ROUGH DRAFT OF COHEED AND CAMBRIA INTERVIEW
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Mic Fiver from Coheed and Cambria doesn’t give a shit if you know who they are or if you call them emo. “People want to call us emo, I don’t give a shit, I don’t consider us part of any scene. It sounds a little cliquey to me, and I’m not down with that. The fact of the matter is, the scene is gonna die and I don’t want us to die with it. Someone called us ‘post-post-hardcore’ and that was the moment when I went ‘holy shit, there’s no such thing as a scene.’” Playing bass since the age of 14 while rocking out to Primus, he’s playing music with Coheed and Cambria for the music’s sake as opposed to the adoring fans that may or may not come with the territory. Since playing guitar with lead vocalist Claudio in Shabutie, prior to Coheed, the band has definitely moved up on the musical food chain. Their debut album “The Second Stage Turbine Blade” was put together with a series of demos, mixed and put out for consumption. With their sophomore effort, they had the time and money to really shed their tunes. “We got to record in a studio and actually write it. We wrote in the studio, really hashed it out, we’ve been on the road for a year, we’ve had a lot more practice.” Those in the know understand that the album is the second part of a science-fiction trilogy but most of their teenage-angst ridden fans take their words as emotional gospel. Unfortunately for the fans, there’s no real truth to that. “The lyrics are all about the characters. We feel like we write from the perspective of what’s going on, but it’s definitely about the characters though people can interpret them any way they want.” The emotional angst still resides in stone in the lyrics throughout the album but is broken up with major chord progressions and 60’s doo-wop vocals. Mic’s all about it. “It comes from our influences, what fell in there. We thought it was kind of appropriate, a little silly, tongue in cheek but we know that.” Touring has evolved also for Coheed with the addition of a sound technician and getting to be on the road with their friends. “It’s always different; it has a lot to do with the bands we’re touring with. Thursday, and Thrice are good friends of ours, and we get to play new shit which is always awesome. I never tire of playing old stuff; we change it up every night. I love playing the new songs on album, and now we have a sound guy!”
Any musician in the public eye may or may not feel a certain responsibility to comment on the current political state of things and Mic is no exception. “Being in front of a lot of people propels me to walk out and talk to people before we play, it almost always turns political. When things are this fucked up it’s important to talk about it. With music, especially ours, it’s not political but in content, it serves a great purpose as distraction.”
Mic Fiver from Coheed and Cambria doesn’t give a shit if you know who they are or if you call them emo. “People want to call us emo, I don’t give a shit, I don’t consider us part of any scene. It sounds a little cliquey to me, and I’m not down with that. The fact of the matter is, the scene is gonna die and I don’t want us to die with it. Someone called us ‘post-post-hardcore’ and that was the moment when I went ‘holy shit, there’s no such thing as a scene.’” Playing bass since the age of 14 while rocking out to Primus, he’s playing music with Coheed and Cambria for the music’s sake as opposed to the adoring fans that may or may not come with the territory. Since playing guitar with lead vocalist Claudio in Shabutie, prior to Coheed, the band has definitely moved up on the musical food chain. Their debut album “The Second Stage Turbine Blade” was put together with a series of demos, mixed and put out for consumption. With their sophomore effort, they had the time and money to really shed their tunes. “We got to record in a studio and actually write it. We wrote in the studio, really hashed it out, we’ve been on the road for a year, we’ve had a lot more practice.” Those in the know understand that the album is the second part of a science-fiction trilogy but most of their teenage-angst ridden fans take their words as emotional gospel. Unfortunately for the fans, there’s no real truth to that. “The lyrics are all about the characters. We feel like we write from the perspective of what’s going on, but it’s definitely about the characters though people can interpret them any way they want.” The emotional angst still resides in stone in the lyrics throughout the album but is broken up with major chord progressions and 60’s doo-wop vocals. Mic’s all about it. “It comes from our influences, what fell in there. We thought it was kind of appropriate, a little silly, tongue in cheek but we know that.” Touring has evolved also for Coheed with the addition of a sound technician and getting to be on the road with their friends. “It’s always different; it has a lot to do with the bands we’re touring with. Thursday, and Thrice are good friends of ours, and we get to play new shit which is always awesome. I never tire of playing old stuff; we change it up every night. I love playing the new songs on album, and now we have a sound guy!”
Any musician in the public eye may or may not feel a certain responsibility to comment on the current political state of things and Mic is no exception. “Being in front of a lot of people propels me to walk out and talk to people before we play, it almost always turns political. When things are this fucked up it’s important to talk about it. With music, especially ours, it’s not political but in content, it serves a great purpose as distraction.”