Tour rolled into
AW: Did you vote today?
JP/IM: No, nope.
IM: I don't think we can, on tour. I think there's a law that prevents rock bands from voting on tour. I think we would have had to have been in
AW: Well we had a chance to vote actually, when we were on the internet. We voted for our favourite albums and songs by Thrush Hermit. Have you ever seen the internet site that has this "make a vote" sort of site where they actually say "chose your favourite Thrush Hermit song, album, songwriter..." You'll have to check it out.
JP: Shut up! Where's that? Who did that?
AW: I couldn't tell you who did that.
JP: That's really funny, I'll have to go there.
AW: It's brand new because we were only the eighth people to actually be there.
JP/IM: Wow!! That's hilarious. What's it called?
AW: I don't know, we just searched under Thrush Hermit.
IM: The Thrush Hermit engine search.
AW: Yeah, you'd be amazed at how many sites you can get, how many links.... Your latest release is "Sweet Homewrecker," and I was wondering, if there was a story to go along with the name that you chose for the album?
JP: Well there's another song that the title actually came from, that didn't go on the record. Um, that might go, I don't know, hopefully on a single or something like that. It's from this song called "The Northwest Arm" and so that's really where the title came from. We just felt like it was maybe sort of an appropriate sounding title, sounded kind of tough and you can link it in thematically with enough of the songs that it made sense.
IM: It sounded tough but we didn't know what it meant.
JP: It was more like "bad ass sweet hitchhiker" kind of thing.
IM: On the album Paranoid, Black Sabbath did not know what "paranoid" meant.
AW: Oh?
IM: Ozzy didn't know what "paranoid" meant, he just knew it was like...
AW: A tough word? IM: Yeah... "oooh paranoid!!!"
MD: What's the story behind the "Grudge Match Tour?"
JP: The Grudge Match Tour?
IM: A blatant attempt at getting some sort of press.
JP: Yeah!!! Trying to hype up the media into paying attention to...
IM: A goddamned frenzy!! Into a 1992 style frenzy!!
JP: And you know, we wanted to provide a little bit of an edge too, kind of like...
IM: Mystique!!
JP: A mystique, a competition with the Super Friendz. There is a little bit of that. Healthy, sort of, competition.
MD: So who's winning?
JP: We are! There's no doubting that... I think...
AW: So you've been alternating with the Super Friendz? Is that right? Seeing who's going to do the headlining or closing of the shows?
JP: Yeah, we've been alternating pretty much show for show.
AW: Those are pretty swanky posters you had made up for the tour as well.
JP: Yeah they were nice. This guy in
AW: Yeah, exactly. That's what I was thinking when I saw them. Is there any other story about the tour you'd like to share, something crazy that happened or kind of interesting. IM: Last night Matt Murphy (from the Super Friendz) kept... I was riding with their van, and they kept "crying wolf" like making their lights blink on and off and we kept pulling over to the side of the road just 'cuz Cliff (Gibb, Thrush Hermit's drummer) was driving, and we knew that Cliff would pull over every time and he's like "what's up" and we're like "oooh, sorry!"
JP: (sarcastically): It was really funny, it was hilarious actually. I was riding in the van that thought that things were going wrong. We found it really amusing.
IM: It was very funny in our van! Very funny stuff.
AW: This was on the road from
IM: No, on the road from
JP: (snatching the microphone and the question list): Thrush Hermit in the past, and currently, is considered a touring band, that is: always playing live shows. Are there any plans for touring, after the current tour ends June 6th? Are there any plans for touring outside
IM: We'll probably end up going on tour in the fall most likely, what do you think?
JP: I think the summer is going to be a slow point.
IM: Yeah, give it a rest. But to get to your touring outside of
JP: It was rough!
IM: We were opening up for a poor band and it was really inappropriate. I don't know, we'll probably head back to the states probably before we do a Canadian tour. Kinda thinking of playing in
AW: How do you find the reception down there? I mean you've played down there many times.
IM: We've had really good reception there before but this is kind of like apples and oranges tour. Honest to God, we're opening for such a retarded band who had such ridiculous fans that like you know it wouldn't have mattered if we were Thrush Hermit, or Ozzy Osbourne or you know or Moist opening up, there's not discerning, not that we're like snobby about fans but it's just really an inappropriate bill. and even if there were any people there, our music was just so not like theirs that you know it didn't really work. But ah, so that sort of sums that little stint up.
AW: Have you ever considered putting out a live album?
JP/IM: That would be really cool.
JP: The whole idea of a live album I think would be pretty cool if we were to do it with songs, like new songs rather than... I mean, eventually if you put out five records you could do a live album of all the songs you've recorded or whatever. Like a live show. It would be cool to do a live album of just songs that were unrecorded...
IM: Who was the last person who said that?
JP: I think that could be pretty cool, it's just like here's a live record but it's not like any set you've ever heard. It's just a set of all new songs.
IM: A set unlike you've ever heard.
JP: Yeah!! Yadda!! But yes, so the answer is yes. But, I don't know. Probably not on our next record. It's not going to be a live record.
IM: Knowing us, we'll put out a live EP.
JP: Exactly.
AW: What is your favourite song to play live?
JP: Probably, for me, probably it's a new song, so it doesn't make much of a story for the radio but: there's a new song that we have called "Uneventful" that will probably be on our second record. That I think that is probably, as a band, probably the most fun song 'cuz it's just like a big heavy riff with, you know, lots of drum fills, Cliff gets to show off and then a big epic guitar solo. That would be the funnest song, but that's new. I don't know what would be the funnest song off the record? "Patriot" is always fun, that's on Great Pacific Ocean that's a good song 'cuz we can jam it up and connect it to other songs.
MD: Where and when did you get your rock and roll sign?
JP: We got it made in
IM: Or "Nasty Boys", maybe we'll all just get metal plate hats instead.
AW: Is the sign now kind of acting up or something?
JP: The sign is, um, the sign works fine. The foot controller that Cliff designed which he did a very good job on, but it's beaten up pretty bad and doesn't work as well, so it kinda flashes too much so....we have to just plug it directly in and leave it on all night.
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