ChitChat - with Evil Eddie Jacobson from Butterfingers Interview
INTERVIEW BY: SHIRAZ CENTER
Last week I was fortunate enough to chat with the lovely Evil Eddie Jacobson,singer/songwriter in Butterfingers.
Due to the current isolation measures in place, the tour dates have been rescheduled for October, November and December this year.
The upside is that people are going to get more of a chance to listen to the album.
Eddie: Originally, the release was planned for March 30, with tours throughout mid-March and April. That’s two weeks for people to get it, hear it,soak it in and then we’d play it to them. This way, people are really going to love it or they're going to hate it. But the people who love it will have time to really understand what we’re doing here.
Butterfingers typically produce more ‘kick-up’ songs,while remaining free to toy and experiment with their sound.
Eddie: It's pretty much the point of the band to not be in a genre. The stuff that I'm writing now, I don't think would be too foreign to the people who are used to our old material.I think this album is fairly different, but it's still drawing from some of the same kind of places,but more of an updated version of what we were doing previously. It's the same kind of stimulation, drawing from some oft he same places like hip hop and rock stuff, but also staying in the current era.
The single,Dancing To The Beat Of My Own Drum, was released earlier this year. The track serves as a tangible expression of Eddie’s emotional journey following the release of their last record.
Eddie: The whole album is a story sort of from start to finish and the journey that I went through when I decided to not play in the band anymore. And like the eventual turn around where you[Eddie]kind of get forced into it and then realize that you actually love it anyway.It's the turning point where the band's back together. Everything's happening and we're just killing it. And the feeling of doing what you want to do, what you love and not caring about what other people think. That was actually a really hard lesson to be learned after the first record came out; Breakfast At Fat Boys. We had no prior exposure or anything. I was writing songs in my bedroom and we didn't have an audience except for my friends. There was no there was no pressure to do a certain thing or to be at a certain standard. Yet when the album came out it did really well. After that it was just really hard to ignore the kind of expectation from everybody else.The second record was actually really hard to write for me. There was a certain element of like, do I want to do this? I want to do this. It was a bit of a tumultuous kind of thought process getting through that.It only took the band falling apart, going into another to make me realize the real joy of playing and writing music
The concept for the music video grew from loose threads, with a raw freedom in form and execution.
The concept of the cave man thing was a loose connection. It was like stone rock. Stone age. It just kind of grew out of that. It's a very loose connection.There's a story in the clip and it's really got nothing to do with the point of the song except there's another loose thread:the dancing part of it.Every time the chorus rolls around, we just dance and that's how we communicate. I think the reason I came up with that is because back in the day, we had a good friend of ours who was a good filmmaker. I'd always pitch him these ideas for our own clips. It wasn't meant to be a collaborative process, but it was because my ideas were always too literal. This film should be like apiece of art in itself.I remember him saying to think outside the box and create anew scenario that this song could be the soundtrack for.
For now, Eddie plans to get the album finished, focus on real life and see what's up
