kind of a little bit surprised, because if
we're gone too long and we don't get back
over here, we feel like it gets harder every
time. We've got a manager in the States.,
and we haven't had a specific manager on
the ground in America, well it's actually
been 20 years, maybe.
IE: That was one of my questions – you
were self-managed for a while.
Tim: Well, we had to change some things
going forward about how we're going to
operate and how we are going to make
members were they were not fond of
making that record…
IE: It sounded like it was a very difficult
record to make and then it came out, and
it was huge.
Tim: But that record (Starfish) was a record
the band had to make because without
that record we wouldn't have the platform to be able to do what we do now.
IE: Exactly.
Tim: Steve (Kilbey) and I both mutually
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sure that we do the right thing. There's
just some big questions from the last year
and a half and one of them was, how we
were going to make a good record.
IE: And you did.
Tim: Well, we did. It was funny because
we all kind of agreed that we had to but
that doesn't mean it's going to happen.
Untitled #23 really turned some things
around [commercially] for us, it really
helped things up because we've been
making good records but not records that
could have, should have been 100% water
tight. Generally, we self-produce and
sometimes, you miss the the producer,
where somebody just puts a stamp on it
when it's done. The band says that might
not be very fucking good for you. A classic example is Starfish which is really well
known for us. If you speak to the band
agreed that if Further/Deeper was average
then it shouldn't be released, we should
just hang up our boots because what a
great way to close the page in the history
books with a great ending, great career,
the curtain goes down.
IE: You have a new guitarist in the band,
Ian Haug. He has a much different background from Marty (Willson-Piper), his
former band (Powderfinger) was huge in
Australia
Tim: Yes, very popular, more mainstream,
massive in Australia They were financially very successful. A lot of people in
America and Europe weren't realizing
how big how that band was. They were
together about 10 years, just massive at
home. When they finally called it quits a
few years ago, they sold out a week of
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