<Tiptoe>

Liz: Dan and I have been playing together for going on 14 years. So, I was a backup singer in band in the Philippines called, YOUTH IN ASIA, because we were in Asia.

Dan: We were very cleaver.

Liz: Yes, we were cleaver in high school. Yes. Over the years we have had various incarnations of Late September Dogs. In Italy we formed, Dan and I formed, a version of Late September Dogs, but this particular incarnation has been together for a year and a half.

<Tiptoe>

Travis: Brian and I were in another band in Seattle. He was actually joining up with Dan and Liz to be the new bass player in the band and he dragged me down to a show. Where was that? The Owl & Thistle?

Dan: The Owl & Thistle.

Travis: Yeah.

Brian: Dude, really?

Travis: Yeah.

Dan: It was packed.

Travis: Yeah, it was packed.

Liz: It's hard for it not to be packed.

Travis: Yeah, that's true.

Brian: Yeah, there's like three people in that place and that's a crowd.

Dan: It's full. Wall to wall.

Travis: Brian was telling me how Dan always wanted a keyboard player or a rhythm
guitar player in the band and I just happen to do both and so Brian and I were in.

Liz: And Travis was ending, right?

Travis: Yeah, it was over with...the other band we were in. I wasn't in any band at the time. I was available.

Dan: He is also available for Bar Mitzvahs and cute too.

(Laughter)

Travis: I think we found Jeremy on Match.com.

(Laughter)

Liz: He's so pretty.

Dan: We had somebody else, our old drummer playing for us, and we were doing some recording. Actually we just finished when we met Jeremy. We actually had a studio guy do our drums on the last album. We figured that's probably a better idea once Jeremy joined the band to get him on the album.

Jeremy: I kinda' like that idea too.

(Laughter)

Brian: Dude, it's not going to be you.

Dan: We're right now working on the new album and it has Jeremy on it this time.

Liz: It has all of the players in the actual band on the actual album. Imagine.

<Tiptoe>

Liz: It's an interesting song writing process because we both write song/lyrics, we both write poetry, we both...there are various songs that are pieces of some of his poetry and some of my poetry and sometimes the songs start with a...If I have a melody I sing it to Dan and we sort of get a groove going. Yeah this is more of a mellow, heart-breaking song or this is more of a sexy song, or this is more of a combination. So we get a groove going and it just sort of morphs. It's very organic. Or it starts with, he has a groove, and I find some lyrics that I have lying around because we just...lyrics comes in spurts It's not always there though...

Travis: Insert joke here.

Liz: Yeah. No. No sexual jokes here.

(Laughter)

Liz: I have them all the time. I keep the ones that he writes and says he hates and I keep the ones that I write and I say I hate and eventually we can get far enough away from the emotion of the poem or the lyric to see it's value and put it to music and then it becomes what it should be. And it's just that much better.

Dan: As far as the dynamic of having my sister in my band it was sorta' something that I've been playing in a band since I was 16 years old and she joined the band when I was 19 and was singing backup when she was in 8th grade and we wound up at a big show, this is when we were living overseas and our lead singer couldn't make it. She (Liz) stepped up and did the whole set as the lead singer. She's been the lead singer ever since. You know, whatever band we were in, whatever we were doing she was the lead singer. I sorta' realized early on that I was destine to be Liz's brother.

(Laughter)

Dan: I sorta' wound up being in Liz's band.

Liz: Well...

(Laughter)

Dan: It started off that she was in my band and we all realized eventually, nah we're all in her band. That's kinda' what happened. Yeah, we learned how to write songs together. We always wanted to do this. Its more of an evolution then anything.

Travis: It still is.

Liz: Absolutely

Travis: With the line up the band has now, I think its well known with everybody in the band that this is where it always should have been, like its pretty concrete. Everybody in the band is committed and with writing the music we are constantly evolving. Its a learning curve, with anything we come up with soon. There are 5 musicians in the band that are competent and definitely qualified to write music. So its a learning curve.

Liz: The song writing process has grown, morphed as well. Sometimes somebody comes in with a groove, sometimes Jeremy starts with a with some groove, Brian builds on it and then we go from there.

