I think musicians deserve to - if they've worked hard, they should see some sort of remuneration for their efforts like everyone else who goes to work at their job. "And that is just in order to make a living - to promote the record and go on tour and play shows and have an income from working really hard on something. Talk about connection with your loved ones or your friends or romantic relationships or your family - it's pretty crazy how much we have to be away from home. I definitely felt like there was a sort of freedom in the early times where it was like, 'No one's going to read this, so maybe the 20 people that do will get a kick out of it.' "Ĭhris Taylor: "Now, an indie band doesn't really make much money selling records, so you have to be on tour a lot. Not to be boring - there's plenty of interesting things to talk about that doesn't have to get into things that people are going to latch onto and retweet or blog a million times. "I guess I would consider myself an opinionated person, and it just doesn't benefit to - I could just be, like, a really outspoken person and go for gold and just say a lot of things that are controversial, but I kind of feel like at this point, it's best not to. People love a juicy quote, they love a headline, and they love to twist things and make it seem like it's something bigger than it is. I can't quite fully be honest about how I feel about certain things because it can be taken out of context. That's the greatest goal, maybe."Įdward Droste: "I'm not going to lie, I feel like I sometimes have to censor myself in interviews.
It was just really thrilling in that way where it almost felt like listening to somebody else's music rather than making your own record, which is kind of the best thing about having a band that's so democratic. I would never have sung over a track like that on my own. It took like six months for it to become something real, but by the end, it was the kind of song no one of us could ever have conceived on our own. We didn't even think it was going to turn into anything, but Chris kept chipping away at it and adding bits here and there.
And then Chris Taylor took it for months. Then we incorporated that into the middle of the song. And then Chris Bear played these kind of strange jazz chords at one point, and I went over and recorded those. I recorded it and, over the course of a few weeks, started playing with it and then wrote a melody to it. One of the very first riffs of that song was something that he just went and played at the piano, those first few notes. "The beginning of 'Sun In Your Eyes' - sometimes I would just ask Ed to go to the piano and just play whatever he thought of. If the four of us can agree on it, then, mission accomplished. We're not even thinking about the world or how it's going to be received or if the fans are going to like it. Hear the radio version at the audio link and read part of their conversation below.ĭaniel Rossen: "The ultimate goal for us is always to make an album that all four of us love and are excited about, which is one of the biggest challenges of all. Grizzly Bear, which has just released its fourth studio album, Shields, spoke to Morning Edition host David Greene about democracy within the band, censorship and candor in interviews, and achieving success as an indie band.
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