Bun Length, Etc. – BL1
From the book 'Gimme Something Better'..
Dave Mello: If you have someone in the band who is the musical genius, it really helps. Gavin would learn things in a matter of seconds. We gave him the Journey CD box set and locked him in his room with a banjo. Within four hours he was playing all the Journey songs on banjo. It was like, cool! Let’s start a bluegrass band! Which was Three Finger Spread.
We’d come up with ideas just prove to ourselves that we can do it. We were listening to the Fleetwood Mac Rumours album a lot on tour. So we covered “Go Your Own Way.” After that it was like, let’s just do the whole album as fast as we possibly can, and put the whole thing on a 7-inch. We tried to make it sound as garagey as we could. Tumours. One take. We recorded it in a couple hours.
Gavin MacArthur: The biggest drive for me is somebody going, “That’s really stupid. You shouldn’t do that.”
Dale Flattum (Milk Cult, Steel Pole Bath Tub, Tumor Circus): Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. It wasn’t just this half-baked idea. I think that’s what was so great about Gilman. There was an outlet for it. A lot of that stuff just gets lost.
Sergie Loobkoff (Knapsack, Samiam, Solea): There’s something really rad about watching a band doing it just because they love doing it. And no inkling of doing it for any other reason.
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