{"id":3261,"date":"2010-07-15T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T18:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2010-07-20T21:21:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T05:21:17","slug":"gimme-five-seth-martin-of-the-sinful-savage-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2010\/07\/gimme-five-seth-martin-of-the-sinful-savage-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimme Five! Seth Martin of the Sinful Savage Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SST.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3266\" title=\"Sinful Savage Tigers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SST-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SST-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SST-360x239.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SST-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SST.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Truth be told, the <a href=\"http:\/\/sinfulsavagetigers.com\">Sinful Savage Tigers<\/a> began on a lark.\u00c2\u00a0 Seth Martin thought he&#8217;d play a one-off gig at a folk festival in Alabama with his friend Rob Guthrie and that would be it.\u00c2\u00a0 That one gig, it turned out, was just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by that opportunity, Martin assembled a band, began rearranging and\u00c2\u00a0 re-imagining his old tunes and playing out as The Sinful Savage Tigers.\u00c2\u00a0 Soon after, the band recorded a debut disc, 2008&#8217;s  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/sinfulsavagetigers.com\/music.cfm\">Rain is the Soup  of the Dogs in Heaven<\/a><\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Martin&#8217;s since moved and left behind the friends who helped the project get on its feet, but The Sinful Savage Tigers live on.\u00c2\u00a0 With David Bernay (Holler) and Seth Barden  (Brand New Life), this new incarnation* of Tigers bring the raucous  string-band sound to any venue that dare welcome their savagery.<\/p>\n<p>This month, there just so happen to be a few places willing to take the risk.\u00c2\u00a0 Hear the Tigers play a set live in studio on <a href=\"http:\/\/wcomfm.org\/\">WCOM<\/a> on Saturday, July 24th (3:00-4:00) and at the <a href=\"http:\/\/local506.com\/\">Local  506<\/a> on Friday, July 30th when they&#8217;ll open at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thetellmusic\">The Tell<\/a>&#8216;s farewell show.<\/p>\n<p>And now just your routine five questions throw-down:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. If your band were one of the seven sins, which would it be? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sethmartin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3268\" title=\"seth martin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sethmartin-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sethmartin-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sethmartin-64x80.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sethmartin.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The  deadly sin festering in the heart of the Sinful  Savage Tigers is  vainglory. Our songs and the characters in them are  full of boasts, big  promises, boozy swagger, false oaths, false  bravado, narcissism, and the  blindness necessary to write paeans to how  good looking we are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.          When  was the moment you first thought music was something  you might like to  try? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, I knew spending time with the ladies was  something  I might like to try and <a href=\"http:\/\/mathcounts.org\/\">MathCounts<\/a> wasn&#8217;t making that happen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Describe the first time you realized SST was something  special\/you  needed to share. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two  come to mind. When I listened to a fully arranged  mock-up of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k_3atsSfwdI\">&#8220;Town and  Country&#8221;<\/a> for the first time in my monitors, I  thought it was a song that  deserved a chance to be heard. Another came  the first time we hit upon  our live arrangement for &#8220;Natural Ghost&#8221;; it  differed so much from the  album version and contained all these  subtler elements and moods. I&#8217;d  never heard a song quite like that  before. I thought we had something at  least a tiny bit different to  say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.  Who\/what might be a few inspirations or influences that might really   surprise people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/the-goon-show.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium  wp-image-3269\" title=\"the goon show\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/the-goon-show-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/the-goon-show-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/the-goon-show-82x80.jpg 82w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/the-goon-show.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>The name of the band comes from a stray line  in a BBC  radio comedy from the 1950s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0298349\/\">The Goon Show<\/a> that I became  obsessed  with it when I was twelve or so. I believe very strongly in  the idea  of counterweights in songwriting. If we&#8217;re working in a very  rural  Southern genre and with folk arrangements, I wanted to have a   (seemingly) alien point of reference for the lyrics and concepts for the   songs. A lot of my writing begins with ideas or notions pulled from   postwar British radio and teleplays, even if they don&#8217;t end up in the   finished song. Kind of like hitting a tennis ball against a backstop;   it&#8217;s fun to see how your ideas get thrown back at you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.  What did you dream of being when you were a kid? (how \u00e2\u20ac\u2122d that turn   out?) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to be an impressionist or a voice actor. I  still do a good  impression of a dude who can sing and play the guitar  poorly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c  \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to head over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/local506.com\/\">Local 506<\/a> on Friday, July 30th to catch the Sinful Savage Tigers in action. And by all  means, give Seth a high five when you see him!<\/p>\n<p>*PS:  Martin also divulged that there&#8217;s an even newer incarnation on the horizon. The Tigers will be on the hunt for a new mandolin\/guitar  player\/backup   vocalist beginning August 1.\u00c2\u00a0 If you feel up for the task, get in touch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth be told, the Sinful Savage Tigers began on a lark.  Seth Martin thought he&#8217;d play a one-off gig at a folk festival in Alabama with his friend Rob Guthrie and that would be it.  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