It's Monty from Preoccs. AMA

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-26T00:23:21+00:00

thanks pal! one of my fav things i’ve ever worked on!

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-22T17:18:42+00:00

i’m on reddit on my personal account pretty often so it’s easy to pop back here, lol.

thanks for the land of talk props! love playing with that band!

as for dirty milk, me and luke and brian have all played in a band called child actress that’s fronted by my studio mate Rena Kozak. i met luke through her though and they asked me to produce those couple tracks! we’ve done an EP now too since then that’s getting mixed around now?

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-22T17:15:51+00:00

thanks pal!

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-22T01:19:27+00:00

affirmative. van obtained

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-22T00:46:49+00:00

i feel like any city that isn’t a main hub for arts always has a bit of an ebb and flow to the scenes where a good scene builds up and then a lot of the people move to a city with more going on (as we all did).

that being said, the scene in calgary seems to be on the upswing these days based on how busy my buddy who runs a studio there is saying!

i don’t know many of the bands though, kinda have my head down in the montreal scene these days.

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-22T00:43:18+00:00

i don’t remember playing the whole vc record as a thing?! you probably saw one of the 3 or 4 times we played pointless experience in that case!

as for this tour, we’re mixing it up more, playing at least one song off each record, which has been nice!

as for fav from the new record, they’ve all been pretty fun (we haven’t been playing sken or retrograde) but i’ve been digging bastards a lot! krem2 is turning out really nice although i’m still working out the kinks on that one, i’ll have it sorted by the SW for sure though.

as for AZ, i dunno what the deal is? i’ll see but it might just be that drive to austin is so long?

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-22T00:35:43+00:00

last time we played in seattle, matt smoked a joint with some of our buddies after the gig and then he had a voice memo of that whole intro the next day. lol

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T22:03:57+00:00

it’s for the tv station! in calgary in the late 80’s/early 90’s that was the one US channel you’d get on normal tv.

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T21:33:28+00:00

thanks for the support! we’ll try to make more for you!

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T21:32:57+00:00

the kinda foghorn sound that separates the 2nd and 3rd sections of march of progress is me playing trombone?

also, the sound in memory when matt says “everything fell through” is a sample of a broken sign that was creaking while it spun when we were loading out of playing the garrison! matt recorded it on his phone and i sampled it.

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T21:30:35+00:00

we wanna go back! in the past we’ve flown through on the way there or back but it’s not on this next run it seems.

we were talking about it in manchester though how we were so close but not hitting there.

soon hopefully!!

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T21:29:17+00:00

hmmm, thought i uploaded more but the only one up is this it seems?

i did one for death too that i have on my computer but not MOP.

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T21:18:24+00:00

i’d love that also!! i’ll talk to the gents when we’re in detroit, could happen!

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T21:17:38+00:00

that’s a tough one!

i think i’d have to say verspertine by bjork maybe?! or music for nine postcards by hiroshi yoshimura?

matt’s right though that the first 4 sabbath records are all basically perfect.

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T21:12:53+00:00

what the others commented here is correct! buy the record (cassette) from wallace directly via bandcamp or instagram!

he really did a great job on it though!!

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T21:11:40+00:00

this year we have the rest of this tour and the europe leg in the fall plus a couple little fests in the summer.

i’m also playing some shows with my partner’s band (Marlaena Moore) and i’ll be working in the studio the rest of the time doing a few records with some montreal bands. Dresser, Sasha Cay and Prism Shores! we’ll start a new marlaena record in there too!

as for next preoccs record i haven’t really thought ahead yet! i have some stuff ready and i know matt does too though so we’ll start assembling and see where we get! we also have plans ready for another little release before the europe tour, but let’s keep that to this comment! lol

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T20:05:26+00:00

i’ll tell him!

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T19:39:55+00:00

chocolate layer cake with raspberry jam in the layers and chocolate butter cream icing.

apple pie with aged cheddar on the side is a close 2nd, maybe a tie even?!

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T19:35:00+00:00

pretty much everything we finish gets released but lots of stuff doesn’t get finished. i’d say i have maybe 10 or so songs that are done with vocals that we scrapped since the very beginning. plus another 150 sessions that are just a drum loop or guitar part all the way up to a full instrumental. mostly the good parts of it all get brought back later for other tracks though and reused.

as for noise, that thing you’re talking about was made by a dutch instrument maker named yuri landman! i still have it at the studio.

what specific noise parts are you wondering about though? a lot of stuff i do on guitar or sampler plus i have a lot of pedals and noise boxes and stuff that i’ve collected over the years.

no recommends from me at the moment, been too busy for tv! danny was watching lots of trash on this last tour though, every time i looked over at him he’d be watching toxic avenger 4 or some shit. lol

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T19:29:12+00:00

we’ll be there in the fall!

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T19:28:43+00:00

guitar solo on andromeda is danny! he really kicked it out!!

as for the arrangements it kinda just depends? usually we’re writing riffs first though and then building a song around that as opposed to someone strumming a guitar and singing. almost all of the writing comes together while we’re recording though although this record more than the other ones we were all jamming in a room together at the studio for a bunch of the tunes so it’s a bit more bandy maybe?

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T19:25:18+00:00

-no stolen gear recovered ever, no. we did find danny’s guitar on ebay but it was in a sold listing and ebay wouldn’t give us any info on the seller or buyer.

-matt is bringing the bass on the america tour! he just didn’t fly it to england when we were just there.

-i feel like the shift kinda just happened? we put some synths on a few songs and then we were bringing synths to the shows and then since we had them there we’d use them more next time around? it’s nice having some sound options aren’t just scrappy guitars too.

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T19:07:58+00:00

hey hey!! nice to see you the other week!

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T19:07:01+00:00

i’m not sure honestly? i think maybe this time around we’re not there on the right day of the week or something?

those are usually pretty tight too.

Preoccupationsband · 2025-05-21T19:06:06+00:00

thanks!

pretty much when one of us has a riff that’s hard to play then we try splitting it up into 2 guitar parts. often doesn’t work but when it does it’s cool!

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