With conflicting timing I finally got some words in with the elusive Anthony J!! Check it out!
Anthony - Hey man i'm online so whenever you wanna do this!
BSK- we can do this now dude !
Anthony - sounds good.
BSK- k im good ! Lets do this! I have always wondered about how you started with music and what you plan to do! Can you give me some insights ?
Anthony - I started music when I was 15. I grew up loving Meatloaf and Tom Petty so I really wanted to play guitar, but my parents wouldn't let me. Sooo I bought my own guitar after working at my first job a the public library. I joined my first band at the same time with my two friends, and we all not only started a band together, but learned how to play our instruments at the same time, so you can imagine it was awful at first.
It always seems to be but when you persevere like you have , that is when you know that you are going places. ..
BSK-Just for our readers can you tell us what you have been up to lately in music? I am as you know a huge fan of DELUGE! .. But can you say anything about your other projects?
BSK- Well Deluge was funny because I didn't (and still don't) consider myself a real drummer, but I played a little for fun. A couple years ago they lost their drummer and since I knew them from high school they asked if I would drum for them, so I basically learned how to play the drums while in Deluge. I am just now starting to feel comfortable behind a kit. Right now Deluge is working on a new album and is recording next month. Black Earth is also currently in the studio. I don't have any other project on the go right now, except maybe I'll bust out an acoustic set one of these days. I have a bunch of acoustic song I've wrote but I've been to nervous to play them live.
Stage anxiety can be a bitch when it is solo !
BSK- What are you looking for in the future?
music wise or anything else?
Anthony - Right now I love what I'm doing and I love both my bands. I couldn't really ask for cooler people to have around. I'm working hard on discovering what makes a good song. I'm not super interested in becoming the best at my instruments, I just want to get really good at writing songs.
BSK- When you think of writing songs where do you get your influence from?
Anthony- Well at first it was horror movies, but more recently I've just been dwelling on the past while I'm at work. Now I really like to write about days gone by.
BSK- What would your ideal show be? Local or any place else?
Anthony- Right now I love touring, so my ideal show would probably be in a pub in a small mountain
town like Ferrnie. We've played a couple great shows there, where the crowed is just in the mood to party hard. In Calgary I like playing Dickens, Verns, and The Broken City the most. The bands on my ideal show would probably be The Shotgun Dolls, The Evidence, and Forbidden Dimension.
I miss watching the Evidence! Thay are rad!
BSK- I gotta go brotha but I have to say that I have
listened to your music to the point that it would become sort of creepy hahaha .. Lastly I have to hit you with the ever so popular question ..What would you do in a Zombie apocalypse ??
Anthony - haha I would find myself a gun and take my moterbike down to mexico.
Thanks for the interview dude! We gotta get together for a drink sometime soon!
BSK-
totally man! Thanks so much!
Anthony -no problem dude!
pt 2
Anthony -Im currently getting tattooed so i have time right now if you can
You wanna do it while getting tatted? That would be fun!
BSK-Yeah man!
Sounds like fun! Lemme grab a smoke and a brew and we will get down to it!
Anthony- Alphanumeric!
BSK- let's get into it .. Just for the readers that may not know much about ya can you give us a rundown of what you have been up to and how you started in music?
Anthony - Well I'm a welder by day and a struggling musician by night. I spent my later teen years playing with my childhood friends in horror punk band called Conniving Cadavers because we weren't cool enough to do anything else. After about 5 years we called it quits and now here I am in Black Earth!
BSK- What is up with Black earth these days?
Anthony -Well we just finished another tour through BC last month. We've spent the past year in and out of Echo Base studio recording our new album which we finished back in the summer. This last tour was actually to promote it but Constellations won't be dropped in Calgary until November 21st.
BSK-Sounds like things are going quite well
Anthony- Yeah its been rad!
Probably our best tour overall so far.
BSK- Fuckin eh!
What would you say was the biggest inspiration for the album and tour?
Anthony- Well we've moved away from the full on punk rock thing we used to do because we all got old and started listening to other stuff like Queens Of Stoneage. I decided to write more riffy rock guitar since I realized that Black Sabbath is the coolest thing ever. Erika went with a much prettier vocal style that really shows off her skill. She wrote most of the lyrics with a celestial theme.
BSK- The band has grown for sure from what I have seen .. .. Is there anything you want to say about the band before I hit you with the speed round ?
Anthony- Well since Tyler joined on bass he has been a big help with making us more dynamic. We still love Rock And Roll and we still play it, but he has helped us make things much more interesting without sacrificing the catchy punk hooks that I love. We've also really focused on making our live show more exciting and high energy. But most of all we've really entered full on family mode.
Ahhhg this tattoo is on my shin, it is unpleasant.
BSK- What is the tatt of?
Anthony -I'm getting a leg sleeve of Aliens (from the movie Aliens) mixed with guitars.
BSK- Dude I was just talking with Zeb and it is funny you brought that up ... Speed round and we are gunna go full geek on this if you are down.
Anthony- I am very down
BSK- Marvel or DC ? .. this will set the interview for sure lol
Anthony- Marvel
Cooler bad guys
BSK- Good! lol .. I would never ask who is favored .. but this time for once who would you say is the best hero or villain in Marvel?
Vemon, hands down.
Not Carnage, VENOM!
BSK-. spider man or venom ?
Anthony - I am beyond stoked for that movie. Spiderman is cool but Venom would destroy him in real life. He would just eat his face.
BSK- If you would cosplay who would you go as ?
Anthony - Hmmmmmm Boba Fett
I plan to buy his suit one day and just hang out at Chinook
I want to go as Jar Jar if ever possible .. Freak people out or entice conversation
BSK- Best breakfast food?
Anthony - Sausage!!!!
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BSK- Favorite thing in the world?
Anthony- science fiction probably. Closely followed by Rock And Roll, then maybe Sushi.
BSK- I have to ask and as you may know that my favorite question is what would you do in a zombie apocalypse? .. Yhink hard now ! lol
Anthony - I'd grab what I can and ride my motorcycle into The Rockies where I would make myself a fort and probably eat sushi made of people.
BSK- I would probably ride up there with ya lol .. Thanks for the chat brother and if there is anything else you wanna say say it now .. an I will see you soon bro!
Anthony- Decepticons FOREVER!!!
BSK-K we need to continue this talk later .. outside of public view .. Optimus will not like that comment
Anthony- Hahaha yeah man!
BSK- OI .. I will post this tomorrow !
Anthony- Thanks so much man!
BSK-No problem brother! I had mad fun !
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