| The
Band...interview
with Chris
Day
New York City based rock musician,
Chris Day talks about what else……BANDS……the
Strokes, Blow Up, Ten Heads High, and of course Tommy
Conwell and the Young Rumblers. “When
you are in a band you really have a strong interaction with
the other members. You have the unspoken language of music
and friendship.”
Q: Have
you seen the Strokes?
Chris Day:
“Well, I rehearse in New York at a
place called the Music Building, which is a bunch of
warehouse rooms that all the bands rent out. The Strokes
rehearse in that building as well. I see them all the time
but I have actually never seen them play live. I have heard
them on the radio, and I like them! I think they are cool!
We (Young Rumblers) didn’t have nationwide hype. They have
international hype! Sometimes a band comes out of nowhere
and gets a lot of attention! You have seen that over the
years with a lot of bands.”
Q: Other
NYC bands that you like?
Chris Day:
“There is a band called the Blow
Up
and they are cool. They have good songs. There is another
band called Ten Heads High. We have played a bunch of
shows with them. We share nights at clubs. Those are the two
that I would say to keep an eye on. They are good bands.”
New York’s local music scene reads
like Philadelphia in the late 1980’s- Breakout rock bands,
packed rock clubs, and happily hunting A&R
rock-Executives. “People are taking chances across the
board, and as a result, a lot of the bands we are talking
about really are high-caliber. There are more good to great
bands in New York now than there have been since the
mid-to-late eighties,” according to Rolling Stone music
editor Joe Levy.
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