YOUR QUESTION:

09/29/2019 20:08:29 Kim Bendix Petersen

1) I loved your retelling of the Bowel of Chiley release history and scuffles with bootleggers of the early demos. If you wouldn't mind, I'd love to know the story on the infamous Uremia/Mi Stroke Il Cigaretto/Live In America EP. Was that in any way band-sanctioned?

2) You're credited as the sole writer for Everyone I Went to Highschool With Is Dead. While I can easily conceive of the lyrics, song structure structure and bass parts being yours, I'm curious as to whether you participated in assembling the "noise" parts – that usually seemed more like Trey or Mike's doing.

MY ANSWER:

1) Believe it or not (and this again tests my memory) I believe that release was entirely band-sanctioned. I can’t remember why.

2) I had specific ideas about the noise sections —even down to the improvised drumming on the chorus and the polyrhythmic cowbell —but as with a lot of our collaborative work I let those ideas manifest through the performer.