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YH Buzz Meter: White Rabbits

YH Buzz Meter: White Rabbits

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We talk post-performance with White Rabbits about their fresh sound and how they originally formed.

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Young Hollywood

Welcome to Younghollywood. com.

Young Hollywood

Hey Young Hollywood, it's Michelle Murray and I am here in the green room with White Rabbits.

Young Hollywood

Now, you guys just performed for Yahoo Music's The New Now.

YH Buzz Meter

I'll take it from me.

YH Buzz Meter

What else could you do?

YH Buzz Meter

And how ready you get off and how can I get there to Why it time?

YH Buzz Meter

We call it dignified.

Young Hollywood

Great job, by the way.

White Rabbits

Oh, thank you.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, how do you feel about the performance?

White Rabbits

It was fun.

YH Buzz Meter

It's a lot of cameras.

YH Buzz Meter

I hear you talking but I don't see the need.

White Rabbits

We played Percussion Gun, uh, The Lady Vanishes and Rudy Fails.

Young Hollywood

You had a lot of energy.

Young Hollywood

Where does this all come from?

Young Hollywood

What's your pre-ritual before you go on stage?

White Rabbits

Well, we sit in the van and so we have a lot of energy to get out of us, yeah.

Young Hollywood

And I know that you guys have two drummers and you're one of them.

Young Hollywood

Tell us about what, you know, made you guys decide to form this whole band and how it all came about.

White Rabbits

It really wasn't a conscious decision.

White Rabbits

Um, everybody has a lot of musical influences.

White Rabbits

There's six guys in the band, so it's kind of a byproduct of all of our record collections and I think we like music that's very rhythmic and that's kind of how it came about.

Young Hollywood

You guys are in New York right now but you all met in Missouri.

White Rabbits

Well, we've all been friends for a long time.

White Rabbits

I've known Greg for over 25 years now and uh it was kind of a friendship before a band and then the band kind of formed out of everybody kind of being in the same region and uh friendship before band.

Young Hollywood

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

So the friendship is over.

White Rabbits

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Percussion Gun.

YH Buzz Meter

You're my love.

YH Buzz Meter

I feel the same.

Young Hollywood

Tell me about that title.

White Rabbits

A lot of our titles are really humorous.

White Rabbits

It can be taken anyway.

White Rabbits

Yeah, we were just really interested in that beat and so we were just trying to write a song to that beat.

White Rabbits

And a lot of it was improvised, a lot of like the lyrics were improvised and a lot of the melodies were improvised.

White Rabbits

It was one of the first songs we wrote for the record, so And doing it that way was much different than what we did for the first album.

White Rabbits

It was like very over-wrought and a lot of second guessing.

White Rabbits

So it was nice to just do your first idea, you know.

Young Hollywood

Right.

Young Hollywood

If you guys weren't doing music, what would you be doing right now if you could pick a career?

White Rabbits

Uh, I'm actually like a semester away from a master's degree in library science, which I never completed.

White Rabbits

Nice.

White Rabbits

Probably wouldn't be doing this.

White Rabbits

I chose I chose not to do that and do the band instead.

White Rabbits

Probably like a fireman or a cowboy or something like that.

White Rabbits

Maybe an astronaut.

Young Hollywood

Cowboy, I like that.

Young Hollywood

I I did always want to be a cop whenever I was a kid so maybe I would go for that, yeah.

White Rabbits

Hi, we're White Rabbits and we're here in the green room at Yahoo Music New Now.

YH Buzz Meter

Now new.

YH Buzz Meter

Yahoo.

YH Buzz Meter

Yahoo!

YH Buzz Meter

Hi, I'm Yahoo Serious.

YH Buzz Meter

You're watching Young Hollywood.

YH Buzz Meter

You're watching Young Einstein.

YH Buzz Meter

We now return to Young Einstein with Yahoo Serious.

YH Buzz Meter

Thanks.

YH Buzz Meter

Is this a disaster?

YH Buzz Meter

Sweet.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Michelle Murray

    Interviewer for Young Hollywood

  • White Rabbits

    Musical band being interviewed

  • Greg

    Friend of a band member for over 25 years

  • Yahoo Serious

    Referenced in a humorous sign-off

FAQ

Who is interviewing White Rabbits?+
Michelle Murray from Young Hollywood is interviewing the band White Rabbits.
Where did White Rabbits perform?+
White Rabbits performed for Yahoo Music's The New Now.
How did White Rabbits form?+
The band formed out of a long-standing friendship, with members being in the same region, and it wasn't a conscious decision initially.
What is the inspiration behind the song "Percussion Gun"?+
The band was interested in a particular beat and tried to write a song to it, with much of the lyrics and melodies being improvised.
What career might a White Rabbits member have pursued instead of music?+
One member was a semester away from a master's degree in library science, while others mentioned being a fireman, cowboy, astronaut, or cop.

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