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Due to the unpredictability of the think itʼs going well. making records with Ogre Tones. It feels more love with each other and said, “Man, weʼve Coronavirus, we are temporarily halting METRONOME: Your new album is called like Kingʼs X to me. We had Michael Wagener got to make a record together.” So we figured our club and concert listings. They will Ogre Tones. How did you come up with producing which was a wonderful thing. out how we could do it, we did it, and now continue when things begin to stabilize. In the that name? METRONOME: How did you guys meet we have Ogre Tones. meantime, we’re bringing back old interviews We just jumped around with different Michael? METRONOME: I wanted to talk to you that you may be interested in. If you like what things and that word came up because of the Some how he was at one of our national about your album Manic Moonligh. Was you’re reading, say thank you to Greg Frediani tones we were using, it sounded like “Ogre.” shows a couple of years ago. He was on it hard to translate the songs on Manic of The Vinyl Vault in Littleton, MA. He’s the Then we came up with Ogre Tones and finally the bus hanging with us and he was telling Moonlight in the live arena? guy that suggested it. Enjoy. landed on that one. us about this workshop that he does where I donʼt know if it was necessarily hard or if they came across, but we just did Kingʼs X recently inked a deal it. When we record records, we know with the German based InsideOut that weʼre not going to be able to do America and have released their everything that we do on a record. newest offering,Ogre Tones. I had an For live we just reinvent the songs, opportunity to catch up with Kingʼs X and thatʼs what we did for Manic drummer Jerry Gaskill as they started Moonlight. We had to reinvent certain a new tour in support of the album... things because we didnʼt have the loops with us. We didnʼt prepare or METRONOME: Where are you? make that happen. Weʼre in Baltimore, Maryland. We METRONOME: So you didnʼt bring just arrived. any machines with you for that METRONOME: How long have you tour? been on the road? No, no machines. It was still Since October 19th. That was the just the three of us playing our first show. Weʼre in the first week of instruments. the tour. METRONOME: You guys have METRONOME: Are you touring the always had great album jackets in country? the past and this one in particular is Yeah, weʼre doing coast to coast. really aggressive and psychedelic. METRONOME: Will you be making Do you guys get to sit down with a trip to Europe? the people that do the artwork for Not this year. The plan is to go over your albums? at the beginning of next year. Mainly, theyʼll hear the record and METRONOME: Kingʼs X has a new come back with an idea and at that record label, InsideOut Music. How point we decide what we do like and did you develop that relationship? METRONOME: I noticed on Ogre Tones people come to the studio and watch him what we donʼt like and we work together to Actually, weʼve had a relationship with that you moved away from alot of the loops work. A hands on kind of thing, asking come up with the final product. them for quite some time. Ty has been that you recorded for Manic Moonlight. questions, and seeing how itʼs all done by METRONOME: So they actually get to releasing records on that label for a while. Was that intentional? Michael. So he asked if we would like to be hear the tracks before the artwork is I also did my solo record on that label, so We did Manic Moonlight just for something the band that he recorded for that. We said, done, right? weʼve had a relationship with them for quite different. It was experimental and we tried hey, what the heck, this is Michael Wagener, Right, we want them to hear the music a few years. Everything fell in place for us to new things and we thought, this is cool for why not! We did four songs the first time we so they get an idea of the feel of it and they put this record out together, we have, and I now, but we did go back to our old way of were there. It took us ten days. We just fell in can hopefully be inspired to come up with

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We wrote that when the hurricane was in between touring. things ultimately have something to do with Right now Iʼm using Pearl. Master Studio, happening. METRONOME: What is the monologue all money and weʼve been trying to figure out Birch. Iʼve been playing them since 1993. METRONOME: I always dug the song about at the end of the song, “Bam” and how to continue on what weʼre doing in a METRONOME: What are you using for “Goldilox” off your albumOut of The Silent whoʼs voice is that? way where we can live. That just seemed to cymbals? Planet. Why did you resurrect that song Well, I always like to keep things be part of the scheme at the time. Iʼm using all Paiste. For live Iʼm using for Ogre Tones? mysterious and whatever it means to you, let METRONOME: Is Kingʼs X doing okay at 2002s. Recently they just sent me this Thin It was a song that throughout the years it be that. If you listen closely, you can figure this point? Rude that I absolutely love, so Iʼm using a weʼve heard alot of people say, that should out what it is. Yeah, weʼre doing okay. Weʼre able to combination of the 2002s, the Thin Rudes have been the single, that would have been It was a silly thing that we did because continue to do this. and the Signature Series. a hit. Even our soundman and tour manager we do a lot of silly things. Actually, the chord METRONOME: Talking to Doug the last METRONOME: What do you use for who is a part of the band thought it would that starts “Bam,” we were jokingly thinking time, he said that hooking up with Metal sticks? be a good idea. He just wanted to hear it we should end the song “Honesty,” this nice, Blade really freed you guys up. You got Vater 5B, nylon tips. I was using resurrected, so we thought, what the heck, pretty, mellow song, with this big, massive to buy homes and build studios and that ProMark sticks for many years but for we can do this again. So we did it. chord. Once we did it we said, no, we canʼt things were really looking up for you. As he some environmental reason, the lacquer METRONOME: Whatʼs your soundmanʼs do that. So we decided letʼs just make it a put it, there was a dark time there where they were using on the stick, they werenʼt name? song, so we made a song and Tyʼs on the the three of you were sitting in a room allowed to use that lacquer any more. Once Jay Phebus. feedback and all of that and then at one point going, do we want to do this anymore? that changed, I donʼt know why or how, the METRONOME: Has he been with you for we said, you know, we should have some Oh, yeah, we got to those points, sticks they sent me started tearing my hands a long time? voices in there. We should have somebody absolutely. up. They were literally bleeding and that Weʼve been together for 25 years and talking as it fades out and that might make METRONOME: But you havenʼt been had never happened before. They sent me heʼs probably been with us for twenty-three it into something a little more interesting, so feeling like that for a while, right? everything they had, but without that lacquer, of them. we did. Right now, things feel really fresh and really nothing worked. METRONOME: Where did you record Ogre METRONOME: Can you tell me whose new. We decided we have to do something METRONOME: What is Ty playing for Tones? voice it is? Is it one of you guys or was it for real again. We have to make a good guitars these days? At Michael Wagenerʼs studio, Wire World, recorded years ago? record. We have to do something up that Heʼs still using Yamaha guitars. right outside of Nashville. Itʼs a recorded voice from years and years we know can be done by us, and I think we METRONOME: What kind of bass is Dug METRONOME: The last few projects were ago. Itʼs public domain and weʼre allowed to did that with Ogre Tones. So weʼre ready to playing? recorded at Tyʼs a Dougʼs house. Were use it (laughs). Itʼs actually an advertisement go. This is a new era for us. Itʼs like a fresh, I think heʼs using Yamaha basses. you afforded the opportunity to record at from many years ago for the new Edison new beginning. METRONOME: Did you sing any lead Michaelʼs studio? Phonograph when it came out in 1905. METRONOME: When you put out Out of vocals on Ogre Tones? We made it so that we could afford it. METRONOME: So that would