Nowhere Band News

Honestly, it’s the most commonly-asked question asked of people in bands. And how do you answer it, really?  Even if you didn’t run into the dancing-about-architecture problem that leads people into lame attempts to answer by naming similar bands (by the way, my one regret about this strip is that nobody says that the ‘Boys sound “like Exile on Main Street-era Stones,”  which is a claim I’ve heard from about 90% of guitar-based bands that have ever existed), you get real trouble from the fact that  each person usually has a wildly different take on the band’s sound, with no hope of objectivity. It’s a mess.

If I didn’t drop the Exiled Stones quote, it’s because I wanted Aaron to instead use a more local universal landmark.  While it used to be worse (I swear to god every single person I talked to in a keyboardless low-level Minneapolis band in the 90s thought they  sounded like the Replacements), the ‘Mats still cast a mighty long shadow up here, and the self-comparison rate must still be over 50%.

Dan is sort of paraphrasing my pat description of Derailleur’s sound, by the way; and Aaron’s first bit about the honey is based on an old line of Grant’s about how you can’t taste our sweet honey without getting stung.  I’m not even entirely sure what he was talking about, but it’s a good line.