Interview with Coheed & Cambria's Joshua Eppard
Ryan Kent
Issue date: 4/14/05 Section: Spectrum
JE: Yeah, we're gonna top it on the next one though. We've got this new stuff that's so stupid. Really complicated and weird but it's so awesome, though. Claudio had this acoustic version of it and he had this kind of lick, we just turned it into this super metaled-out. We were having so much fun. It was so bad we kept doing it over and over again just cause it was fun. That was one take, dude.
CT: You're doing your own thing. You're doing artistic stuff and you're not afraid to go against the grain - like you said.
JE: That's something we've always done. Even back when nobody liked the band... we never went and catered - we always wrote pop songs. This kid comes up the other day and says: "Josh you used to be the best part of the show. What happened?" and I said: "What do you mean?" Then he said: "Dude, we can't even see you anymore. You guys got too big for your britches, we're never gonna come see you again." I thought, why would you even come up and tell me that. If that's really the way you feel, why would you just purposely try to hurt my feelings?
The band has never sounded better. We've been touring for a year and a month off this record. Dudes are tired, not tired physically, but we want to write some new songs. You know, we've played this song eight million times dude and it loses some of its luster. The energy we put off on stage is always very real, it's not contrived and we're not like Story of the Year and Yellowcard, where we know in the third song everybody does a back flip and then you switch guitars, spin and do a high-five. It's all just garage band. The energy is real.
We have the greatest jobs in the world. We're just thirsty to make some new music where that energy is so real you just cant even contain yourself you're so excited to be playing these new songs. After this month we're going to make a new record.
CT: I can't wait, do you guys still do stuff with Equal Vision Records?
JE: Yeah, when we went to Columbia, Equal Vision went with us. That's why we feel so strongly about it and we're most likely going to use the same producers and go in to make our third record. We're all super, super excited about it.
CT: You're doing your own thing. You're doing artistic stuff and you're not afraid to go against the grain - like you said.
JE: That's something we've always done. Even back when nobody liked the band... we never went and catered - we always wrote pop songs. This kid comes up the other day and says: "Josh you used to be the best part of the show. What happened?" and I said: "What do you mean?" Then he said: "Dude, we can't even see you anymore. You guys got too big for your britches, we're never gonna come see you again." I thought, why would you even come up and tell me that. If that's really the way you feel, why would you just purposely try to hurt my feelings?
The band has never sounded better. We've been touring for a year and a month off this record. Dudes are tired, not tired physically, but we want to write some new songs. You know, we've played this song eight million times dude and it loses some of its luster. The energy we put off on stage is always very real, it's not contrived and we're not like Story of the Year and Yellowcard, where we know in the third song everybody does a back flip and then you switch guitars, spin and do a high-five. It's all just garage band. The energy is real.
We have the greatest jobs in the world. We're just thirsty to make some new music where that energy is so real you just cant even contain yourself you're so excited to be playing these new songs. After this month we're going to make a new record.
CT: I can't wait, do you guys still do stuff with Equal Vision Records?
JE: Yeah, when we went to Columbia, Equal Vision went with us. That's why we feel so strongly about it and we're most likely going to use the same producers and go in to make our third record. We're all super, super excited about it.
