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my new desktop. she has one of the most amazing smiles. the whole happiness thing just ups the sexyness so much more.
Check out an interview with Grolsh Canvas
canvas.grolsch.com/uk/node/9236
Some other really cool work on there too - the movie articles are great.
interview for www.kenh14.vn
- 17 years old, currently student of Bùi Thị Xuân High School in the Ho Chi Minh city. She got famous through youtube with English songs.
My interview for BJD Magazine :
bjdmagazine.com/2010/12/07/bjd-faceups-by-caroline-seales...
thanks for reading! :)
edit :
and here's part 2!
bjdmagazine.com/2010/12/09/bjd-faceups-by-caroline-seales...
An Interview with California based band: Miggs
"Anticipation and more underwear than you could shake a stick at".
Miggs first night playing in Charlotte, NC June 11th, 2005
It was around dusk as we walked from the venue for the night, the local hotspot located in the NODA Art District of Charlotte, NC "The Evening Muse". Quaint Café bar with an intimate setting, and the most spectacular sound as noted in "The Charlotte Observer" many years running. A tad muggy weather but that didn't' seem to really kill any of the mood. Fumbling through my words until the band as a whole within seconds made me feel comfortable, and I took in all that was Miggs. This is very important in all aspects they are people persons, they are down to earth, and they can make you feel like their best friend in mere minutes. This is just the beginning of the beauty that is Miggs. For now I'm going to share my dinner with the band, the totality of the conversation that took on some hot issues I've always wanted bands to openly talk about but most are just to tight lipped. How is that for another plateau of brilliant, a band who speaks what they think, they feel, going against the grain of shut up and put up. They bleed right in your face realism. Oh how I am in love with this band.
For the first few moments it was pieced together 'hellos' and 'how are you'. Ordered some food as the glasses of water left condensational puddles on the table. Don Miggs struck me as a charming business hippy, and I hope he does not mind this comparison, with a fantastic warm smile, soft-spoken voice, and some aura around him that made you just want to listen to anything he had to say. Intelligent and poised he takes the spotlight with him everywhere he goes. Talk about a light switch, this man made the fixtures. Next up in the round table was a man they called "Face", Jeff the illusive nature of his true name falling over even into their newsletter and site. The new member to the group as deduced by any fan alike he's nicknamed "Face" for the sheer reason he has a beautiful one, not just beauty but the charisma to back it up. Intensely deep set eyes, sideburns to kill for and that rock star style; he could pull off any outfit and make it look good. The wild party-man to the group, but I sense a deep sort of knowledge to this scene for his young years. Expected him to hang from the rafters and dance on the table, maybe next time, but we all knew secretly he was just wished to get up there and do his thing. Then bassist Mark Baker a country-like surfer,a twist of good wholesome country roots, with a soulful aspect to things. I noticed the light in his eyes when it came to family and just the joy of being on the road. Entirety among teddy bears, he looks at the big spectrum of things and tries to keep that balance of large to even larger, politely perfect. Last but certainly not least was the drummer Jason Gianni, an intelligent whip of a man. Philly born and raised and it shows. While he is the quiet side to this band, he is the deep thinker, cerebral counterpart; the shy one if you can have it to a band. His taste in off beat t-shirts, good food, styles, and bands gave away just enough for me to know I was in for one hell of a night.
Then there was that wonderful theme of underwear.., dinner with Miggs.
1) Q: What would you like to see change in the music industry now?
Collaborative: Wows shoot around the table. "What a way to start this" I hear muttered coyly.
Face: There is show at 10:30 tonight!
Don: It's a business and I understand that but if they could make the focus a little more like it was in the 60s that was a little more related to the music. Like if you were the best band with the best song, the best artist that usually trumped the person with the most money. Now a days it seems that Ashlee Simpson or someone like that has a lot better chance at making it than a great band because she has more money and more connections. That is the one thing I would definitely like to see change.
2) Q: What is your biggest sacrifice on the road?
Mark: Sharing beds.
Face: Startling that little trinket right?
Me: Yes, of course WOOHOO (What fan wouldn't want to clamor for room in that tour van?)
Don: Sacrifice a lot, it's like getting into a different place everyday. The sacrifice is also the best thing about it, it's cool to be in different places. It's definitely what we all dream about it
Face: You have to leave a life, if you have one to leave
Don: Yeah I didn't have one to leave.
Mark: I had a nice life, doh!
