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Poison The Well
Previous Nextauthor TL date 20/03/08
On the 6th of March 2008, The tour of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Poison The Well and Stolen Babies made a stop in Copenhagen, Denmark and of course I had to get a hold of one of the bands. So I get set things up with Poison The Well, and when I arrive at Pumpehuset I enter and ask for their tour manager and am met with the response that \\\"they don\\\'t have any\\\". A few minutes later I\\\'m sitting in the band\\\'s rather small van with guitarist Ryan, realizing just how DIY they seem to be. Anyway, I have a chat with him and what comes out of it is an interesting conversation about differences in live shows, new albums, inter-band relationships and good new music. You guys can all read it right here:
RF.net: And it\\\'s been all good?
Ryan: Yeah it\\\'s been super fun. It\\\'s been a long year because we haven\\\'t really had any time off, but I can\\\'t complain, I\\\'m happy to just be around playing shows.
RF.net: So can you shed some light on what it\'s going to be like?
Ryan: Just weird! Same thing as the last one really.. It\'s definitely a step forward but I don\'t know if it\'ll be lighter or heavier or anything like that, I just sort of have a lot of guitar parts done on a drum machine so I can\'t really tell by now because it\'s all very loose..
RF.net: But you do reckon it\'ll be more like \"Versions\" than earlier material?
Ryan: Yeah it definitely won\'t be a step backwards. I ran out of good parts like that long ago - used them all up.. And it seems that since then, so many bands from our area has been doing so many albums like that, and I can\'t really think of how there could be anything left to do in that direction. You know when there\'s like 7000 bands all trying to write the hardest breakdown ever! People should just realize that Madball already did it and stop trying.
RF.net: Sounds good, it\'s just an ongoing debate between me and our editor in which way bands should progress, so we like to find out what we can expect.
Ryan: Yeah well, I\'ve been listening to a lot of surf music for a while and maybe you\'ll hear some of that in there.
RF.net: laughs
Ryan: No I\'m serious..
RF.net: Okay
Ryan: Yeah, I fully support them in every way. I\'m open minded.
RF.net: So that\'s why you choose to go on tour with them then?
Ryan: Yeah, in reality we\'re all just friends though, Jeff and Greg just happen to have a crush on each other, it\'s not a big deal.
RF.net: Do you think you can do it though?
Ryan: No. At least not in the same way. You know, we\'re different bands with sort of different ideas and mentalities with music. We think a lot alike about music but we\'re just different people. They have their thing and we have a much more stripped down kind of thing.. I don\'t want to use the words \"punk rock\" because that\'s not it, but it\'s just more simple.. More like \"here\'s a band playing some songs.. hopefully playing them well!\"
RF.net: Anything new you wanna recommend for the readers?
Ryan: The new Black Mountain record is super good and also the new Cat Power. Entombed made a really good album as well..
RF.net: So when do you reckon.. -
Ryan: - Late 08, we\'ll probably be back on tour again..
RF.net: Yeah but about the record?
Ryan: Like spring of 09.. So not as much time between this one and the last one as last time around.