A Popup Interview with AEPOC

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A Popup Interview with AEPOC
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VR:
What have you enjoyed the most about doing what you do?

AEPOC:
It lets us do whatever we want. With any other job, you have to follow at least some guidlines. Not in AEPOC. We make the music we want to make, and that's it. We have total freedom.

VR:
Do you have all your songs downloadable at mp3.com?

AEPOC:
Not all of them, but we have some. We prefer www.ampcast.com as opposed to www.mp3.com.

VR:
Give us a run down of your audio equipment:

AEPOC:
Epiphone (by Gibson) guitar, Ibanez bass guitar, Roland RS-9 keyboard, Roland JP-8000 keyboard, Boss DR-770 drum machine, Boss GT-3 guitar processor, audio technica mic's, ART TubeMP mic pre-amps, Fender guitar amp, PC.

VR:
What are your plans for the future with your band?

AEPOC:
Our plans for the future are to get peopel to hear our music. We don't want to be the next Limp Bizkit or Britney Spears, but we do want people to hear what we have to say. And in the process of that, they're going to hear some amazing music along the way.

VR:
Most people will never know what it feels like to be on stage in front of a crowd, explain to them that feeling:

AEPOC:
We still don't know. We have plans to move to live shows, but we're short a key player in the band, and cannot do a live performance without a drummer. Yes, you could say we're looking for a drummer.

VR:
What would you do if you lost your musical abilities and are you a fullfilled enough person to accept that if it happened?

AEPOC:
Hell no. Music is life. We'll forever be improving upon ourselves musically and as a whole.

VR:
What do your lyrics talk about?

AEPOC:
Our lyrics mainly talk about past relationships, dreams, other people, and honestly, things that will just make you say, "Yeah, I know what they're talking about." Some of our songs talk about proving things to people... like that we actually ARE something, that we have feelings too.

VR:
Do your songs have a message?

AEPOC:
If a song doesn't have a message, why was it made? YES, all of our songs have a message.

VR:
What is your favorite song on your current album?

AEPOC:
If you have children, which one do you love the most? That's what I thought... we love all of our songs equally.

VR:
Will mp3.com really provide an avenue for people to make it?

AEPOC:
Not anymore... mp3.com sold out.

VR:
Virtually Records needs a theme song, would you be interested?

AEPOC:
Very interested.

VR:
If your band could open for a headlining act, who would it be and why?

AEPOC:
We're not really sure, but maybe Pearl Jam. Yeah, our style is a bit different from Pearl Jam's, but they're probably our biggest influence.

VR:
How do you guys put songs together?

AEPOC:
Well, first off you have to pay attention to everything that happens around you. We basically document lots of situations, and things that we hear. If we dream something that would make a good song, we try to put it together in a musical format. It's not that difficult to write songs... we've got hundreds of them. The difficult part is going back over those songs, and editing them and finding something that can make your next CD.

VR:
How do you feel about NAPSTER's situation?

AEPOC:
Napster never should have been shut down. That doesn't REALLY matter though, because there are plenty of other avenues for people to get their free mp3's. Our website is one of them... you can find free AEPOC mp3's on our website.

VR:
If you could put on a show anywhere were would it be?

AEPOC:
It wouldn't be the biggest stadium, or the largest outdoor arena. Probably the old high school gym. We'd like everyone from our graduating classes there, so we can prove to them that we did something.

VR:
Name and describe your most memorable gig.

AEPOC:
n/a

VR:
Tell us about your website:

AEPOC:
On www.aepoc.com you can view pictures, links, news, press, buy our latest CD and of course, download free mp3's of our music. It's really all you want on a band's official website.

VR:
How big of an impact do you think the underground, indie scene has on the current pop culture?

AEPOC:
We think it has had a large impact on pop-shit... but in a negative way. It seems the harder us Indie artists work, the LESS work the Major's do, and they crank out more songs by manufactured artists who can't even write a decent song. We cannot compete with the Majors... we only hope to reach as many people as possible.

VR:
If you could talk to anyone in the music business, who would it be?

AEPOC:
Eddie Vedder.

VR:
What is your favorite chord?

AEPOC:
Anything I can play.

VR:
Tell us a story about the making of a song:

AEPOC:
Well, two songs: Our first track on our next EP, "Had Enough" was written a year and a half ago. We took the lyrics and changed them a little bit, we started recording, and two months later we were done with it. And then our latest song, "Numb", was written 11 days ago, recording started 9 days ago, and we finished the song 2 days ago. It doesn't matter how long it takes, it matters how it sounds, and what the feel of it is. Both of the above songs are better than anything you'd normally hear on the radio.

VR:
What is your favorite local venue?

AEPOC:
n/a

VR:
Are there any established artists with whom you would like to collaborate?

AEPOC:
Chris Cornell, Pearl Jam, Stabbing Westward, Gravity Kills.

VR:
What made you want to pursue songwriting?

AEPOC:
On a large part, Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam.

VR:
Discribe the times revolved around your song "nameone", that led to it to be written:

AEPOC:
Well, "Tyler" was written because of overwhelming negative feelings towards a previous band's vocalist. The times that Jason spent in that band will never be forgotten because of the lack of recognition he got from, his former friend, the vocalist.

VR:
How important do you think tour support is?

AEPOC:
n/a

VR:
Do you desire to come up with a new form of music or do you like safety in numbers?

AEPOC:
Safety in numbers? Haven't heard "Numb" yet have you? Anyhow, we create what we feel like creating. We define our genres as alternative, industrial, and electronic. However many people say that we have our own style, that we cannot really be classified.

VR:
Do you or your organization promote up and coming artists:

AEPOC:
AEPOC promotes themselves, and VERY few select bands that we're friends with. We currently help out Brandon T. Keeley from Seattle (WA), PEG-90 from Madison (WI), and DJ-NRG from the UK.

VR:
If you could get a message to the inside mp3.com what would that message be?

AEPOC:
You sold out by initiating the manditory $20/month "Premier Artist Service".

VR:
How do you write your songs (how do you think of them)?

AEPOC:
Past experience, paying attention to what happens around us, watching television. Sometimes, though not always, you have to blend a certain amount of nonsense in writing. We are starting to do that a bit more.

VR:
What are your thoughts about the solar system?

AEPOC:
Just that we're a part of it.

VR:
Who drives the tour bus?

AEPOC:
n/a

VR:
What makes you and your band unique?

AEPOC:
Our band is unique becauase we only have two people in the band, and we do everything. Lots of bands today will practice all the time, and then go pay some studio to record them... some company to master their recording... some other company to make their CD's, and yet another agency to promote. AEPOC does everything themselves. EVERYTHING.

VR:
Somethings burning.. Did you leave dinner on the stove?

AEPOC:
Some interview question.

VR:
Where do you think this MP3 business is going?

AEPOC:
It's too early to tell, it could go anywhere.

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