Ladies and Gentlemen, Here is the last part of the Escalate! interview!
B: Was it always a goal to be an instrumental band, or did you ever experiment with adding vocals?
All: ahhh hahahaha (giggle),you just opened a can of worms!
B: As soon as I said it, I knew it was a great question! lol
G: We tried a singer once. This was from when we were still really, really jam-based musically. We met a girl through friends of friends. She was an actress and singer. She kinda let on to us like she was like an improv-jazz singer. And we thought it would be kinda cool and it could be an interesting thing, right? Reheasals weren't bad and obviously it was very jam-based and we didn't know exactly what the performance was gonna be. But the rehearsals seemed like it was moving in the right direction.
T+J: hahahahahahah
G: haha ummm maybe?
B: Some members remember more than others haha
G: Maybe??
J: Well, one or two songs were pretty good. There were moments, moments that we were gonna be OK.
G: But when played this show we only had her for three songs or something.
J: Yeah yeah
G: It was long before the first album. Anyway, she got up on the stage and did three songs - then something came out of her; we had no idea what she was doing. At rehearsals it was fine! The music was really acoustic piano-based and we were plaing this really pretty song and she's saying stuff like"Fuck you your dad" and "I hate you" and we were blown away.
B: Inappropriate.
G: we got a bad taste and we never spoke to her again - it just didn't work out. She just had a differentmentality of what should happen.
B: You guys just had no idea that was coming. What is the weirdest show that you guys played?
J: I was gonna say Bang Bang Bar
G: I was gonna say Ban Bang Bar, too.
K: What is that?
B: Explain!
G: We used to play there around 2005 - the stage had a stripper poll right in the middle. So there is nowhere to move!!! But we only ever played to between two to five people and we usually knew the half of them at least. And they paid us handsomely to do it. It was weird but we just went with it.
The best thing about the Bang Bang Bar was that the owner used to call us all the time as "Esca latte"
All: ahahahahahahaha
G: All the time. As it over the mic too, He would be like " Lady and Gentlemen, Esca Latte"
B: Have you guys ever tried to correct him?
G: After being corrected, he thought what we were saying was:
G+J: "Esca lade"
J: It's funny because when we corrected him after that it wasn't "Esca lade", he introduced us as "Esca Lado"
B:"Esca Lado"!? ahahaha
G: And it didn't really matter cuz there were only 5 people anyways.
J: Give it up once more time for " Esca Lado"
