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Marcellus: I'm not saying I respect all those, they're just the ones that I've noticed that are sort of -blues.
S: Is there anyone out there that you consider to be
contemporaries or peers of yours?
Marcellus: I do like P.J. Harvey, waht she's doing. I wouldn't say we're doing the same thing or not, I don't know.
Tony: I like Doo Rag. I t hink they're amazing. I think they're kind of a tribute more than a continuation.
Dave: I think they'ere so much more straightforward bluesy than we are.
Tony: I really like them. I really like to listen to them in my headphones sitting in the van driving, 'cause I love to play stuff like that, I love to listen to it. I don't think of anybody else in the same breath as us. It's not like we're doing anything original, but we've got so many influences other than just blues stuff, so I think that all comes through. We're not focusing on one thing, it's just that that's what we happened to come up with.
M: Do you like the people that listen to your music?
Tony: We love the people that listen to our music.
Marcellus: We haven't met them all yet.
Tony: But we're dying to meet them all.
Alec: There's a lot of people that don't even--I don't know if they don't know enough 'cause of the audience we attract, or maybe I just take it for granted that I think people know as much about music as I would--I mean, I don't know a lot about music, but I don't have people saying,, "Oh, you play this, and it sounds like that, and it's blues!"
A lot of people hear it for what it is and sometimes I'm thinking, "God, I know what this is!" and it's like I'm surprised they don't say it, but they don't know. You think you're going to get a response and you don't, and that's what's interesting. I take stuff for granted sometimes, but some people just don't see it like that, cause I think it's generational. I'm 29, I grew up with the Rolling Stones and Beatles, and nobody's said to me," the song that I sing, the part in the middle, the breakdown part, is totally stolen from "Dr. Robert" by the Beatles--it's exactly the same thing.
S: Yeah, uh, i know that I wanted to ask a few things about the lineup changes.
Oh, Marcellus, did you really pick up your first drummer in a bar?

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