{"id":4012,"date":"2011-01-07T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2011-01-07T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T16:41:04","slug":"gimme-five-local-bands-get-grilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/01\/gimme-five-local-bands-get-grilled\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMME FIVE: Local bands get grilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Melzer asks local bands five probing questions.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>by Ashley Melzer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Damron of <em>Bright Young Things<\/em> <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Citizen<\/em>: Describe your typical band practice.<br \/>\n<em>Damron<\/em>: Typically our practices start an hour later than they were supposed to&#8230;. Cameron, our lead guitarist, evangelizes about his newest favorite band (currently Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) and we run through a few songs to get everyone in the right mindset. If there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a new idea, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll play through it and ask for some insight, then we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll run with it, hoping for some lucky spark. Once we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re satisfied with what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve covered (or the beer fridge is emptied out), we move on \u00e2\u20ac\u201c usually to a bar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Hirsch of <em>Orquest GarDel<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Citizen<\/em>: If your band were a kitchen appliance, what would it be?<br \/>\n<em>Hirsch<\/em>: Definitely a Cuisenart food processor. Its power is restrained by its simple design and the careful attachment of the variety of accessory parts. You can cut things up many ways, but at the end of the day you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just making salsa. And everyone likes salsa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seth Martin of <em>Sinful Savage Tigers<\/em> <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Citizen<\/em>: Who\/what are a few inspirations or influences that might really surprise people?<br \/>\n<em>Martin<\/em>: The name of the band comes from a stray line in a BBC radio comedy from the 1950s called The Goon Show that I became obsessed with when I was 12 or so. I believe very strongly in the idea of counterweights in songwriting. If we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t end up in the finished song. Kind of like hitting a tennis ball against a backstop; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun to see how your ideas get thrown back at you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Skylar of <em>Skylar Gudasz and the Ugly Girls<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Citizen<\/em>: What did you dream of being when you were a kid? How\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d that turn out?<br \/>\n<em>Gudasz<\/em>: Then, two of us wanted to be musicians. One of us wanted to be a school bus driver. One of us wanted to be an astronaut, pirate, actress, Peter Pan or a scientist who lived in Antarctica \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but especially an astronaut.<br \/>\nNow, four of us are musicians. Three of us are\/have been baristas and one of us is in school getting ready for a Real Job. All of us are pirates.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Juan Huevos<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Citizen<\/em>: Describe the last time you totally jammed out to a song.<br \/>\n<em>Huevos<\/em>: I was working on a song with Missy Thangs and we were laying down keyboard parts. We were super hype on what we were coming up with and we couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop bopping around. We haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worked on the song since, but we were dancing our asses off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Melzer asks local bands five probing questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/4013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}