My friend Andrew, who plays in the Traditional Fools with me, he plays bass. It’s Charlie, who plays guitar in my band Fuzz, he plays drums and then Sean Paul from Nodzzz and White Fence plays guitar and sings. TS: No I have a different band for this, the Sleeper band. TS: Yeah, but I’ll be playing it through my giant amplifier stack. It meets halfway between what we’ve always done live and what the record is. The live show is really not as mellow as the record at all. TS: I was really worried, but so far audiences have been open-minded. Did you have the same reservation about performing it live? I didn’t set out to do an acoustic thing.ĪC: You just said you weren’t sure if people were going to dig it. It was a lot of, “I don’t know where this is going man,” and then a lot of, “I don’t know if people are going to dig this,” and, “What is this?” and then, “Oh shit, I guess this is it.” I thought at first it was all demos and then they eventually became songs. TS: It was like I didn’t really know what I was doing. A lot of the poppier or more chord-y songs I write on acoustic.ĪC: So the experience of this recording must have been more sonically restrained for you. I write most of my stuff on an acoustic, although lately I’ve been strictly trying to write on the electric with a loud amplifier. Do you have a different relationship with your acoustic than your electric? They’re my favorite Austin band.ĪC: Your new album Sleeper sounds like it was largely recorded with an acoustic guitar.
TS: I like everything Orville does, although he’s not properly from Austin. We played at Beerland.ĪC: Do you have a favorite band from Austin? It was a pretty rad tour: Thee Oh Sees, Sic Alps, and me all in one van just rolling around. TS: It was 2007 and it was a one-man-band show with Thee Oh Sees and the Sic Alps.
Do you remember when and where your first Austin show was? The L.A.-based garage guitar poet talked songwriting, ATX’s OBN III’s, and his new acoustic LP, Sleeper, which he’ll perform tomorrow.Īustin Chronicle: How do you pronounce your last name? Like the bird or the karate guy?ĪC: You’ve played at the Mohawk a few times recently. Playback checked in this week with Ty Segall, who loads in on Tuesday at Mohawk with locals Holy Wave and Hidden Ritual.
0 kommentar(er)