3) Q: Goes along with last question here, what would you tell up and coming artists to expect/watch out for? Don't expect this, but definitely expect this?
Face: Don't expect a hand out first and foremost.
Don: It's all about this, there are no short cuts through this, and no one is giving it away for free. If you think boom you sign a record deal and the next thing that happens and you get the keys to a great tour bus, and everything becomes beautiful and roses. All it is is what really happens if you erase all your history when you sign a record deal and you start over. It's exactly like etch-a-sketch start from scratch again, but it's still very cool.
Mark: I'll tell upcoming artists all of your dreams you have had of being a rock and roll star are not true! It's a lot more work than you could ever imagine it to be. Then again there are a lot of things you've never thought about that are just so darn cool
- Q:Like?
Mark:Like what it really means to be a musician in a band with three other people and develop with those people. In that band it can be very frustrating, but it can also be very cool
Face:I'd add to that up and coming artists know that when you have worked yourself into the ground and you feel like you are burned out, you're not even close. NOT EVEN. That is when you really separate the boys from the men.
Don: On the other side of that it's also so much more rewarding probably than you ever though it would be. It's not the sex drugs and rock and roll anymore it's really becomes the "Oh my god, I'm playing at a place at a place that people are showing up to see Miggs from San Francisco and we're in North Carolina". You traveled here to see us, how cool is that?
Mark: That actual thing, you can't prepare yourself for the reality of it
Don: That is the difference between what we do and others who go to work and push a pencil. What we do is immediate feedback so when it's bad, it's immediately bad, and when it's amazing it's immediately amazing. You can watch people transform from "I don't care, I'm not even interested" into the likes of, by the end of it "I want to buy a CD" how cool is that?
4) Q: Favorite song of new album:
Don: Real affection for "Perfect" because of how fast it came out. Just woke up at 2am and did the entire song. Something about that was really cool. Song that has the most elements of Miggs to me is "Into and over you"
Mark: Once you get into that song you can really be a part of it
Face: Sangria: I like songs that are fun to play and I really like looking out to the crowd seeing people into it and that is this song.
Mark: Looks like I'm reading this off a card but I'm serious to say I love all of it. Beginning to End it is one long sequence. It is all Miggs.
Jason: (he speaks!) "Be" is my favorite; be has a little bit everything that we are about. It's got the energy, the harmony, they lyrics, the big majestic ending, and time changes.
Mark: When it goes from the bridge back into the intro and we are really rocking it that is Miggs.
5) Q: How is this different from your last album
Face: Better!
Don: When we had producer Gavin MacKillop, whose worked with Goo Goo Dolls, Toad the Wet Sprocket and a bunch of bands, but what I always have said about him is we were like guys in a room and it was dark and there was a light switch somewhere. We will eventually find said light switch but Gavin knows exactly where it is. We're different than what that album is, he was like you are one band and pointed us that way. And he did that so when making the album together as opposed to as me just writing all the songs before I knew the band, this was when I knew them all already. In fact some of the songs on the album are about these guys, kind of sad or great?
6) Q: What do you collect on the road that if fans were to send stuff to you what should they send?
Mark: Magnets, not good at remember things like that. First place or two I got magnets after that it was all downhill. Like ones that say the town or wherever the people live, se
Face: Pins from hometown. Ladies underwear! "Yeah I do now" x. Jason's answer.
Here is where the underwear story comes into play. Jason and Face are comparing that they found out that they wear the same underwear completely by a mishap. Do we believe them? To funny to pick what is comedy and what is chance.
Jason: Ladies underwear! laughing of course.
Don: Huge music guy, go into used music stores, new music all the time.
Me: A favorite genre in there?
Don: I'm a popular music buff anything from the 50s to today. What I like to say is just put it all in a blender and mix it all up and that's what I think Miggs is.
Jason: I don't' really collect anything as much as others. I'm the photographer of the band mostly so I am the tour guide in the band. We're going somewhere and I'm telling them what exit to get off at to go see some things. So photographs from fans as I'm making up a tour book right now.
7) Q: Favorite thing a fan has done for you:
All together now " Bought the album!"
Mark: Tootsie Roll days, at some point in the band history there was this movement of Tootsie Rolls and me.
Don: I know what this was; she thought it looked like you had a big Tootsie roll stuck in your pants.
Mark: Yeah, well I'd like to think it's more meaningful than that 'glares at Don'
Don: They started bringing them to every show and chucking them up on stage
It had something to do she said he looked like a tootsie roll and wanted to do things we can't talk about?
