oceanographerschoice

Reach out and touch me.

Dude, having played Dreadhalls on Oculus Rift I can confidently say it is far more terrifying than a haunted house. I thought it'd be no big deal as I've played countless horror games, but the first god damned gargoyle I saw made me nearly shit my pants. I thought I was having an honest-to-god heart attack.

Hey guys, let me start by saying thank you for taking time to do this. I'm a huge fan of your music, but was a little late to the game. I first heard Change a short while after you broke up and fell in love with the album. It's hands down one of my favorites of all time. Anyways, I was finally able to see you guys at Laneway Fest and danced harder than I ever have in my life. I think I threw out my hip doing spin kicks and almost puked from spinning around in circles. It was the best.

Anyways, onto my question: Do you feel that the time apart influenced the way you all write music? It seems like Travis doing his solo thing, Jason working as a producer, Eric teaching and Joe working for NASA would fundamentally change how you approached problems, ideas and music in general.

Also, bonus question for Joe: Are you still working for NASA and how did you end up there in the first place? It seems strange to me to go from drumming in one of indie rock's greatest bands to working for NASA to playing in D-Plan again.

Thanks again for doing this guys!

For Beyond Footnotes we have crafted a guest list that spans well into next year and have been working on each show a couple weeks out. The live format means we can't really do too much work (besides scripting) prior to the actual air date. Still, we have looked at creating some story based episodes in the future and this information is invaluable.

Having an actual sound engineer to do the technical stuff would be ideal, but with zero budget one of us is stuck doing it. I like that phrase "radio is the most visual medium." I'm going to keep your advice in mind when crafting questions for the next interview. I really appreciate the reply.

Well, fortunately one of the 3 is just me playing records with a friend. Thanks foe the reply. It'd certainly be nice to have a sound engineer for these live interviews. I may need to look into a way of having someone else in the studio so I can focus more on the discussions.