and followed along with lyrics the song instantly became an uncomfortable monster that dug into my bones. Do you appreciate more that you wrote a damn catchy rock and roll song or that you’ve possibly unsettled people with the subject? Chris: Both, I hope. That’s another song that’s been brewing for a long time, since high school actually. Karla was/is both a true local story and an urban legend in Southern Ontario. Joel: It seems like nowadays when a show gets set up you don’t see flyers as much as before. Not as many handbills being in shoved in my face. Now, kids plaster links all over message boards and Facebook. Maybe it’s just me. Do you have any good flyering stories from years past? Chris: Yeah, flyers are definitely a lost art. I’m from the 4AM at Kinkos zine and flyer generation. I used to know all the tricks, like you could stick the counter in
upside down and a little loose, it would still make the copies but not count them. You had to be slick about the 500 copies you were taking out of there when you were saying “Yeah...20.” I have friends that worked at Kinkos back then and when they started using prepaid cards in the machines, people could just program the cards and put endless credit on them. Those things and dialers were the best. There’s no adventure or honor in jpegs. Joel: How difficult is it for you to do tour after tour while still working and keeping up with your husbandly duties? Chris: Husbandly, it’s no sweat. I don’t have that kind of marriage, my wife is rad and we just like to see each other do what makes us tick. We just miss hanging out when it’s a really long stretch of tour, or a string of them. But honesty, it’s a pretty good system for a marriage, alternating being homesick for home and for the road, you each get a lot of space to do your own thing and if you have no kids and can be happy that way, it works. The harder
part is just the logistics of time and money, and trying to pull off trips with her when I use up so much of my time away from work for band stuff. I have to pull off double and triple duties a lot when I’m home to make it all work, but it’s been that way for me for years so I’m used to it. I’m definitely way more solitary on my own time these days. My idea of a good time is falling asleep in my hammock with a book on me like a legit old person. Who knew? Joel: Obviously, you’ve got a very impressive history with some great bands and comparisons to your past work are bound to happen but does it ever really get to you? Do you ever just want to say “shut the fuck up. This is what I’m doing now”? Chris: Hah, yeah. Very much so. I think that’s kinda the entire premise of Burning Love for me. Joel: What’s your favorite Our Father song? Can you convince them to get back together for a tour with Burning Love?