Michael, Jacob, Austin, and we're a rock and soul band from Richmond, Virginia, and we've
been playing for about four years, and I met Jacob in school, and Austin's my older brother.
I sing and play guitar, Jacob plays lead, and Austin plays bass, and occasionally sings, so.
So, I guess, what brought you into music initially, and what kind of influences would you say that you guys all have together?
Initially, Austin and I, we were brought up in church, so our parents were always playing music, you know, choir and stuff.
But then later on, I guess we broke our bells and everything, so.
Now we're demonic, and we listen to stuff like Radiohead, more abrasive music like Laundry all now.
But, I mean, I was like a Mozart kid when I was born, from that time on when I was a little child.
But I guess the main influence really for all of us was really like kind of classic rock and rock.
James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince.
We don't really try to make one type of music, it's more conglomerate, more lately it's been more eclectic.
So, whatever we listen to, it really does shape the music that we make now.
We start listening to something, and then we'll almost copy a song, we'll start playing a song by, you know, like, do like a James Brown hand beat or something, and then go, oh, I like this Prince riff, and do that.
And after a while, it stops copying it and starts becoming what we do, you know, and just kind of turns into something else.
Mainly, we're not trying to be conformist or anything, but when we listen to a certain song, we take a certain part, and then because we're bad at emulating that, it makes it our own.
This Saturday, we're playing at Innsbruck Pavilion at 6 o'clock with Elliot Yumine, that'll be a fun show, and then June 6th, that's, I believe, Friday or Saturday.
We're going to be playing with a band called Thunders, and they're from Minneapolis, and we're excited about that, plausible.
Well, we've been friends with him for a while. I worked at the boarder chop house, and you know, he was coming there, I guess a couple years ago, and he'd always known of us, and he was just looking for a band to play, and he said, I like Dutch sub-York, so, you know, got us to play.
So, I know you guys are working on new material, a new record right now, and I was wondering what you could tell me about that if you guys are stretching out new directions or what's going on.
It's definitely a, it's definitely changed for us, I think. There's a lot more 80s pop, experimental kind of afro beat, and also experimental stuff like Radiohead of Montchill.
So, it's a really new direction for us, but we're excited to see what will come out. We don't know yet, but every song is different, so we got to see it.
When I was a boy, all I wanted was to be on my way
Get out of play, get on my feet, go and see the faith
If I was afraid, would I just stop, or find something to eat
Oh, to be a man, oh, you really need to go, get on your feet, oh, and I'm begging myself back up
You know that I've had enough
Everybody wants to be like me, oh, everybody wants to be like me
You can bring me down, all the time
You can bring me down to the ground
Oh, I'll see you standing, looking at me in the sleep
Oh, you can do the same, just go your own way
Oh, if you're hungry, would you just stop, or find something to eat
Oh, to be a man, oh, you really need to go, get on your feet, oh
I'm begging myself back up
You know that I've had enough
Everybody wants to be like me, oh, everybody wants to be like me
You can bring me down, all the time
You can bring me down to the ground
Oh, oh, oh
Everybody wants to be like me, oh, now everybody wants to be like me
You can bring me down, all the time
You can bring me down to the ground
Oh, you can bring me down, all the time
You can bring me down to the ground
You can bring me down to the ground
Oh, you can bring me down to the ground
You can bring me down to the ground
