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<strong>I’m interested in the areas that influence music outside of the music itself so in that regard, how important is Vermont as a locale to your sound and the sound of the band?</strong>

Vermont is cool. Vermonters are definitely proud of themselves, and have a bit of independent pride. Which sometimes I think can be annoying to outsiders, but I think there’s something definitely ingrained there… a fierce independent streak. I think that definitely influences musicians and artists that come out of there. There’s definitely a little bit of a “fuck you” to mainstream America. You know, rows of Applebees, and Costcos and shit like that are kind of frowned upon in Vermont. We’re proud that we don’t have billboards, and that there’s only two or three Walmarts in the state. Now we travel across the country and we go to all these strip-malls and I think, “Man, Vermonters are pretty damn cool for not taking this road”. I definitely think we’re influenced by that.

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From a guitar perspective, we just play. We don’t think too much about it. Benny will come up with an idea, or I’ll come up with something, and we just harmonize it. We always played really well together, it’s always been easy. The less we think about it, the cooler the stuff comes out and the better it is. Because we’ve both been playing so much, it’s a very natural thing for Benny and I. We always do this thing on the bus, and everyone loves it, where we’ll just kind of noodle together- playing dyads and triads, and just constructing these really weird chords together. Neither one of us is soloing, but we’re playing at the same time and coming up with these voicings that you could just never find on your own. Playing with Benny is just a joy and he is so easy and so much fun to play with, and we’re also like best friends.  It’s a bromance comedy.