"“I
had been dropped by Elektra, soon after which my band Epidemic called
it quits. After a decade of blindly pursuing a dream, and then seeing
it all fizzle like that, I was kind of, over it, you know?”
“I kept making music, but not in a group, let’s take over the world
type of situation. I did stuff for a cartoon, some ring tones, music
library kind of stuff. I got a day job, and I worked from my
home studio, which allowed me to accommodate my increasingly immense
drug habit as well".
"I
won't make you watch me masturbate and bore you with
yet another cliché recovery story, but
today I am pretty stoked that the story doesn’t end there.”
Why the comeback?
"I am doing this for my pleasure, at my convenience, and to
save rock n roll", Boris deadpans. "Not to dismiss the
music I made in the past, but Noise Within wasn’t created to secure
fame or wealth. There was music before there ever was a band. John (Fahnestock
of SNOT, AMEN, and LO-PRO) and Aaron (Slipp of Prong, Tad)
lit a fire under my ass to go do a band again. John had been through
way more devastating shit than me and was still going at it, which
definitely put things in perspective for me.
What is different in 2009?
"The last band I was in received close to one million
in advances. When you’ve been broke your entire life, it changes
things. It becomes this awkward situation where you, on top of your
band mates’ scrutiny, end up sculpting your music to keep the money
coming. It’s not the label’s fault, but you’re catering to an
imaginary audience, playing to what you perceive as the taste of
your benefactor. As a writer, it is not only distracting, it ends
up debilitating you”.
So change has made things less easy, but more pure?
“The lack of
options (available record deals) also removed the need
to torment myself searching for that “nursery rhyme” to attract potential
investors. The glass is half full, and worrying about bills in
stead of how to get to the chorus the quickest is not a bad place
to be.”
About the dying industry, he raves. "I think it's awesome. Fans
have been overcharged for years, and now stealing music is a natural
result. Evolution is routing out the middlemen. Those that don’t adapt
will go extinct. In the end, music WILL survive. There will always
be music worth listening to. Like ours, which is free, might I add!”
Don’t musicians have to adapt as well?
“To a lesser extent, sure. You either do everything you can to be
loved by everyone, or you don’t at all. We do the latter. Besides,
the odds in rock n’ roll have pretty much remained the same: a few
open slots on the Major’s rosters will go to Satan manufactured corporate
manure, channeled through sleeve tattooed fashion models.“
“With the help of purchased Clear Channel time some of these puppets
will make it overnight, the rest will return to manning the perfume
counter at Macy’s. The rest of us will have to tour and sling T-Shirts
for a living”
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