southern vermont:
making music
Iain Pirie (continued)
“I think one of the
things I’m most
happy about with
that era of my life
and career was that
we created a very
loyal, committed,
strong team of
people that really
had each other’s
backs. Hugely.
It was really
rewarding.”
–Iain Pirie
On Vermont
“My wife and I met in Los Angeles, but my wife grew up in Saratoga and parts
of her family are still there. We would come back to New York to see her family
periodically. We went up a mountain somewhere. And we looked out across; I
can’t remember exactly where it was—it must have been somewhere up in the
Adirondacks—and we looked out across—and we could see Vermont. And I
was like, ‘Wow, that looks like something out of Lord of the Rings over there.’
We loved coming to the Adirondacks. We bought a little place up there and we
spent holidays there. By this point, I’d lived in L.A. for probably, I don’t know, 13
years. We were at a point in our lives without even realizing it, subconsciously
in search of a change. I was certainly a bit burnt out, sitting in my car in seven
lanes of gridlock traffic in the middle of L.A. We were really invigorated by
coming to New England and being in upstate New York and loving all that. We
started kicking the idea around of making a huge life change. We had two kids
and started thinking, well, we should go where we kind of know, and we love the
Adirondacks. Maybe we should think about relocating there. The more we started
looking at schools and things, the more we started thinking we should really go
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