have been a The Silent Planet and Gretchen Goes To I didnʼt sing lead on any. Weʼve been wanting to work with a producer radio spot back then because there was Nebraska, you became video heroes on METRONOME: What’s in the future for quite some time. But you have to pay for no TV? MTV. Are you doing videos for Ogre Tones for Kingʼs X? Do you have a long tour producers and things cost money. This one Yeah, I guess so. It probably was just an and are you finding that MTV and VH1 will schedule ahead of you? just worked out. We figured out how to do audio thing. I might have just made that up so support you? Yes, I believe so. Our first leg of the tour is it and it was a wonderful situation, and a you can still think whatever you want (laughs). As a matter of fact we are doing videos. until December 17th. Then the plan is to go beautiful piece of land with horses running METRONOME: Your last album, Live, All Weʼve already done two videos so far for to Europe at the beginning of next year, and around and we made it happen. We felt like Over the Place was released on Brop this record. I believe there is some interest come back and tour the states through the we had to make a good record. We had to Records. Why did you guys move away from VH1 and some other places and we are Spring. The plan is to stay busy and keep the make a record that we felt we needed to from Metal Blade? going for those markets again. Weʼre pulling word out there as much as possible. make and with Michael producing, I think The Brop label is the whole thing that all the stops out for this one. Weʼre trying we did that. Ty started. It was just a way for us to make to get back in the game and I think that itʼs For all things Kingʼs X, check out: www. METRONOME: When did you record the records and keep things in our hands as happening. kingsxonline.com album? much as we possibly could at that time. METRONOME: What songs are you - Brian M. Owens

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Singer-songwriter-guitarist Jeffrey Even while writing and practicing these In my early 20s I worked as an near our house. Perrin has the voice of an accomplished songs I would wait until the apartment was outdoor educator in rural Ohio. Two of Over the next 15 years, I had a lot of folk-rock dignitary- soulful, seasoned and empty and only sing them at my perch by my coworkers and I started writing songs unfinished songs that I would occasionally true. His latest release, It Must Be You, on the window so I could quickly stop when I and formed a band called the “Wobbling work on, but they were so separate from Boston’s own, WitchWood Music label, is saw someone coming in. Wombats.” I didn’t do any of the singing my life experiences that they felt hollow and a remarkable debut for a songcrafter who METRONOME: When did you get but co-wrote the songs. We played a lot of vapid. My own lived internal experience felt uncertain about his musical abilities in interested in songwriting? hootenannies to the raccoons and coyotes was a scary place for me to enter and I the past. We questioned Perrin about his avoided it at all costs. Only recently has music and influences and he replied with my songwriting come from a place of thought-provoking candor... introspection and self-examination. Now that I’m in there, I can’t imagine ever writing METRONOME: Where are you from? about anything else. Jeffrey Perrin: I was born in Rochester, METRONOME: Who are some of your New York and grew up in Connecticut. favorite musicians? METRONOME: Did you grow up in a Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), Ira and Georgia musical family? Kaplan (Yo La Tengo), Gregory Alan Isakov, Not really. Neither of my parents sing Josh Ritter, Gary Clark Jr., Lucinda Williams, or play musical instruments. I know they Mark Knopfler, Bruce Springsteen, Thom listened to music when they were younger, Yorke (Radiohead), Michael Kiwanuka and but I think, like a lot of people when they Yo-Yo Ma. became parents, those interests faded to METRONOME: How many albums do the background while my brother and I you have out? were small children. Just this one, It Must Be You, at the Recently I came across my mother’s moment, but we are hard at work on the old record collection and was stunned to next album and hoping to be done by the see “Rolling Stones” and “Led Zeppelin” end of 2020. albums amongst the mix. As a young boy, METRONOME: It Must Be You is well I do have one vivid memory of dancing played and recorded. What were your with my mother to Kenny Rogers “The thoughts going in to the project? Gambler” in our family room and memories I really had very little expectations of Billy Joel and Elton John’s Greatest Hits going into the project. My only thought records being played by my father. Besides was that I wanted the recordings to be that, I heard far more Tom Brokaw than honest representations of the experiences Tom Waits growing up. I was writing about. In the beginning, we METRONOME: How long have you been didn’t know whether we were just going singing and playing? to record one song or a whole album. I started playing guitar at 18 when my We ended up somewhere in the middle hopes of playing in the NBA were officially and these five songs seemed to stand dead and buried. I only started seriously together as a part of a cohesive whole. singing a few years ago. I had some very About three months before we wrapped up scarring experiences singing during my recording, I was hit on my bicycle coming 20s and 30s, including an ex-girlfriend home from work on the BU Bridge. It was telling me I should never ever sing again, pretty gruesome and resulted in some that caused me to put down my guitar for a serious cognitive impairments that I’m long period of time. How could I play guitar still grappling with today. Those last few and not sing? In fact, I had a stint in my months of recording were challenging and 30s learning the drums because I figured there were a few scheduled sessions that I there were no expectations for a drummer had to bail on because my head pain was to sing. I convinced myself that I was not too overwhelming at the time. meant to write and sing my songs. METRONOME: How long did it take to METRONOME: What came easier for write the songs? you, the guitar or the vocals? Some of these tunes had been in the That’s an easy one—the guitar. I don’t works for a long, long time and others were think the vocals will ever be easy. As I written fairly recently. The short answer is previously mentioned, I had some deep less than a year or so, and the long answer fears around singing. I used to be afraid is all of my adult life. Jefferson [Riordan] of singing in the shower out of fear that was great at pushing me to finish them. I the shampoo bottle would be judging me. needed that. METRONOME: What inspired the I actually first approached Chris Toppin where I didn’t have to sing. METRONOME: “This Is Where We Live,” writing? in the fall of 2016 about singing lessons. I METRONOME: The song “Zone of feels very personal. What was the So much was happening in my life during was months shy of my 40th birthday and Uncertainty” is a great tune. How did motivation behind that? this time period that it wasn’t hard to find asking myself some existential questions that come together? “This is Where We Live” is about the inspiration. I was recently married, entering centered around “my voice” both literally “Zone of Uncertainty” is about the areas significance of place and the intersections fatherhood and facing the challenges of and metaphorically. I wanted to face my in a relationship between two people that between physical space, memory and supporting my partner as she lost her fear of singing, so I started reaching out to are not aligned or connecting. In making meaning making. This was written at a mother and god-mother in the span of a some voice instructors in the Boston area. those discoveries, we’re faced with the point where my life was changing very couple of years. “She’s Had Enough” is Chris responded and invited me over to her decision of accepting things “as is” or quickly. My partner and I had just bought about bearing witness to the person you studio space which I could walk to (which making ourselves vulnerable by addressing our first apartment together. care about the most in this world, suffering is always an important criteria for me). I this divergence with the other person After about a month of living there and immensely and wanting to stop the