30-Second interview
Written by ashkap on Wednesday, 12 of March , 2008 at 7:11 am
I recently had a chance to chat a little bit with Phil Dickey, (second from left) drummer, singer, and songwriter of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. His comments about their new album, Pershing, available from Polyvinyl on April 8th:
“i’d suggest listening to it on a warm day…i think it’s more of a spring/summer cd.”
well said, Phil. well said.
here’s where the standard band interview is condensed to 30-seconds of essential questions.
how do you write songs?
“i don’t know. some days i don’t feel like playing guitar. i just feel like doing other things and moving around. usually, something happens, or i get an idea and i really want to write a song about it. i like when a guitar part sounds like an idea, a person, or a place. i like making them match up. i’m not a great guitar player, so i try to rely on simple sounds and layering parts. the other guys in the band come up with way different ideas, so that really makes the songs way more interesting.”
how did you come up with your name?
“we were in high school and we wanted a really stupid name to counteract all the high school bands who had serious names.”
BONUS
ashkap: we call our website “The Tape” because of a club we founded where pass around a usb stick of music. “The Tape Club” is so named because we thought that mixtapes were cool. when i opened my broom lp and saw “tape club” in the the thanks section got really excited until i realized that you couldn’t mean us because you’ve never met us. oh well. it was still exciting.
phil: tape club 4ever.
Thanks to Phil and the band.
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