Q: So
who is in Golden Shoulders?
A: Adam Kline and ______________. Some audiences have seen Adam with
Jason Graham, Rich Good and Todd Roper. Some audiences have seen Adam
with Joanna Newsom, or Todd Roper, or Elissa Spencer, or Rob Kieswetter,
or Charla Ausman. A lot of audiences have seen Adam with Ehren Haas,
Marc Snegg and Neal Morgan. Lately it's mostly been Adam with Ehren
Haas, Jason Graham, and David Nicholson. There was one weird show
in San Luis Obispo where Golden Shoulders was Adam with Brett Shady,
Jason Graham and Kyle Field. On our September 2004 Speed Of Sound
tour, it was just Adam and Neal. It's all valid, man. You can click
here to see a list of everyone who has been involved at one point
or another.
Q: Are the Golden Shoulders the Gears?
A: No. Well, sometimes. Sort of. But not always, and not too often.
The Gears were Adam Kline, Jason Graham and Neal Morgan. The Golden
Shoulders are Adam Kline and any variety of people - sometimes, yes,
Jason and Neal. Gears recordings, which answer the question "what
did the Golden Shoulders sound like in 1965?" can be purchased
from our Order page. We
just wanted to sound like the Beatles with a bit of the Violent Femmes
mixed in. Some say we succeeded, others are just being mean.
Q: Can
I play in Golden Shoulders?
A: Probably, if you're one of Adam's best friends. It also seems to
help if you have a total of nine letters in your name (like Adam Kline,
Ehren Haas, Marc Snegg, Todd Roper, Greg Brown, Aaron Ross, Greg Moore
and Kyle Field).
Q: Where
did the band name come from?
A: This is a long story. You have to remember that, back in high school,
some of us were in a band called Badical Turbo Radness. It is fact
that the band name "Badical Turbo Radness" is ridiculous,
and that fact has been celebrated on internet-based "Funny Band
Name" lists the world over. Go ahead, do a Google search, we'll
wait here.
The next band
was more conservatively named, probably as a subconscious effort to
distance ourselves from the vibe of the previous band. We were the
Gears. Unfortunately, there were roughly seven bands also called the
Gears, or just Gears. And one called Gear. And one called the Gear.
This was a problem.
Then Adam had
the idea that his next band would be break-up proof and consist of
himself and everyone standing near him at any given time. The search
for a name was long and painful. Remembering that dear friend and
constant inspiration Kyle Field toured with the Microphones, Karl
Blau and Bunkbed on a tour called the Golden Shoulders Tour, Adam
asked Kyle if the new band could steal the tour name. Kyle consulted
the other involved parties and a total of none of them had a problem
with a band called Golden Shoulders starting up.
A couple months
later, Adam discovered that people with minds in the gutter found
the band name to be hilarious.
Q: Why
don't you put your lyrics up on your website?
A: Complete lyrics are available in the CD booklets, and putting them
up on the website would make that fact slightly less special.
Q: How
does Thomas Kuhn's paradigmatic definition of theory-pure data, particularly
in terms of its correlation with the epistemological account of sense
data offerred up by Rouseau--in answer to Descartes' solipsistic and
axiomatic arrest of the infinite regress (i.e. Je crois, alors j'existe)--relate
to the passage in "Long Time to Come," in which you vent,
rather Foucault-like (to use an eponymous reference that tends towards
the pedestrian) about your frustration with the delay in your personal
transition form the acute verbosity of your sexual experience as a
simple institutionlized discourse, into a productive and internal
condition of the formerly superstructural position of exteriority
with respect to you, totally being able to finally come? Cause that
was rad.
A: Ladies and gentlemen, this question was brought to you by Joanna
Newsom. Someday you'll see it framed above your table at the Hard
Rock Café in Tuscon next to a Josh Klinghoffer guitar pick
and the ashes of Bob Seger.
Q: How
come you guys don't make enough money playing music to pay your rent
and buy food, but groups like Slipknot, Limp Bizkit and Creed are
all a bunch of millionaires?
A: They are better people than we are.
Q: Will
you go out with me?
A: Okay.
