Sunrise Highway...

[innovea]

Good day sir,

The other day I was listening to Your Name Here (Sunrise Highway) and focusing on the drumming almost entirely... Other than being pleased (I've been on a focus-on-the-drumming-only kick lately with some surprisingly disappointing results from certain bands) I noticed that when you play the very last pattern of the song I don't get the feeling that the song is complete/over/concluded.

I believe this is because in many of the variations of the pattern through the song (starting after the first chorus) you add a high-hat or somesuch immediately after the final kick beat... and my mind is almost expecting it or something like it again after the last kick beat of the song. It would have also been really easy (but cheap) to have just let a crash ring a little or something to end the song with but you obviously chose against that sort of thing.

What I'm wondering is this: 1) Do you get the same feeling? 2) If not, do you at least see where I'm coming from... and most importantly 3) Was it intentional?

If I'm not entirely on crack it would be interesting to see everyone's thoughts on this because it adds a neat feeling and effect to the end of the song... IE to extrapolate perhaps entirely too far... In a song widely reported to be about friendship, the incomplete feeling could indicate that the friendship is not over and will continue after the song's story is through.

Thanks for any insight/corrections/etc you can offer!!!

[Thrill Kill Will]

hahaha

i definitely don't think you are on crack.

interesting factoid - i recorded the drums to that song similiarly to the way i've done the song live in the past. with a very very minimalistic beat...using shakers and tamborine with spares kicks/snares. but our producer felt that it was boring, so he brought in a friend of his who borrowed some of the feel from a beat that came in towards the end who re-did the entire song. so i'd actually be a terrible person to answer these questions!

and now it gets even more interesting...

that song actually has an entire outro which is like 1-3 minutes long which never made it to the record. we played it live before recording. and we actually went through the process of recording. but during the mixing process certain people decided that it would be best not on the record. so the fact that you feel the song/story continues is either dead on accurate or very coincidental.

we may try to revive that outro at some point because we all really enjoyed it.

good ears
-w

[innovea]

Wow, thanks for the insights! That is the kind of information I am always most interested in from my favourite bands - I often wish that more of the folks who interviewed you would ask specific questions about the music... And as for whether my feelings about Your Name Here are dead on or entirely coincidental, I'd be happy either way

To comment on the 1-3 minute outro you were talking about.. I have been at one SR show and I personally loved the extended jam-like endings to a couple of songs, especially Sympathy for the Martyr. I can't speak for all of your fans or what the reaction was like when you used to play the outro live, but IMO these are the parts of a show that can really add to the value of a concert.