How were y’all received with Modest Mouse? And the Fleet Foxes?
Those are two pretty big tours. Jesse Lortz: I think people really liked it. It was really different than Modest Mouse so it was a nice little change I guess. And it was cool to play because that’s not really our … well, maybe it’s becoming our audience, but it hasn’t historically been our audience. There were like kids or whatever. It was cool. People really liked it. We sold a lot of shit. Signed some autographs. Were those your first big-ass tours? Jesse Lortz: Oh, well—yeah. We’d only played like three shows before we went on that Fleet Foxes tour. We had to literally learn the songs on stage. I just play all the parts in the studio and then we just learn them after, so it was kind of weird to be developing our sound or our stage show in front of hundreds or thousands of people. Now that you have been touring a little more and playing bigger shows, are y’all able to make a living off this yet? Jesse Lortz: Yeah—I mean, it’s not carrying us, but it’s definitely supplementing. With r
