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Flagpole • March 30, 1988 Page 4 FP: How would you describe Let’s Active's music without using a generic word like rock? ME: I don't know. I just wouldn't be able to say that. That's sort of a cop-out answer but It's the truth. I'd say its pop music. Pop meaning that ifs not metal and that it s not blues or something. But that's a pretty wide category, too. Ifs rock music, you know. I don't know, I guess since nobody's ever answered that question very well, except for strict blues players or something. I lust gave up on trying to formulate an answer I could give to that. FP: Your last album seemed to come at a time when the band was going through a transition from the Cypress lineup to what it is now. Was that intentional? ME: The group did sort of fall apart after we did Cypress, so I recorded Big Plans For Everybody alot by myself, with just one or two other people at a time. It really does reflect the sort of transition. I was trying to keep the band going somehow or another and! just wanted to go ahead with the recording so we'd have a record. So I was doing alot of the stuff in there by myself and as time passeanew people would get involved. By the time we were finished recording that, we had the three of us: Angle, Eric, and me together which Is basically the band now. It was sort of messy, and I would never put just me on the cover but I didn't know who to put on the cover and I thought It would be good to have a human on the cover so...It was kind of a weird time to do a record but it was time to have one out. So we did it then. FP: How do you think that affected the sound of the record? ME: i think it was a good thing because I got to sort of do it alone on that record, in a way that was not possible on Cypress. I think I was writing a little bit better songs and when you get alot of aeople togelher In the studio at once 1 , for me anyway, ifs a lot different feeling than when you're working by yourself. I can really think about the song, when There's other people I sort of just think about the other people and you come out with a different kind of record in a way. So in a way, not having to think about anybody, just the songs, was really good for