Fredrique Garvin

Written by Liz McLean Knight Sunday, 07 September 2003 06:26

What's the deal with all your personalities?

Whenever I've seen you live it seems like you run through all of them over the course of the night.. i get bored with what i'm doing quite easily. i'm an ADD kid. originally i wanted to keep the different projects completely seperate, but it just hasn't worked out that way lately. mostly because i've been slacking, and i hate everything i make after a week or two.

If you made a track today, what are the factors that would make you decide if it would be released under "Fredrique Garvin" or Atropa?

I make stuff with a project in mind when i start it. fredrique garvin is pretty much just a four on the floor endevour. atropa is the more melodic mamsy pamsy stuff cups and saucers has more of a hiphopity beaty feel to it penisplusvagina is all out fuck you obnoxious shit.

Does anything that has live drums qualify it as an Atropa track?

I've never done an atropa track with live drums. i wish people would stop saying that. so no. i think atropa happens to have more live sounding samples overall... but i'm not trying to pretend that i have headphones on and am playing along with it on my drumkit. that wouldn't even be possible at this point as my drums had been sitting in a basement for acouple years and are now all my rims are rusted out, this dickhead SOB broke my snare while using it without permission and never got it fixed as promised, and the piece i need to order is a specialty item that i'm not gonna have an easy go at finding. plus i don't have much reason to get it fixed now. i'm not playing drums in a band now. i've wanted to make atropa more of a live endevour from the get go but honestly i'm too lazy. i've had to lug shit around with the bands ive been in, it's just really nice to show up with just a backpack and not have to take everything back to the space after a show.

How many cigarrettes do you smoke during a typical live performance? If that number varies, what are the causes?

I use an elaborate set-up of ropes and pulleys. there is also a bucket of water i use as balast. the number of cigarettes varies according to moon cycles. but i ussually go through 2 pints of beer regardless of the tides in the pacific northwest.

What do you think of MSP/MAX?

I don't. i've never seen it or used it. i'm not a techie. i don't geek out on software. sorry.

What albums/artists are you excited about these days?

Jeez, i dunno.... just offa the top of my head i'd say sweet cobra, mastodon, knut are prolly my favs at the moment. i will say that rye coalition rocked my arse off acouple weeks ago at the bottle. mmmmm. i'm an adult and also somewhat contemporary so i dug the last cardigans album. other recent listens: the flashing lights, lollipop, enon, blonde redhead, and i'm listening to bongzilla right at this second.

Do you have a replacement car now that you've sold your Mazda Miata on eBay?

yes. i bought my dad's old chevy lumina off him for a dollar when he was going to junk it.

What's the latest illustration work you've done? How does it relate to your music project(s) if at all?

The last paying project i did was for the cover of the christian century magazine. i'm in the process of tryin' to build up a more solid portfolio so i can try to land some satan loving projects too. there really isn't any sort of connection to music at all. it's just something else i do.

Anything specific you want to H8 on?

George w. bush, cucumbers, my laziness, heroin, the fact that HSN canned don west, the price of popcorn at the movie theatre, hernias, comedians who suck, ordering cajun chicken sammich and ending up with an un-cajun chicken sammich, raw tomatos, not having a record out, kids that go around shooting cats with a pellet gun in my neighborhood, budweiser headache, the amount i ussually get paid to play a show ($0.00), people that hold grudges way longer than the offense warrants, the price of beer at double door and bottom lounge, touring the US, adult christian contemporary praise music, people that take themselves WAY too seriously... should i go on?

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