pain think her plate was full at the time, so she and trying to forge a path to a deeper establishing routines of how we would they are experiencing. But, of course we introduced me to Jefferson. I figured we’d connection. It’s a question I grapple with occupy and arrange the space together, can’t stop it, and learning how to be with work together for a few months and then a lot—how much do I work to change I received a phone call from my mother someone’s emotional pain isn’t easy. I think maybe my fears would lessen to the point relational patterns? Or, how much do I just informing me that my younger cousin a lot of times, especially men, want to fix where I could at least sing a song or two accept the limitations of any relationship? had been tragically killed in an accident. the problem quickly and make it go away, to my wife. METRONOME: “Little Boy” is I remember my knees just buckled and I but it never goes away, it just evolves. He encouraged me to write my own outstanding. What is that song about? dropped to the floor. I can’t look at that METRONOME: We heard a lot of Bob songs. Then he encouraged me to record This song is about growing up as a spot in our apartment without thinking Dylan and Steve Earle in your songwriting them. Then he encouraged me to perform boy in a hyper-masculine environment. about that moment. Now it’s the same and delivery. Are they influences? them. At each step along the way, I pushed Behind the culture of youth and adolescent spot that I routinely pick up macaroni shells When I was younger, I don’t think I back, resisting, and at each point, he athletic programs in small towns there are that my two-year old has thrown off his really appreciated the depths of Dylan’s pushed me to keep going and share my extremely sensitive boys who feel things high chair. work. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve spent more songs with the world. It seemed terrifying. strongly and are often times unsure of The spaces we live in hold the most time listening to him and have developed Meeting Chris and Jefferson was a what to do with those feelings because pedestrian of everyday routines yet they’re a deeper appreciation for his enormous turning point for me. Their encouragement, of the nature of the messages they are also containers for some of life’s most contributions. He has created so many support and friendship has been receiving. This intensifies as boys begin to impactful moments. My motivation behind powerful albums, but I find myself most foundational, not just in my music, but also understand more abstract and existential that song was to try and capture the scope frequently returning to Blood on The in my transition into fatherhood. Without concepts, such as death, and often results of these moments. Tracks. them, these songs would still be unfinished in more confusion and questioning. I think a METRONOME: Did you shoot any I’ve seen Steve Earle perform, but haven’t fragments scribbled in various notebooks lot of boys go through this experience and YouTube videos for the record? spent a lot of time listening to his albums. throughout my apartment, and I would then grow up to be men without any sense I’m afraid not. I think they’d all be a I’ve actually spent more time listening to probably have started trying to play the of how to relate with feelings of sadness, bit too morbid, except for the previously his son, Justin Townes Earle, so maybe French Horn or some other instrument isolation, anger and confusion. mentioned “It Must be You” and I wasn’t through association Steve’s influence was quite ready to attach a visual representation seeping in. to that song. I appreciate music videos, but METRONOME: Did anyone else play on I think there is also great power in allowing the record with you? If so, please tell us listeners to attach their own internal or who and what role they played. external visual accompaniments to songs Jefferson Riordan played bass, drums, which can be hard to do when there is percussion, electric guitar and sang already visual imagery attached. That being backup vocals. Chris Toppin Riordan also said, it is something I’d like to explore in sang backup vocals. the future, but up until this point, I haven’t METRONOME: Where did you record the thought much about how I’d want to do it. project? METRONOME: How often do you I recorded it at WitchWood Music Studio perform live? in Boston, Massachusetts. Over the past couple of years, I’ve METRONOME: How long did it take? performed around 3-4 times a year. All We started recording in the Spring of of these shows were arranged by the 2017 and finished recording the last song WitchWood Music team. on February 16, 2018. I remember the exact METRONOME: Do you have any big date because it was two days before my shows coming up in May or June? first son, Miles, was born. Coincidentally My wife and I are expecting our second the last song we recorded, “It Must be child in late May, so I’ll be on hiatus from You,” was about him (in utero). Apparently, performing for a bit. I’m hoping to start up he needed some entrance music before he again once the second album is finished made his appearance (laughs). and we’re in a little bit of a rhythm at METRONOME: Who engineered the home. Up to this point, I’ve focused much project? more attention and time on the recording Chris Toppin Riordan of WitchWood process, but I’m excited to get out into Music Productions and Jefferson Riordan more local venues and dedicate some produced. more time to performing. METRONOME: Who mastered it? METRONOME: Where can folks find out Dave Locke of JP Masters Audio more about you on the internet? Mastering. WitchWood Music Productions has all of METRONOME: How did you meet my information up on their web site. You can Jefferson and Chris from WitchWood find it at: https://www.witchwoodmusic. Music? com/. Hearings by Doug Sloan, Alex Gecko or Brian M. Owens

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While the core band members Some Water,” Tom pays tribute to one of his ONE KIND FACE Time,” the barnstorming stomp of “Just remain firm with singer-harmonica man Paul friends and musical heroes by turning in a 11-SONG CD Don’t Need em Anymore,” the two steppin’ Gallucci and stringman John Brauchler, the rendition that would make Eddie proud. kick of “Make Love To Me Tonight,” the duo has added some top shelf assistance “The Greatest Show” on earth proves • ONE KIND FACE jumpin’ roadhouse jive of “Honkytonk from musical friends Jay Gillies and Chris to be just that in classic musical fashion. • CALIFORNIA TIME Queen” and the sweetly penned ballad, Anzalone on drums, Paul Kochanski and Featuring soaring keyboard work from Matt • JUST DON’T NEED EM ANYMORE “You Do The Math.” John Grube on bass, Alizon Lissance on Zeiner and layered choral harmonies, this • CAN’T SEE THAT FAR AWAY Dave Samarco may have hung on to piano, organ and accordion, Tim Curry on tune is destined for radio playlists across • MAKE LOVE TO ME TONIGHT this album awhile before releasing it, but it acoustic guitar and vocals, John Moriconi the land. 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Eric Kilburn has been a fixture in the CD, My Own Mistakes, come around? teenager and aging and reflecting on one’s Jordan Wysocki played violin, and Anna Boston music community for years. A I kept writing songs every year, one or affects of growing up. Huckabee Tull & Marcia Taylor sang backup. steady working musician, live sound two, mostly about growing up or parenting. Over the years of running the studio, Over the course of 2018 I finished the engineer, and the owner of Wellspring In 2018, I looked at this collection of tunes I met hundreds of talented musicians. I album and put it out in January of last year Sound Studio in Acton, Eric has managed to and thought it would work as a concept picked great guys to help me out with it. (2019). be a successfully busy guy. With the release record. The album starts out with song to Kevin Barry plays guitar and lap steel, Joe METRONOME: So it took a year to of his long awaited new album, My Own my pregnant wife and ends with me being “Sonny” Barbato plays keyboards, Greg record? Mistakes, Kilburn reflects back on his life in the oldest man at the Thanksgiving table Loughman is on bass, Mike Connors plays I didn’t really work that hard at it. I music and the journey that has brought him (laughs). There are songs about being a the drums, Billy [Novick] played horns, probably clocked in 65 