Chords for Live from Boston Calling 2017: Car Seat Headrest interview

_ _ _ _ Oh, _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ I gotta [G] do this too.
You ready?
This is [E] like, this makes it official.
Okay, ready?
Here we go.
And _ boom.
[C#] Just like that, we're slated.
We are live from Boston Calling in
the Miller Lite broadcast tent.
We are presented by Miller Lite and sponsored by Dunkin' Donuts
and powered by CTP.
My name is Adam 12.
This is Will Toledo from Car Seat Headrest.
How
are [B] you, Will?
Hi, I'm good.
You [D#] look great.
I like the, _ you got the gray jacket but over the monochrome black [Em] shirt,
black tie look.
I like that.
Yeah, the black tie, black shirt look is like the one [E] element of my outfit I always [E] _ _
[G] do at shows now.
Is there any particular reason [D#] why?
Black is easy.
It [D] doesn't show stains easily.
That's true.
That's a good point.
Our music is a [Em] little depressing.
In California, we did a tour where I had like this sky blue
suit for like a week.
I don't know if that [G] fits so well.
So I'm back to the sort of darker tones [B] now.
Now, and you do [F#] darker tones and there's certainly [N] some darker themes to your music.
Does that,
does it make it difficult for you then to play like an outdoor festival during the [E] day?
Not this one because it's so gloomy.
_ The weather cooperated [Em] with you and your whole aesthetic.
Yeah, no, but I [D#] mean, _ we kind of have got a good setup [Gm] going where, you know, our music
is dark, but it's also loud and driving.
We can definitely get a [F] crowd energized.
[Em] _ And
[E] we've kind of, we have a lot of festivals this year, so we've developed, you know, a
specific set that can kind of _ [G] sustain audience energy throughout 50 or [E] so minutes.
We were talking earlier to _ _ Sylvan Esso and they were talking about that same subject
of it's like, okay, you know, how does the approach change?
It's festival season and
like Carseidairo is playing a bunch of festivals.
So clearly you've got that [A] mapped out.
You
probably sat down and kind of pick and chose what [C] songs make the most sense, how to arrange
the songs I'm assuming too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's [E] nice because I mean, _ [D#] _ you know, obviously you have the bigger songs
that people want to hear and it's kind of nice for a festival because you have the shorter
set so [F] you know, like, you know, you pick from the best of the pile basically.
And so
we did that and we've [C#] kind of, we've actually kind of extended a lot of our songs for the
festival, kind of give it a flow in between songs and do some cool intros and outros.
So we've got like [E] for a 50 minute set, we only [G] really play six songs or so.
Wow.
Yeah.
Cause we've got [C#] most of them are around five minutes and then we've got a few that
are [D] almost 10 minutes.
Fantastic.
And then that has to make it interesting for you as a musician too.
You're able to
take and kind of, I'm picturing like Silly Putty, you know, like kind of take it [D] and
take the songs and pull them apart a little [F#] bit and it keeps it interesting.
So it's not
like, Oh, well playing another set, playing the same eight or nine or 10 songs.
Yeah, definitely.
Cause I mean, we've had, we had a record out last year and we're still
touring on that technically, but I mean, we have to keep changing it up to make it interesting
to us.
So yeah, we've, I think that this year we've really come into some of the songs just
being, sounding a lot different from how they did last year, but still kind of keeping the
core of it.
[D] Congratulations, by the way, it's been about a year of [F#] Teens in Denial, right?
It was May
of last year.
Yeah.
It was [E] about a year and a week ago, I think.
That's fair.
Of course you would know.
Spot on.
I just saw a couple of [Em] people saying [N] happy birthday.
The fans sometimes know better than you do, which is funny.
So what, pick a moment from
the last year, pick a moment from the last year of Teens in Denial that stands out, whether
it was a live moment or a story about touring or something that's been memorable from the
last year that you'll associate [F#] with this album.
When we toured [C] in _ September, yeah, the September tour we did around it and that was like East
Coast America.
_ That was when it really started feeling like, okay, this, you know, we're
coming into something here.
Because when we, when it first came out, I think we were in
Europe.
And so, you know, it's, it's always a little bit more difficult in Europe and
you're kind of playing catch up there.
But I mean, then we came back to North America
and finally did the East Coast, which, you know, I came up in Virginia and we've sort
of got the biggest following, I think, on the sort of East Coast touring circuit.
Sure.
So playing those shows, I think, was, was
when it really started feeling special.
And that's when the suit came out.
Uh-huh.
_ Became official.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It felt like Carsey Hedreswood had officially
[D] arrived, I guess.
We did [F#] two shows in New York that were [C#] kind of especially energetic.
_ Now, I heard that you, there's a possibility of you releasing a split single with Smash
[D] Mouth.
Is that something that's going to happen or is [D] that still a rumor?
I don't know.
That's, I guess I'll call it a rumor for now.
_ It's _ [Em] something that everyone
else pretty much, pretty much knows as much as I [D#] do about it.
Have you ever heard the story about when a bunch of [B] people online basically cyberbullied
Steve from Smash Mouth and is eating two dozen [N] eggs?
Oh, right.
I did hear that.
It's, [D#] that I, _ [C] I'm torn because cyberbullying is wrong, but at the same time to, [C#] to, that
it would, that it would lead to a situation where the dude from Smash Mouth has to eat
two dozen eggs prepared by Guy Fieri.
That's, that's kind of a fun, I mean, that's funny.
It is, yeah.
It's funny.
Yeah.
And I mean, [E] I guess for me, it's just kind of, as soon as the internet really latches
onto something, I kind of lose interest in it.
Sure.
So, so, you know, when I first heard about
this thing, it was just like, you know, to me, I like Smash Mouth.
They've done a bunch
of great songs.
And so I was kind of on board for that.
And then everyone just started,
you know, making it into a meme.
And I was like, [G] well, I'm gonna step away from this.
I'm done.
Yeah.
You don't need that.
You know, as soon as people lose interest, I might go back and start that project again.
You zig when they zag.
Right.
That's right.
Will Toledo from Car Seat Headrest here in the middle of that broadcast tent
backstage, Boston Calling with Radio BDC.
Thank you so much, Will.
[F#] Thank you for having me.
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