Barrage at Disneyland
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LP: Do all of you sing somewhat?
Lynae: Yeah
Tim: Oh yeah.
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Scott: To a point. (Laughs)
LP: Some stronger than others I take it?
Scott: Exactly. (Laughs all around).
LP: Talking to you it seems you all come from different backgrounds, musically and otherwise. Is that the case?
Tim: Different areas of the world! Well, areas in Canada.
LP: Are all the band members Canadian?
Lynae: No, I’m the only American.
LP: How did you swing that?
Lynae: My teacher knew the guy that put us together, Dean Marshall, and he’d called her up to see if any people were interested, who had already graduated and everything, in touring, and I said “Sure!”. So I auditioned and I got in, so…. (Smile)
LP: For the audition process, did Dean know exactly how many people he wanted in the band when he started it? Are you all original members?
Tim: Yeah, I think he had a vision.
Scott: Seven or eight was the original vision. Aside from the fiddles, the percussion and guitar players have been with us pretty much the whole two years. The drummer has changed; he’s been with us for six months.
LP: Back to musical background, are you all classically trained?
Group: (Lots of nods and “yeah”s)
Scott: Everybody does have classical training, but when everybody first joined this group we all had different backgrounds, like, some of the guys were in punk bands, jazz, country, rock - sort of everything is all mixed together in our styles.
LP: Do you think that helps bring your distinct sound out?
Barrage: Oh yeah. Definitely.
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Lynae: It shows our individuality as people, performers and musicians.
Allison: It helps us to play all the different styles together as well.
Roxanne: Dean contacts us every month or so and gives us a different tune and they’re in such different styles, some that some of us haven’t even heard of before, so it kind of gives you a little bit of variety.
LP: How do you feel about playing the styles of music you perform now, opposed to classical? Do you still play classical on your own time?
Errol: I like this a lot better.
Denis: I listen to it [classical] constantly.
Scott: I like this better I think, but I miss playing classical too.
Lynae: This is much more “fun” to play because you can be how you want to be, play whatever you want to play.
Allison: It’s good to be able to express yourself fully. I used to always get in trouble for foot tapping playing in a [classical] quartet.
Tim: Now we stomp viciously upon the stage and get shin splints!
LP: Do you all have collaborative input? As far as someone coming up and saying something along the lines of, “Hey, wouldn’t it be great if we did a version of Sing, Sing, Sing!?
Group: Yeah!
Yes!
Definitely!
We do that a lot.
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Errol: With having eleven people in a band, when you have an idea it gets tossed around a lot. You look at a “normal” band, like say with four people in it - we’ve got what, double, triple that?
Tim: And we’ve got four or five people outside the group that work with us in a non-musical form, and they throw around ideas and bounce them off each other as well as us…
Denis: …so decision-making processes are a little longer with us.