or 70 hours in to it to this point in time... all together. Frank Coakley, a local producer, had a major hand in who played on it. METRONOME: You’ve been very busy I sent a couple of songs to the Kerville with your studio Wellspring Sound yet Folk Festival in Texas and much to my managed to record an album. How long surprise they accepted me to play there. was the record in the making? I went down last May and played at the Eric Kilburn: In the mid to late 1980s, I was Festival for five days. I had a ball. playing music full time. I traveled around METRONOME: Tell me about the album’s the Eastern half of the country playing title, My Own Mistakes. What is that all coffeehouses, colleges and small festivals. about? I played a lot at Passim. The owners, Bob There is a song on the album called “Wait and Rae Ann Donlin had me on stage there A Minute” which is a song that has various about 50 times. I got to open for Tracy themes from growing up. The chorus of the Chapman and Shawn Colvin a couple of song says, “Wait a minute son/Don’t you times as well as a bunch of folk luminaries. do all the dumb things that I have done/Let METRONOME: Were you playing solo or me save you some time/Let me give you with a group? a break/I said no, I want to make my own It was solo. I was also working in a mime mistakes.” troupe. I was the talking member. I played a I like the idea that as we grow up, if one-man band act with bass drum and hi- we’re lucky, we ignore much of the advice hat, guitar and harmonica. I was also doing we are given (laughs). It was a song about that in bars up and down the New England forging your own way despite what people seacoast and in Vermont. I played swing tell you to do. Making your own mistakes is and ‘50s era rock & roll. I was making it work something to be proud of. and playing any gig that came along. METRONOME: Was that something that In 1989, I got back together with a woman, happened to you growing up? Kate Crosby, I had been with previously. She I remember an incident when I was three decided I was worth keeping (laughs). We or four years old. My mother was changing got marred and got pregnant and I thought, a light bulb on a little table lamp and she I don’t know many musicians out there who told me, “Don’t put your hand in the socket.” have good relationships with their children I did (laughs). That’s the first theme of that and are still married and touring full time. song- that moment where your mom says, I thought maybe I could do something “Don‘t put your hand in,” so of course you else. I had started the studio as a part time do. That’s where that song came from. thing in 1986, so when we got pregnant There is a theme to the record. There are I said, I’ll see if I can make a go of this. I a lot of songs about making your own way was basically home for dinner for 25 years. over a thirty year period. I just thought these I have 2 boys four years apart. They’re 29 songs worked together as a collection. and 25 now. That song starts with a fetal heartbeat I also started a swing band in 2001 called solo that I recorded at the mid-wife’s office. Swing Cafe and a rootsy gospel group I brought in a recorder in 1999 and recorded called Meeting Across The Water. I’ve been my baby’s heartbeat. It was really fast. I had doing weddings and the odd gig with the to slow it down because it sounded too swing band ever since. weird on the recording. Each song moves The band features Keith Rose on drums, forward to a later period in one’s life as a Pete Tillotson on bass, Billy Novick on person growing up. clarinet & saxophone and my high school METRONOME: Were the songs written classmate, Ted Powers on guitar and vocals. specifically in a chronological way or did METRONOME: When did the idea for your it just happen naturally? didn’t play it for years and then I played it ended up doing an album for Robbie. sync work? for my wife and she said, “It’s like the men’s METRONOME: After all these years, do Yes. We do. Nowadays bands, a lot response to Me2.” There are a lot of men you still have a passion for the studio and of times, want videos. We have three pro out there trying to do the right thing and live sound? cameras and Final Cut Pro software on one being close to women and this is a song Yeah, I still have a passion for it. I love of our computers here. We do that fairly about the excitement and fear of getting the work here. I find it’s continuously often for people. It’s cool and amazing close to somebody. Kevin Barry played one challenging. I love working with all the what you can do. It’s not something I ever of the nicest Mark Knopfler-esque solos you people that come through the door here. thought I would be doing, but it’s exciting could ever want on the song, so I ended up We have a ridiculous amount of resources at and a new challenge. I do gigs where I just putting it on the album. Wellspring Sound. Every once in a while, I’m film concerts with mics and the cameras or METRONOME: How old is your studio, a sucker for a new microphone that comes sometimes I’ll take a feed from the console Wellspring Sound at this point? along (laughs). to the camera. I’ve been doing videos for It’s thirty-four years old... my goodness. When I first started the studio, I was in the about eight years, but recently I’ve started I think we’re up to over 800 albums made mime troupe and gigging six days a week to learn how to do the actual editing myself. and probably a thousand demos recorded. and making decent money. I remember very METRONOME: You played guitar for We’re doing fine. We have enough work and clearly taking one of my paychecks and years then switched to playing the the doors stay open. I do live sound as well buying a pair of Neumann KM84 acoustic mandolin. Is that your instrument of and work at various festivals, local gigs, guitar mics. I still use those microphones choice these days? churches and temples. Whatever comes my everyday. They’re well built and really great I mostly just play the occasional guitar way. sounding mics. on sessions and have been working on METRONOME: You have been doing live When 911 happened, people stopped mandolin for almost twenty years. In the last Many of them were. A couple of the sound for a while now? coming for a month and a half. It was similar couple of years, I’ve reacquainted myself songs I wrote in my early twenties when Yeah. I started the business in 1986. I in 2008 during the recession, but not as with how to play guitar again and I have I was remembering back to when I was a had booked the Nameless Coffeehouse bad. With the Coronavirus, who knows. I developed interesting, esoteric tunings and teenage man. There’s a song called “Look in Cambridge for three years, so people just lost a three day lockout with a Korean new ways to put out my own songs. Cool” that’s basically about being drawn to when I first started the studio came to me jazz band. Some of the members are flying Recently, I’ve felt a real surge of creativity. girls, but at the same time being a little bit because they thought, “He won’t rip me in from Korea and they can’t get here. I’ve been writing a few songs a month that terrified. That song has a theme on it where off.” Someone actually said that to me. There’s an example where a global situation I really like. It seems to be working so far. a young guy is interested yet terrified of Robbie O’Connell, a well known local effects my local income. It’s a much more Until you’re unable to play, there is no slow dancing with a young woman because Irish musician and the nephew of the Clancy global business than it used to be. excuse not to do it. I try to keep my hands he’s afraid he’s going to get an erection. I Brothers, booked me to do sound for the My pal Chris Rival says, “I’m not in the in shape and the rest of my body fit so I can think many young men can relate to that. Clancy Brothers in the Spring of 1986. studio business anymore, I’m in the import/ lift speakers and equipment and play guitar I used to play that song in colleges and Everything went fine and I worked with export business.” and mandolin. I’m still trying to make it all all the guys in the audience would gufaw. I those guys a bunch of times after that. I METRONOME: Do you do audio/video work. The Time Machine Humble Pie Photo circa: 1970 Band Members: L to R- Jerry Shirley (Drums), Peter Frampton (Vocals & Guitars), Greg Ridley (Bass & Vocals), Steve Marriott (Vocals & Guitar). Musical Achievements: In January 1969 Steve Marriott got together with Greg Ridley, Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley. Marriott had brought Shirley and Ridley together as a possible band for Frampton, then ended up joining the group himself. They chose the name Humble Pie and were signed to Andrew Loog Oldham’s label, Immediate Records. On July 9, 1971, Humble Pie opened for Grand Funk Railroad at Shea Stadium, an event that broke the Beatles record for fastest selling stadium concert, to that date. That same year, they released their most successful record to date, Rock On, as well as a live album recorded at the Fillmore East in New York entitled Rockin’ the Fillmore. In 1972, Frampton was replaced by Clem Clempson. Their first record with Clempson, S m o k i n’, was released and proved to be the band’s most commercially successful album reaching #6 on the U.S. charts. Where Are They Now: Steve Marriott died in a house fire on April 20, 1991. It was rumored that he fell asleep with a lit cigarette. Peter Frampton has enjoyed a successful solo career and recently retired due to health issues. Greg Ridley died on November 19, 2003 in Spain of pneumonia. Jerry Shirley and Clem Clemson still tour as Humble Pie. 