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How does it feel to have recently celebrated a 10-year anniversary? It’s cool and a pretty big deal. When you start a
band, it’s usually not something with a lot of planning; it’s just something spontaneous. If you would have told me when we first started recording our songs that 10
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years later we’d be playing them in front of an audience that A, knew them, and B, loved them, I would have thought you were crazy. circle of friendship. We love Santa Barbara, and when we saw the lineup, we were blown away. She Wants Revenge played early on at a radio festival at the Bowl, and we’ve played at SOhO. It’s a great place. With how busy you guys are, do you find the chance to play for fun? Two of us have children, one of us has a full-time
job, but we hang out. Since we got back together and played our reunion tour, there’s always something to look forward to. When you’re not on the road, you get to go live your life, but when we do get the opportunity to get together and play, we get really excited. D
alan Parsons Project
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Having just last year celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its eponymous debut album, Los Angeles–based rock band She Wants Revenge will visit Santa Barbara as part of the lineup for Starry Nites Festival with an electro-hard-rock sound (think Morrissey and The cure meeting the angst of Blink 182) that has both contemplative lyrics and undeniable sexiness. In the band’s early years, She Wants Revenge played alongside Depeche Mode and Placebo, and the group’s music has been featured on a variety of television shows, including Fringe and American Horror Story. I chatted with lead singer Justin Warfield (pictured second from left) before the band’s visit to S.B.
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From helping with production on The Dark Side of the Moon and Abbey Road to creating an impressive body of his own work, S.B.’s Alan Parsons has been an extraordinarily impactful contributor to rock. I spoke with him about psychedelia, Edgar Allan Poe, and the album format. What does the word “psychedelic” mean to you? Not really
much. It was a very ’60s word, very LSD-induced. LSD I know is no longer a fashionable drug, so hallucinogenic is probably a better word now. I don’t think I fit into that at all. I’m more classic rock — possibly classic pop, even.
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What are your favorite Edgar Allan Poe pieces, and what makes his material a good basis for music? “To One in Paradise”
and “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.” He was incredibly literate and had a larger vocabulary of any American writer. He kind of touched a nerve with Eric [Woolfson] and me. He invented the horror movie, and I think Eric took that notion and said,“No movie based on an Edgar Allan Poe story ever lost money,” so we went with it. Many of the great composers refer to divine inspiration … Do you feel perhaps divinely or cosmically inspired? Inspiration
comes in many forms, and I don’t think it’s any divine source; in my own case, I’ve found that inspiration comes when there’s a deadline. … I have committed to making an album this year. I will keep that quiet for a little longer; it is conceptual, and I have to tread very carefully making a concept album in this millennium because some people would argue it’s a pretentious thing to do, but I kind of wrote the book on the concept album, so …
Alan Parsons Do you give credence to the idea that the album format is dead? I always had a certain fascination with songs
that seemed connected to each other, not only sort of conceptually connected but musically connected, and Abbey Road was brilliant in that respect … The art form of the album, well, it doesn’t seem to be going any way upward. Vinyl is very popular all of a sudden, but it’s a download, three-minute, one-off song world. It’s hard to get people to listen to a series of songs, except in live performance, and thank goodness that is there.
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