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that is not tool but it is undertow that is the pistols at dawn that's an old throwback called
undertow and the pistols at dawn it's a Madison bread instrumental surf rock band
the dry inspiration from pulp fiction sound rather than traditional vocal surf music
and they're known for a high energy style featuring heavy reverb farphisa driven organ
and steady four four beats the band is celebrating 20 years of existence Saturday made second at
the crystal corner bar over there on willy street and in the studio with us tonight is farphiga
organist tim consequence and bassist matt fiper of the pistols at dawn tim matt welcome to maxing
radio thanks rocker yeah thanks for having this man oh man thanks for coming down you know
tim before we hear about the pistols at dawn how did you get started in music and more importantly
what is a farphisa organ and how did you choose that i'll get to the farphisa part
you want how much books do you want to write how did you get started music well it all goes
back to grade school the music class the teacher would hand out the recorders and come around
oh yeah germicidal spray i remember those hot cross buns that's where i started
so then you know it came time to choose a brass instrument for school band you know the sax
phones a cool instrument but way too many buttons you have a saxophone you have a saxophone
i got a saxophone here so i went with the the cornette you know three buttons three valves
and i was uh you know second chair in six grade and then you know seventh grade i'm
wait they only have two chairs don't they the only add to
seventh grade i'm second to last chair so i'm like i've i've been watching MTV and you know USA
up all night there's a lot of cool music on there yeah so i'm my mom helped me get an electric guitar
oh nice so we i played you know a couple months later i'm doing stairway to heaven and you know
deep purple yeah now we're talking but i really wanted to have somebody do that psychedelic
um question mark in the mysterious doors combo organ psychedelic rogues um
that's the farfisa i didn't know it then but as soon as i figured it out i started playing that
thing how did you get you wait how did you get your first farfisa at the old audio depot on uh
east jobs street fifty bucks sure what what is it about like the farfisa that's sort of like
different than say hammond or or other you know i love the hammond it's i'm going to say it's a
regal sound the farfisa just gives you that party time by right out of the gate you can't stop it
oh weird is it like a sound effect that's in it or transistors give it its original sound
oh that makes that makes sense uh you know who who is your big farfisa influence
i'd have to agree with jane here rayman say right
right
ding ding we need a we need a point score here um well they're getting you have a studio right
that's correct acme sans studios don't i'm willy street and that's where you record and you
record a lot of bands i do wow nice so how can people get a hold of your studio check the website
they don't they can do that but um i think it's broken and i'm not gonna i'm not gonna get those
emails but acme studios it's acme sans studios okay well let's give the basis drum uh some like
drummers we know they don't get much uh mat fliper uh how did you get started music what is your
backstory uh again when i was pretty young grade school or maybe earlier my uh mom had been in
some program or educational path to be a concert pianist and uh ended up starting a family instead
but there was always a piano around so it was always something i should work with and listen
by you and everybody in the family seemed a little musical my older brother plain electric guitar
in a british invasion band and uh so i got to know what guitar as an amps were
and he must have the record collection oh yeah oh oh it led to uh yeah it led to uh quite a
library in my mind let's put it that way uh everything from liberty valence to uh you know the
ventures to uh you know the bird backer act the on wore way to serious rock from Elvis all the way
through the country rock to you know Glenn Campbell things like that it was a big edge budge
my old man mostly listened to country and and wore my pop rock but uh my mom like jazz she like jazz
and classical so i got exposed to that they were real able to be supportive and uh generous and
got a guitar into my hands uh the you know i had already i was already i never stopped playing the
piano but i just had a guitar in my hands now yeah a while and it wasn't got to be good enough
but then i moved here and it uh became obvious a bass player keyboard player be a thousand times more
valuable than another guitar player so he's buying me uh oh by 86 i had switched the playing
bass and could pretty much pick what band i could be in or things like that so it worked out
all right it's been okay i don't get to play keyboards in the live bands too much anymore
but uh you know it might come back around you never know now the pistols had done uh
instrumental surf punk 20 years in the man city tell us about the pistols had done
and now who else is in your historic band here we got Lex Broner on guitar
you might know him from the um for aspirin morning oh sure for aspirin morning yep
and uh we got Alex Emo Smith on drums oh yeah give the drummer some who does he play with anyone else
he was doing a foreign attribute band juice box hero yeah my favorite of that
beast of beret road for a while things like that the smart studios 2007 tapes they've been
re-released a digital format uh tell us about the recordings of pistols had done the pistols
had done and how to find them online well so we did a uh a lot of shows on the road
summer 2007 and on a return upon returning to Madison i'd booked it some time at the historic
smart studios oh yeah i already had a two-inch reel and we went in there with um producer bow
sorenson bob mold and the postal service and oh right oh there he's gone on to do a lot of
stuff but anyway we told them we're gonna do 15 songs today recorded mixed and edited
for distribution to the pressing plant via a half inch analog tape with leader spliced in between
every song and he's like i don't know if we can do it i'm like we can do it we we know these songs
we went in there at noon drummer showed up late we got all the songs he's a responsible parent now
including extra we did all the songs mixed everything down that did some extra voice overs for the
codename viper bumper that i think you guys will be here and later that was 2007 we did the seven
inch record on that and the rest of those tracks have been kind of languishing ever since
hmm well the pistols at dawn are celebrating 20 years of existence at the crystal corner next
Saturday may second along with the compact deluxe now the compact deluxe that's a venue also both
playing um talk about this anniversary show and what it means to be in a musical project that
achieves 20 years oh boy well it's time to be proud of i mean it's also something to be lucky
not all bands get to keep their line up right 20 years a lot of it's just a dice roll that you
don't abandon don't turn your back on it keep you know keep playing at it we for a while ex was
in San Francisco he moved back then we played some more did some more shows and now we're coming
back to do our 20th anniversary show now how did you guys get the name the pistols at dawn
that was just one of our buddies had that as a name he wanted to start a band under that never
happened when we started this new project back in 2006 it just kind of took on that moniker
and I mean you guys have must have lifelong friendships with guys in this band yeah and for
20 years who us plays in the we heard that let's go on how do we keep up with the pistols at dawn
and your band compact deluxe talk a little bit about that band too well compact deluxe features
our great friend Kayla Kush on vocals right the DJ yeah and she does a great job singing with us
but we started as a humble instrumental band doing you know AM radio singles you know whipped cream
and other delights kind of not is the the price is right not is the oh that's one I want to see
the the the compact deluxe and you can see them along with the pistols at dawn for their 20
years celebration at the crystal corner next Saturday May 2nd we have a tune that just came out
I think yesterday that we're going to play it's called code name viper and I'm imagining there's
a little story behind this one it's the theme song for a television show that we tell everybody
about it's if for example it's going to come on right after enterprise on on heroes and icons
I see but yeah but every you know it always ends with the viper you know he's kind of in trouble
with either the baron or or professor mongoose one of his arch enemies and but he always you know
you have to tune in a week later to find out if he's going to get it sponsored by car shields
yeah remember if you'd had car shield your checking account would be alive right now
oh my goodness yeah that that we know it's a fictitious style of TV television now but you're not
your last name is viper yes well it's related to this one yeah the initial stand for an operation
we're not at liberty to discuss but yeah viper's not my real name it's not his real name either he
became the prick soundification yeah yeah I see all right well let's hear the truth this is
codenamed viper you're listening to the pistols they don't on a maxing radio we are local music
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