10/26/06 Interview

A video interview with Last Chance to Reason was filmed by Mason Gray and myself at The Kave in Bucksport after the band's performance on Oct. 26. The full video is nearly 13 minutes in length and has currently been passed on to the band for editing. While the final use of the interview has yet to be determined; it may be used as a biography on the band's Myspace page, uploaded on YouTube, or used for other purposes.

Excerpts from the interview include:

"We're going to rework 'Cock Eating Bullet,' 'Tom Brokaw,' and 'Get Awesome,' and also 'Bloody Pie,'" said AJ Harvey, guitarist.

"We'll probably, you know, if somebody wants to still hear [the old songs] live in Maine, we'll probably play them," said drummer Evan Sammons. "But it's kind of like, the [new] album, that's going to be our real first thing as a real good recording and full-length album, and we're going to support that," Sammons said when asked about the fate of old songs like "Mosh Face."

“Our goal as a band has always been the same thing; to make really interesting, challenging music that people can still get into; that anybody can still get into, like it’s still a good time to listen to,” Sammons said.

The band was at no loss for words on the differences between writing with the old lineup, which included vocalist Mike Levenseller and guitarist Dustin Boudreau, and writing these days, as a four-piece with Rob Delaney on vocals:

"Now when we write a riff, it's a Last Chance to Reason riff. It's a riff that you haven't heard in any other band because the melodic structures we use --- I don't want to say them because I don't want to give away our secrets --- but the melodic structures we use, we definitely work out a lot," Harvey said.

"It's not like sitting in practice and going, 'anybody got a riff?' And then somebody just goes, [sings riff and plays air guitar], and we're like 'sweet, alright,' and that's it. There's a lot of thought put into every single one of these riffs. Lots of sitting at a computer, writing it out, reworking it, moving notes around, all sorts of crap," Sammons said.

"We wanna do the same with the vocals, too," Delaney said. "The vocals are processed the same exact way."

"It's a big process with everything. And having Rob in this band has been amazing because he can do that, and he does it awesome," Sammons said.

"Like the chorus of 'Joe Dirt,' [Rob] did it first take and then overdubbed it first take," Harvey said.