 WDS: May we see some of the other songs from Busted Stuff, like Raven or Captain or Kit Kat Jam.
BT: Ya, I think so. Captain was something we played as recently as a couple of summers ago. Another great tune. Those things will definitely reappear. I’m sure that at least one of those three will probably rear its head sometime this summer.
At the same time to, I think that we’ll probably be trying to take out on tour one or two songs that we’re working on for the new album as well. We’re going to make an effort to really try to bring back some stuff we haven’t played in a while
WDS: If you had to pick one song out of the entire band’s catalogue, what would be your favorite one, that you find most enjoyable to play live?
BT: Probably the most enjoyable song to play live, for me, is Lie In Our Graves, because it is a very open song at least in the middle section.
WDS: The jam...
BT: Exactly man, and it can pretty much go anywhere and for me that’s great. It allows me to really just sort of play my mood at that time. Then after I’m playing Butch Taylor, our tour keyboard is great too--because Butch has a way of taking themes and stuff that I might introduce in my solo section and just continuing them on when he takes over.
Its always fun to see where that tune’s going to go night to night. There’s a couple of other examples like that, but that’s really the one that really sticks out in my mind.
WDS: What was your first memory of Dave and being part of the band?
BT: My first memory was going down to a rehearsal in Dave’s mom’s basement in sometime early 1991. I forget who called me, I think it was LeRoi Moore, and they asked me to come down because they asked me to come down because of a rehearsal for a demo tape that Dave was making.
They asked me to come really just specifically to play on Tripping Billies on this demo tape. So I went down and I listened to this rehearsal of this band and I was blown away instantly by the sound. The songs were amazing. They were moving, and I had never really heard anybody sing like Dave before. Instantly, you can tell when a band is just happening.
WDS: Where it clicks.
 BT: It just clicks. I was blown away, I was telling my fiancé at the time, my wife now: “God I just heard the most amazing band. You’ve got to hear this, its just unbelievable.” We started playing the Eastern Standard a little restaurant in Charlottesville every week or so. It just grew and grew and grew my feeling for this band and this music and our connection with each other. So I think that was my initial impression, just “Wow, this is really cool.”
WDS: There was a picture on one of the Warehouse Calendars that had a hand written setlist from Before These Crowded Streets and it had this song called Machead.
BT: Ya.
WDS: What was that, do you remember anything about that song?
BT: I do, I remember the name, but honestly—
Bruce Flohr (Red Light Management / RCA): It was off BTCS, it was one of the songs we did--you didn’t finish.
BT: Ya, I definitely remember us working on that. Honestly, I can’t even remember the music of it right off hand but I know we worked on it for a while and it just never did make it on to BTCS. And that might be one of those things too that we might one day go back and revisit. From what I recall, I think it was pretty cool though. I remember having that impression.
And there were a few of those, a few songs that we have worked on over the years that never made it beyond the studio sessions. From this last album we probably had about twenty of them. It was probably twice as many songs that we didn’t put on the album as we did.
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