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Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden published An Will Carruthers of Spacemen 3 published friends, Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon, join the Marc Almond of Soft Cell published Tainted Life: Autobiography: What Does This Button Do in Playing The Bass with Three Left Hands in 2016. Fall after only one gig with their own band as The Autobiography in 1999. Born dyslexic and 2017. The action drive singer recounts his life in Spacemen 3 were an absolutely groundbreaking they were at the right place at the right time when asthmatic in a completely dysfunctional northern near chronological order with only a few hints UK minimalist psychedelic band with the core of Marc E. Smith had another one of his famous English family and with a tendency to drop every of future turns thrown in to keep you hooked. Jason Pierce and Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember lineup changes. possible pill, the young Marc eventually finished Dickinson, from an upwardly mobile Northern that is forever mired in their own drug history. The large bassist with an ever receding from Art College all while acquiring a solid musical English background, tells you the horrors of Carruthers, with minimal experience as a bassist, hairline just plods along and muscularly plays knowledge from his record collection. British boarding schools which didn’t quite gravitates into the orbit of the founding members his instrument as practically a chattel of the Although he had done some very basic camp manage to keep his over-active mind challenged midway through the band’s existence. He ably biggest curmudgeon in independent music. He musical escapades in his art terrorist phase, he or focused, but at least introduced him to music documents their recording and touring activities sees other Manchester bands getting bigger and only met Soft Cell co-founder Dave Ball at the and fencing. during their final years with a dry self-deprecating bigger while the Fall sticks to its niche. There is a college after graduation. As they polished the As a student in London he progressively made humor. The happenings are largely chronological certain passive aggressive flavor in how he thinks sound and the aesthetics, the success of the his name with a series of bands including Saxon with only a diversion through his paternity. On top his own thing, but remains an enabler in the Fall cover “Tainted Love” was nearly foretold, but before being head-hunted to take up vocals you get front row seats to the sordid and poverty machinations. You sense him looking down on the debut album Non Stop Erotic Cabaret has with Iron Maiden. The fit was perfect. Though he stricken life of junkies in their filthy run down fellow band member and then wife of Smith, a wealth of other solid and enticing tunes that grew bored with the repetitive grind only to try a squats. Brix, though he never says anything bad about makes them everything else but a one hit wonder couple of solo projects, competitive fencing and At first, Carruthers, is spoon-fed by the anyone. You just feel it. and a landmark of 1980s synth pop. commercial aircraft piloting, book writing and leaders to play one note for 10 minutes on some The book becomes an endless repetition of The autobiography seems brutally honest as Radio work, he eventually rejoined the fold. of their epic dirges. He does however take part record and tour with quite a few label changes. no-one would make this all up. The writing style The readers gets a good amount of insight into in the recording of their one hit “Revolution” Band members come and go as Marc E. Smith is very matter of fact with a tendency to name the writing, recording and performing of a good and develops his own bass style. Just as they constantly needed new dynamics in the band, a lot characters and incidents. Still, the sensitive number of the Iron Maiden hits. As someone get more commercial acclaim, the leaders fall or to work his tyranny. Hanley provides a few young man tends to lament his tortured state of who constantly challenged himself to stretch out with each other, making Spacemen 3 less windows into his family life and let’s it slip how mind and admits a lot of self-destructive forces the envelope, he can be counted as one of the much he likes to indulge at the pub and the riders that make him his own worst enemy. However, he truly few rock musicians that can be labeled a at the gigs, but you get an impression of a fairly adamantly insists on not wanting to be labeled a renaissance man. normal guy with high capacity for stress and a gay artist, while at the same time camping it up at The writing has a reasonable amount of dialogue twinkle in his eye. every opportunity. and a lot of exclamations to focus your attention. There is a modest amount of dialogue, but He credits band partner Ball as being the Dickinson exudes a certain sense of humor, but what there is often has that hilarious Mancunian architect of the sound and even downplays his never flirts with ridicule or pathos. There are accent. The book ends with Hanley quitting the vocal talents, but gives you some reasonable enough anecdotes, but women, emotions or sinking Fall in a big blow up in 1998 which sees clues to the lyrics and thoughts behind most relationships do not figure in them. Just as the Smith down and out, handcuffed to the side of songs. Self-deprecating humor and self-loathing book was winding down and it seemed like he a police car. However he performed in a number take turns as Marc alternates between musical was hiding something, he calmly explains in the of other bands though he’s currently a member and voyeuristic escapades of depravity. epilogue that he purposely left out his marriages, of Brix & The Extricated alongside brother Paul. After Soft Cell gave up, Almond keeps making children and business dealings to make sure With Marc E. Smith having passed away from more and more solo albums with various concepts the book didn’t grow to War And Peace length. cancer in 2018 and only having published flawed and even had some great hits, all while admitting Everyone is entitled to a degree of privacy. He material, this is about the most relevant account not everything was coherent or well thought out. does tell you of his successful bout with cancer. of the Fall you will ever get. The sleeping pills and other recreational narcotics Bruce Dickinson is certainly an extremely busy took their toll, but Almond had a successful spell and versatile man. Bravo. Jon Ginoli published “Deflowered; My Life in rehab and got back on course for more stage In Pansy Division: The inside Story of the and studio extravaganza. Although 20 years have First Openly Gay Pop-Punk Band” in 2009. passed since the publication of this book, you Pansy Division felt that 1993 was a good time to get the value of a completely fulfilled life. There provoke the world when their single “Bill & Ted’s appears to be a 2011 sequel. Homosexual Adventure” and their debut album Undressed hit a market that had already been softened up by Nirvana’s Grunge and the Riot Grrrls. Ginoli and his bassist Chris Freeman co- opted 3 chord punk rock with saucy lyrics and rode the indie rock wave with a rotating cast of and less