Deadsy – Interview

Deadsy – Interview
Intial interview: June 14, 2002
published: July, 1, 2002
Operative: Alec pure – drummer

How did you hook up with Korn?

We were on another record label and working on records for years. But it was our producer Josh Abraham who introduced us to Jonathan Davis, singer from Korn, and we got along great. Not a lot of people really get us, but he got it. When we got out of our deal with Warner Bros. He signed us to his label Elementree.

Did the label just leave you hanging?

Well we were on a joint venture with Sire and Warner Bros. I guess Sire got bought out and the new president wasn’t into it. So they just gave us our album back.

Sire went under.

Thank God, because it really worked out well, besides I don’t think people would have been ready for it.

When was it supposed to have originally come out?

Too many times to remember. (Laughs)

When was most of the material done?

We really evolved as a band during that time and now, some of the songs on the record, I’m twenty-seven now and we recorded them when I was twenty-one. We like the most current stuff and you will see the evolution.

How do the songs evolve because there seems more that is going on there?

There is, it’s like a giant art project. We are trying to create our own world, subculture. If you listen to the record the songs are slower and then they evolve into a more finished project. Back when I don’t think it would have worked. The music business is a lot of luck and timing and we are getting the best of both. Everything today is so recycled and no one out there right now is trying to take a chance. Record labels have success at one thing and they continue with that over and over again. Thankfully we found people who really got it like Jonathan Davis and Fred Durst.

You guys sort of remind me of Kiss in the idea of it.

We totally are into Kiss and we all have our own identities. It gives it so much more depth and gives the fan so much more to grab onto.

Did you guys all come to the table with ideas on identities?

We all bring our own stuff to the table. The entities come from each of us. We all come together and make the whole. I’m the man of leisure and free spirited man of excess, ‘80’s Tennis. (we both laugh) P. Exeter Blue I is the academia. Dr. Nerd is science/medicine. Each of us has this depth. When you see us on stage you see it all come together.

There are some tracks with words that seriously, I went to college, I can’t figure out what they mean.

I know. Elijah really writes some great lyrics and they seem to have something for everyone. The songs are like choose your own adventure, its aspect that gives the songs more depth.

Where did the Rush cover of “Tom Sawyer” come about?

We were in rehearsal and it just happened. The instrumentation is like the perfect cover for us. All the different sounds are represented. We take it to a different place.

What would be the compliment and would be ‘oh my God’ if someone compared you to something?

If someone says ‘God that is so Brian-Eno meets death metal’, that would be cool. If someone said we sounded like Marilyn Manson, that would suck. People see makeup and don’t really get into it; they just compare us to Manson.

So you’ve toured already right?

We went out on tour with Staind, Static-X, and Linkin Park last fall. That was really our first exposure to huge arenas.

How huge is getting the opening gig on the Korn tour?

I can’t even tell you how big. It’s perfect timing too because the record is coming out. We aren’t getting radio play, but that is okay.

You seem more of a group that doesn’t need the radio play. The songs seem almost too high-fluting.

“Key To Gramercy Park” will bring people in, and hopefully they stick around.

+ charlie craine