For all the people reading this interview, can you first introduce yourself and tell us what you do in Amber Pacific.
Justin Westcott and I am a guitarist in Amber Pacific.
Greg: I’m Greg and I play bass and do a bit of writing.
Will: I’m Will.
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First, thank you for doing this with me.
Hey what’s up? Glad to be here.
Awesome. So you got time to answer a few questions?
Sure thing dude.
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I heard that Mae started as a two-piece and then you guys added more members. What made you decide to add more members?
Well actually what it was the two piece was a recording project, our bass player Mark has a studio back home and we’re good friends so he offered me some free studio time at his convenience when he wasn’t working so I wrote some songs and I was playing with our drummer Jacob just as friends. At first it was just a fun recording project and then it sort of accidentally turned into this.
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We’ll start off with the dreaded question, how’d you get the name?
John: I suppose I’ll have to answer this one. Do you want the real answer or the fun answer?
Both!
John [Fake Answer]: It was a reference to a Smith’s single that was a b-side to “How Soon Is Now?”
Eddie: Taking Back Sunday is just a name that we came up with that was a song by a friend’s band. We used to go see them all the time but they broke up.
John: Derek from The Reunion Show was in the band.
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So, is it [the new album] going to be released on MCA? That has sort of been debated by a lot of different people.
Gabe: Yes.
Are you guys excited about that?
Tyler: Yeah, oh yeah.
Gabe: Yeah, we are excited we don’t have to do another record on Drive-Thru.
Hahah. Oh, shit, you guys don’t like Drive-Thru, or what?
Gabe and Tyler: Hate Drive-Thru.
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