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THE KODIAK SESSIONS
The way this came about is
that Dustin Duffy and I are in a band called Precious
Metals. We would practice once a week or more, and then
every 5th weekend Esten would come up from Wisconsin and
we'd jam all weekend long. This was before Jordan Strama
joined the band, so it was just Dustin and me practicing the
tunes. Anyways, we'd get to a point where we just couldn't
practice anymore, like we could only get so far without
Esten being there, and the stuff we did practice we
practiced 100 times. So Dustin has this chaos pad that he
taught me how to use, and I especially enjoyed the sampler
part of it. So this one time I just sampled something he
was playing and looped it over one the beats we use for a PM
song. Well it just got nuts after that. He'd play
something, I'd sample it, I'd play something on keyboard,
he'd sample it, and we just came up with these eerie
freestyle sessions that were just chaotic and all over the
place, but since they were looped over a beat they just kind
of made sense. We'd jam out for hours at a time, and
currently have over 10 hours of music we put together.
Every once in a while we'd
drive to Marshfield and stay the weekend at Esten's instead
of him coming to the Twin Cities. The drive is a long one,
3 hours plus, and we used it to play each other new music
we'd find and just talk about all kinds of things. Well,
one of the trips we made up this whole story about Wisconsin
Dells, that he was actually a man who was a true hero to the
people of Wisconsin, a legend. He used a weapon he
fashioned himself called a Hickory Stick, and used it to
fight Kodiak Grizzly Bears. At the height of his legend he
came riding into town on a Kodiak Grizzly Bear, waving his
Hickory Stick in the air. It was just some ridiculous story
we made up and laughed til we were in tears. So that's why
we named it the Kodiak Sessions. Because of the legend of
Wisconsin Kodiak Grizzly Bear Dells.
Here is one of the songs we
cut out of the hours-long jams we made.
Visit our SoundCloud for
many more =).
Here is a wallpaper I made
for it.
KODIAK SESSIONS
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Outside Links:
Kodiak
Sessions SoundCloud
Dustin Duffy @
apisrecords.wordpress.com
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Thanks for listening! *
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