INTERVIEW

How Do You Rock So Hard? — Electric Six

Written by Tiffany Leigh
Published February 22, 2006

Welcome to How Do You Rock So Hard?™ - a one-off, one-question interview where I ask bands the titular question. I'm not interested in the rock-and-roll "whys," which anyone can ask, but the "hows" — which by holy decree only I have the supreme authority to ask. And since I'm doing the asking around here, deal with it.

HDYRSH™ is a public service. It may prove invaluable to future generations of Those Who Want To Rock, Those Who Wish To Understand How Other Bands That Rock Do, In Fact, Rock, and even for Those About To Rock. (We salute you.)

Without further ado: How Do You Rock So Hard?™ — Electric Six.

A famous line in Spinal Tap: "there's a fine line between clever and stupid." Electric Six disco-dances on that line and never stumbles or strays the way other bands have in the past. They deftly avoid parody and novelty because they Rock So Hard.

Electric Six's secret ingredient, their Brand X, what they lord over bands that have long since calcified into Pet Rocks, is their sound: a 70's & 80's mash-up of disco, cock rock, new wave, and Kiss glam, without smirks or winks. They work hard to have fun. They affect change by getting you to shake it on the dance floor — one ass at a time.

Electric Six is a pop culture gumbo of disco glitter balls, fist pump "heys," dance wars, hand claps, robots, The Devil, and sexing you up all night long. (They certainly know from "all night long;" one of their tunes is "I Invented the Night.") "Vibrator" is prototypical sexual bravado & swagger, with a bass & guitar engine that schussbooms down the mountain. They channel their inner P-Funk with tracks like "Dance Epidemic" and "Dance Commander." Even the keyboards, with their fat juicy loops & sonic sprinkles, rock.

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Pop™. Screenwriter. Part-time girl. Passionate activist against All Things Mediocre. Tiffany Leigh's blog, "Soundtrack to the Motion Picture," can be found right here.
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How Do You Rock So Hard? — Electric Six
Published: February 22, 2006
Type: Interview
Section: Music
Filed Under: Music: Rock, Music: New Wave, Music: Live Concerts, Music: Alternative Rock, Interviews
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#1 — March 28, 2008 @ 09:16AM — Mark P

Hahaha... that I did not expect. A perfect eight-paragraph lead in, then a one line answer :D That perfectly sums up some of the band's ethos I think. Can you imagine his mother listening to any of their albums and approving?

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