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THIRST FOR FREEDOM<\/div><\/span>

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ENTREVUE: ARNO JAFFR\u00c9 – PHOTO: JIMMY METTIER<\/span><\/i><\/h2><\/div>
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White Stripes, Black Keys, Black Diamond Heavy aux Etats Unis, Dirty Deep, The Blue Butter Pot et The Inspector Cluzo dans l’hexagone, le n\u00e9o blues rock en formule post garage est devenu une discipline pratiqu\u00e9e par d’innombrables formations adoptant une approche roots baignant presque toujours dans la distorsion. Au point qu’il est devenu difficile de se distinguer au sein de cette cohorte. C’est pourtant ce \u00e0 quoi parvient One Rusty Band, leur troisi\u00e8me album, fraichement sorti, a \u00e9t\u00e9 enregistr\u00e9 dans des conditions live dans leur Home studio en Bretagne. Entretien avec un duo explosif.<\/div><\/span>

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Your third album came out last June and the least we can say is that it has been unanimously received. That must be comforting for you after so much effort?<\/p>\n<\/div>

Greg: We\u2019re super happy it\u2019s out because it\u2019s the culmination of almost two years of work, from writing to production, in our home studio! It feels good to release it and see that people enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it.<\/p>\n<\/div>

L\u00e9a: It\u2019s indeed very comforting. It\u2019s also great to say that it no longer belongs to us and that anyone can make it their own. Creation is a lot about turning inward. So it\u2019s nice to step out of that and share. For us, an album is above all a business card for hitting the road, doing concerts and making encounters!<\/p>\n<\/div>

Line After Line means \u201cline after line\u201d, can you tell us a bit more?<\/p>\n<\/div>

Greg: It\u2019s a metaphor for several things. First the white lines on the road. Indeed, over these past three years, we\u2019ve been lucky to tour a lot and hence spend quite a lot of time in the van watching those lines roll by the window. It\u2019s also all those lines of words, those lyrics, in notebooks and on loose sheets that, little by little, become songs.<\/p>\n<\/div>

L\u00e9a: This notion also represents all the cable mess we roll out show after show. There are two of us on stage but we\u2019ve got more cables, to plug in our gear, than a five-piece band! We often feel tangled in them. In short, \u201cline after line\u201d means \u201cmile after mile\u201d, \u201csong after song\u201d, \u201cstage set-up after stage set-up\u201d, \u201cgig after gig\u201d\u2026 The tour, basically! No drug story in this title even though some have thought so! For us it\u2019s more road, a bag of chips and rock\u2019n\u2019roll!<\/p>\n<\/div>

I heard riffs \u201cborrowed\u201d from Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Brian Setzer (The Stray Cats), John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival) or Paul Personne. Are these musicians part of your references?<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Greg: Indeed, I was bottle-fed from a very young age on these musicians my parents used to listen to. Then I discovered others through their vinyl collection like Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple\u2026<\/div>\n

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L\u00e9a: We\u2019re also pretty inspired by more contemporary musicians like Seasick Steve, The White Stripes, Jack White or The Record Company. We listen to lots of French bands including Dirty Deep, The Blue Butter Pot, Last Train, The Bloyet Brothers, MADAM, The Dynamite Shakers\u2026 On the road, to soothe our ears, we lean more soul, from the 1960s to today. We also love garage rock and psych-rock, two styles that influence us a lot.<\/div>\n

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Your collaboration sparks\u2026 and it yields a track like \u201cI Wanna Kill You\u201d. You should argue more often when we see the result, no?<\/p>\n<\/div>

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L\u00e9a: Hummm\u2026 No! It\u2019s too awful a feeling when we argue! Even though I love that song! Precisely, it\u2019s great because now we no longer fight, we sing it out, we dance a little rock, move the knees, elbows, head and boom\u2026 the crisis is passed!<\/div>\n

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You have almost single-handedly awakened the blues-rock scene in France. But where does your love for the blues in general stem from?<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Greg: My father played drums in amateur blues-rock bands and my earliest musical memories, as a kid, are of seeing and hearing them play, full blast, in rehearsals or concerts\u2026 I too wanted to make big sound like them! I wanted to do rock. It was much later that I discovered that the roots of rock were blues: Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson through Skip James or Muddy Waters. Through their music, they tell their era and their experience as African-Americans in a very harsh slavery and post-slavery period. The first electrified blues and the beginnings of rock\u2019n\u2019roll were a revelation to me (rock being ultimately just spiced-up and accelerated blues). I discovered part of United States history. It is from there that much of modern music flows.<\/div>\n

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\u00ab Toutes les alarmes sont activ\u00e9es et nos gouvernements s’en foutent, se bouchent les oreilles. \u00bb<\/span><\/h2><\/div>
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Making so much noise as a duo isn\u2019t given to everyone. How do you work daily to be so performant?<\/p>\n<\/div>

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L\u00e9a: We eat and sleep a lot! But above all, we rehearse a lot because this project demands a lot physically and we need to be in shape if we want to play properly.<\/div>\n

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Greg: For the sensation and that big four-piece band sound, I created a special chain with my guitar pedals.<\/div>\n

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L\u00e9a: Caution \u2013 geek moment!<\/div>\n

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Greg: It gives the impression that there\u2019s a bass and the guitar is routed through 2 amps for a stereo and wall-of-sound effect. I\u2019m a big geek thanks to my sound-technician background, all this thrills me a lot! But as mentioned above it does indeed make for a whole lot of cables!<\/div>\n

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The current situation of culture in our country is rather alarming. How do you live it on the road?<\/p>\n<\/div>

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L\u00e9a: Unfortunately, the situation isn\u2019t only about culture. All alarms are activated and our governments don\u2019t care, they cover their ears. On our little scale, on the road, we\u2019ve mostly seen the meteorological damages: fires, floods, a stage swept away by a mudslide\u2026 On the cultural side, it\u2019s certain that budget cuts will impact associations\u2019 ability to organise events. Culture is often the first to be cut, supposedly less important, less vital. Whereas when everything goes to nuts, it\u2019s essential to have spaces where people meet, exchange, share, see things that pull you out of your everyday and the world. Fortunately\u2014and we\u2019ll never thank them enough\u2014there are people, volunteers, cultural stakeholders, programmers, local actors who don\u2019t give up and continue to make and create many beautiful projects. Thanks to them!<\/div>\n

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