In Conversation with Shaky Dawg pg. 3
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(Shott) I could give an answer, but I don't know if I need to. Although I don't want people to believe I'm a hick, only listening to Garth Brooks and Shania Twain. Because my roots originated in bands like Stiff Little Fingers, The Cramps, and Madness and even though I have strong country roots, it would be more the Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristoferson end, the story tellers.
Setting Sun:
Certainly from listening to your initial Recordings, it is clear you have varied Musical influences, what have you proved all of your musical influences and what are you listening to at the moment?
(Tor) Yeah, I listen to things like Korn, Slayer, Anthrax and Merciful Fate, industrial stuff like Skinny Puppy, Einstürzende Neubauten and Front242, jazzy stuff like Mahavishnu Orchestra (or anything with John McLaughlin), gothy stuff like Death in June, Bauhaus, The Cure, New Order, Joy Division, and classic progressive rock like RUSH, ELP, and Pink Floyd. Lately I have been listening to Tor's Angst most, as I want to go into the studio and do the final mixes and want as much opinion as I can get out of myself before I'm there. I listen to Ian Brown's Greatest hits too lately (since Shott turned me on to him), and discs of rough Dawg, to program the songs into deep memory.
Can you tell I'm hypo-manic? Shott listens to quite different stuff.
(Shott) Alabama 3 would have to be, The Twang, Everlasts new album, 'Return to Form', as well as all the old classics.
Setting Sun:
I know from conversations with associates Of yours, shall we say, you have just Started to play gigs? How have these Compared to your studio recordings? Is their one you prefer over the other?
(Tor) We played our first gig opening Poets Express. I have more to pull off on guitar live compared to studio (which I find much easier these days). So I like the rehearsals and gigs. It moves things away from songs into a show. We write knowing that we want to play them live now, so new material should fit in fine, but there is a difference in studio to live. Shott wants the first full length release to reflect how we perform them over how we first recorded them. These days, studio is for making the underlays to play live, with thoughts of final mixes being done only after the song was played enough to 'break it in'.
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