Who is Iceage cobra?
Brad: I think it’s more what is Iceage Cobra.
Metch: The three of us are Iceage Cobra. We are also Iceage Cobras.
Jordan: I don’t know about that.
How did Iceage Cobra begin?
Jordan: It was solidified in Oct. 2004, but it began when Metch and I were in Commercial Music Group, kind of the seed was planted.
Metch: The demon seed.
Jordan: The demon seed was planted but then Metch went to Bellingham for a year.
Metch: Got hippied out, played some acoustic guitar.
Jordan: Went on a spiritual journey, so we when reconvened.
Metch: I was a guitar player back then. I felt bad for him so I said ‘hey I\'ll play drums.’
Jordan: Yeah, Metch helped me out. His sister owned a drum set. Then we met Brad. I met Brad at another show and he had just moved to Spokane from Illinois looking for a band that needed a bass player and so without even hearing him play I just looked at what he was wearing and looked at his hair and said you’re in the band.
Brad: I didn’t know anybody. I just moved to Spokane probably two months before got a job so I finally knew some people that I worked with they were all going to the show so I went to the show and met Jordan, actually I met Neil, who became the 4th member, the weak member.
There was a fourth member?
Jordan: There was. He was 86ed after, or before the first show, after three practices.
Metch: It was just really abrasive. He wasn’t trying to create anything he was just doing his own thing the entire time we had to get rid of him
Why the move from Spokane and explain why the move to Seattle?
Jordan: I\'d say 60% of why is The Emergency. I think because we got our first show in Seattle because of The Emergency and then every time since then up until moving we had played with them and they kept telling us we were wasting our time in Spokane.
Metch: I hated Spokane I’d grown up there and there was really nothing for me to do in the cultural wasteland that is Spokane.
Jordan: I had a house in Spokane, I had a great job, so I had kinda the most to gamble by moving out here, that stuff is kinda minuscule in importance when compared to our musical future.
Brad: I don’t know if I ever told you, in May of last year, if we hadn\'t moved to Seattle, I probably would have moved back to Illinois, I could see us there until I was an old man bitter at the world.
In a very short period of time you’ve gone from opening to headlining and drawing your own crowd, was this expected or did you think it would take longer?
Metch: We\'d always hoped it would go that way, and we had a good plan for moving, just come in and play a barrage of shows and get our name out there. Play as many shows as we possibly can, and put on the best damn show we possibly could. The reaction just kinda followed.
Brad: The Emergency helped a lot with that. We didn’t have to go with all the entry level bullshit. We get right to the people that matter.
For someone who hasn’t seen you live what should they expect?
Brad: Energy.
Metch: A band that cares about their stage performance as much as they do about the music their playing.
Jordan: I think there’s a lot of people have drawn a fine line, or a really big line between bands of artistic importance that are creating new and different music or trying to do something else and bands that bring a total party atmosphere; want the crowd to have a great time sing along and things like that. I think there’s a huge line drawn between two types of artists and I want to bridge that because we try to do new things like change time signatures and key signatures but still make it very much important that the crowd has a good time, which I can\'t really think of any other band that\'s done that since like early Alice Cooper or The Who.
You’re in the middle of recording your first full length will you be trying to capture your live performance on the record or are you going for something different?
Jordan: I very much want to capture a live performance on the record. A lot of people that heard our first demo said that was the thing that was wrong with it; it doesn’t really capture how we are live.
Metch: We’re putting together a live recording too, we definatly want that to be different from our studio release. The live element has always got to be there but mostly just that energy from the live show when in the studio. When you have an opportunity to get really particular and add stuff you couldn’t do live that’s where the fun comes in.
Brad: It’s really hard for us, our songs just don’t come across sounding right unless they have a lot of that energy that we have at our live shows.
Your sound is very Iceage Cobra, did it take awhile to find that sound or did it all fall into place?
Jordan: I think it happened very naturally.
Brad: I wouldn’t say it fell into place.
Metch: We worked our asses off to be completely honest but we didn’t go for a sound and I think every one of our songs sounds different.
Brad: I would say we\'ve all gotten at least 10 times better. That\'s an understatement. We\'ve all gotten experientially better than we were in the beginning. Since we practice so often it\'s like our sound has been created by the fact were getting better to play together
Metch: Playing together was really hard because we all come from really different musical backgrounds. I had never really rocked out at all before. I was more of a folk rocker, which is like a hippie; isn\'t like a rocker at all. I can scream occasionally but I\'m usually too darned happy too sweat on stage.
Brad: It\'s really weird because for the most part I don\'t really listen to the kind of music that I play.
Jordan: Me neither.
You all have an excellent ear for your gear selection, have you found your perfect tones or will it be a never ending journey?
Brad: I would like to have a little bit more power in the tube section of my amp since I run the tube and the solid state. At some point I would just like to have more power in the tube section but I think will always have a combination of tube and solid state going it\'s just a really good combination of sound
Metch: For me, I\'m still learning how to tune my drums. Just to get the most sound out of them as I possibly can and picking up my new set of Gretch drums was very cool because finally after playing on a drum set that if it were reselling in a store, they wouldn\'t even classify it, it would just say drum set. Now I could actually hear what I was playing, finally to match these guys I didn’t have to hit so hard.
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