On Forgetting, Overdubbing, and the Beatles

4 April 2006 | music, elsewhere, athousandtimesno | No Responses
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One of the big ideas that we have as a band is that we forget.

I’m not kidding. That’s our big idea: we forget. And that’s a problem. We forget what last year was like, we forget all those great ideas we had, we forget the songs we used to know. And once we’ve forgotten these things, they never come back. They’re gone forever. So we set out as a band to document these things, to record them, to make records of them, so we don’t forget. (This might seem like a very basic concept to other people, but we’re kinda thick, so we’re pretty proud of it.)

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On Forgetting, Overdubbing, and the Beatles

4 April 2006 | music, elsewhere, athousandtimesno | No Responses
Last Modified: 4 April 2006 @ 00:20

One of the big ideas that we have as a band is that we forget.

I’m not kidding. That’s our big idea: we forget. And that’s a problem. We forget what last year was like, we forget all those great ideas we had, we forget the songs we used to know. And once we’ve forgotten these things, they never come back. They’re gone forever. So we set out as a band to document these things, to record them, to make records of them, so we don’t forget. (This might seem like a very basic concept to other people, but we’re kinda thick, so we’re pretty proud of it.)


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