Quite literally, a one question interview. Also known as 1QIs, we post these first to our social media on a near-daily basis, with the archival piece here. Check 'em out.
En Esch
SPB: How has technology changed the recording process for you between your first professional-level recordings and today?
En Esch: When I started out we worked with an Emax SE Sampler with 512k memory space saved onto a floppy disk. For each song we had very minimal and especially short samples to pick from. Now I could …
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Niklas (Ef)
SPB: If you had your choice, which guest musician would you want to feature on an album?
EF: Have always put a lot of interest in arranging strings and horns in order to create a beautiful and bombastic touch to the normal guitar based post rock setting. Until now we (or our member Daniel) have been …
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Eddie Spaghetti (Supersuckers, solo)
SPB: In one of your columns you wrote for us, you talked of being a disco DJ at house parties. What’s the best disco song out there?
Spaghetti: Hmm. Tough question for sure. So many good ones. But if pressed to pick the ONE, genre defining moment of Disco, I'm gonna have to go …
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Michael Phillips (Escapist Records, former Scene Point Blank editor and writer of 500+ reviews)
SPB: Basements, bars, or both?
Phillips: Bar shows verses basement shows has been a long running debate in the DIY community. And while I have yet to ever skip a show because of location - heck, I have even been to a show at …
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Chris Brock (Early Graves)
SPB: What is the secret to a successful tour?
Brock: There is no secret to a successful tour. Defining what a successful tour is means a lot of different things to a lot of different people and you have to hope that you have surrounded yourself with a team of people that are on …
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Jeff Lohrber (Enabler)
SPB: How do you choose your t-shirt/merchandise designs?
Lohrber: When we approach t-shirt designs or album artwork, we do our best to make it fit with the overall feel of our music. We are a dark, pissed, aggressive band, but I feel that there is a little more substance behind the music and emotion than …
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