So I’m Doing an Excepter Interview in a Few Hours

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I’m interviewing John Fell Ryan tonight. Any particular questions you think I should put to him?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Who are you?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Some good questions here: http://ilx.p3r.net/newanswers.php?board=86

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

what kind of dance music do you listen to?
what kinds of things change in your own music when you integrate structured rhythm and programmed beats?
who would you have remix your stuff?

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

ask him where he gets his hats.
he's a very stylish guy.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

YSI?

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Ask him if lives in the rape zone

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Ask him if he owns a patent on any of his dance moves!

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

what kind of drugs does the band take?
why the big turnover in members?
how come with band membes with names like Porkchop and Zebrablood, you go by the name "John Fell Ryan"?
Where were you when you fell in love with House music?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:26 (twenty years ago)

ask him if the noize board is invited to his wedding

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:26 (twenty years ago)

i assume the wedding will be handled by a shaman, underwater in liquid LSD

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

WHAT SHOULD I ASK MNT. GOATS?!

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Ask sexyDancer

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Ask him why Excepter is banned from the Apollo Theater.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

ask him to tell the story of the vacation behind the vacation / forget me 12"

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

ask him to talk about the show excepter played with nnck over new years (i think it was over new years, it was definitely recent).

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Cummings

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:37 (twenty years ago)

SHOULD 3X#CPT0rrr HIRE A "STEALTH" MARKETOR?
-- detoxyDancer (evi...), November 30th, 2005 6:03 PM. (sexyDancer) (later)

-- cutty (holle...), December 4th, 2005.

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:37 (twenty years ago)

do you intend to make dance music or just to reference it?
if the former, do you think that making it more explicit would diminish whatever intellectual (or primitive) component is there? if not, why so oblique?
if the latter, which dance music are you referencing and why?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

they are their own stealth marketing! xpost

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

ask him, no tell him, to fall in love with you
ask him about his pants

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

why he love red stripe so much?

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

http://hoorayredstripe.ytmnd.com/

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

he is half jamaican, duh

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

actually, "raymond cummings" you should direct all your questions to us, we know all the answers

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

ASK EXCEPTER NOT ASK CUTTY

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

WHAT DO U GET WHEN U CROSS 3XC3PT3R WITH PREFUSE 73 AND EDAN

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

ask him about the references to 'the back room" on the self-destruction album . . . Has ever been inside a "back room" in the classic sense (dark room for anonymous public sex at the back of gay bars, very common in the 70s during the height of pre-AIDS disco culture, still around in leather bars)? What/who did he do there?

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

WHY GIANTESSES?

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Ask him if he owns a patent on any of his dance moves!

that would be a copyright.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

good luck dude

― noizem duke (noize duke), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

xpost: trademark

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

"remember before, when i was talking to you guys on the internet, now we're talking on the phone...pretty weird right?"

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)

you'd have some trouble trademarking a dance, it would have to be very distinctive

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

how do you feel about other music payolas?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

;)

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

you'd have some trouble trademarking a dance, it would have to be very distinctive

ever hear of the ickey shuffle?

oh wait, this isn't ask cutty, right.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

xpost

― noizem duke (noize duke), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

What does it feel like to be #1 on TRL three weeks in a row?

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

xpost is also the "story" behind vacation/forget me 12

― noizem duke (noize duke), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

ask him about his favorite dub artist LANKY SOLJAH'

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Dick Cheney = pathetic invisible oranges.

― Je4nne Æ’urÂ¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Ask him if he knows who Harry Hoo and the Craw were.

― George 'the Animal' Steele, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

how come with band membes with names like Porkchop and Zebrablood, you go by the name "John Fell Ryan"?

That should read Porkchop, Zebrablood and Mr. Impossible of course.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

our real names spelled out sounds like yacht club

― noizem duke (noize duke), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

ask him why Nick Sylvester and Jon Williams haven't been made members of the band yet.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Because Nick and I are too young to have real facial hair.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Dude, good luck, I interviewed holmes a couple years back, he's a real fucker. I will give you one piece of advice:

KNOW YOUR SHIT BEFORE STEPPING TO THE MIC. Seriously, watch the fuck out if your just one of these MP3J come-latelies, only covering the scene because of the pussy and cash. Be real and listen to the albums one more time each before the interview. This ain't no pop quiz son, this is the fucking GRE.