Mark: I don't even really like tootsie rolls.
Don: Another time was this great woman traveled to DC to see us after she said all the wonderful stuff, but she came all the way to see us.
Mark: Yeah a fan bought me a beer once. It's like you play Cincinnati and someone writes and you didn't know them and I saw you, you're now my favorite, sends some photos and that is WONDERFUL.
Underwear is heard faintly in the background and through the maze of hysterical laughter and heat I'm not trained enough to decipher whom, but two of them brought it right to the front.
-Q: The new topic of this interview is going to be headlined including the word underwear, what is the deal everyone?
Don: There is a great underwear story
Face: Underwear is the theme in this band USUALLY woman's underwear
Jason: This is where we talk about how we were doing laundry and Jeff put on my underwear and thought we shrunk everything. (for reference Jeff "Face" is about 5 10 nicely build, Jason is about 5 "4" nicely built but fits his frame well, they'd never be able to wear a single thing of one another's).
During a tiny interlude here the fan that drove all the way up to DC to see the guys and were what they were talking about "coolest things fans have done for the band" walks in the restaurant. It was a very déjà vu type moment. Inviting were their hugs and greetings to these fans. Talking about their torments on the roads trying to get out DC and just passing out there, traffic kills all people!
Going back into the interview:
Don: Back to panties a fan has done that throwing stuff on stage just to give us moral support, they know how much we love that
Face: Yes, I love playing shows putting them on my head. I can be too silly.
8) Q: So is this also the craziest thing a fan has done for you?
Don: Sort of, this was from some fans you really would not expect them to be throwing underwear, full on kids next to them just winging it right at us. Fun times!
Jason: I think the best is random hugs from fans that people actually talk about.
9) Q: Ten years from now what will you be doing?
Face: hopefully still on tour, people saying still doing it? My god losers!
Mark: Meeting with president of the monument fund.
One element of music industry you just never know what you are going to do one week to the next let alone a year and then TEN! Really a tough question but I think every musician has high hopes for wanting to be still in sustaining their way of living.
Don: Hope the four of us are still playing music together.
Jason: I don't know I don't' really like you guys (he says jokingly)
Joyous laughter so I dig in.
10) Q: Is there really one thing you guys can't stand about one another, come on go at it! ;)
Mark: Are you a therapist? Hah.
Jason: Jeff was eating chex mix today one at a time.
Mark: OMG YOU HEARD THAT TOO!
Jason: Nap number one awaken.
Jeff: Wait Mark keep rattling on his bass all day while we were all sleeping.
Jason: It's like being in a marriage all of the things you love about one another can be all the things you can't stand about one another depending on how long you've been in that band.
Mark: I mean imagine about riding in a van with anyone, really anybody for six to eight weeks. We're together basically twenty-four hours seven days a week.
Don: You want to know when we got here today I had to go to the bathroom, but I went in the bathroom and stood there and stood there and I was by myself and I couldn't' go. It was just like you know what I don't care who wants to get in here but I'm hanging out until someone does!
Sidenote: I started to go on about how I could relate to this from when I was on the tour known as Ozzfest with a little named band Incubus. Brining into light that one member said in ten years if he couldn't be on the stage anymore he'd want to at least produce.
Don: I could definitely see that and I think everyone on one side of this will always go for the other. Overall I want to be like Butch Walker, I just really dig him, listening to him on the car on the way here. Just got into him actually. [Suggesting a few artists to Miggs was fun here; I love to drop some names of bands I like locally and regionally. (Trances Arc, Clifton, Y-O-U, Stephanie's Id).
Don: Reason for brining up Butch is we played a show the other night in one of the places we weren't really accepted well most of the fans would have accepted him even though he is not all about the rip roaring punk scene. He has the look and the charisma to pull that off. He is really great!
Face: We play shows that are really mismatched and it's fun showing people that different aspect.
Don: But last night was completely hardcore scene. The venue town and everything was shady and horrible.
Mark: Just wasn't a great night
Face: The night was capped off with and ambulance, cops, and a guy getting laid out on the concrete. The concrete hit him harder than the guy did.
Me: hope you got out of dodge, where was this?
Mark: Yeah we just got out of there as fast as we could!
11) Q: What do you do for your writing process?
Don: Don't sleep! No, what I think is keep your antennae up, I just watch everything and listen to everything.
Mark: Be an absolute predatory listener.
