Silversun Pickups in the CD101 Big Room - 10.19.06
Lesley James: We are live in the CD101 Big Room, with Silversun Pickups!
Silversun Pickups: Crazy.
LJ: Hello.
SSP: Spotanany.
LJ: How are you guys doing?
SSP: Good how are you?
LJ: Doing well, thank you so much for coming in. We have Brian, Nicki,
Christopher and Joe. Whew!
SSP: Hi, say hello fellas and lady.
LJ: Alright, playing a show tonight at Little Brothers.
SSP: Mhm.
LJ: So, how did you guys come together, how’d you form Silversun Pickups?
SSP: It was a magical, magical moment in the desert, with praying to the east
and chanting. That’s pretty much it.
LJ: Oh yeah?
SSP: Yeah, yeah, don’t you now when you see two or three other people doing
that, and you’re like ‘yeah we gotta start a band.’ Cause what are the odds?
LJ: Really, come on now.
SSP: Yeah, or you know with questions we have like a choose your own adventure
sort of thing, we’ll give two answers sort of thing. There’s A, B is just we’ve
just been friends for a while, and that’s kinda how its happens.
LJ: That’s what I heard, yeah!
SSP: So choose your own adventure, one of them will lead you to the next
question; one will make you have to go back to the beginning.
LJ: Alright, and the name Silversun Pickups, I’ve
heard it’s an interesting story
SSP: What do you think it is?
LJ: Well.
SSP: Did you read it? Don’t cheat.
LJ: Actually, I was told
SSP: Damn.
LJ: about it. So guys, share, please share with us.
SSP: Alright, well here we go. A) It’s a state of mind. B) It’s a liquor
store that we’ve lived near for a long-time, called Silversun Liquor.
Gee, I wanna know which one that one is.LJ: Alright, ready to get into a
song?
SSP: Uh, yeah.
LJ: Excellent.SSP: This is called “Well Thought Out Twinkles”
LJ: Alright.
SSP: I just feel a little silly doing this, but no apologies. Alright?
LJ: Silversun Pickups live in the CD101 Big Room.
SSP: Alright.
LJ: Big Room
SSP: Haha. Yeah.
LJ: Whew. Lets hear it for the Silversun Pickups, live in the CD101 Big Room.
Congrats on the, uh album Carnavas.
SSP: Thank you.
LJ: In stores now, and. . .
SSP: Or is it? Nah, you’re right it is.
LJ: Yeah! Wow, you are giving me a hard time.
SSP: I told you to get buckled up.
LJ: Alright. Nicki, what did you guys want to accomplish on this album?
SSP: Yeah Nick.
Nick: That’s a pretty, uh, broad question, uhm.
SSP: You’re a broad.
N: We, and I’m a broad, so that’s my question. We, well it’s just nice so far
cause we’ve slowly been growing and finally, I mean, we’ve played in Los Angeles
for so long and now its growing, as we go as we do more shows across the
country, so it just I guess a chance to get our songs out there. It’s just so
nice that we come to a town, to a city, people are.
SSP: You’re scratching your head.
N: People are singing our songs and, and, and ,and the shows have been pretty
well attended, so we’ve just been pleasantly surprised at, at the outcomes.
SSP: I kinda like the days when they didn’t know our songs but they still sang
along
And went “La la Bah bah bah lalaala”
LJ: And, did you?
N: Or
SSP: Or, I don’t like those days.
N: Or, world domination
SSP: Some of you have made it this far with us.
Some of you are back at the beginning, doing the first question over.
LJ: Alright
SSP: Sorry!
LJ: Oh, wanna jump right into another tune?
SSP: “Hair of the dog”. Yeah, this one Nicki, you’re gonna sing, right?
This is off of our EP, Pikul, and its a cover of a band called The
Movies.
LJ: Alright, once again, the Silversun Pickups live in the CD101 Big
Room
SSP: Oh my goodness! Come on, stop, please. Stop.
SSP: Stop, oh my goodness. No sit down sir, sit down please. Put your
shirt back on lady. . .
LJ: In the CD101 Big Room with Silversun Pickups, playing a show tonight at
Little Brothers.
SSP: Little Brothers.
LJ: Yes. Just a couple more questions for ya.
SSP: Can you handle it?
LJ: Oh, I can handle it. Can you handle it? Alright.
SSP: No, I’m scared.
LJ: Joe.
Joe: Yes?