Steve Shasta

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

i'll field this one:
"do you intend to make dance music or just to reference it?
if the former, do you think that making it more explicit would diminish whatever intellectual (or primitive) component is there? if not, why so oblique?
if the latter, which dance music are you referencing and why?"

actually we are watching the "intellectual/ prmitive" component closely, to make sure it does not overtake the dance music grounding. but thats all we take from dance, the technology and the rhythm, the rest is up to us. we are not like liars, but we are also not like get physical or something. i can see where this would only garner points against us in some circles. it would make sense to adhere to one philosophy or the other, but i think we all like where we are the best, for better or for worse. if you ever hear our upcoming 'alternation' i think there will be a lot about us that will make more sense. or perhaps not!

― noizem duke (noize duke), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Do you know where I can get the Carl Craig remix of Delia & Gavin?

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/4656/craig7sy.gif

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

thanks noizem! i do intend to ever hear your upcoming album, so i shall wait and see.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Do you know where I can get the Carl Craig remix of Delia & Gavin?

http://www.beatsinspace.net/

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Do you know where I can get the Delia & Gavin remix of Madonna - Holiday?

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Thanks everyone, and thanks, John for a great interview.

Don't think I actually used any of the questions suggested here though.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

(xxpost) I was makin' a funny.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

SEXY ANSWERS...

Dominique asks:
what kind of dance music do you listen to?

The Whole New York P Garage/T Loft Axis, Loose Joints/AR, Basic Channel, Moodymann, Theo Parrish, JAtkins, CCR, P-Funk, J Brown, Kraftwerk, Marshall Jefferson, Chicago/Detroit, Baggy, B Diddley, Bohannon, The Stuff Dan Selzer Likes, The Stuff Dan Balis Likes, The Stuff Dan Hougland Likes, Exuma, New Wave Hits, Roots Reggae, 90s Fall, Etc, Etc…

what kinds of things change in your own music when you integrate structured rhythm and programmed beats?

What changes? Apparently we get mediocre reviews in P-fork. I think you are missing Macrae Semans’ live sampling work. He’s thinking of moving back to NYC. It’s an odd question because almost every single Excepter track features sequencers, sample loops or drum machines.

who would you have remix your stuff?

This one guy did a 25 minute remix of “Shattered Skull” that was pretty interesting. We’re thinking of remixing some tracks off the next album to make them more dancey, but we have to work fast, so we’ll probably just do it ourselves.

Ian asks,
ask him where he gets his hats.
he's a very stylish guy.

OMG, army/navy, Broadway, St. Marks, etc

Dan asks,
what kind of drugs does the band take?

On stage? Far less than you think. No so-called “psychedelic” act actually takes LSD to perform, except for maybe Amon Duul I. It’s all just beer and pot, right?

why the big turnover in members?

“Creative Differences”

how come with band membes with names like Porkchop and Zebrablood, you go by the name "John Fell Ryan"?

Christian names only on the sleeves, mate.

Where were you when you fell in love with House music?

Candy-flipping in Detroit with Larry Heard DJing.

LF asks,
ask him to tell the story of the vacation behind the vacation / forget me 12"

I could say it’s indignation at the amount of vacation time Bush & Cheney are taking transferred over to a prophetic lattice of ex-girlfriend-in-the-sand situations through a lust for immortality disguised as “sad sack” behavior, or a basic hatred of sunsets and game playing, but basically it’s all about reverb.

ask him to talk about the show excepter played with nnck over new years (i think it was over new years, it was definitely recent).

A recording of the Excepter set that night was posted as “STREAM 3X.” It actually wasn’t the first time Excepter and NNCK had played together. An early duo of Caitlin and myself performed “Forget Me” after a NNCK set at the Hint House in early 2003. The two bands also performed together at a noise festival in Atlanta early 2005.

Firstworldman asks,
do you intend to make dance music or just to reference it?
if the former, do you think that making it more explicit would diminish whatever intellectual (or primitive) component is there? if not, why so oblique?
if the latter, which dance music are you referencing and why?

