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MLS: I really enjoy this album but there are parts of it that I really don't understand, like Walpurgis Night...
ATTAWAY: The dictionary can give you a better definition of Walpurgis (pronounced valpurgus) than any I can give you. But let's just say I'm using that night as a metaphor. Walpurgis Night is a funny song because it's the closest I've ever come to writing a protest song. It is my hope that the song had a lot more validity last year before November than it does now, but that remains to be seen. I have a problem with myself as an "artist" getting on a soapbox about a lot of things, because there are plenty of people doing that who are better at it than me. So, when I do it I just sort of cloak it a little bit. I'm perfectly happy to get in your face about some things but other things I just feel that I'm not the most qualified guy in the world. Who knows if I was a big stadium rock guy, I'd get the big head and start thinking I was this big messianic figure and try to control the throngs with a wave of my hand. (ed: no names mentioned, but rhymes with mono). If I get to the point where millions of people are hanging on my every word, I would probably say something to the effect of "Y'all are making a big mistake by following these people as leaders, look within yourself and quit following everybody."
MLS: Was it a mistake breaking up Guadalcanal Diary?
ATTAWAY: A question I get asked all the time is "Did you just throw your hands up in the air in disgust cause you hadn't gotten any further? The answer is absolutely not! We got a lot further than we thought we ever would. I was really happy with our measure of success and our day in the limelight and that sort of thing. In retrospect, if we would have stayed together, since suddenly alternative radio became such a big thing, that we would probably been looking really good...we would have gotten bigger and bigger and maybe sort have done a kind of Soul Asylum thing. I mean we were in the same boat as Soul Asylum. But who knows and who cares, I mean the idea was, do we want to get bigger and bigger and start hating each other, or do we want to break up and go our own ways and remain friends with the option of being able to get back together sometime? So, that's what we chose.
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