ION INDIE MAGAZINE September 2014, Volume 4 | Page 64

ION: Okay, so let me ask
you that. You were
previously a two guitar
band, with some element of
keyboards, and now you’re
a one guitar only band with
a heavy dominance of
keyboards. How has that
changed your approach to
the older songs?
Janson: All the old songs
are exactly the same. I’m
actually playing all my old
guitar lines on the keys now.
The only difference is that with guitars, you have chords. So on keys, I can be playing my chords
here, while being able to play more stuff over here. (He’s playing his Keytar throughout the entire
interview, and actually demonstrating this as we speak). We actually thought about adding a second
guitarist, but we didn’t feel the need.
ION: So do you think all this multi-instrumental prowess has any effect on you as musicians? Can
it be too much? Or is it a positive?
Joe: For me it’s definitely a positive. Since I play guitar in Uman Era, it has made me a better
drummer in this band.
ION: Really?
Joe: Yeah, cuz as a guitarist, I now understand what a drummer needs to do. What a guitar player
wants a drummer to do. Maybe three or four years ago, I didn’t have that insight, like I do now. It’s
really kinda cool.
Janson: It’s good that people play different instruments.
ION: So with everything different now, within the band, what’s the writing style these days?
Jay: Janson said we really got this back together now over a particular song that we’re working on
now, called “Addiction”. You can always have an idea, but it never sounds the same as when you
bring it to the band and it starts to take form. I remember when we worked together a while ago,