12) Q: How do you all write?
Mark: Majority of framework is Don. The rest of us arrange.
Don: Eventually it will be three songs from everyone. Theory is go for the best song as we all write good music and the best one goes on the album I don't care which one of us write it.
Q: I've noticed that your album has many more tracks than other CD's out there, what is the reason? Couldn't sort them out, really wanted to get everything on there? Everyone wanted one of his or her songs on there?
Face: It's missing two
Don: Ten songs on an album that's it. I don't want to bore people or go to far, this just felt right though. We wanted to finish what this music is, this time; I didn't want anything else to trail off into the next album. Want that album to be for how we are right then. There is a possibility of the other stuff being b-sides or getting out there some how.
13) Q: Influences, do you let a lot of outside things influence you on what direction you are going to take with your music?
Don: If we did then we'd sound a lot more like what's on the radio all over now, but if your antennae is up you can't helped be influenced by everything. So we're writing so I'll hear a little bit by Weezer but everyone interprets that differently. Such as we all don't put the same exact song on our Ipods, there is something about that, that is really cool but he'll interpret that as something a little edgier but edgy will mean a different thing to someone else. So once you look at it that way there is that element in there for everyone which is what you need to do this. Not like on the radio but familiar enough that we have our own sound.
14) Q: Biggest influence.
Don: Classic Beatles, 50s all the way to Elvis Costello, U2 found that stuff later after my dads' era but that really gets me.
Face: My scope is a little bit narrower; I'm more influenced by the 90s, early 90s really big into Sound Garden, Jeff Buckley, Stone Temple Pilots (as he wears the hat) stuff like that
Mark: Classic Stuff: Leonard Skynard stuff like that. R&B Motown old not the stuff today I just don't get all the way. I try I just don't' get it.
Jason: Motown hard to really pinpoint this down to one thing, my main influence are a combination of Beatles and Jellyfish (early 90s) into a lot of progressive music (yes, rush). A lot of heavy metal bands, marillion, metalica, pantera, metal to the end.
15) Q: What is the last concert you have been to?
Don: Cake on Virgin Mega Tour. Afghan Wigs
Mark: Afghan Wigs
16) Q: Name some up and coming bands local or regional you think that some people should listen to? A free floor to plug some new bands:
Don: Iron and Wine, go get them! Matthew Good.
Mark: Auto punch, four nights before tour Jeff was playing with them.
Jeff (face): Bay Area Band: Street to Nowhere, kid will blow you away his voice and songwriting skills are outstanding. That is my pick I think he is going to blow up.
17) Q: Interviews get boring because you get asked the same things all the time. What is something that you want an interviewer to talk with you about to get the message out there or talk about?
Don: Did a show on the WB and guy asked a question like this. Answered the whole thing and got it wrong because I went into this whole thing and Jason was like "ummmmm" that wasn't even the question! Camera was on me and I totally had to play it off.
Face: Let me think about it.
Jason: I think the one question you asked was really awesome. "What would you want changed in the music industry"
I think there is too much think part of being an upcoming band for people to know you, there is more to a band than what you see. A band where we are at who is just on the bring of breaking through, grass roots things" I think we could be more helpful to a band starting out. Talk more about grass roots and all that.
Mark: Subject we most think about I think is just how hard this business is and I think that one thing that frustrates me is what I want to talk about, compared to what people want to read. I don't really know what people want to read.
Me: (interjecting) more people are wanting to read interesting things honestly. They'd rather hear about your influences and some quirky habit than where you are from and exactly what your songs are.
Face: (with an elevated tone) Ticket prices, no way ALBUM PRICES.
18) Q: Good topic! What about ticket prices?
Don: It's album prices, we'll go to Borders and they are charging $15.99 for our album, and I'm like are you nuts? An album should be no more than $9.99. I don't buy any albums new anymore; there goes back to my used album store ways. This is why we well our albums at our shows for $10.00. We have to remember though the amount of money it costs to get your stuff on radio and all though. Ouch.
Don: This is going to sound great. When people say what do you think of the top acts like Hillary Duff being the number one song, what drives me nuts is when someone says to them "Hey, what do you think about your song as number one?" It's almost as if they can't have an opinion because how it got to be number one is they paid a lot of freaking money.
Face: Have you even heard it? I haven't? Has anyone really? I mean it's played everywhere but who listens to it?
Don: At the end of the day though you can't make this big machine we know run without money, it's all about the money. We are doing a radio campaign we're over a $25g but you throw that into the wind, most don't want to talk about that, just rock and roll.
