15 Questions with The Invisibles.
What legacy do you want to leave on the music scene after youre dead.
ian: That we didn’t suck.
What can people expect at one of your shows?
tracy: We have a hard time labeling our style.Most of our songs are fast
and loud. There are some obvious punk elements. There are some obvious
rock elements. There are some obvious metal elements. It all comes
across pretty bombastic and intense. But it doesn’t fall neatly into
any single category.
What do you like best about being in a rock band?
tracy: I know I should say the groupies or drugs or something like that,
but the act of rocking is the best thing about being in a rock band.
It’s an amazing feeling that you can’t describe when it all comes together.
Whats the most fun show/tour/recording session you’ve ever had?
tracy: A few years ago we opened for The Wailers at The Norva in Norfolk.
The Norva is very much like the 9:30 club but a little bigger and swankier.
That show was awesome. I got to meet Family Man. We got to see how
the other half lives complete with hot tub backstage and all that.
We got to play in front of a sold out crowd.
ian: But the best part was the backstage basketball hoop. It was only 9ft high.
We had a slam dunk competition.
tracy: I won!
Do you have any good groupie stories?
tracy: I plead the fifth.
ian: Yah we’ve got some, but the best one happened to Baxter.It wasn’t
really a groupie story.
tracy: One night after a show in DC while we are loading up this drunk guy
approaches Baxter. “You see that girl over there on the corner?”
Pointing to a middle aged lady wearing clothes way too tight, and looking way
too drunk. “She’ll s--- your d--- for two dollars.” Then Baxter says as
politely as a kindergarten teacher, “Oh no thank you. I don’t need a b.j. right now.”
It was hilarious.
ian: And kind of sad. Two dollars?
[ED.NOTE-can somebody say, The Blue Nile]
What do you hate most about sound guys?
ian: The way they always wear t-shirts with gear logos on them.
tracy: I’d never had a good sound guy experience till this past weekend at
Alley Katz in Richmond. The sound was great and they made a CD of our set without
us even asking. It was awesome.
Kurt Cobain, genius or hack?
tracy: A little of both. In some ways he was a hack guitarist, but he
was also a genius at expressing that crazy feeling he had inside in a
way that made us all feel it.
ian: I didn’t get into Nirvanna until after the hype died down. I love
Cobain’s playing and his lyrical style.
Who is the worst band to come out of DC?
tracy: Oh shit? Did you really ask this?
ian: I plead the fifth on this one.
How much experimenting are you willing to do----will we ever hear rap or country
on one of your albums?
tracy: We’ve experimented a lot in the past, but lately we’ve grown into a certain
sound. We are working on an album now and it’s going to reflect that.
ian: We still write a lot of joke songs just for fun. My latest is “You Know you
Love my Mullet”. It’s fucking hilarious. Maybe someday we’ll release a double CD
of joke songs. We’ve got a ton.
Jesus, doesn’t Metallica suck?
ian: I’m so glad you asked this question. They suck so bad now. I listen to Rush
instead.
Can music save the world?
ian: Ask U2.
tracy: To a certain degree. If music keeps one person from giving up.
Especially if that person is the one that is going to discover the cure for cancer
or something. Music could be saving the world all around us right now
You never know.
Do you feel Rock music is an appropriate vehicle for promoting social change?
ian: Yes. Younger people won’t pay attention to much, but music is a major influence
on them.
tracy: Any kind of communication is an appropriate vehicle for promoting social change.
Except for bukkake videos.
Are you gay—it would really help us out if you “came out” to DCSpore.
tracy: No, despite the girl name I am totally hetero.I’m not pretty enough to be gay.
At least that’s what the ladies tell me.
ian:Bring on the ladies.
Whats one thing you would change about the music industry if you could?
ian: Less copycats.
tracy:More independent radio stations.
How dangerous is music?
ian: Ask Michael Jackson!
tracy:
Ha! Music is extremely dangerous, but it doesn’t seem like anyone is going to
stop staring at the big booty’s in the hip hop videos long enough to figure
out how to make it work for us.
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