manageable. Carruthers, like a child drummers, in true Spinal Tap spirit. Ginoli had of divorce, provides the bass for both leaders’ played in bands before and wanted to put the follow up projects before eventually settling in lifestyle into the music he loved, as opposed to with Pierce’s Spiritualized. the usual disco that was played in gay clubs. Although critically acclaimed, this did not make That he largely succeeded in doing, until the him rich and famous either. Carruthers quits in record industry wound down with the advent of desperation taking up odd manual labor jobs at the internet. the fringes of existence. Spacemen 3 eventually The book, is a similarly simplistic affair with no play a reunion gig and although not covered in discernable dialogue or literal adornments relying the book, he eventually joins Brian Jonestown on not so straight narrative in chronological order. Massacre, but now mostly writes and binds Instead you get huge doses of enthusiasm and books. the occasional not so subtle double entendre. You are provided with a lot of background on the Steve Hanley published The Big Midweek: Life bands they toured or gigged with, like Green Day Inside The Fall in 2014 with Ghostwriter Olivia and some of the media and label machinations. Piekarski. The completely chronological book It’s a fast read and enjoyable to the end as Ginoli recounts the bass players 19 years in the seminal wins your sympathy. UK band, The Fall. The young Hanley and his Dennis Pearne by Brian M. Owens

Dennis Pearne is a well known partisan of but this CD I’m speaking of called Songs of the whole stretch from the mid-80s to the and just did music. I had my heyday in the the burgeoning folk scene that took place in The Tao, was all songs like that. present, I’ve played a lot of fretless bass on music scene from the early 1980s to the late Boston from the 1960s to the ‘90s. A singer, METRONOME: Were you in to meditation different people’s CDs. Once I tried to count 1990s. That was sort of my big time around songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, he and the teachings of Tao at that point? them, but I lost count. One of the things that town. was often called to play on other musician’s I’ve been a student or follower of the Tao Humble Offering features is my fretless bass METRONOME: Did you grow up in a projects while leading his own groups. since my early twenties. That’s a long time playing. musical family? Recently, Pearne released an inspired now. METRONOME: Are you really a bass I did. My aunt was a concert pianist with collection of songs that capture his musical The final Woodwork CD was called player by trade? the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. My essence called Humble Offering. We spoke Woodwork at the Peace Abbey. We were No, I picked that up secondarily. I’ve sister Sally, was a Music Major in college at length and Dennis shared fascinating the house band at a wonderful organization/ really been a singer-songwriter since I was and ended up as a mezzo-soprano soloist stories of his life and musical influences venue/peace bastion in Sherborn called thirteen years old. I picked up the bass for symphony orchestras. I remember during over a career that continues to this day. The Peace Abbey. It was about two thirds when I was about thirty. I became quite busy the 1950s, she would sing songs by the Everly Brothers and others around METRONOME: Where are you the camp fire. My brother who from originally? came six years before me, was The Cleveland, Ohio area. a master singer-songwriter folk METRONOME: What brought singer and the greatest inspiration you to Boston? in my life. Two things. I was choosing METRONOME: What was his graduate schools and chose name? Boston University largely on the Chris Pearne. strength of the folk music scene METRONOME: Would we have in Boston. I wanted to be near my known him from performing in brother and I wanted to be in the the Boston area? folk music scene in Boston. Only if you were around during METRONOME: Is your new the ‘60s and ‘70s. He migrated up album, Humble Offering, your to New Hampshire and played in first release? the Peterborough and Portsmouth Dennis Pearne: Oh no, not at all. scene much more than the Boston My first release was an LP in 1983. scene. He was a fixture at The METRONOME: Was it under your Folkway in Peterborough and also name or a band name? at The Press Room in Portsmouth. It was under a band name called The first song on Humble Rising Tide. I was the leader of the Offering is written by him. The last band. We released a vinyl LP. song on Humble Offering is my The next release was in 1986 tribute to him six years after his and that was a two-sided single passing. with a duo I had called Lion In The METRONOME: Who are some Road. “Lion in the road” is a line of the people that inspired from a Dylan song actually. Then in you musically when you were 1989, I released my first solo CD younger? called, Whispers of The Spirit. Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. METRONOME: Was it all original Prior to that, a folk singer out of the music? Chicago area named Bob Gibson. Almost all. There were eleven METRONOME: How did you songs on that CD- nine were hear about Bob? original, one was traditional and Most of what I happened upon one was written by a friend of mine. in my very early years was through Then starting in to the late 90s my brother. My brother turned and early 2000s, I released three me on to folk music and a great CDs with a band called Woodwork. I was live from the Peace Abbey concerts that we playing bass for folks around town both number of the artists that I learned from. sometimes the front person, but all five of played there and about a third studio tracks. live and recorded. I toured with Ellis Paul, METRONOME: When did you start the members had original music going. We After that, I did nothing recorded under played with Tom Paxton and performed with working on your new album, Humble first released Woodwork Live, then a CD of my name until Humble Offering. a lot of interesting people. Offering? all songs of mine which were about the Tao- METRONOME: So there was some time METRONOME: It sounds like music was I hadn’t even planned to make a CD, verses from the Tao Te Ching which is the off there? a full time job for you... but a friend of mine out in Springfield, fundamental text of Taoism which I had put There was. I played fretless bass on a few I took about six or seven years in the Massachusetts named A.J. Rubino, is to music. There’s one on Humble Offering, people’s releases during that stretch. During 1980s and just did music. I left my day job retired from his former day job and runs a recording studio in his house. He offered me I had to put a hiatus on the band We built and ran the recording studio in free recording time. A.J. and his wonderful because unfortunately our bass player the Rounder Records building for a lot of wife Lucy also put me up in their home while Christopher is very ill. I’ve been hesitant years. I worked with a lot of interesting and I was recording this CD. to find a replacement for him because I’m national artists that made their records in METRONOME: How did you and A.J. hoping he can come back to the band. Just that studio. All that work was done during meet? to stay active, Lillian and I have been going the analog days. In the folk scene back in the 1960s. I met around and doing open mics. It’s an unusual METRONOME: What do you do during him at the Y-Not Coffeehouse in Worcester, combination with guitar, harmonica, vocals the day for work? but we were also playing the Charles Street and percussion, but it works out real well. I’m a psychologist. I’ve done it my entire Folk Music scene in those days. I’ve known Lillian gets a great response from the adult life. I’ve always had a solo private A.J. over 50 years. audience when I introduce her. practice. I love the business and the patients METRONOME: Did you write the songs METRONOME: How did you and Lillian that come to me. It is my second passion. for Humble Offering or were they already meet? My first passion is music. in the can? She is the sister of my best friend’s METRONOME: The back cover of the The songs were all there. Three of them husband. She has been a fixture in the West CD jacket is very interesting. It features were relatively new, written in the prior year African drumming scene in the Boston/ some really unique figurines. Can you tell or two, three of them were from