Jeff: Bands making it? There is one way for you to make it in the music industry to which is have a massive financial machine behind you. I do not believe you can make it as a band unless you have a huge promotional campaign that is funded very well, or if you aren't in a band that can afford to be extravagant. Media wants things IMO things that are over the top. Over the top costs money. The whole thing has been done with the rags to riches element. Where you hear someone found you , someone really loved you and put you on the radio because they have the power to do it. I just don't see it that way anymore. There are just too many people out there doing it, too many great musicians.
Don: That is true I'm a guy and I'm very optimistic and I always think if there is a will there is a way but the reality is 99.9% of the time that is it.
Face: when it comes down to it was talking to our manager the other day. You either have the hard cash capital from a band or you have the resource, which is the equivalent. You have to know someone at the top that can just give it, or might happen. Even in that scenario it really comes down to cash. That person is spending that money to get you up there, but it's easy for them to do that.
Jason: I think that's are ways of breaking through but once you get there it is all of this. There is no way to get up there and stay up there. Regardless of anything it's going to take a lot of money anyway.
Don: We signed a deal with independents, we get to own everything, our tracks but at the end of the day you really need all that money.
Face: Nothing from nothing is nothing. (Hemingway reference!)
Mark: You gots to have something to get something and we are going to get something!
When the interview came to the end and we huddled in a group to grab some last moment photographs before the sweat, before the chaos, before the stage opened up and showed us a new definition of rock in 2005, we all beamed. That was the theme, beyond the underwear, déjà vu like moments, a happy feeling of calm coming over the dusk that has now fallen into a virginal start of the night. Anticipation of being defiled, completely and utterly defiled and loving every second of it, here comes the rock.
We crossed the street companions in the night to become one with the reason we all gathered at 36th N Davidson Street in the quiet Art District of Charlotte, NC 's nightlife.
Self-defining rockistry at it's best.
This is not a good dress attire for a man who is seeking a job. His clothes appears to be wrinkle, wrong types of pants and shoes.
You can find this lovely interview with Vince Toulouse (www.flickr.com/photos/vince_toulouse/) on www.tilesorstuds.com/2016/03/special-interview-with-vince... also congrats on his last moc Rolling Bug (www.flickr.com/photos/vince_toulouse/25505151884/in/datep...)
I feel a little narcissistic posting an interview with myself, but Theresa decided that for our latest installment she wanted to interview me. So here it is: read more
The new Tiny feet magazine is out now, featuring amazing content from Nanuka, Hola gominola and Petite Wanderlings among other artists.
Filipa was so kind to invite me as a contributor, so you will read about me too :-)
I feel very honoured to have been interviewed by Jan Allsopp on her wonderful new blog on figurative drawing - The Artling.
the-artling.com/artist-interview-liz-steel/
What a privilege to follow on from an interview with Rick Tulka - Rick is in fact the reason that I met Jan. We live in the same state in Australia but our paths had never really crossed.... It just so happened that in 2009 we were both in Paris at the same time and both visited Le Select in the same week. Rick told me she was in town and we met up and sketched the rear of Notre Dame together!
Check out the interview and start following her great blog!
Palio in Siena:
In the morning I could take a photo of an interview on the stands at the side of the Piazza del Campo taken by TV.
An interview by Pallavi Pundir for THE INDIAN EXPRESS
published on July 14th, 2014.
indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/in-the-muddy-pits/
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Gentle Giant / Interview
Side one:
- "Interview" - 6:54
- "Give It Back" - 5:12
- "Design" - 5:00
Side two:
- "Another Show" - 3:29
- "Empty City" - 4:23
- "Timing" - 4:52
- "I Lost My Head" - 6:57
(All tracks are written by Kerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, and Ray Shulman.)
Gary Green – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, alto recorder, backing vocals
Kerry Minnear – Minimoog , piano, Hammond organ, Clavinet, electric piano, synthesizer, RMI Electra Piano, clavichord
Derek Shulman - lead vocals, alto saxophone. percussion
Ray Shulman – bass guitar, electric violin, violin, 12 string guitar, percussion
John Weathers – drums, tambourine, finger cymbal, cowbell, cabasa, güiro, gong
Studio: Advision Studios, London
(February – March 1976)
sleeve design: Geoff Allman
Label: Chrysalis Records / 1976
ex Vinyl-Collection MTP