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Band member name answering:
Noah Lit
What you do in band:
Load the van and sing.
1. Boring starter question: How did you guys meet?
Internet chatrooms: gardeners.com, knittingcircle.net and
vigilanties.gov.
2. Follow up boring question: How did you pick the
name Oliver Future?
My great-grandfather was an entertainer in the famous
Russian postwar scene with a band called Oliver and the
Future of Workers of the World. He died in a bizarre ballet
accident but the name lives on.
3. What has been the most exciting thing that has
happened for the band thus far?
Besides this interview? We played Austin City Limits
Festival last summer and got to drink free drinks with rock
stars and play a huge stage while it was 108 degrees.
Seriously, 108. Hottest day ever in September in Austin.
We’re also very excited about the record we are making now
with Adam Lasus.
4. What are you looking forward to?
Releasing said record and doing some touring. LA is OK,
but we’re kinda missing traveling.
5. Recommend one band you think readers should know
about and why (and we hate to say it, but you cannot say
your own…):
Santo and Johnny. They did “”Sleepwalk”” – no, it was not
Richie Valens, as the movie La Bamba sort of
suggests!
6. If you weren’t a musician, what would you do?
Be stable and happy.
7. What’s your favorite venue to play and why?
Wow, tough question. We really like Stubbs in Austin.
Great people and great BBQ for half off if you are playing.
The Viper Room has been great to us in LA…
8. Were you listening to any particular albums or
other artists while recording?
Hmmmmm… This new record has been a weird combo of Wilco
and Al Green. We’re trying to fuse 70s funk with 60s rock
and 2006 paranoia. I think it is kinda working. It all
came together when one day on the way to the studio we heard
“Twist and Shout†by the Beatles then “Easy Like Sunday
Morning†by the Commodores. That kinda summed it up.
Somewhere between those two with just a pinch of being down
and out in LA, a dash of still being pissed off at the
government for the state of things and just a taste of
Samba.
9. Is there any particular theme you see come up in
your lyrics?
Samurais and lots of them. We’ve been on a steady diet
of Samurai movies and literature. It is basic escapism and
romantic notions about the past but I think most of the
songs can be traced to honor and duty to your Shogun.
10. Describe your sound in five words or less:
I love Fluckiest.
Or
Indie, Samurai, Appetite for Destruction.
Thanks Noah, we love Fluckiest too…and then we love
Flukiest! But we might love Appetite for Destruction
more. (The last statement was dedicated to the memory of
pre-corn row Axl Rose.)
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