A: We've been pushing hard as a band for so long that if I could come up with all the lessons learned it would be kind of funny. Things you didn't expect -- some towns have incredibly nice club owners that take care of you from top to bottom and just want to make sure the musicians are happy, and some don't give a shit about musicians and just have a club and are trying to make cash. It's a big lesson in learning how to work with people. It's just a business like anything else. Music, when it comes down to it, you have to really be conscious of it working as a business as well, and that's something that we're learning a lot about. You have to run on a budget, and you have to do things like pay for gas and insurance, and so it becomes a small business. You're not just playing music anymore; it becomes your employment. You're always learning and you're always trying to figure out how to maintain what you're trying to accomplish.
Q: Where did the learning process through the industry start?
A: Blake (who plays the keyboard), he actually worked in and around the music business for a few years, so he got a very good inside view of what the inside of music industry looks like. And when you meet with club owners all the time and you book shows all the time, you learn a whole lot about what makes the music industry turn. It's just like anything -- you don't necessarily go to class for it, but you learn just by doing, so we've just been pressing really hard on booking and writing and promotion for years now, and it becomes something you adapt to and you learn how to make it work. It's a lot of trial and error.
Q: So what's next for Basshound?
A: What's next? Well, tonight's Wilmington. We're working on a CD, actually. We're going to come out with an album hopefully toward the beginning of the New Year, within the first couple of months. So when that album comes out, that's going to be good for us on many levels, and we've been in the studio working on that since late August. I think we're going to go on tour out West in January and February, and then when we get back we'll do our circuits in the area, and then we're hoping to really play nonstop for most of the summer and try to hit as many festivals and cities as we can.
Q: What should Virginia Tech students expect from Basshound on Wednesday?
A: We have a current challenge to Virginia Tech students to try and have a better time then we're going to have on Wednesday night, because we all try and get on stage and have a good time no matter what's going on in the room. One of the things that we're definitely going to be able to do is it's going to be a different show than the last two times we were down there because we do our best not to ever repeat shows in front the same crowds. So it'll be a different show, and it's going to be a really good crowd on Wednesday. So I think people should come out and expect some really high-energy music.
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