Music; My Single Thread of Coherency

Back when we started, we had a female lead singer who created some serious drama within the band so I suggested we call the band something with "drama" in it. A few days later our bassist at the time, Skinny, was traveling with Adam from the band "Triggers" on a roadtrip. He called me and suggested "Kill the Drama". At first, we were a little skeptical because it made us sound like a metal band, but at the time the Killers were just coming out, and they were Indie rock / alternative so we went with it.

This is a loaded question since we all have so many. Bryan loves bands like Coheed, Zeppelin, Deftones, Floyd, and is really inspired by great guitarists like Randy Roads and David Gilmour. He also pulls from musical theatre for his vocals as he was classically trained in that capacity. I bring a riff inspired style and some of my favorites are Tool, Placebo, Failure and Muse and I also pull great inspiration from Tom Morello and the Edge among others. Jason's real into drumming from the 90's like Dave Abruzesse from Pearl Jam and Jeremy Taggart from Our Lady Peace. He also told me he first wanted to be a drummer from watching Dave Grohl with Nirvana and that probably has a lot to do with his energetic style. Mars brings an element of Janes Addiction and Perfect Circle style basslines that can give the bands direction more of a haunting quality and groove. When you throw all of that together and more it gives us the KTD sound.

Lyrically "Close Friends with Sharp Knives" is a reflection of different times in our lives. I think it captures love, death, hope, rebellion, the human spirit, betrayal,  and the grind of trying to achieve success rather well. There's also a bit of humor mixed in at times and some flat out interpretive art for the listener. Musically, the songs run the gamut from aggressive to passive, poppy to pure dynamic rock. Its not a mess though without direction. Every song had a purpose and fits on the album I think. Its the foundation of emotional-type rock the music we've been writing the last year or so.

Eurosex rock is what someone called it. I guess because of the romatic European quality to the vocals and music at times but at the same time having a sort of sexual energy to it. We've also been called arena rock because of the big riffs and grandiose elements we have in our songs. I wish we could play a full arena to see if it would carry the energy through the crowd like how we intended it to.

Bryan - Vox / Guitar
Steve - Guitar / Vox
Mars - Bass
Jason - Drums / loops

To continue to make real honest music and to do it for a real living where we can focus all our time and energy into it. Right now we work efficiently with the time we have and do a pretty good job of balancing creating music with recording and the lvie shows. I wish we could find someone who can take Kill the Drama to the next level. Maybe we finally can try that Arena rock thing someday?

Sometimes it starts with a guitar idea or bass idea that we come up with before hand and present it to the band. Other times things just kinda happen at practice. Its hard to say. Vocals usually come next where Bry writes the lyrics and sometimes pulls some ideas from a bunch of non-sensical lyric ideas I send to him. That's the real genius he has. He know what words sound good coming out of his voice and knows how to phrase them to work with the music. He's also great at writing a vocal melody which really brings the song along in the process. After we get a good start, we add a bridge or an ending. Sometimes we kinda just pull it together on the fly. The good thing is each song is different and has its own story.

We've been experimenting with some different instruments lately. I think that you can say Bryan is a Les Paul  and Marshall guy and I'm all Strat and Hughes and Kettner Tri-amp for my thick tone. The sounds between Bry and I blend super well. Jason was on Ayote and still uses their Kepplinger snare. Mars changes gear quite often. The constant is his GK heads and cabs.

I'd say Tom Morello from Rage. I'm known for pulling solid riffs off the top of my head and would love to throw riffs back and forth with him. Would be incredible. I'd also like to see Bryan jam with Queen personally. He has the tone and range to basically sing whatever or however he wants. I think he could crush some Queen songs

So many different things. Listening to Vampire Weekend right now which is a bit odd for me. I've also been listening to "Around the Fur" by Deftones when I work out mixed with Weezer and Phantom of the Opera at times. My MP3 player is a real eclectic mess right now. You should hear it on shuffle

We just recorded a video for our song "Sunshine". See it at youtube.com/killthedramamusic or myspace.com/killthedramamusic . We'll be recording soon. We have about 14 songs right now and a handful of others to finish writing. I honestly have no idea when that will be done. Hopefully by early 2010.

Next time you drink a red bull and vodka, think of us.