consistently — we play anywhere from 70
to 80 shows a year around the world. So
when we have a block of time that we can
say is ours - and make no mistake, she’s
got to carve out the time, carve out two or
three consecutive months where we’re at
home, in order to make that work because
I’m not the kind of guy who likes to write
on the road. When I’m on the road, I’m
pretty much busy every waking hour, so
that they wanna hear, but they’re also
gonna hear some deep tracks, or some
stuff that they’ve always liked that they
wondered if we were ever gonna play.
And that’s all great. But it’s really cool
when you come up with new tunes and
can throw one or two into a set. That real-
ly energizes the band.
newreleases
February 1
Broods Don’t Feed The Pop Monster
Girlpool What Chaos Is Imaginary
Le Butcherettes bi/MENTAL
The Specials Encore
IE: Like a comic book "origin" issue, do
February 8
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I’m not the guy who’s gonna bring a
recorder and sit down and start putting
songs together. I’ll just sit at home and
carve the time out and get into it that way.
And that’s been difficult for these last few
years because we’re on the road constant-
ly. So that’s my long answer to what’s
gonna happen with the next project. Are
we gonna keep writing? Yes, we are. But I
just have to fit it into the schedule to have
it make sense. Even though I’ve been
doing it this many years, I still enjoy the
creative process. And for us to go out and
play 70 or 80 shows a year and play two
hours a night? We play a lot of material.
We put 16 to 18 songs in the set and play a
double or triple encore some nights, so
we’re laying it down. Twenty-one songs a
night? That’s a lot of material. And we
keep it fresh, every time we go out. We
always add four or five songs to the set,
and we still have so many songs we’ve
never played before. So it keeps it fresh.
Keeps it fresh for everybody. So the fans
know that they’re gonna hear the classics
you remember the exact moment that
Yesterday & Today became the acronym
Y&T?
DM: I do remember. Our original drummer
Leonard penned the name Yesterday &
Today, simply because the band had just
gotten its first gig, and we’d never talked
about having a name for the band. And he
struggled to think of something as he was
on the phone with the promoter, and he
was like, “Uh..Uh…’" So it was never a
favorite thing of ours, to be called
Yesterday & Today. So when we changed
record labels, from London to A&M back
in 1981, we thought, “hey — now’s the
perfect time!” But of course, we’d already
had a couple of records out and done some
tours, so we were afraid that we were
gonna confuse the hell out of people.”
Then somebody said, “Well, they shout
‘Y&T! Y&T!’ at the encores — why don’t
we just abbreviate it? Then people will
surely figure it out.” So, that’s as simple as
it was.
Bob Mould Sunshine Rock
LCD Soundsystem Electric Lady Sessions
Mercury Rev The Delta Sweete Revisited
Panda Bear Buoys
The Lemonheads Varshons 2
The Specials
February 15
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Czarface & Ghostface Killah Czarface Meets Ghostface
Florida Georgia Line Can’t Say I Ain’t Country
Ladytron Ladytron
Piroshka Brickbat
SWMRS Berkeley's On Fire
Tedeschi Trucks Band Signs
The Long Ryders Psychedelic Country Soul
February 22
Badflower OK, I'm Sick
Cochemea Gastelum All My Relations
Dream Theater Distance Over Time
Du Blonde Lung Bread For Daddy
Feels Post Earth
James Yorkston The Route To The Harmonium
Overkill The Wings Of War
The Claypool Lennon Delirium South Of Reality
Dream Theater
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