Travis: Do one of your Jeremy drum impersonation.

Liz: No.

Jeremy: It represents me pretty well.

Liz: No, I can't do it on the spot.

Dan: It's exactly how he sounds like too.

(Laughter)

Dan: He goes - Bah, Boom, Boom, Boom

(Laughter)

Liz: Me trying to communicate what I think Jeremy should play is really kinda comical.

Jeremy: You guys could probably take hours of doing that. That will be a hit.

Liz: Or trying to tell you what you should play on guitar.

Travis: That's my favorite.

<Run With Me>

Brian: I think everybody did.

Travis: At one point in time everybody got sick.

Dan: This album. Did you get sick?

Jeremy: No.

Dan: It was only the people in this house.

Brian: The rhythm section never gets sick because we are tough.

Jeremy: Solid like a rock.

Liz: You guys were just drunk.

Dan: You drank enough alcohol to kill anything.

Liz: Our producer got really sick. He was very sick for about a month, then got a gig with another band and went on tour for 6-8 weeks.

Brian: He's still on tour for 6-8 weeks.

Liz: He's still on tour. So we didn't get a chance to mix.

Dan: We started recording in January. We did basic tracks at a place called Electric Kitty in Wallingford, which is a great studio. Then we moved into overdubs and vocals and all that kind of stuff. Got main tracking done by what June, I think we were finished with tracking everything?

Liz: No, May. Before my birthday.

Dan: That's right. Then started mixing, got a little bit into the mixing process and then sorta everybody got sick. Producer got sick, then wound up getting a gig as he was getting better. We are on 2 month hiatus at this point. Waiting for him to get back, and start up the mixing process. That will resume hopefully the first or second week of August.

Liz: Rick Vaughn is our producer, and this guy is a magician. His ideas are just incredible and his experience it just brings so much to the album. Everything has changed. His feedback on the recording, during the recording of the album was essential for what the album is becoming.

Brian: He's producing, mixing, engineering and mastering.

Dan: Those were his titles on the album.

Liz: He should be executive producer too in a way.

Dan: Executive everything.

Liz: He has given us a lot of breaks financially too. Just because he believes in us and that's really key.

Travis: We could have gone with somebody else while he went on tour. He is emotionally invested in the project as much as we are. We decided that we were going to come back before finishing the album. How much longer does he have?

Dan: Hopefully he's back August 6-10, somewhere in that week. Hopefully its 2-3 weeks of mixing, another week of mastering and we are done. Hopefully early September.

Liz: We are aiming for a late September release.

Travis: Go figure.

Liz: Well, you know.

Dan: Still up for debate.

Brian: Travis's fiery ass.

Liz: We really want to, during the mixing process we were planning on letting the name come to us. We have some ideas. We don't want to decide on anything yet because its premature.

Dan: We are still fighting. That's what it comes down to.

Liz: It's premature though.

Brian: Just admit it, we are still fighting.

(Laughter)

Liz: Jeremy won't choose, that's all it is.

Dan: Yeah its Jeremy's fault. It came down to him. He had the swing vote.

(Laughter)

Dan: Travis switched teams.

Travis: I did.

Brain: Yeah Travis switched teams.

Travis: I do that a lot.

(Laughter)

Brian: So to speak.

Liz: There never going to hear this.

<Run With Me>

Dan: She hates attention.

Liz: I do, I'm really very shy.

Brian: Totally are.

Liz: Where does it come from?

Brian: Grey Goose.

Dan: Vodka helps.

Liz: I think it comes from my wanting to connect with everybody in the room. I want to connect with everybody. It takes a strong presence to do that. I want to draw from everybody. Wether its anger, weather its sex, weather its lust, wether its hate, and I want it all and I want it all at once. Those are all really strong emotions so it probably comes across and just generally confidence. Where as its really just a reflection of everybody else in the crowd. I really perform better with my band around me and an attentive, lusty, passionate audience.

Dan: An involved audience, an audience that's paying attention.

