Sometimes to get the ball rolling, you have to do some things on your own. Hi, I’m Dawson Wells, and today I’m interviewing myself.
So, your album ‘RE: RE: No Subject’ was largely recorded by you, performed by you, produced by you, written by you. You art directed your own cover shoot and over saw the art work. You even mixed it yourself. Do you feel it’s fitting that you’re now interview yourself?
Ha. Well, maybe. Probably not. None of that was really my intention. I’m glad it happened that way, now, but I really never intended to do so much of the album myself, and to be fair, I really didn’t. Butterfly [Boucher], as well as several others played a large role. I fished around for far more help than I got, but no one took the bait. I still had a vision of what I wanted, though, and I kind of started to see that if I didn’t just go on and do it myself, it wasn’t going to get done.
How did Butterfly Boucher get involved?
We dated for quite a while. I even played in her band for a bit. Her involvement was about 50% natural progression, 50% me nagging. She knew a lot of things and had access to a lot of tools that I just didn’t have or know. In a lot of ways, she taught me how to fish and gave me the pole. I’ve never lacked in motivation, determination or vision, but that doesn’t always get things on tape.
Butterfly is on Geffen/A&M, did a major world tour opening for Sarah Mclachlan. You, however, are releasing your album all on your own. Why is that?
Good question, I ask myself that a lot. Some of it, again, is that no one has taken the bait, but also, while big touring budgets and things like that would be nice, there’s a lot of negatives I don’t have to deal with. Butterfly’s had a lot of hassle over being too pop for the indie crowd, too indie for the pop crowd, and she’s had to make a lot of compromises over totally abstract marketing hooha like that. I don’t have industry boundaries. If I want to push it to an indie crowd, a pop crowd, the WB, whatever, all they can do is say no. I don’t have millions invested in it to loose, only about 5G’s. It’ll be hard work, but, I’m better at working hard than putting up with an industry that’s become afraid to take a chance on something good.
Your album is titled ‘RE: RE: No Subject’. Looks good in print but how do you say it?
Well, I say, ‘RE: RE: No Subject’, but some say, ‘RE: RE: No Subject’
Oh, I would have said it, ‘RE: RE: No Subject’.
That works too.
You’ve used a lot of fishing references today. Do you like to fish?
No.
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