Ian Williams
Ian Williams
breakfast champagne compelled crack felt normally occasion rise though
Friendly, accommodating and customer-centered as always. Even though I don't normally have champagne with breakfast at the crack of dawn, I felt compelled to rise to the occasion when it was offered.
american-musician eventually figure legs move school
I've always been a tapper, as in, on tables, school desks, my legs and chest. I've eventually been able to figure out how to move that to the guitar.
musical people pull saying
A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
larger music people venue
Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
music
I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
consuming music responsibility spinach
This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
positive situation sounds trying
We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.
american-musician taste
I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
ourselves people repeating
We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
hubris mix naivete record wondering worst
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
american-musician closer played source twang
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
american-musician record title trying
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
american-musician duplicate greatness
Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
bunch cow filming joke novel piano reason simpsons sounds tape
It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.