Pastorale Magazine: So you guys are a power trio, like Jimi Hendrix. Adrian Sanchez: Like Cream. Pastorale Magazine: Is that what you guys intend on doing, or do you intend on adding, or keeping it as is? Jimmy: The arrangements right now are getting a little more and more. I do see, eventually, down the line, a larger group, but until it gets there, we’re not going to worry about that. The trio, it’s just been so fun. So distinct, you know? Mike: I’m a huge fan of the trio. I think it’s really organic. There’s no personality involved, like vocally. It’s all just kind of like, “Hey” and then we just play. As they say the only way we can communicate really is just by playing, and then afterwards go likePastorale Magazine: I think that’s why those like Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience were successful, because it was kind of minimal to a point. I hate to say the word minimal but it challenged each individual player to do what they do best. Jimmy: It’s like that saying, opportunity does kill creativity at some times. So if we restrict that enough, we get some really interesting results. Drum, vocal, bass, guitars. Adrian: Also as a team, also in terms of form, some of our songs are really short so me and Mike will be like, “How can we make this not just the same?” Mike: Yeah, how can we just completely fuck up this second part? Pastorale Magazine: That is what’s fun about song writing too because you hear the rules and it’s a lot like writing. There’s the way you should write on paper versus songwriting as well it’s like “yeah there’s rules but it’s almost more of a guideline”. It’s probably better for you guys to just kind of like, “Okay I appreciate the guideline but this is what we’re going to do”. Jimmy: That’s what a shorter form kind of allows for. This song’s only this big so let’s see what we can kind of do with it instead of just making it a standard pop song or a standard form. Pastorale Magazine: Do you guys ever just improv stuff? Adrian: That’s all we do. Mike: It is just a big interpretation of the record constantly. Adrian: I guess we record the parts, then we have to relearn the parts. Like, “Oh shit, I played that?” Jimmy: There’s definitely a lot of room for improvisation and that comes with a three piece. You can’t do that with anything else. If we got a keyboard it’d be like… um. Pastorale Magazine: All right so when’s the next record coming out? What’s the plan? What do you guys want to do? Jimmy: Right now I’m all about getting content out because we were in a 2 year lull and that’s freaky for a band especially when you start on that kind of first step. So that was a big learning curve. Right now we have singles lined up, and then a bunch of covers. I want to do a red series and a blue series. Red series is going to be country songs that I’ve liked and it’s free. So we just release that, singles, and then our blue series are going to be all blues. Pastorale Magazine: There you go. Jimmy: But we do fun. Keep it fun. Arrangements. Keep it simple.
Because they got a lot of very interesting sounds going through there. A lot of numbers, they’re playing the quantity card. I really hope that whatever scene we’re part of, if we’re going to, be the perfect counterpoint to that. Pastorale Magazine: My problem with Burger Records is, and it’s not Burger Records themselves, it’s not that, it’s actually a lot of their fans and a lot of their musicians. Some of their musicians... Jimmy: They’re assholes. Pastorale Magazine: There’s a band that I’m familiar with, I’m not going to name their name, but I have history with them. There’s a certain person in this certain band that’s extremely popular on Burger Records that I will never support. Ever. They’ll never be in the magazine ever. There was you know some stuff from back in the old days when I was playing my emo stuff. I think there’s this circle of people that gravitate towards this guy and his bands…I can only think of a toilet full of shit circling the bowl. Mike: You have a way with words my friend. Jimmy: The same pile of shit. Pastorale Magazine: The problem is it’s not all the bands and it’s not even the label. It’s the fans and their followers. I want to say if I were a magazine I’d want to be exactly the counterpart to Burger Records as well. Like I said it’s not Burger Records themselves, but kinda the movement they represent. (Speaking to Big Monsta) Some of your music would totally fit in with their roster. The reason why I say that is some of your music would definitely be considered psychedelic rhythm and blues... Jimmy: The running gag right now we have because Mike and I love production. I like to envision as a Burger song as, maybe a microphone and it’s going through the board and they have two buttons, more verb and then the boost around 3 to 400/500. Then it goes into poop, and then right out into cassette and it just sounds so bad. I don’t know why they go... Pastorale Magazine: Aaaaannnnd we have an official beef starter right here. You know what’s scary though they’re (Burger Records bands, fans, etc.) like the motorcycle gang where there’s like thousands of them soooo we’re all kind of fucked. Jimmy: But it’d be fun. Wouldn’t it be fun? A thousand guys against us? Adrian: Might as well die in an interesting way right? Mike: I can see how the fight would go down…we’d just throw effects pedals around. Jimmy: How did those guys disappear? Aw those Burger fuckers ate them. They stole their glasses, couldn’t see shit coming. Pastorale Magazine: (Little side note, all three guys wear glasses) you guys could actually pull that, “You wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses would you?” Jimmy: Exactly. Pastorale Magazine: Okay, so where can people hear about you and see about you and catch up with what’s going on and punch you down if you’re a Burger Records fan? Jimmy: We are on Facebook. Then it’s Big Monsta band something for Instagram. We like to do little photos for our simple lives. Whatever our grind is. We’re on cremetangerinerecords.com if you want to get their cassettes or pick up a copy at The Lab.
Pastorale Magazine: Here at Pastorale we love beef. Especially of the mid ‘90s to mid-‘2000s beef. If you guys want to you could start a rap war beef right now with another band. Any bands you guys want to call out (all said jokingly of course)?
Pastorale Magazine: Awesome. Any last words?
Jimmy: I don’t want to call out anything, but I’d like to finally vocalize this because I’m comfortable enough. The only scene I see in Orange County right now is the Burger Records “thing” that’s pretty big.
Pastorale Magazine: Oh, dear. (I have no idea how and why I said “oh dear” especially out loud but apparently it’s the 1950s and I’m a house wife. Haha)
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Big Monsta: Three, two, one ... fuck Burger. (They literally said it all together… wondering if this is a thing)
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