This article originally appears on Boston Band Crush ). Visit the One Night Band website and the Facebook event to find out more about One Night Band 2010 on August 21 at the Middle East downstairs. Check back here each day for more interviews with our participants!
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Michael J. Epstein was born without a mustache, but he currently has a mustache. He also plays guitar and sings in The Motion Sick and plays bass in Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling.
BBC: What Boston rockers, past or present, would you most like to have a One Night Band with?
ME: I am more into long-term relationships, so this is going to be unusual for me. I think it would be most fun to end up with a band consisting of individuals used to playing the most stylistically different and (at least superficially) clashing music. I think that will stir up some real creativity and maybe allow me to play my octaved hybrid death bass/guitar on one song and my ukulele on another.
BBC: What Boston rockers, past or present, would you most fear having a One Night Band with?
ME: Anyone who doesn’t have a good sense of humor. Sadly, that might be a lot of Boston rockers, past and present…or, happily, it might not at all. Genius is mysterious!
BBC: Did you attend One Night Band last year? If so, what was the highlight? If not, what do you anticipate the event to be like?
ME: Indeed I did. The highlight was really just the whole thing going so well and tremendously exceeding my expectations in terms of smooth running and artistic output. I continue to be a big Peppermint Patties fan.
BBC: What is your normal song or part writing process? Will writing three songs in a single day drastically differ from your usual approach to creating music?
ME: I usually wake up in the middle of the night with a line in my head and a little melody carrying it. I sometimes get up and record it. Other times, I just hope I’ll still have it in the morning. For the next 6 months or so after the line is born, it kicks around in my brain, stewing, growing, shrinking, and passing (or failing) a rigorous quality-control process. If it’s still alive then, I try to write some other stuff around it. Writing three songs in a day that have any real personal meaning will certainly be difficult. Writing three formulaic songs about monkeys will be easy. I hope to convince my band to do the latter. I also hope to convince my band to do one death metal song, one folk song, and one experimental-noise romp…about monkeys.
BBC: What Boston band do you have the biggest crush on right now?
ME: It’s hard to stop loving Sidewalk Driver even if Tad does like girls and not shrubbery or inanimate objects. I am also loving the new Walter Sickert and the ARmy of BRoken TOys album. I notice that the exciting possibility of ending up in a ONB with members of each is still lingering. I am hoping that Ad Frank, who participated last year, joins my band illegally as well. By the time security gets him off the stage, we will have completed our set.
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