Liz: Yes, and just rocking and loving every minute of it. We are nothing, with out people there with us to share it with because that's what its all about. Its all about communicating the emotion of the song.

Dan: She has always kinda been that way. She always sort of liked being the center of attention, growing up.

Liz: That was so untrue.

Dan: No its not.

Liz: No, its so untrue. I was so shy until I was 13.

Brain: Wait, wait. Remember that question before "what its like to have a brother & sister in the band?" That's what its like to have a brother and sister in the band.

Dan: Totally.

Liz: I was shy until I was 13 and I got up on stage.

Dan: That's true, that's exactly what happened. Well, always, I say always, you know, 13 is about where you started to matter.

Liz: According to my brother I'm really still 13.

Dan: She was 8 for a long time.

Brian: Dude, I can't believe you have this Poison DVD.

Dan: The Poison DVD rules.

Liz: It's nothing but a good time.

<Come A Little Closer>

Liz: The next gig is August 21 at Hempfest. We have not planned a lot of gigs, because we were planning on mixing, being in the studio. We couldn't say "You know, we are not going to play Hempfest this year, thank you very much. We are going to be busy mixing, we are really to important for you" We are actually thrilled to be at Hempfest.

Dan: Hempfest is August 21 and we are on the McWilliams Stage from 3:00 - 3:45.

Liz: We actually made it a point for Dan to be the contact person, so it wouldn't be Liz the lead singer handing out her phone number to everybody. "Oh sure I'm in a band, here's my phone number" Now big brother gets the phone calls "Is this Liz's number"

Dan: I still get phone calls. "Hey I'd like to talk to Liz from Late September Dogs" Yeah this is her brother. "Oh, uh, alright"

Brian: "Is she there?"

(Laughter)

Dan: "Could you put her on"

Brian: Lets back up to "This is her brother"

Dan: Did you hear me the first time? This is her brother.

<Come A Little Closer>

Dan: I'd have to say we are sort of aiming to be a self sufficient, touring. I mean obviously it would be nice to conquer the world and sell millions of platinum records, or billions. Was it billions? Billions of platinum records.

Liz: In space.

Brian: With your Millennium Falcon.

Dan: With the Millennium Falcon. No doubt. I think the goal is really to be touring, making records and doing it for a living. Its what we aspire to.

Liz: Its why we do it.

Dan: Its would be nice to be the next great Seattle band. All that's come out of here right now is EMO, and it's sorta' a tragedy.

Liz: There are a lot of really good Seattle bands as we get to play with as well. Its exciting to be part of it, its exciting to go downtown and know just a bunch of these extremely talented bands that we have shared stages with, shared evenings with, shared bills with. They are still coming out of the woodwork. Every once in while a good band shows up that we get to play with. I think right now the goal is for us to be self sustaining. The reason we play is all of us need to play, we need to write. I need to sing, we need to keep writing songs and no matter if this album takes off. We are still going to keep playing, keep recording until somebody goes, "Oh wait, they are the next big thing. We need them, we need them in our club tomorrow." Calls to LA, calls to London, where ever. Even if that does not happen, we are still going to be doing it. I think that somebody soon is going to realize that this is a hot sound. I think that people react, people feel it. That's what its all about.

Travis: I felt it.

Dan: I'm feeling it right now.

Liz: That's because I'm kicking you.

(Laughter)

<Come A Little Closer>

Liz: Late September Dogs.com

Dan: Late September Dogs.com. There is some stuff up there right now that is some of the older stuff.

Brian: Its still very free.

Dan: Its very free. Its free tunes up there. It is however, stuff I did a lot of work on, as sort of engineer, recording. It was kinda my original idea, "yeah we can just record it all ourselves, it would be fine" I realized during the process that I'm not an engineer, I know very little about sound and I didn't know what I was doing. Its sorta why we wound up working with a professional producer, sorta me giving up and saying "Yeah, we need somebody that knows what he's doing, that's not me." The stuff that is up there is from the previous album, or previous EP is what it was, called "Not an Addiction" and its all free. Some of the tunes will be on the new album.

Brian: In much different form.

