Nate newton converge interview
There was a piano in the house and whenever the family got together, everybody was sitting around the piano singing. Parents played music, always had records around, that sort of thing? As far as just wanting to play music, I grew up in a pretty musically-oriented family and it was always around me and I just always had the desire to. At first, I didn't think that it would be but it really is. It's definitely a whole different ballgame as far as stringed instruments. I actually switched to bass from guitar a few years ago because I figured there are two fewer strings to fuck up on. You want to play bass for us?" I said, "Sure man, it can't be that much different from guitar." That's basically it. I'm a guitarist, actually, and my old bands all toured with Converge throughout the years and honestly, what started me playing bass was Kurt calling me one day and saying, "Hey dude, Steve can't go on this tour.
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I know you've been in Converge for several years and albums, but how did you start playing bass? Did you start with another instrument? That's kind of what I figured you were getting at. Sorry, I turned into a rapper there for a second. It's just not my place to dis somebody else's effort. It's kind of sickening to me, but far be it from me to tell anybody how to live their lives. There's a whole lot of that going on these days. They just steal the fashion or steal the image and just do things like any major label rock band would do and I don't personally think that's right, but that's just me. I think that a lot of bands these days that kind of pawn themselves off as punk really aren't.
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We don't do things with the hopes of selling more records or making more money. We're a punk band in the sense that we do everything on our own. I think you were talking about it in reference to that, that your music might have a metallic influence but the difference is how you approach it. Nate: Yeah, we get asked that sort of stuff a lot. I think the context was - and this was the frustrating thing about the research - but it seemed like every interviewer who had talked to you asked what you think of mall punk and emo bands and metallic influences in pop music in bands like Story Of The Year or whatever. I assume we were talking about the band and the way we approach things? Punk as a mindset is the way you approach things. Nate: Sorry, I'm really out of it right now. The first question I had for you - and it's kind of odd because you're playing in Florida tonight - but I stumbled across an interview that you did for a paper in Florida in which you were talking about the idea of punk as a mindset. Now if Pedro can just keep it together through the post-season. I don't know, there are a few games that I've been pulling my hair out, but overall, I'm fairly impressed with how they've been doing. Nate: Yeah, they're doing pretty good this year. I'm sad to see Nomar go, but at the same time, they are giving up a lot fewer unearned runs now. I wish you were fucking doing the real job. I've just been managing the Red Sox to the World Series on my PlayStation. We've just been trying to figure out how to make everything work, so I apologize for making you wait.ĭon't even sweat it. Is there going to be anything left after you're done? I can't believe they're going to have a show in here.
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The club we're playing tonight, we're playing outside and the stage is just ravaged. That's still cleaning up from hurricanes, isn't it?
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We drove from Atlanta to West Palm Beach. Nate also plays with Old Man Gloom, one of the more interesting bands currently working in the constantly expanding and increasingly experimental musical style that is still sometimes called metal. Converge was in Florida, following in the footsteps of a series of hurricanes which had ravaged that state - lucky for Florida, since Converge's music probably would have laid waste to whatever hadn't fallen down. I interviewed Nate Newton, bassist for Converge, via phone in October. Home > Interviews > Converge Converge Introduction