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KAMP Interview
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This interview was painstakingly transcribed by Liz from its original recording.
Interviewer: Okay this is Gavin and Anna, with KAMP student radio, we’re here interviewing Jade, from AFI, and why don’t you just tell us what you do in the band?
Jade: Uh….. I play saxophone? Hi. Um I play guitar for AFI. This guy (presumably Fritch) plays T-shirts.
Interviewer: Nice, respect to the merch guy. Alright um, what do we want to start out with? Um, okay uh any new news with you guys? I know your new album just came out and you’re pretty much touring for that, but uh, anything special going on with the band right now, personal or otherwise?
Jade: Um, actually we just found out about an hour ago that as of the day after tomorrow our album went gold, which is kind of exciting. Yeah.
Interviewer: Okay, so we know that uh, you’ve spent a lot of time touring, especially recently, what are some of the favorite bands that you’ve played with?
Jade: Um, we’re on tour with Explosion right now, from Boston, and they’re good friends of ours, Rancid, our friends Sick of it All, um, Hot Water Music, a lot of people that we, we just met some new people, toured with the Blood Brothers this tour, and they’re really awesome guys. Yeah.
Interviewer: Okay, so you guys have your new record out, “Sing the Sorrow,” out on Dreamworks, right? Could you just kind of explain how you guys have progressed, I know you just joined during Black Sails, right? Okay um like just the progression of albums, cos ever since Black Sails, every album has sounded differently, um how do you guys go about writing new music and coming up with new ideas?
Jade: Well all the albums have sounded different, since Black Sails, when I became a part of the band, I started writing the songs, so obviously a new songwriter is going to change the sound drastically, but when I came and Dave and I started working together, him writing the lyrics and me writing the music, we both complimented each other really well and that’s kind of where the sound began that’s our sound now and has been our sound for the last five years. The songwriting process is usually me, alone in my apartment, I write like a song, you know, and Dave and I get together, in his house, or you know, laying in his bed. Homoerotic songwriting. And um, we come up with melodies and he writes the lyrics and we take it to the whole band and kind of finish it out.
Interviewer: Okay so with this new album and new record label, you also got to work with two new producers, that uh, you haven’t used before, so um how was working with two big names like Jerry Finn and Butch Vig on this album?
Jade: It was great. It was intimidating until we met them and they were totally nice guys, real laid back, you know obviously Jerry had done Jawbreaker, and Greenday and Rancid, and Butch had done Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, which are all bands that we love, so it was really exciting. They’re just, it was really easy to work with them, Butch actually came to see us last week in Chicago, we got to see him again, which was nice. He’s working on the Garbage record right now.
Interviewer: Okay so um, you guys put out the new album, can you describe the difference between having a more live sound and a more rough album, and having a more produced one?
Jade: That is not true, but um (laughs), I’ve never really cared, a lot of bands, their big thing is they want their records to sound the way they do live, and while that would be great, I’ve never really stressed that or cared, you know, when we get in the studio we just try to make the best-sounding record that we can and the reason, probably that the other albums haven’t sounded as good as this one is because, you know you’re rushed in the studio, and it’s not the best studio you could be in, and you’re not using the best equipment so really on this record I think we made a record that sounds the best we could make it.
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