Errortype:
11
| Nooit gedacht dat ik nog eens een e-mail interview zou doen. Maar als je een band heel graag wilt zien en interviewen, dit drie keer misloopt door omstandigheden van beide kanten dan ga je wel overstag. Errortype: 11 is de band. Afkomstig uit Queens, New York leverden ze vorig jaar een album af dat niet alleen aardig rockt, maar ook gewoon steengoed is. Op het New Yorkse label Some Records brachten zij hun selftitled debuut uit. Nog maar koud vijf maanden bijelkaar. Arthur Shephard, gitarist en frontman speelde voor Etrortype:11 in Bad Trip, Mind over Matter en World's Fastest Car. Na dit interview is er een EP van ET11 op Crank! uitgekomen. En in het begin bvan dit jar een nieuwe fulllength 'Amplified to rock'. En ook nog een split met Gameface 'What's Up Bro?' |
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You've
just recorded a new album with John Agnello, how did that go and why John
Agnello? We haven't recorded our second album yet, just some demos with John Agnello (Jawbox, Dinosaur Jr). He approached us after hearing our 7" from a friend. We did the demo to see if we liked each other and we did. |
| The demo
came out incredible and he will be recording our next album, but we haven't
figured out what we want to sound like. When we did the first record we
had only been together five months, so it was very new to all of us, plus
it was done at night after work in a big rush. I also think my voice and
song writing has improved. We are very excited for people to hear it. I
know you will make fun of me for this but it is my "(What's The Story )
Morning Glory?". Are you going for a specific sound? I would say that we are looking for something HUGE sounding and also something that everyone can understand. BIG STADIUM ROCK!!!! What do you mean with that, more of a mainstream sound? We never try to sound like anything, especially mainstream. That sort of thing happens naturally and I am sure it will never happen to us. The public makes you mainstream, the only thing we can do is write music we like. When I said something everyone can understand, I meant that our first record had some weird shit going on in the song structures. I don't have a very high opinion of other peoples taste in music especially in the hardcore/ emo scene. We tend to be much more 'ROCK' than the bands we are lumped in with and I would like to make a record that appeals to everyone. We arenıt trying to do that , I just hope that it happens. When you try to be mainstream you end up with a record like the last Shift album "Get In". It sounded like they tried too hard to be huge. We just want to have fun. Do you feel 'trapped' by the hardcore/emo scene, I mean you make rock music but you're playing for a hardcore/emo crowd. I don't feel trapped by the emo scene at all. I really don't feel like we are a part of it. We play those shows because we are all from the hardcore scene and don't know what else to do. I guess if we didn't we would just be another rock band playing in some bar in NYC. I appreciate the scene a lot, but I am not sure if everyone gets us. I am extremely arrogant and sarcastic on stage. I do that because it is fun, but many people just think I'm an asshole. It is very frustrating to me. I just wish that people would listen to the music and stop worrying about things that I say. We also don't sound like a typical emo band. When we tour the US, every band sounds like watered down versions of Sunny Day Real Estate or the Promise Ring. It is really pathetic. We don't sound like this. That is what I meant by being lumped in with those types of bands. We are better and someday the world will figure that out (probably not), until then we just keep writing good stuff and having fun. I sometimes feel like everyone in this scene only likes what they are told is cool. You have to be on the right label and look a certain way or have the right ex- members in the band. Every scene is the same. I can't really think of bands that would be better to play with everyone from Elliott to Hot Water Music to Samiam, Six going on Seven. I know they are all kind of in the emo scene, but they're good. They write good songs and they sing in key, which seems to be a lost art in the emo scene. Everyone likes a good band I think. You said you're arogant, can you explain that? As for arrogance..hmmm. I tend to say some pretty crazy/stupid stuff on stage. I say things like "We are the best band you will see tonight." and "Buy our record, it is the best $8 you will ever spend." And of course another one I got in trouble for "We just got back from tour and I wish that Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas Is The Reason and The Promise Ring never existed so I wouldn't have to hear another band that sounded like them". I was basically insulting everyother band we played with. I was also telling the truth and no one like the truth in this scene. Everything has to be "Thanks to all the other bands" shit. Why? They did nothing for me except take a couple hours of my life that I will never get back. That may sound really fucked up, but many of the bands that we play with this is their little side project during college, for us this is all we have right now. Don't get me wrong, I respect any band that puts effort into what they do. I like who I like and I have my friends, sometimes I make new ones sometimes I make enemies. The bottom line is that you like the music, not me. I am there as the court jester trying to get a bunch of emotionally confused kids with a limited musical vocabulary to pay attention by saying crazy shit...to me it is funny, to most I am a dick. Personally I think if everyone drank at shows they would get it, let go of your inhibitions and have fun, that is what we do. |
| In
your opnion a lot of bands sound the same nowadays. Yes that really is the thing, sounding like every other band. I guess it is a blessing because we stick out when we play. Often, whether they realize it or not, people like it when something is easy to like becuase it is generic. It is familiar, it isn't challenging. |
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Pop music
uses this formula and essentially emo is wannabe pop music for the hardcore
scene. People hate to have to put any effort into their leisure time,
this is understood from my end. I love Oasis, they use the familiarity
formula to the hilt. People like a song on first listen because they have
heard it before. I don't think that we are the most original band in the
world, but I don't listen to any of my peers bands for the sole purpose
of not falling into the sounding like Sunny Day/Promise Ping trap. I don't
think that anybody purposely trys to sound like them, they just play what
they like to hear. I would rather listen to Yes or Genesis and put that
through my experience and give it a whole new life. What's
going to happen with the World's Fastest Car recordings? Weren't
you active at the Common Ground a couple of years ago and helping out
with Exit or Wreck Age (records), or was that the other Arty (I thought
it was you both) so what happend with that? |