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QRO: Have you heard anything from the Formula 409 people?ĭV: No – you’re not going to say anything, are you? You’re the first person that’s brought this up, so if anything happens, I know exactly where to go… You know, you make these videos, you put this money into it, and I check on YouTube the other day and I see this video that came out three years ago only has 8,000 views – what are you really getting out of that? We’re probably only going to do one video off this album. I think we went through a period there where we thought with YouTube, it made a lot of sense to do a lot of low-budget videos, and looking back now, a lot of the videos weren’t so good. If they turn out like this last one did, it’s worth it – it was fun video to make. QRO: You’ve made a ton of music videos, and are known for them – is it something you enjoy doing?ĭV: To some degree – I think the novelty has definitely worn off, ‘cause we’ve done so many. And forced to clean up Detroit with 409 – I thought that was a good touch…
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My idea was more of an ‘acid camp’ kind of a video, more of a ‘hippie flower power’ kind of video, but then he turned it into more of an ‘MKULTRA’ mind-control by lizards. It was the same thing on that video, too – basically, I come up with the concept, and what ended up on the video is maybe 70% of my concept. QRO: Where did the video for “Formula 409” come from?ĭV: We worked with that director before, so we knew him pretty well. Just because, I can explain it away in a million interviews, but there are still people out there who think, “Oh wow – this is what I’m looking for!” I think the song is self-referential that way – putting in the reference to “Gay Bar, Part 2” is just about the people lining up because that’s still here. So we always knew, sooner or later, we would have to do a song called “Gay Bar, Part 2”. Even around the second album, we would do interviews, and people would go, “What’s the name of your second record going to be?” And we’d be joking and say it would be ‘ Gay Bar, Part 2’, and people would go, “ Really?!? That’s amazing!” They didn’t know we were joking. QRO: Why did you title the opening track “Gay Bar, Part 2”?ĭV: We felt it was time to do that. We’ve always just tried to keep it as DUI as possible – DIY… We wanted to take the reins away from any outside producer, because we felt that was a very unnecessary step and just brought more headaches to the table, another personality you didn’t need. QRO: Do you think, because you weren’t going into a studio, you could go in with nothing written?ĭV: We haven’t worked in a big studio since the first record – scratch that, the second and third records were done in a studio, the studio owned by our bass player’s brother… Most, we usually have at least five or six songs done, ready to go, so it was kind of cool, that we pulled it off.
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We started January 4th, and I remember showing up that day, just thinking, “What do we do? Where do we go?” And most of the records aren’t like that. I think we actually had some songs finished when we first went into the studio, whereas this one, really a good portion of them were written as we recorded them. QRO: Did you do anything else differently, even compared to the last record?ĭV: I think we went in with even less of a pre-conceived notion of what this one would sound like. I think you’re bridging the gap between what you can do at home and what you can do at, Abbey Road… I think ‘home recording’ now doesn’t mean the same thing it did even two years ago. I think we’re finding that the advent of technology means you don’t have to go into some fancy studio to get just as good of a recording. It’s a home recording in every sense of the word, as was the last one. QRO: How did making Flashy compare to making previous records?ĭick Valentine: Well, it was the same process as the last one we did, where we basically did it in our guitar player’s apartment. It's my first tab.Click here for QRO’s interview with Dick Valentine in 2006 Gay Bar Electric Six Tabbed by Systemsugar This is the bass tab for the song Gay Bar.