On the Road with Karen Slobecheski-


Interview with “The Early November” Part I


Photo Credit: Karen Slobecheski

By: Karen Slobecheski, Music Editor, Juniorscave.com

Published: November 6, 2006 5:27 PM EST

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Recently, I had a moment to spend with the band “The Early November.” We met on their tour bus before their opening performance for New Found Glory at The House of Blues in Orlando, Florida. They are very funny, sarcastic, and witty individuals. You cannot take half of this interview seriously, most of the answers are in a joking manner. I was missing my close knit of friends that I was away from for the weekend. I was welcomed into their afternoon warmly.

After introductions, we began talking, and I began asking questions. They actually worked questions into the equation for me as well. I have to admit that being such a long standing fan of theirs, it was a little intimidating at first. I had the questions prepared and was still trying to ad-lib to break the ice. I wish that I had just followed the questions more thoroughly so that I would have been able to ask more of them. I have no regrets. I will learn from this awesome experience and become a better journalist. Maybe even a more comfortable person with new people. They were actually video taping the interview so that they could review it as well for the same reasons.

I asked: How did the band get together in the very beginning?
They answered: They started the band to win a talent show. They all came from other bands. After playing together, they stayed together.

I asked: What’s new for TEN?
They answered: They will monopolize the industry and will be the only band. By next year, you will have no choices left but to listen to them. In all seriousness, they are going to have a barbeque across America tour this next summer.

I asked: What do you do on days off that you can’t do on a show day?
They answered: Try to go to dinner together and bond as a group.

The “Path”, the third disc from the new album “The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path”, was to “capture everything that you see in a movie visually but just through sound and imagination.” (AP issue#217). It was actually that way for me that first time I played it.

Ace agreed about the disc being about a visual representation. But it will probably never end up that way. I added that the disc is a great outlet for the fans imaginations and that it is awesome that we can have something like that.

Joe: Ron Howard called and he is thinking about turning that disc into a film. I suggested that it would be cooler if Kevin Smith did it in Black & white. Joe agreed.

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