JetSpeed Records Act Celebrates New Release With Interview In Record/Radio Magazine
November 12, 2005 (Press Release) --
"Blah Blah Blah" has a new cd coming out this week and the band's interview is being run by International Magazine!
The Following is a part of the upcoming story to be run in the January Issue of Record/Radio Magazine!
10/26/05 - Interview
"Blah Blah Blah" Interview with Sean Wagner from the Band
How long has Blah Blah Blah been a band?
About a year-and-a-half now.
Who are a few of your musical inspirations?
Old Metallica with Chris Burton, it’s kind of reminiscent of sounds close to our type of deal, but we add a whole bunch of harmonies to the heaviness to kind of make it more likeable for a wider range of people. We add harmonies to mellow it out just a little bit.
What made you want to take up bass?
I started playing bass in an orchestra when I was a child. I was classically trained and played classical music in orchestras before I even started playing heavy metal.
So, where did you learn how to play?
In El Paso, Texas.
How long have you been playing for?
About 25 years.
Wow, that’s a long time.
Yeah, I’m known as one of the best bass players in the mid-west by far.
How often do you guys (Blah Blah Blah) hang out together and practice and stuff?
We hang out constantly, we get together to bar-b-que, we go out clubbin’ together. The rehearsal schedule is four nights a week. If we’ve got something important coming up, like a recording we rehearse almost every day.
What’s the most difficult thing about being in a band?
Not getting pissed off at each other over stupid things.
I imagine spending so much time together, you tend to butt heads once in a while (LoL).
Of course, it’s like a family. You’ve got your older brothers, you’ve got your younger brothers, you’ve got your dumbasses, (LoL) you’ve got everything in there. The hardest thing about being a five-piece band is scheduling days that are convenient for everybody. Once we get the rehearsal schedules we pretty much arrange everything else around that, but it goes pretty smooth. Of course you’ve got creative differences, so somebody hears a song going a certain way, and somebody else will hear the song going another way, and both guys are right, there’s no way to win the battle. So you just kind of go along with it. But the nice thing about being a five piece is that you never have a tie vote on anything, it’s always going to come out one way or another. So that kind of takes care of the discrepancies within the members. So we take it to a vote, three always wins in five.
What are the most fun things (about being in a band)?
The most fun thing is when we get to perform live. That’s why we rehearse so much during the week, just to get the payoff of being on stage. We play live constantly. We play generally one to three times a week. So, it pays off pretty well. The best thing you could ever have, in my opinion, is people applauding over something you wrote.
That sounds like it would be awesome.
Very fulfilling. And like last night, they wouldn’t let us get off stage, we finished our set, and they kept asking for encores, and encores, and encores, the club was about ready to close (LoL). We were still playing after last call.
So, where are you guys from?
The majority of the band is from the Kansas City area. The guitar player originally was from North Carolina, the other guitar player was originally from California, the drummer is originally from Montana, I’m from El Paso, but the singer is from Kansas City. Everyone lives here. I’ve been here the least amount of time and I’ve been here eleven years.
What’s the music scene like in Kansas City?
Well, with Blah Blah Blah the scene’s gettin’ better. When I first moved out here there weren’t a whole lot of original bands, it was mainly a bunch of cover bands, but since then there’s been people in the Kansas City area who have taken it to a different level and the support for local music has really grown in the last year. It’s gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. We noticed that in Kansas City clubs you don’t just play by yourself, you always play with two or three other bands. And we noticed that more and more bands are going all original now, we see less and less covers out there. It’s getting better, there’s still an awful lot of 80’s sounding kind of guys out there.
What is your favorite thing about the music Blah Blah Blah makes?
My favorite thing I like about it is that there are so many different musical backgrounds in the band that when everybody puts everything together you come out with something totally, totally different than anybody really thought it was going to sound like. And hence the name Blah Blah Blah. You never know what you’re going to get with a band named Blah Blah Blah. It could be any type of music. We’ve got fans making their own t-shirts. We saw some new ones last night; like “the world according to Blah,” “In Blah we trust,” we’re kinda getting our own little language thing goin’ on, it’s pretty cool.
Do you have any advice for someone that’s about to start a band?
The most advice I can give to anybody who’s about to start a band is get a rehearsing schedule and stick to it. If you guys get together for a couple hours on Sunday, the week goes by, the next time they get together, they spend the first hour remembering everything they did the week before. If you only practice once a week, you’re not serious enough to do this as more than just a hobby. If you are serious you’ve got a practice schedule with a real, real, real good regimen going. My band gets more done in one week than most bands get done in a week, because we practice that much.
