Upstate New York Millerton Village
Hi Guys! So, first I have to ask you
about the name “Take One Car”; where did that come from?
The name came from a car accident that two former members were involved in. It began as a joke, you know, 'you guys should just take one car to practice.' After that, it just stuck.
The name came from a car accident that two former members were involved in. It began as a joke, you know, 'you guys should just take one car to practice.' After that, it just stuck.
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| Take One Car |
You’re out touring around America
I love being on the road,
as do the rest of the guys. Touring is something that I've always wished I
could do and now that we're actually able to, I try to enjoy it as much as
possible. It's always an adventure, wandering around new cities and meeting new
people. Even when bad s**t happens, you learn not to take it so seriously
because at the end of the day, we're still doing what we love and we're
incredibly lucky for that. The only thing that I can promise people will
experience at one of our shows is the four of us putting all that we have into
our music. We've never tried to put on a 'show' or be entertainers. The goal
has always been to get up on stage and enjoy being able to do something
together that we really care about. I'd like to think that sentiment comes
across in what we play, at least I hope so.
From listening to your music, you seem quite an experimental
band and it’s quite hard to
pin you down to one genre. What’s your response to that? Is it purposeful so it
allows you
to explore your sound and allows the listener to decide for themselves?
It makes me glad to hear
something like that. It is too commonplace these days for bands to be thrown
into over-hyphenated categories, and it usually ends up being a meagre attempt
at trying to describe a sound. We've never sat down and decided what the genre
or style of music we play would be. I think the experimental aspect comes from
how different all of our personal tastes are. I love the fact that we haven't
tied ourselves to one genre, because it does allow us to explore and enjoy
writing. When a band is constantly churning out the same sounds it becomes more
of a task to write songs; you already know what the final product is going to
sound like and it's just a matter of filling in the blanks along the way. I
like not knowing what's going to happen when we get together to write, jam, or
just toss around ideas.
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| Take One Car's latest album |
It's Going to Be a Nice Day, your latest album, came out in February; how has the band
changed and your sound and influences evolved since “When the Ceiling Meets the
Floor”?
We've gone through quite a
few changes since the first album. It took us a long time to arrive at the
current line-up, but I think that makes us appreciate each other so much more.
When we were writing and recording WTCMTF, we were so excited by the process of
it all that I think we overlooked some of the finer details. When it came time
to write IGTBAND, we tried to write visceral and cohesive parts. There was a
lot of time spent really getting to know the feel of a song and trying to make
it the best it could be. Of course, there were things that got changed while in
the studio but that mentality lasted throughout.
You’re from Millerton village in NY; what is the music and
culture scene like there? Did that inspire and influence the band growing up?
We actually all grew up and
came from different parts of New York
And finally, what else do you guys have planned for 2012?
Any plans to come over to UK
We will be doing a
Northeast run in late August. We've been together for almost 5 years and
amazingly, we've never hit Western New York .
As far as an international tour, we have some things planned for Spring 2013.
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