they are known for their melancholy
lyrics and emotional music hi my name is
Stephanie and welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re speaking to Death Cab
for Cutie about their inspirations their
live performances and more
what have you guys learned as musicians
since your debut album something about
airplanes I think we you know we learned
something every time we record and try
and make it more applicable to the next
time we record and but the thing that we
are constantly reminding ourselves of is
that you really only need a handful of
mics and a few ideas and as long as you
commit to making a record that it will
happen for you yeah I think just really
like trying to figure out how to take
whatever batch of songs you’re given and
turn that into something that everybody
can really get behind and really be
excited about making sure the
environments right for making the record
and I think as the van has gone on it’s
been a lot easier for us to try and
figure out you know how to make sure
that everybody gets what they need
outside of the band as well as in the
day I’m like in terms of time and space
and like you know we all have families
and other other lives outside of what we
do here so yeah I mean that’s that’s
vital
what would you say are your major
inspirations or influences right now I
mean I’m still stuck on me I’m stuck in
1977 right now I just keep going through
I keep going through those Bowie records
and just being fascinated by like heroes
and Lo and lodgers like the three the
villain trilogy as it’s known yeah she
just said that I went on a big Jim
Gordon kick and Jim Gordon was one of
the busiest session drummers in the LA
next to howling and the Wrecking Crew
and he recorded on I don’t know how many
hundreds of records but like George
Harrison of all things must pass
he had this tragic schizophrenic side
that’s led to well I’ll just say it he
basically freaked out
killed his mother and now he’s in prison
so not to darken everything but all I’m
gonna say is it’s it’s crazy what was
going on in the 70s but how many
talented people there were and how much
was overlooked about what was really
going inside of them which makes all
their records that much more interesting
to me when you start to read people’s
backstories
so you guys have protested the use of
auto-tune in the industry later you
joining if you could just elaborate a
bit more about your opinion on this we
try really hard to perform well to
practice our instruments to sing and
pinch and yeah I guess capture a little
wabi-sabi when necessary and I think
that our stance at that point in time
was just to preserve the Blue Note as we
were saying or campaigning at that
moment in time which was really just for
fun but you know like you can abuse
certain instruments that are made for
musicians these days and maybe there was
a little bit of that going on but we
weren’t the only one I think jay-z took
his stance as well so I don’t know I
don’t think we’re alone
how do you guys translate your music
onto the stage no to make sure that the
audience gets the whole deaf can feel we
don’t try to translate as much as we
just know that being on a stage is time
to perform live and not time to to
record songs but more pointedly the
longer we play as a band you know the
more mileage we all clock in together on
a live stage I think the more clear it
is about what we need to do when we get
on the stage and sets very shows very
environments very but it’s still a
learning curve like everything else I
think any band that gets on a stage and
thinks that they have it figured out is
probably wrong you know there’s a lot to
learn live is live and once once
somebody hits go you go and you you play
your heart out and hopefully the fans
get back
lyrics and emotional music hi my name is
Stephanie and welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re speaking to Death Cab
for Cutie about their inspirations their
live performances and more
what have you guys learned as musicians
since your debut album something about
airplanes I think we you know we learned
something every time we record and try
and make it more applicable to the next
time we record and but the thing that we
are constantly reminding ourselves of is
that you really only need a handful of
mics and a few ideas and as long as you
commit to making a record that it will
happen for you yeah I think just really
like trying to figure out how to take
whatever batch of songs you’re given and
turn that into something that everybody
can really get behind and really be
excited about making sure the
environments right for making the record
and I think as the van has gone on it’s
been a lot easier for us to try and
figure out you know how to make sure
that everybody gets what they need
outside of the band as well as in the
day I’m like in terms of time and space
and like you know we all have families
and other other lives outside of what we
do here so yeah I mean that’s that’s
vital
what would you say are your major
inspirations or influences right now I
mean I’m still stuck on me I’m stuck in
1977 right now I just keep going through
I keep going through those Bowie records
and just being fascinated by like heroes
and Lo and lodgers like the three the
villain trilogy as it’s known yeah she
just said that I went on a big Jim
Gordon kick and Jim Gordon was one of
the busiest session drummers in the LA
next to howling and the Wrecking Crew
and he recorded on I don’t know how many
hundreds of records but like George
Harrison of all things must pass
he had this tragic schizophrenic side
that’s led to well I’ll just say it he
basically freaked out
killed his mother and now he’s in prison
so not to darken everything but all I’m
gonna say is it’s it’s crazy what was
going on in the 70s but how many
talented people there were and how much
was overlooked about what was really
going inside of them which makes all
their records that much more interesting
to me when you start to read people’s
backstories
so you guys have protested the use of
auto-tune in the industry later you
joining if you could just elaborate a
bit more about your opinion on this we
try really hard to perform well to
practice our instruments to sing and
pinch and yeah I guess capture a little
wabi-sabi when necessary and I think
that our stance at that point in time
was just to preserve the Blue Note as we
were saying or campaigning at that
moment in time which was really just for
fun but you know like you can abuse
certain instruments that are made for
musicians these days and maybe there was
a little bit of that going on but we
weren’t the only one I think jay-z took
his stance as well so I don’t know I
don’t think we’re alone
how do you guys translate your music
onto the stage no to make sure that the
audience gets the whole deaf can feel we
don’t try to translate as much as we
just know that being on a stage is time
to perform live and not time to to
record songs but more pointedly the
longer we play as a band you know the
more mileage we all clock in together on
a live stage I think the more clear it
is about what we need to do when we get
on the stage and sets very shows very
environments very but it’s still a
learning curve like everything else I
think any band that gets on a stage and
thinks that they have it figured out is
probably wrong you know there’s a lot to
learn live is live and once once
somebody hits go you go and you you play
your heart out and hopefully the fans
get back
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