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Band: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

47 by tommydski_Archive
I wanted to post this ages ago but since this thread has been bumped this seems like a good opportunity. It's a P-Fork interview with Trail Of Dead mastermind Conrad Keely. Bearing in mind that I haven't given two shits about this band for five years or so, this was one of the most interesting, enlightening interview with anyone who made the jump from a mid-level independent label to a major. Seriously, an interesting read by anyone's standards.

When I read it I was both annoyed by his own sense of entitlement and also sympathetic to his obvious frustration. He clearly thinks he is fighting the good fight in earnest and is shell-shocked by the lack of response, critical or commercial. He admits that he no longer likes playing live or touring. He even says that he put his heart into one record, which was critically mauled, and since then he doesn't feel like putting as much of himself into subsequent records. It's illuminating and heart-breaking at once since his desire for mainstream acceptance seems to have consumed his sense of artistic integrity.
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