Jarboe Quotes

I love playing live. Michael really enjoys doing the concerts. it�s just that because we don�t have any financial support or backing when we�re on the road, in order to make it feasible economically, we have to do one nighters. we have to be a different place essentially every night. so that means covering huge distances in a very short amount of time. so for example on the last tour that would mean arriving in a city, setting up gear, doing a sound check, doing a concert, packing up the gear after the concert, getting in the van & driving to the next city, or in the case of europe driving to the next country. so we�re talking about many hours, sixteen hours more or less traveling non-stop & then doing a show in a state of exhaustion. after a couple of months of that I began to really feel wiped out. 
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The name Swans, Michael says it was just arbitrary. he wanted something that was a neutral title. but, as he�s been quoted as saying, he was not unaware of the irony of the name. because of course when you think about a swan & then you think about the music that the group was doing when the name was picked, the music was very very brutal, possibly the loudest ugliest most brutal music that�s ever been recorded. & to call that sound Swans was extremely ironic & I think kind of brilliant.
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