An Interview With Galactic
Rebecca Britton: This band is changing the face of New Orleans punk.
Hi. I'm Rebecca Britton and welcome to Watchmojo.com. And,
today we’re speaking with Galactic.
How did each of you individually get into music?
Robert Mecurio: I wanted to play horn but my orthodontist wouldn’t let me so he
had all these like charts of like what the each instrument does to
your mouth. They were like ? well, piano won't mess up your
teeth. Well, with piano and then I ended up really finding my love
when I started playing bass.
Rich Vogel: I started playing piano as a kid and I stuck with it actually so I'm
the piano player.
Rebecca Britton: Who did you grew up listening to and how has that kind of
influenced the Galactic?
Robert Mecurio: The one band that we all collectively really dug. It was this Meters
from the New Orleans. We all respectively really like the person
that played our instrument in the band and the way that they played
as a band together.
Rich Vogel: The rhythm section was the four of us, bass guitar, keyboards and
drums. That's the part of the band that stayed consistent even from
the earliest days and so the Meters being a rhythm section same
instruments in New Orleans and we’re in New Orleans and we
actually can go see the Meters play during college.
Robert Mecurio: We learned a lot of their music when we started. It’s kind of our
beginning point although now that we’ve been a band for 15 years.
It’s ? we really don’t set anything right now.
Rebecca Britton: If you had to describe your music for someone who has never
heard it, how would you go by doing that?
Rich Vogel: It’s rooted in funky New Orleans music. If you're talking about the
brass bands or you're talking funk bands like the Meters, music
that the Neville Brothers made.
We’re young dudes who grew up playing punk rock. I grew up in
the mid west listening to rock and roll and playing all different
kinds of music so maybe we have -- maybe like certain aggressive
edge to it without playing traditional, our old school R&B and your
old school punk but we love all that music and learn so much from
it. That is all in there.
Robert Mecurio: The modern New Orleans punk band, I've read that one. I mean I
didn’t ? that bad.
Rebecca Britton: Thank you very much guys.
Robert Mecurio: Sure.
Rich Vogel: Thanks for having us.
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