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Archive for July, 2008
Campus Circle Review
Absolute Punk Review
I really like this review. For starters it compares me to Jeff Buckley and Jimmy Gneco and compares the whole band to Fiction Plane, Starsailor, and Radford - all awesome things; but it also stabs at the bands musical drawbacks - which is fine too - without stumbling into assumptionland like other recent reviews.
Thanks Catch The Phoneix!
Sleeperberth Cast
We’d like to thank Sleeperberth Cast for playing Burning Out on his podcast.
Look at this smile
Our old manager Merck Mercuriadis sent me an email today with the subject line Just look at this smile.
This article in Rolling Stone is an amazing revelation of how badly the music industry is doing. On the other hand I couldn’t stop smiling back at the photo of Debbie Southwood-Smith, an old friend from Interscope, someone who loved Buddahead when we were signed by Jimmy Iovine to the label. When I knew her she seemed lost, unhappy, and misguided by an industry she had poured herself into. She was great her job too - she discovered and signed Queens of the stone age.
I have an amazing story about Debbie and Jimmy Iovine but I am going to keep that for “Navigating Shark Filled Waters”, so until then I just want to say, “Debbie, if you read this, I want you to know I am so overwhelmed by happiness to see you so happy - congrats - and I forgive you for trying to get me to buy pants that are way too tight for me”.
Be Surprised
I recently read a review of Ashes that said the album was basically “phoned in” which means, to me at least, that no emotion and care was put into making it. This hit me really hard because Ashes is a collection emotional revelations. This album was written at a time when depression, death, and drugs, destroyed my family. The guy who said my album was “phoned in” also went on to say, “I wouldn’t be surprised if the band broke up after this CD”.
A part of me thinks this is his take on the lyrics at the end of sour grapes: I’ve got a good mind to throw in the towel, I’ve been rolling with the punches for so long. Now life is a heartache in the cubicles, the ashes of a dream I once had.
If this is the case, I can see why he would think this way, but honestly this band has been through so much together: record deals that fell apart, endless touring in a van with no money, and some horrible personal shit - but we did not break up, nor are we about to. Instead we made this album with our own money, with love, and with care; and just for the record we are writing the next album. So, Scott Homewood, sorry, be surprised, we are not breaking up.