The Least Organized Band Ever
Posted 7/11/2007 by trailofdead
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
I just finished reading someone’s post about how we are the most disorganized band ever, for not having posted our tour dates yet. I like that distinction. I think it would make a very appropriate subtitle to a future biography: “Trail of Dead: the Least Organized Band Ever”. I think it would be true.
I think that to me the band is a group of people unified by a desire to play a certain type of music. That’s pretty much what we do. We’re not web designers, we’re not a video production team, we’re not even visual artists. The fact that I happen to make art on the side is purely a happy coincidence, for me. But my role in the band is in no way dependant upon it.
Duty does, however, insist that I write music. So when we’re not touring, that’s what I’m doing. And anyone who is obsessively creative (obsessive being a key factor here), the last thing you want to do when you’re working is stop and take out the garbage, or pay your phone bill, or talk to a video director, or update the tour dates on the website. I mean, some people might like doing those things, but I generally tend to hope that some other person gets to them before I have to.
I wish I weren’t that way. I wish I were able to oversea every single aspect of everything involved with being in a band. But the truth is, there is simply too much. However I do appreciate being reminded every so often, because it reminds me that other people do care about us enough to wish we would be better than we are.
So for you fans of our music, thanks for continuing to think about us during these periods of (relatively) low activity. It doesn’t mean that we are not still plowing away doing what we love to do, which is write music that will eventually get recorded using other people’s money, preferably that belonging to large corporations who might otherwise spend it less wisely.
As some of you already probably know, we’ve been trying out new drummers for our upcoming European tour. It’s not easy replacing a Doni. Doni was developed for us in a laboratory by a scientist named Max Brenner. Max has since gone into retirement, so we are faced with the challenge of having to replace Doni with a human being. I hope that those who see our upcoming shows in Europe in August will be sympathetic to the fact that we will be playing with a human who might not exhibit all the precision and skill that we have all come to rely upon with the Doni computer version 2.9, and forgive any straying from our previous standards of performance due to this.
We will have our new tour dates up for you pronto.
Conrad Keely
Williamsburg, 2007
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