Tubes “Aaron” Mullan of Glass Rock [and Tall Firs] returned from the dead not too long ago, and is back fielding questions to which you wanna hear the answers. Sensing potential holes in the Metal Expert’s credibility re: Tall Firs, Glass Rock Life went for the dirt but received instead cool summer time answers that just sorta drifted away in a good way from the Krautrock cash-in bass player himself. Thanks Aaron. May you never die again.
1) Do you feel that the Metal Expert’s review of the Tall Firs’ song-video is fair? Is it too political?
I think it is very fair and accurate. “Not Metal, but Heavy” is pretty much what we were going for there. In fact, if I die today, I want that to be my epitaph.
2) What is your favorite summer time music? What is summer time music supposed to do?
It’s a hard time of year because THE Jam of the Summer has yet to fully emerge. Dudes cruising my street are still blasting Last Year’s Jam. David Guetta’s ‘Sexy Bitch’ has been played all winter in my supermarket, but can it hold on to be THE Jam of the Summer? It’s a pretty good song. Although somebody was pumping LMFAO’s ‘Shots’ and that was pretty sweet.
I hope we don’t have another Summer Jam with an outlandish sample of an even better, older Summer Jam. I mean, ‘Genius of Love’ and ‘I’m Coming Out’ were so damn good. There was no need for a new Summer Jam with either of those samples.
In general, to me summer is MSG to music. It brings out the flavor in Townes Van Zandt, the Velvets, Coltrane, anything really.