Dan: In much different form. Much improved form. We re-recorded the stuff. Its a good preview, its a good preview. Late September Dogs.com. E-mail us at theband@lateseptemberdogs.com.

Liz: We still play a lot of the songs. If you know the words to that song, you can rock out with us at the show.

Dan: We got one song, I guess the song, "Maybe an Angel" that's the first one we finished mixing. Its just about in its finished form. Probably what we would deem the first single off the album, if we were going to release something as a single it would be this tune. Its a good cross section of everything we do. It starts off kinda funky and gets pretty heavy. Its a great song and we have been playing it for a long time.

Brian: Just the overall production of it and the sound is pretty on track with the way everything else is going to sound as well, from a mixing and production standpoint.

Travis: Thanks to Rick Vaughn.

Brian: Rick's the man.

<Maybe An Angel>

Travis: Personally, I like the Fenix the best.

Dan: Fenix is good.

Liz: Yeah, they are really good to us there.

Dan: I tell you when the Central is kicking, man, when its full. When the Central is full, its a great club.

Liz: I miss Doc Maynard's too.

Brian: Doc's was a bloody travesty.

Dan: Doc's was great.

Liz: I would say all around, the Fenix has been.

Dan: Yeah the Fenix is a great room.

Liz: We always sound god there. We always have at least some elbow room. Travis doesn't elbow me, get into my space.

Travis: You like it.

Brian: Its a good room with a big stage, and an awesome sound system. The guys who run sound there are killer. They are top notch, know what they are doing and always sound good. Always a lot of people there. Its a good time.

Liz: Rick's always good to us.

Brian: That's because he likes you.

Dan: He likes us too though.

Liz: You are not supposed to embarrass your singer.

Brian: Oh, Sorry

Liz: After all shows, everybody wants to take Jeremy home anyway. They are always yelling at him to get naked.

Dan: Its all about the drummer.

Brian: Dude, they love the drum solo.

Liz: They think he's sexy. I'm fine with that.

<Storm>

Dan: Its all about the music, its all about the song. What you get from us is something you can listen to and enjoy and appreciate. I think there is not a lot of that going on these days, where you can hear something and know, well OK everything that is being done there is being done by a real musician. There is actually people playing, singing. None of the stuff on the album is drum loops or synthesized vocals or sequenced or auto tuned. None of that stuff, its all actual people playing actual instruments. Which is something I hope people can enjoy still.

Liz: It's more then that. It's that as well, that's what really makes Late September Dogs, that's one of the things that makes Late September Dogs. There is also a lack of music that people can really, that's really emotive, that's honest and when a song is sad, or angry, or passionate. It actually is coming from the songwriter who were sad or angry or passionate. For example, I relive the emotion of the song every single time I sing it. If its a sad song, I'm emotionally drained by the end of the set I'm a wreak. I need a moment or two because I'm up, I'm down, I'm angry, I'm happy. I don't know what is going on. I hope that in hearing the songs that people relate and maybe in times of need or whatever they can know that there is somebody out there that understands. Because that's how I choose my music I listen to, somebody who has already put to words how I feel. It makes it just that much better.

Travis: One of the reasons that I decided to stick with this band as long as I was welcome. The music that I like, the music that is important to me, from my childhood up to now, are the ones that I can relate something to. I can hear a song and instantly think of whatever. I think what Liz was saying, is that a song that sparks emotion, that's what is important to me. I would hope that we can project to fans of LSD in that they hear a song and its not just going in one ear and out the other. Wether they like it or not, we are actually getting a response from them.

Dan: It's evocative. That is sorta something we do on purpose. Its sorta something, its not obvious, its not overt. Its sorta evocative and we try specifically not to portray and really be obvious about what we are trying to communicate. We are trying to evoke the same emotion.

Travis: We communicate by music a lot better then we do by speaking.

Dan: its so true. Just go listen to the album.

Liz: The difference is listening to the album is a complete different experience then going to see a live show. People have always said, "Yes we love what you have recorded, we love the songs, but love live, god" and they get it. Come see us live. For some reason you get it, and people will come back for more because as of yet haven't had an album that does our music justice, but this next album will.

<Go On>