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00:00:03:03 I think that most people are like a lineage
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00:00:08:23 they are interested in music at young age,
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00:00:12:22 gets into a type of music that brings in the work that are big.
00:00:17:22 Notes from the front line of a string two culture.
00:00:20:03 This is Strange Notes.
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00:01:04:28 You guys have known each other since you were kids, right?
00:01:07:27 Basically, you guys grew up in the same place.
00:01:10:01 It's Colona, right?
00:01:11:08 Yeah, at Colona, we pretty much all been friends
00:01:13:28 since high school.
00:01:15:24 Didn't go to same schools, but we see each other at gigs
00:01:18:18 on a weekend and stuff, everybody had bands
00:01:20:28 and stood up in Colona when we were teenagers,
00:01:23:01 so we'd always see each other out and about, you know.
00:01:26:28 Were there a lot of places to play in Colona at that time?
00:01:30:23 Just like community halls and stuff.
00:01:31:28 There used to be a little hall that we could rent for...
00:01:34:23 it's like $36, 36 bucks.
00:01:36:23 Yeah.
00:01:37:28 And it was just rented out to 15 of shows.
00:01:40:28 It's pretty fun.
00:01:42:12 What were some of like the records
00:01:44:02 that were kicking around at that point?
00:01:45:29 Silkworm, Sea and Cake, Taurus, [inaudible]
00:01:50:25 [inaudible] and that kind of stuff, Indie rock.
00:01:54:04 Give us a little about the Karachi Vice clubhouse?
00:01:56:09 That was just a name we came up with for our jam space.
00:01:59:12 Okay.
00:02:00:28 -It's from what... what is that from? -Stampede.
00:02:03:00 Calgary Stampede Wrestling which is a wrestling duo.
00:02:06:27 What was the shtick, Mexican?
00:02:09:19 No, I think they were like... their thing was that they were
00:02:12:18 like Arabian or something.
00:02:14:15 They were the Karachi Vice, I don't know.
00:02:16:28 They were like villains on the Calgary Stampede Wrestling.
00:02:19:18 What was the jam space like where?
00:02:20:28 We still have it. It's awesome.
00:02:22:26 The best jam space in Vancouver.
00:02:24:23 Maybe anywhere.
00:02:26:02 Maybe anywhere.
00:02:27:15 And it's the back of like a furniture warehouse,
00:02:29:28 and like high end furniture were nestled in the back,
00:02:33:27 and it's just about a dozen dudes all from Colona
00:02:37:22 to sort of like...
00:02:40:05 There's like three or four bands that share it.
00:02:42:03 Couple of the bands don't actually do anything
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00:02:45:18 Jam!
00:02:46:28 So it's like...
00:02:48:18 It's like pretty much... yeah.
00:02:50:06 When we were in town there is like only maybe one guy
00:02:52:28 who might be in there,
00:02:54:03 he can pretty much go in that from
00:02:56:20 after 5:00 to like 8:00 in the morning.
00:02:58:20 That is like, yeah, I find that's really important,
00:03:01:12 finding a jam space is,
00:03:02:28 just finding a place where you can do late
00:03:04:28 and it doesn't have like strict cut-off times,
00:03:07:25 like disturbing business and stuff.
00:03:10:09 And a place where you can hang out too.
00:03:12:02 How did the Fight for Anarchy record come about,
00:03:14:06 and specifically on a sticker on the front it says,
00:03:17:18 Various States of Consciousness.
00:03:19:18 Were you guys experimenting with hallucinogens or what was?
00:03:23:24 It was just sort of for fun like
00:03:26:28 we called and he did the recording.
00:03:29:03 He had a free day and just asked if like
00:03:32:14 me and Ryan wanted to go in and record some stuff?
00:03:35:21 So the first song in that EP was just sort of me and him.
00:03:39:16 Didn't we record that as your birthday present
00:03:40:28 it's like Darcy's birthday present.
00:03:42:28 -Yeah, they came like and then... -Yeah, we've done it.
00:03:46:01 They came, they totally messed up, and were like happy birthday
00:03:48:06 and then I was like it sounds cool.
00:03:49:27 We were just like that would go well like for them
00:03:52:03 just going in for a day or so.
00:03:53:28 And it was like a total experiment because I never tried
00:03:56:08 to really play music on psychotropic drugs.
00:04:01:08 Yeah, you can't hear but there someone should be.
00:04:03:20 Yeah, like you just...
00:04:04:28 Remember when we were like tapping on the piano,
00:04:06:22 close Mike this shit.
00:04:09:16 I was doing some kind of... Yeah, doing something like...
00:04:14:18 Rustles in the bushes, you know, it just weird stuff.
00:04:17:02 Yeah, is it quite... is it like, yeah.
00:04:19:12 So I guess this is fair to say that like psychotropic drugs
00:04:21:28 are equally as like beneficial as they are like,
00:04:25:26 damaging to like the recording process as well.
00:04:27:24 Would you ever...
00:04:28:28 I mean like, would you do it again kind of thing or???
00:04:30:23 We have, yeah.
00:04:33:03 And there were shots as kind of out there in that regard.
00:04:37:18 So just I am like... you get like
00:04:38:28 so much energy or something you go in,
00:04:41:03 you record really intensely for like
00:04:43:18 five minutes and then we would run out into
00:04:45:24 the parking lot basically, roll around in garbage
00:04:47:28 like screaming with laughter for about 20 minutes,
00:04:50:18 we go back and record really seriously.
00:04:53:22 The next record of course was the current record Shots,
00:04:57:23 back to Colona and the White House Night Gallery,
00:05:01:04 tell everybody a bit about what this place was
00:05:02:23 and just go back to Colona.
00:05:05:03 Money, it was like cheap tour,
00:05:08:12 like we needed people who had it,
00:05:10:00 basically the land had been donated to the society of hope.
00:05:13:01 We just like couldn't find space in Vancouver,
00:05:15:17 didn't want to do it at the studio and we couldn't actually.
00:05:18:27 And the idea of recording in any spaces better than a studio,
00:05:22:18 -You know? -Yeah.
00:05:24:16 All were retired, abandoned farm-house, it's like a gutter,
00:05:27:26 like wood floors, wood walls, just... it sounded really cool
00:05:31:20 just like walking around and talking in the room,
00:05:34:07 super-creaky.
00:05:35:08 One of the rooms was completely square like perfect cube...
00:05:39:27 ...floor. Wall to wall. Wood.
00:05:42:21 We end up using that room as sort of like a river tank,
00:05:45:28 I guess were like... just leave your mic in there
00:05:49:09 and like blocking off the door with
00:05:51:15 like a piece of wood and then like just kind of using...
00:05:53:18 It was just like a hole above the door.
00:05:55:12 Yeah.
00:05:56:22 So the whole album is kind of just served in that room.
00:05:59:15 Yeah.
00:06:02:05 It sounds woody I think, but it doesn't sound like...
00:06:05:07 to me, it doesn't like a warm,
00:06:06:28 it kind of sounds like, I don't know,
00:06:09:20 sounds woody, but still kind of cool and spooky.
00:06:11:20 It's cool that you can like pick a place
00:06:12:28 and so much of that place kind of goes into the actual songs.
00:06:17:00 Yeah.
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