Tell me about your debut album The Beauty of Letting Go.
Our thing is like the pop-rock… All the stuff we have on that record is from like three or four years ago, when it was written.
How long has The Beauty of Letting Go been out now?
Probably about a year.
Are you currently recording again?
We just finished recording three or four new songs. Just demoed them, we kinda got them down. Kinda like pre-production stuff. So, possibility of makin’ a record or puttin’ out an EP of our newer stuff just to get it out to our fans. So that’s kinda what we been doin’. I mean I laid a whole lot of stuff down just acoustic and vocals, just to have the ideas down. But… that stuff is just like a whole different… like even with the band, you know we’re pretty much pop rock. But like me, as a musician, I have a lot of different ideas so I lay down whatever.
Do you think you will ever have any solo projects?
We’ve talked about this and one of our goals as a band is that at some point in time, I guess whenever the time arrives, to do an album under pseudo names, a different name. Do it rootsy (referencing roots rock), kinda like rootsy, raw kinda like that Ryan Adams, just kinda like… I don’t really know just rootsy stuff. All of us are really into that stuff. Write a record that’s more, organic in a sense. Not polished but more raw. It’s something we have a desire to do.
Don’t you think you could do that under the name Green River Ordinance?
I mean that would be cool, I would love that. I just feel like the more… and this is something we try to do within the band. Give a broad… on the album we have some really chill songs, kinda bring it down, that are really broad. Not every song’s a rock song. We feel like progression of a record needs to have diversity, have a dynamic to it. You know, really bring it down. And I definitely agree that the more diverse and dynamic you can show you are as a band the more people are going to enjoy your music. They’re not going to feel like they’re getting tinned, sappy, poppy songs. Those songs are going to lose their value because every song sounds the same. A record that holds its own, that has different things to offer and different things to say and sounds, it just offers a whole new dynamic and a kind of freshness.
Article comments
1 - Douglas Mays
How did these guys come up with the name? Back in proto-grunge days there was the Seattle band Green River, named after a stretch of water up here (Seattle) that many murdered women's bodies were dumped by the famed Green River Killer.
Members of this band? Take a look at Pearl Jam's roster.
OK, trivia....
2 - A.L. Harper
Hey Douglas - This Green River Ordinance get their name from a street sign they found abandoned in one the band members back gardens. The Green River Ordinance was an ordinance that outlawed door-to-door salesmen from visiting country homes without an appointment.
But he trivia was very interesting, thanks!