further Cambridge area for years. me about those? back- one from the 80s, and a couple from METRONOME: Tell me about Sarah? (Laughs) That’s the desk in my office. The the 70s. Then there are two traditional songs Sarah is a session musician that I met largest figurine is from Peru. It’s an image and one that my brother Chris wrote. through A.J. When I was recording, I from the “Day of The Dead” which, if you METRONOME: Was that “Crossroad mentioned that I would like fiddle on one know anything about Spanish spirituality, is Sign?” particular songs called “Gypsy Whore.” their most prominent holiday. That’s right. A.J. said, “I know just the person for METRONOME: Where can people see METRONOME: Was that song a “hit” for you.” I decided to add her in on the more and hear you perform live? him when he played? bluegrassy tune, “Ol’ Blue” as well. I play at TCAN in Natick two or three It was a signature song of his, yes. I chose METRONOME: What were some of the times a month. Lillian and I also do private it simply because I loved it and it has a killer inspirations for writing the songs on events, parties, weddings and celebrations. chorus. It’s very easy to get audiences to Humble Offering? That was a very influential album to me. METRONOME: How can people find out sing along with the choruses. It’s a very, The most recent song, “Gypsy Whore,” They did a version of “Ol’ Blue.” more about you on the internet? very special hook he came up with. is a story about a dear friend of mine. Most Bob Gibson really pioneered the use of They can go to my web site at www. METRONOME: What year did you start of the dialog in the song comes from actual the twelve string guitar in folk music. He Dennis Pearne.com, but the best way to working on Humble Offering? conversations that she and I have had over was the first one that really brought it to the get a hold of me though is by calling me It was all done in 2019. the last few years. I love the way she talks fore. I got myself a twelve string and started direct at (617) 877-8194 or by emailing me METRONOME: You mentioned that you so much that we would be talking on the copying his style. One of the songs that I at [email protected]. didn’t plan on recording the CD. What phone and she would say something and I learned and I’ve played ever since then is changed your mind? would write it down. I’d think, I have to use “Ol’ Blue.” I was visiting my friend A.J. in Springfield that in a song someday! I did that with a METRONOME: The other song that and we came up with the idea that he would number of phrases that she had uttered. floored me was “Some Say Madness.” give me recording studio time and I would METRONOME: What his her name? How did you come up with that tune? come out on weekends and work on three Natasha Savoy. We dated in the early That tune is from the early 1970s. It was CDs together. 1990s and ended up becoming best of during my Goddard College, psychedelic METRONOME: Three? friends. influenced years. You can tell from some Yes. One would be my CD. One would METRONOME: Does the name “Gypsy of the poetry in it that it’s images from be his CD and one would be a Volume 2, Whore” relate to her? psychedelic trips. “Dancing trees and a posthumous CD of my brother’s songs. We It is her, but it’s metaphoric and something belly full of breakfast.” In a trip I had seen a finished my CD, finished his CD and we’re she said with quite a bit of humor. Let me grove of pine trees dancing with each other. still working on the Chris Pearne Tribute tell you what she does for a living because That song was also about a dear girlfriend CD- Volume 2. it is very interesting. She dresses men who of mine. We had parted and she had moved METRONOME: Tell me about Lillian are cross-dressers. She has a wonderful out. I was pretty sad about it. I’ve always Hastie and Sarah Michel who both played studio in Boston called My Changing Room. felt, and still feel to this day that one of the on Humble Offering. How do you know It’s fitting because she changes men in to big mistakes in my life was not marrying her. them? women. It’s a very upscale, high priced Her name was Elka. Cool Used and Vintage Lillian is a fixture with me. She’s in a trio business. There’s no sex involved, but METRONOME: You mentioned earlier that I’ve been working with called Dennis people do see her as sort of a madam in about a performing collective that you Guitars, Basses and Amps Pearne and the Elastic Waste Band. The that role. were involved with during the 1980s and by appointment in Windham, NH band is myself, Lillian on percussion and She loves the song. It’s her favorite song 1990s. Can you tell me more about that? 1x1 shopping, local delivery Christopher Rowan on fretless bass. on the CD. I was involved with a recording and METRONOME: How long has that group METRONOME: I really liked the tune “Ol’ performing collective called Good Company and shipping available been together? Blue.” Can you tell us more about that Productions. It was a collective of six or I’ve had a version of the Elastic Waste one? seven folk acts, which through a lot of See our Classified Ad Band going since the late ‘80s. People That’s a song I’ve been devoted to bartering, assisted each other with getting In This Issue come in and people go out. Sometimes it’s since the early 1960s. I had mentioned products out there. We would do Good a trio, sometimes it’s a quintet. It maxed out an influence, Bob Gibson, early on in the Company concerts together. It’s one of one night at the Nameless Coffeehouse in interview. He and Hamilton Camp, the actor the most special experiences of my music www.NHGuitars.com Cambridge. There were eleven people on who was then called Bob Camp, put out an career. stage. I hadn’t even met two of them. album called Bob Gibson and Bob Camp at I was also a recording engineer and Call or Text METRONOME: Where do you play with The Gate of Horn. 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In their well wishes. You are the best. We missed Killing the Dragon (2002), and Master of addition to rare studio tracks “Electra” you all. Time to get back to business. There’s the Moon (2004). These newly remastered (included on Magica) and “Prisoner of plenty of music news to let you in on, so kick versions feature rare and never before Paradise” (included on Master of the Moon), back and please read on... For her second released live and studio bonus tracks. each bonus disc includes a selection of both album on True North Records, Nashville- Remastered by longtime DIO collaborator rare or never before released live tracks from based singer Crystal Shawanda has Wyn Davis with updated artwork from the accompanying tour for each studio channeled the spirit and strength of blues frequent DIO designer Marc Sasso. Long release. All bonus tracks are also available greats such as Etta James and Koko Taylor, out of print on vinyl, the 180-gram black vinyl on the streaming/digital versions. On Easter paired with a contemporary delivery that includes the original track listings and is Sunday (April 12, 2020), Italian tenor and makes the 10 tracks on Church House Blues available as a Limited Edition 1st run with global music icon Andrea Bocelli gave a solo a rousing testament to her powerful vocal and LP-sized Lenticular album art print. As performance at the historic Duomo, the Andrea Bocelli and songwriting abilities. Recorded at several a special bonus, the Magica 2-LP also cathedral of Milan, Italy, by invitation of the Nashville area studios, Crystal Shawanda City and of the cathedral, and thanks to the worldwide, and continues to trend globally says that the recording sessions for Church hospitality of the Archpriest and the across YouTube and social media platforms. 