Silversun Pickups

0:03Thanks so much for doing this. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks for bringing us up to your place. No very well. No problem. We can see where you're playing tonight. You're a fixer upper. Yeah, a little bit. Looks like how much did you loosen this joint? They give it to me for free actually. It's amazing. Yeah, it's very nice. There's one hell of a loft. Yeah, we're at the top of the tower sky 360. I should give them a little plug too. Yeah, because they are being so generous for this. Yeah, I've always wanted to go up here actually. Have you really? You've been a Calgary what? Like three, four times? Yeah, it's earlier actually. I almost came up here. I was in the mountain around. Well, you came up and took some pictures before. Well, from down there. Now I'm cracked up. No, just like two minutes ago. Oh, yeah. You're doing the big tourist thing. I think he does that. She goes out and sees the city and then comes back and reports to us. We wake up with our eyes all gross. We have the kraken noon. I assume you don't get to do much tourist stuff on the road though.

0:51It must be all hotel venue, hotel venue. Sometimes it's like that. I don't know how to do a lot. Wake up early. It depends if you're... Fair enough. Yeah, I mean, it's actually fun to come visit a place more than once. It sort of starts to adjust to it a little bit and it makes a lot more fun. It must be interesting that the evolution of the band goes, you get to know people in places more and more. And it becomes more almost like comfortable visiting those cities, does it? Yeah, I definitely does. Actually, it's one of the pleasures of touring. You kind of get really a good feeling that you know these cities. Clearly, we don't really know them, but we have a general feeling about them. It's nice. We spend a lot of off-time in Kamloops.

1:37Have you? Yeah. Regina. That's always the day off between Vancouver County. Yeah, it is. I know. I feel like we should be resinsing Kamloops. Well, it's wine country there. You guys... I know. I heard that. We haven't seen that. All we've seen is the mall. Oh, I've come with that. The laundromat. The laundromat there. That's really many feet. There you go. Using a little French. We were talking one tree all the earlier. Not tree at all. Take me back to the beginning of music for you guys. Do you remember what records got you into music? Oh my goodness. What were you listening to as kids? What made you want to do this as a career? Top of spaghetti. That was an extraordinary... That was really... I was really into soundtracks, to be honest. Like musical soundtracks or movie soundtracks? No, not musical soundtracks, but you know, like Blade Runner and Tron and things like that.

2:24I used to get obsessed with filming things. I didn't even think about the movies really that much, but... It used to be a soundtrack nut. I don't know why. I guess I can kind of hear that in the music that you guys make. It is weird because when we describe when we write music... And Gala I should say. When we describe it, we usually use terms that are visual, and it's funny that we're describing something that's purely audio. And when we try to explain how it works to each other, and we're writing the song, we usually use visuals and talking to film it quite... Especially for the strings, for the strings. Yeah. So you painted pictures for violinists and stuff, and it was like, this is how we wanted to sound like a bird's line. We painted pictures in their mind. Yeah. We used a lot of esoteric things that way it made it really difficult for them to understand what they were talking about. She goes, cool. How about sheet music?

3:11No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I think lights. But they must help for video treatments, though. In a way, does it? Yeah, yeah. We don't like to get too involved with that, because a part of a music video for us is the collaboration with somebody. It's somebody else's idea, really. And we think that's really important. Our thing with our band is our record, you know, and our music and our live show. And when it comes to the video, it's a whole different animal. And it should be something that's involving clearly we're involved, but we like to see what somebody else does with it. Because if we just did it all the time, it would probably be pretty weird. We tend to always go towards really, really weird. They're cool, though. And that's what you want on a video is weird and different almost.

3:58Yeah, this new one in particular for well, we is really pretty intense. And you're going to play that song for us a little later, too. That's right. Which is fantastic. On that guitar that you put on that guitar right there, that Gibson. Walking Phoenix directed a video for you. He did. Now, there's a lot of controversy. Is he crazy? Is he a big put on? Is there still controversy? I don't know. I was reading the other day. He's crazy awesome. It must have been cool work to work with him, though. Yeah, it was intense. He's such a likable guy. And he really believes in what he's doing. He was so jazzed about that video. When we filmed it, it was about two in the morning in Los Angeles. And we just came off of a secret show he didn't say any ago.

4:43We were really pretty exhausted. The stuff that we were doing was pretty crazy. We were standing on the back of these trucks. There was another truck that did donuts. We had to get strapped in. Everything was actually happening. And he would get so excited. He would just rev you up and start going crazy. And it got you really into it. You didn't realize how much danger you were in. That's good. Nikki, I think. She was the most scared. Scared him? Yeah. That's a new word. She does a lot of new words. Yeah, fair enough. Nice because he's just getting into music videos. He's trying to use his really... Very contagious.

5:28Good. You would get really excited. And I remember one point. You're standing on the back of this truck and it's going down in Los Angeles. And you're playing to the music super speed because it's slow motion and stuff. It's just so bizarre. The more you jump around and do stuff, the more he got excited. And then you jump around even more and then you realize you take a turn. You're almost falling off and the camera guy fell off. And he just grabbed him by the arm. He's like, keep shooting. Keep shooting. It's really fun. It sounds like almost like a live show. The more you get into it, the more the crowd gets into it. I guess so, yeah. I hope so. We just get into it. Hey, we're into it. Well, what are the plans for the summer? I mean, there's two wraps up pretty soon. Just two wraps up pretty soon. You guys seem to constantly be on the road all the time.

6:14We have a month off actually after this tour and then we... That must be nice. It has going to be quite nice. And then we start our headlining tour. Oh, they're North American children. Oh, really? Yeah. Headlining. Are you coming back here? Do you know? I mean, I hope so. I think so. You are a big city. You're getting bigger. Can you see? Yes, the dome right there. Yeah. Cool. I want in on this city. Well, I think you're already in. I know you're in Calgary. I want that spot right there. Right there. So you going to play some songs? Yeah.