Speaking of videos on your site, there’s also that one of you taking a chainsaw to a Hammond B3. Although you make it clear what’s going to happen, when I first saw it, I think I gasped. Can you glue that back together somehow?
It’s pretty much gone. It’s funny, last night someone came up to me. some random person who saw that video, not a young hippie and was very upset, “Those things are so rare, what are you doing? There’s not many of those left. I don’t care what you’re making, that’s not acceptable.” And a friend of mine posted to to an organ blog and all sorts of people were going off, “He seems like a complete idiot, there are better ways to get keys out of an organ than chainsaws.”
But that’s actually a spare, I have two B3s and that one sat in the rain outside the Motet practice space for 10 years. I picked it up a few years ago for spare parts. So I needed to get into the keys and it’s a little less exciting to shoot me with a screwdriver, so I was like, “Let’s chainsaw it.”
I wasn’t righteously indignant about it but I have to say my first thought was, “Those things are so rare, what’s he doing…” But I guess if it’s been out in the rain…
It’s been out in the rain. It’s pretty much been trashed anyway and I use it for parts.
Fair enough…Okay, I can’t let you go without asking a few questions about String Cheese.
Sure.
I’m curious, what surprised you most about performing with the band again this past summer, whether on stage or in the rehearsal room?
How natural it felt, how much it didn’t seem like we had been away from each other for two years. I guess in really good ways we realized that we have a lot in common musically. But also we’re five men married together and all the quirks, all the stuff we walked away from, some of that resurfaced. So we made sure we spent enough time to move beyond that before the shows. We spent a month and a half rehearsing but rehearsing was probably only half that time. The other half was hiking and reconnecting as a family. We purposely set out to reconnect.
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