There’s a kind of innocence to it
that goes away once you become
a better musician. Once you be-
come a better musician and you
start hanging around musicians,
inevitably bands get formed, col-
laborations start happening, and
eventually there is talk of record-
ing something and playing some
gigs. Then it becomes something
else; just as much fun, but differ-
ent. There are expectations and
even though every musician prob-
ably says, “I don’t care if anybody
likes it, I do it for me. It’s just my
thing.” If it truly was for you and
your thing there would be no
need to ever record it and share
with anybody else.
Anyways, the original concept
was going to be all seasoned
band veterans that came from
great bands. The original lineup
had five people in it and was
sort of a New Jersey supergroup
of people who had been in re-
spected bands. It was like a super
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group that never played for any-
body and that did happen for a
while. We probably jammed for
about six months in my studio,
but these people were active in a
lot of projects with active bands
and since their bands took prior-
ity, it kind of fizzled out. But what
happened was that White Cactus
came from the fragments of that
band and we turned into a regular
band that started making a record.
We had some good songs and it
got to the point where it was like
“That was kind of a novel idea, but
this is a pretty good record so let’s
make it and see what happens.”
So are you guys planning to do
shows to promote the record?
Yeah, we’re like full steam
ahead - gigging and promot-
ing the record and all that. The
band is me on baritone guitar,
Brian Schwinn (Groucho Marx-
ists, ex- Stunt Cocks, ex- Negative
Male Child) on guitar and Austin
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