I think a recent press release stated our intention was “to use the tools of dance music toward more esoteric ends” and I’ll stand by that. We have used drum-machines, sequencers, samplers and synthesizers from the start. Does making the music “more dancey” make it “less artsy?” Certainly in how it’s received by collector geek shut-ins, but it actually takes more of an intellectual, conscious effort to make things dancefloor-friendly, where as brutal, unconscious efforts are more of our stock-in-trade. It’s a balancing act, as Dan has noted.

Drew Daniel asks,
ask him about the references to 'the back room" on the self-destruction album . . . Has ever been inside a "back room" in the classic sense (dark room for anonymous public sex at the back of gay bars, very common in the 70s during the height of pre-AIDS disco culture, still around in leather bars)? What/who did he do there?

I hung around the back room at bit at Luxx during the Electroclash daze, and actually met Dez from Black Flag there. Not so much sex, maybe a little graffiti and smoking funny cigarettes, but that’s the reference. I did have to fish [controversial mod edit] out of the back room at Squeeze Box back in the 90s, but that’s another story. I am aware of the “tradition.”

― JFR, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

WOW!!!!!!!!!!11121

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

"90s Fall" - excellent

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

nothing about pants, tho. : (

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

They're beige 501s.

― JFR, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I knew he was keeping an eye on this thread. See you in May, JFR.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

oh, cool. thanks bro.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

JFR - I AM SO GLAD YOU LIKE BOHANNON.

― lf (lfam), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

because i like him, too.

― lf (lfam), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

I HAD A FEELING HE WAS KEEPING AN EYE ON THIS THREAD TOO. KUDOS.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

CUM BACK, SHANE

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

i'll never get a chance to ask jfr my special question now. ;_:

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh Squeeze Box.

I have fond memories of seeing Miss Guy & the Toilet Boys there back in the day. But who got fished out of the Squeeze Box back room? I will never know . . . was it XXXX XXXXXXXX?

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I really wanted to love that record

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

the miss guy one? me too

― noizem duke (noize duke), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

"I DIDN'T MAKE HIM..."
http://triviana.com/film/rfilm/rockglov.gif
"FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!"

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

no, one of the "mediocre review" ones

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

THIS IS A TRIP HOP RECORD

IF LA MONTE YOUNG MADE ONE

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

JFR, can you post the song titles for Alternation here or email ‘em to me? I forgot to get them from you last night.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Excepter "Alternation"
1) Ice Cream Van
2) Lypse (N6 Mix)
3) The Rock Stepper
4) The Ladder
5) If I Were You (live)
6) Whirl Wind
7) (The Pipes)
8) Knock Knock
9) Apt. Living
10) Op Pop
11) Back Me Up (SHOW)

― JFR, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

"Apt. Living" is a nice title, dude.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)

how about a soft pink truth remix?

SYNERGY BRO

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)

it must be difficult logging in and out so much

― STRAIGHT FERN GULLY (jaxon), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

you ever chaperone a junior high dance? the boys don't ask the girls, and the girls won't approach the boys.

THAT'S WHERE I COME IN.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

thanks

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:59 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

There's a pulitzer in here somewhere.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

dan selzer got an excepter oberlin "he's here in spirit" shout-out last night, after a really great show.

― lf (lfam), Friday, 12 May 2006 01:24 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

What happen?

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:18 (twenty years ago)

i hear there was a shadow ring cover involved.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

That Dan Selzer shout-out was great. Also great was the IPod that Robert left here. (Sorry it took so long to get that back to you....I was poor/lazy at the time).

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

goodstuff

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I really like Tank Tapes.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.excepter.com/html/excepter.html

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http://excepter.com/presspics/TheNewFiveDollarBillFRONT.jpg

i vetoed Obama & voted Excepter

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

tune in, turn out, terk el

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SIXTEEN HOUR MP3

― dmr, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 18:38 (seventeen years ago)

shibainulivecam.swf

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LOL @ http://www.excepter.com/html/excepter.html

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on the internet!

― cutty, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 20:32 (seventeen years ago)

for real

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 07:59 (seventeen years ago)

!?!?!?!?was morbius actually there?

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Thursday, 6 November 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Apparently only 30 people were at their show in Bkln last night? Really surprising to me. If I were in NYC, I would have been there and dragged some friends along, too.

― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Saturday, 19 February 2022 17:23 (four years ago)

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