LJ: Actually, all of you, but I’ll ask you Joe. What’s on your iPod right now,
or what new bands are you really enjoying at the moment?
J: New bands or just bands in general?
LJ: Lets just go with any bands.
J: Uh, the new TV On The Radio record has been pretty awesome
LJ: Yes.
J: Uhm, I don’t know. Like, local bands from LA. The Movies, the song we just
played, this band called The Coldwar Kids from Whittier who are pretty awesome.
Uh, and then like Tom Petty, Superfurry Animals, Wilco, trying to think of what
else is on there right now. That’s pretty much it.
LJ: Christopher
SSP: I think we pretty much have the same thing, like every artist.
LJ: You all listen to the same?
Brian: Yeah we call get into the same kick. Pretty much all about the same time.
Like, the TV On The Radio and like, we just got in the Tom Petty thing like a
month ago. I mean, we’ve all liked, loved Tom Petty
J: Hey! Have you checked out Tom Petty everybody? This guys gonna be huge!
SSP: Where the hell. Where they hell did that guy come from?
SSP: Remember I told you about that hip-hop thing a year ago? That was big. But
uh yeah we’re just uh all of a sudden one day we were like, ‘You know what, hey
Tom Petty, kicks butt.’
J: He’s all right.
Brian: It’s funny how these iPods are like full of like you know they say you
can put millions of, millions and millions of songs nowadays its billions of
songs, right?
LJ: Yep. Oh yeah
B: And you get so sick of them already that we never listen to them anymore.
Like, Uh not another 40 days of Joe’s iPod.
LJ: Alright, Nicki being the only female in the band, how do you deal with, is
there too much testosterone for ya at times?
N: No, I don’t think its necessarily a testosterone heavy band.
B: We’re a bunch of.
All: Hey! Hey! Ouch!
N: I mean they’re so tough.
B: I mean yesterday I went to a strip bar and I shot a deer and I watched the
game. You saw me do that.
LJ: Well, ok what’s it like living on the road with these guys?
N: Uhm, well so far they, its awesome. They let me have my special space in the
back of the van and they’ve only revolted a few times to try to reclaim it and
Brian’s about to hit me right now.
LJ: Brian.
B: No!
N: I’m so scared.
B: I’m so scared right now.
N: Help me.
B: Nicki is the dirtiest of all of us, I’ll tell you.
N: No I’m not.
B: She gets away with everything. No, no, no not clean ones, you’re the second
cleanest. But, uhm she gets away with everything cause she looks innocent. And
she is the devil.
N: I can’t carry that amp, I need help.
B: Oh no the amp is so hard cause there’s a cable on it.
B: Yeah, Nick had our, our Jerry Lee dupee that we take on tour with us. Who’s
back there in the glass? Hi Dave. Uhm, Nicki has him tuck her in at night.
N: He tucked you in last night though.
B: Hey, that was a different tuck.
LJ: Alright, one more question.
B: Scary movie, you know what I’m saying.
LJ: What’s next for you? After this tour, what’s next?
B: Uh, Wolfmother tour for 3 or 4 years.
LJ: That’s what I heard! 3 or 4 years?
B: Yeah, we’re gonna go out with them for about 3 or 4 years.
LJ: Wow.
N: Or two weeks.
B: Or 3 weeks.
LJ: Hey, that’s awesome, congrats on that.
B: That is awesome
N: We’re going to uh CMJ in New York.
B: Yeah.
N: For a week.
LJ: And CMJ is kind of close to your heart somewhat, right because you.
N: We played our first show there.
LJ: Awesome. Alright, one more tune, can we get one more?
B: Maybe, I don’t know if I can possibly do it, it’s just it’s so hard.
B: If I, its just oh no, no, no, you guys
LJ: Silversun Pickups live in the Big Room
B: You guys really, stop. This is insane. Where’d that balloon animal
come from? Alright, this is called Rusted Wheel, maybe, or Lazy Eye. I
don’t know if I can do Lazy Eye on acoustic. You guys can play “Lazy
Eye” right after this. I’ll be lipsyncing up here.
(Rusted Wheel)
B: Thanks you guys.
LJ: Lets hear it for the Silversun Pickups
LJ: Joe, Christopher, Nicki and Brian. Thank you so much for coming in today.
B: Thank you
SSP: Totally.
LJ: Playing a show tonight at Little Brothers, Carnavas, name of the new
record, go pick it up today. One more time.
LJ: Alright.
B: Thanks for the sandwhiches
LJ: And we turn it back over to comment central.
