{"id":4019,"date":"2011-01-13T20:16:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T01:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2011-01-20T12:58:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:58:06","slug":"gimme-five-last-years-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/01\/gimme-five-last-years-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimme Five! Last Year&#8217;s Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/photo-by-jeremy-lange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4021\" title=\"photo by jeremy lange\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/photo-by-jeremy-lange-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/photo-by-jeremy-lange-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/photo-by-jeremy-lange-360x239.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/photo-by-jeremy-lange-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/photo-by-jeremy-lange.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a>Fresh off last year&#8217;s<em> <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchkeyrecords.com\/artists\/lastyearsmen\/\">Churchkey Records<\/a> release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchkeyrecords.com\/store\/music\/sunny-down-snuff\/\"><em>Sunny Down Snuff<\/em><\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indyweek.com\/indyweek\/not-quite-out-of-high-school-last-years-men-have-made-one-of-the-years-most-addictive-records\/Content?oid=1739172\">boys<\/a> of Last Year&#8217;s Men&#8211; guitarist Geoff Schilling, drummer Ian Rose, and singer\/songwriter Ben Carr&#8211;are taking to the road, but first they&#8217;re facing down the five hardest questions in faux business.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. If your band were a young adult book series, what would it be? (why?)<\/strong><br \/>\nAnimorphs, because Ben&#8217;s a foxxx.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"animorphs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.ca\/animorphs\/download\/bk17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. When did you start to think music might really work out as something more than a bedroom hobby?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen Churchkey approached us about making a record, we realized that maybe this could go somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Describe what keeps you motivated.<\/strong><br \/>\nWell,  on our last tour, we came up with a little six word mantra to get us  through all the hard times: &#8220;go hard, go hard, go hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lastyearsmen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4022\" title=\"lastyearsmen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lastyearsmen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lastyearsmen.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lastyearsmen-97x80.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>4. Who\/what might be a few inspirations or influences that would really surprise people?<\/strong><br \/>\nGeoff  is a huge &#8220;Silk Degrees&#8221; fan. You know, like, Boz Scaggs. Ben has  recently been on a Slick Rick kick. Ian derives his drumming style from  his heavy background in sitar. Montgomery likes BBQ a lot. The food  though, not the musician.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. What did you dream of being when you were a kid? (how \u00e2\u20ac\u2122d that turn out?)<\/strong><br \/>\nBen  dreamed of being a fireman, but they didn&#8217;t make suits that were small  enough. Ian wanted to be an astronaut but then he saw &#8220;Apollo 13.&#8221; Geoff  wanted to be Larry Bird, but it didn&#8217;t work out. Montgomery wanted to  meet Mr. Coffee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Bound on over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/local506.com\/\">Local 506<\/a> this Sunday, January 16<sup>th<\/sup> to start your new year with Last Year&#8217;s Men. And by all means, give them a high five when you see them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off last year&#8217;s Churchkey Records release Sunny Down Snuff, the boys of Last Year&#8217;s Men&#8211; guitarist Geoff Schilling, drummer Ian Rose, and singer\/songwriter Ben Carr&#8211;are taking to the road, but first they&#8217;re facing down the five hardest questions in faux business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-gimme-five"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}