Interview by Rene Nicole Silverman
The Following is a part of the upcoming story to be run in the January Issue of Record/Radio Magazine!
10/26/05 - Interview
"Blah Blah Blah" Interview with Sean Wagner from the Band
How long has Blah Blah Blah been a band?
About a year-and-a-half now.
Who are a few of your musical inspirations?
Old Metallica with Chris Burton, it’s kind of reminiscent of sounds close to our type of deal, but we add a whole bunch of harmonies to the heaviness to kind of make it more likeable for a wider range of people. We add harmonies to mellow it out just a little bit.
What made you want to take up bass?
I started playing bass in an orchestra when I was a child. I was classically trained and played classical music in orchestras before I even started playing heavy metal.
So, where did you learn how to play?
In El Paso, Texas.
How long have you been playing for?
About 25 years.
Wow, that’s a long time.
Yeah, I’m known as one of the best bass players in the mid-west by far.
How often do you guys (Blah Blah Blah) hang out together and practice and stuff?
We hang out constantly, we get together to bar-b-que, we go out clubbin’ together. The rehearsal schedule is four nights a week. If we’ve got something important coming up, like a recording we rehearse almost every day.
What’s the most difficult thing about being in a band?
Not getting pissed off at each other over stupid things.
I imagine spending so much time together, you tend to butt heads once in a while (LoL).
Of course, it’s like a family. You’ve got your older brothers, you’ve got your younger brothers, you’ve got your dumbasses, (LoL) you’ve got everything in there. The hardest thing about being a five-piece band is scheduling days that are convenient for everybody. Once we get the rehearsal schedules we pretty much arrange everything else around that, but it goes pretty smooth. Of course you’ve got creative differences, so somebody hears a song going a certain way, and somebody else will hear the song going another way, and both guys are right, there’s no way to win the battle. So you just kind of go along with it. But the nice thing about being a five piece is that you never have a tie vote on anything, it’s always going to come out one way or another. So that kind of takes care of the discrepancies within the members. So we take it to a vote, three always wins in five.
What are the most fun things (about being in a band)?
The most fun thing is when we get to perform live. That’s why we rehearse so much during the week, just to get the payoff of being on stage. We play live constantly. We play generally one to three times a week. So, it pays off pretty well. The best thing you could ever have, in my opinion, is people applauding over something you wrote.
That sounds like it would be awesome.
Very fulfilling. And like last night, they wouldn’t let us get off stage, we finished our set, and they kept asking for encores, and encores, and encores, the club was about ready to close (LoL). We were still playing after last call.
So, where are you guys from?
The majority of the band is from the Kansas City area. The guitar player originally was from North Carolina, the other guitar player was originally from California, the drummer is originally from Montana, I’m from El Paso, but the singer is from Kansas City. Everyone lives here. I’ve been here the least amount of time and I’ve been here eleven years.
What’s the music scene like in Kansas City?
Well, with Blah Blah Blah the scene’s gettin’ better. When I first moved out here there weren’t a whole lot of original bands, it was mainly a bunch of cover bands, but since then there’s been people in the Kansas City area who have taken it to a different level and the support for local music has really grown in the last year. It’s gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. We noticed that in Kansas City clubs you don’t just play by yourself, you always play with two or three other bands. And we noticed that more and more bands are going all original now, we see less and less covers out there. It’s getting better, there’s still an awful lot of 80’s sounding kind of guys out there.
What is your favorite thing about the music Blah Blah Blah makes?
My favorite thing I like about it is that there are so many different musical backgrounds in the band that when everybody puts everything together you come out with something totally, totally different than anybody really thought it was going to sound like. And hence the name Blah Blah Blah. You never know what you’re going to get with a band named Blah Blah Blah. It could be any type of music. We’ve got fans making their own t-shirts. We saw some new ones last night; like “the world according to Blah,” “In Blah we trust,” we’re kinda getting our own little language thing goin’ on, it’s pretty cool.
Do you have any advice for someone that’s about to start a band?
The most advice I can give to anybody who’s about to start a band is get a rehearsing schedule and stick to it. If you guys get together for a couple hours on Sunday, the week goes by, the next time they get together, they spend the first hour remembering everything they did the week before. If you only practice once a week, you’re not serious enough to do this as more than just a hobby. If you are serious you’ve got a practice schedule with a real, real, real good regimen going. My band gets more done in one week than most bands get done in a week, because we practice that much.
Interview by Rene Nicole Silverman
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