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New York city band, Gideon King & City worked with on a studio basis and they Wayne Shorter, Seal, Amy Winehouse, Neil be a songwriter? Blog are proponents of jazz, R&B, soul, started to suggest folks. Young, Earth, Wind & Fire and Jimi Hendrix. For me it’s to expel a certain energy that funk and fusion. Led by guitarist-songwriter, One of the central figures in that was I became enchanted by every kind of music I have. To expel it and to have people relate Gideon King, the band has taken the best my drummer Jake Goldbas, who gradually imaginable. I picked up the guitar when I to it and shred it through their own thought of those elements and created a beautiful began to suggest people for this vibe. Jake was 10. processes whatever way they want to. tapestry of sound punctuated by three has a great feel for all kinds of music and METRONOME: Was that your first METRONOME: Did you pen all the songs lead vocalists and stellar musicianship. stuff that I write and is a great drummer. instrument? for your 2015 album, City Blog? Their latest offering, Love Knot, is a fitting There was a process of weeding people It was my first instrument and I started I write all the songs and all the lyrics. representation of the group’s progressive out and getting the right vibe, community teaching myself over time. I’ve never had METRONOME: Where does your arrangements coupled to fierce musical and friendship within the band, but we’ve that many lessons in my life. I taught myself inspiration come from when you sit down chops that are sure to capture the hearts arrived where we are. We have a lot of music theory and guitar. When I was older, to write music? and minds of listeners everywhere. City fun. These are smart musicians and smart I started to get much more serious about I don’t identify with direct storytelling in Blog has arrived... people who have their act together. There’s harmony and took some good lessons from songwriting. I don’t think every single song no drama. It’s just fun and creation. guys in New York city. has to be about either breaking up with METRONOME: How long has your band someone or being with someone you love. Gideon King & City Blog been together? I get my inspiration from a variety of things Gideon: This group has been together like New York city and the extraordinary for about three years. This particular group, tensions in this town- the confidence, the through a process of elimination and quasi- desperation, the violence, the high end auditions, has finally arrived as a pretty patina. New York city is a huge inspiration. incredible bunch of musicians who can Then there’s tiny little turns of a phrase absorb what I’m writing and then make it in anything from a movie, an article, a book resurface as something really special. or talking to a friend. The ironies embedded METRONOME: Who are the core in almost everything everybody says. Of members of the group? course pain and suffering, for sure, are a The core members are Caleb Hawley motivating factor in writing music. on vocals, who is a well known solo artist I do like hanging together concepts as well, singer Sonny Step who plays and abstractions so that it’s just enough to multiple instruments, and an incredible vaguely tell a story, but not enough to tell female singer named Alita Moses. These are a listener what to think. I’d rather let the really talented people who can handle solo listener project their own story board on to singing, complex harmony work and are all my lyrics. trained musically. They’re amazing. That’s I do love abstract lyrics and the the core vocal group. suggestion of stories, pain, love and ironies, We have two percussionist, both who play but I’m not going to lay it out too clearly. It drums and percussion. One is named Jake just doesn’t come naturally to me to be a Goldbas and the other is Zach Mullings. Our straight forward storyteller the way certain musical director is Bryan Reeder, who is an METRONOME: Where did you grow up? METRONOME: You’re a successful songwriters are. insane classical, jazz and pop musician. I grew up in New York city. businessman too. Can you tell us about METRONOME: How do you present your Then on bass, we have a few different METRONOME: Did you grow up in a that? songs to the band? players: Jack Hanley, James Genus who is musical family? I definitely have two lives. I’ve always I’ll write the song on my guitar and the a legend, and Nathan Peck. Yeah, my brother is a pretty famous been an investor and I was trained in lyrics, then get together with my musical The other guy worth mentioning is jazz piano player. His name is Jonny King. something called Risk Arbitrage. To this director, Bryan Reeder. We’ll hash out a another percussionist who joins us on and Interestingly enough, when I was 6 and 7 day, I still invest in all kinds of off-the-run, rough chart. Then we’ll get in to the rehearsal off named Diego Ramirez. Then there’s me, years old, I heard the walls of my apartment idiosyncratic assets ranging from helium studio and begin to play it. We’ll experiment Gideon King, who plays guitar. vibrating with jazz phrasings. Jonny is a real, to amusement parks and hip-hop music with different grooves. Three part harmonies METRONOME: How did you meet these pure breed jazz musician and introduced streaming services. While they are two will start to take shape. We have three musicians? me to the idea of harmony that could be separate lives, to me they make sense amazingly talented singers, all of which can When I put out my first album,City Blog, more complex and phrasing that could be because they’re both about building things. write, sing and critique things about three in 2015, I did it all as a studio project with more fluid. So there was that. Coming up with ideas and creating things part harmonies. It’s a very open architecture players like Donny McCaslin, John Scofield, Then, on the other side of the wall were my with really smart, hungry people. with lots of freedom to roam within the lyrics Marc Broussard, James Genus... so many two hippy sisters who were listening to Neil My brother too. He’s a really well know and the harmony of the song. people. Young, Bob Dylan, Ritchie Havens and so pianist, but he’s also an attorney. It’s a weird METRONOME: You’ve allowed it to be I did it all studio style the way Steely Dan on. I became a product of those competing dual life. I’m very thankful for it. I also have democratic as well... did it back in the day. They are one of my musical vibes and became fusion oriented. other passions. I’m a woodworker, cabinet It is democratic. The democracy basic influences, of course. As time went In search of a reconciliation of these maker, bolt turner and I write poetry on the emanates from the fact that I genuinely on I said, I should bring this thing out live. different genres, I arrived at listening to a lot internet. I’m a maniac basically. respect the musicians. Sometimes we do I started to talk with some of the people I of Steely Dan, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, METRONOME: What made you want to it, then sometimes there’s an element of creative destruction where the tune starts classical music. be released in May/June. Then we have enjoy to like Julian Lage, Matteo Mancuso, to convert in to something else during that When I write music, it’s definitely another single coming out after that. We Mike Moreno, and of course, John Scofield process. unintentional, but all those influences may do a full length album again. is still playing good stuff. METRONOME: Are you all together in a leaches to the surface. I don’t want to METRONOME: Why did you name the EP I really like Kacey Musgraves. She’s one of room bouncing ideas off of one another write jazz, but I don’t want to write things Love Knot? the best living songwriters. She writes these when that happens? that don’t have some streak of jazz running The songs are not traditional love songs. little jewel box tunes and they’re beautiful. Totally. Basically, I play it on my guitar and through them. I don’t want to write music They’re about all of the strange sensations, I’m still a Seal freak. He’s so good. I sing it and then our drummers, Jake and that doesn’t have a little influence of Neil abstractions, difficulties and thrills of do like Matt Corby a lot too. There are so Zach start messing around with a groove. Young’s beautiful ethereal lyrics. relationships that have failed or are destined many. I am searching for some modern day We work out what fits, what’s the vibe and I also love rap, just the making up of to be. It’s an expression of angst about guitarists, but I haven’t found one yet. how does it differentiate itself from other words like Snoop’s stuff. It’s so cool. relationships in general. METRONOME: How did you come up things. Should there be an introduction? METRONOME: Does your 2018 album, METRONOME: What kind of guitar do with the name for the band? Then our pianist starts to work with the Upscale Madness, feature the band that you play? It’s just a concept of a blog. The concept singers to shape up the three part harmonies. your playing with now? I’m a guitar freak. 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