amen
first and foremost our number one
concern is to make the show as good as
it can be we want to have a good time we
want to have a good show we want to feel
good about what we're doing the reason
for us being on tour is to go played
music a lot of people use as excuse to
go drinking or is an excuse to find the
best swimming holes in the country
that's the bad our concern and ever was
from the beginning sometimes people will
come up to me and be like you guys are
crazy for touring as much as you do is
like if you're gonna be in a band you
should want to play shows right look
what the hell is the point if you're not
gonna play this is what most of the band
right is like if you want to get like a
true well actually it's more like I got
your conscious but is this a straight
that's a pop you know I feel weird right
now because we go meeting you all for
the first time I just have this
insatiable desire for sleep at almost
any given moment of the day it's like my
ultimate drug it just feels so good big
pillow goes here then you just smash
your face user thank you
it's awesome playing rock and roll
definitely makes me tired the next day
but when I'm actually doing and it's
awesome it's like the best the best hi
let's go through the record so tell me
what the name of it is rose mountain
like rose mountain all right
hello I'm Marisa yeah man screaming
females New Brunswick New Jersey we have
a new record coming up Febby
of 2015 called rose mountain there's a
titular song never before had we had a
titular song you heard it here first
sort of ugly there a ton of lis there
was a song called something ugly not
titular that's just huh there is a
rehabilitation clinic in New Brunswick
New Jersey it's called the rose mountain
and I just thought that it was a really
lovely and poetic calm
I saw it an awful lot when we were at
home driving in and out of the city back
and forth from doctors like in North
Jersey and stuff my parents house kind
of being like where someone would rehab
my sick ass all together and in the past
we would have we would have written a
full arrangement with with just the
three of us and there'd be all kinds of
guitar solos and melodic bass parts and
cool drum fills and everything and we've
kind of eat up all of the space in the
song and this time around we would write
like the shell of the song and then let
Marissa go home and come up with like a
really cool vocal melody and then we'd
finish it once that was in place and
we'd give her a little bit more room to
just sing because she has gotten really
good at it I don't if you listened to
our first album she's still a much
better singer than I am
but uh but but she's not nearly it she
wasn't nearly as good as she is now
but I've got some pipes to
we recorded our album ugly electrical
audio leading into that release we were
just on the biggest role we had ever
been on as a band it just felt like we
could do no wrong and we went and did
this kind of unthinkable thing of
cutting a record with Steve Albini
when the album came out there's all
these amazing reviews and it really felt
like people are starting to understand
us from the media perspective in a way
that maybe they hadn't before
there'd always been this focus on just
kind of like Marissa's small she plays
guitar and it was for the first time
felt like people were understanding a
little bit more about what we've been
trying to do so it just felt like we
were like unstoppable
and show you
when the reason
yeah goodness man a chair come on this
is your mother chopping how you do it
exactly how we this is how I enough with
a new job how we practice you put your
head in Iraq you so much good everywhere
this is perfect I like this this is
power if it's not written there are
stresses in our element hey we all have
to bow down to you check me out deal but
this is actually this is the I mean this
is I practice here every man house
you're in practice in this spot even so
practice you're like this is I love it
down here super quiet super like
intimate I've been here since 81 so it's
33 years I got a spot Wow
so right after we recorded ugly we went
on tour and I think it must have been a
weekend and I was like oh I'm getting
sick I always get sick a weekend like
it'll go away and it just didn't it
didn't go away and I started dry heaving
I had a really terrible cough my throat
was swelling up when you're in that
situation so far from home and you're
working and money's tight and time is
tight it's just it's it's more difficult
than people want to talk it up to be I'm
sure a lot of people would be like oh
just getting on a plane to fly home but
I didn't want to get on the plane to fly
home I wanted to play shows of my band
like I didn't want to let anybody down
and it would be letting myself down too
you know like I wanted to do it I wanted
to to be there for myself and for all
the people I love I just remained sick
up until the end of that tour basically
we had yeah we had to cancel like our
week and a half for two weeks home
and we finished our leg with garbage and
then drove straight home from Houston
Texas and it was depressing and
upsetting
and scary
was
a horrible experience
and on the sidelines of
yeah it doesn't matter though because we
don't even have to tour with dinosaur
jr. for people right about us having to
I know it's almost like we're still big
I got my blood work back and every time
I got a bath to be like Aaliyah of
mononucleosis and I'd be like okay no
but there's other stuff happening to my
body that I can't explain like I feel
like my skin is shrinking I feel like my
body my my muscles are being like torn
in half like I can't sleep I don't want
to eat like everything was falling apart
and um no one could explain it to me and
it was it was just really hurt it was
totally nuts cuz we didn't know if we're
ever going to be a band again we didn't
know if Marissa was ever going to
actually be able to get over this and
get in a van and sit there for hours
again and then I got home from the store
and I was like I need to find a job
right now because we had lost all this
money not lost money we had we lost
money that we were expecting to be able
to hold on to and money that we invested
in the record that didn't come back
because we were unable to support it the
way we would have liked I was a
miserable couple months after that I
officially have a diagnosis of something
called fibromyalgia which is a fake
that they tell you you have when they
don't know what's wrong with you
so it might not be in my mind I don't
know but even if it is it still hurts
all the people that should ever should
have heard ugly not hearing it I think
goes back to what I was saying earlier
it's like if you want people to care
about your band you have to play shows
and we kind of just didn't really play a
lot of shows to support that album but
we just we weren't able to I feel like
that was the point in our career where
if we were any other band we would have
broken up
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