Aug
Nikos in Drm here. Have a question--is being a musician working out? do you think you'll be able to do it for the long haul? Just wondering! As always, I'm curious and, of course, jealous of your talent and creativity and will to keep going. As I get close to 50, I wonder what's going on and I'm trying to play some music again--in another vein, but it's incredibly hard, and I'm just not that gifted. signed-Eeyore
this message is from one of the best musicians i ever knew in NC. just goes to show, it really is so hard for everyone, we’re all fucked up, questioning ourselves, thinking we don’t got something we most definitely probably got. love you nikos, i hope you’re doing something that brings you joy and confidence, my thoughts now are….if you’re worse without it then you keep going, if it’s making you fold in on yourself then you quit it. it’s just a math problem, i guess.
sometimes when im having a hard time, i think about quantum mechanics and how it seems to suggest that somewhere, many wheres, so many other dimensions, there is a nikos (more likely there are many, many nikos’) shredding harder than ever and loving every second of it. i like to think about all the dimensions where aimée is not struggling, and then I try to imagine standing in a crowd of aimées, soaking in their energy, just the ease with which they are moving through their lives, all the joy they feel in their dimensions that i often struggle to feel here in mine. i believe in them, that they’re out there, and that they’re me. i dont know if they believe in me, or see me, it doesn’t matter, they don’t have to. they are happy where they are, so i just try to connect with them when i can.
Aug
Love your song titles! How do you come up with them?
long car rides with friends, deep exhaustion, trauma induced a+ sense of humor
Aug
Is "Don Taco" in Double C tuning and is the intro one continuous banjo part, or two banjo parts overlapped?
WHAT?!?!! you’re talking to me in fancy language. it’s one banjo. double c i only know for bras
Aug
Hey Aimée, has that Rickenbacker 650c you play, ever had anything to do with Dave Laney? :) I am sure I saw him playing it...or something identical then. GRG
HA. yes. dave sold me his guitar to buy some new fancy guild. shortly after this very bad investment, his bandmate tripped over the new guitar, breaking it beyond repair. that new guitar sucked anyway, so he re-purchased a different 650c… well, it never played as good as the one he sold to me. but that’s a dave laney problem, not an aimée argote problem. dave recently became my neighbor. it’s been 15 years since that “situation”. we still fight about this weekly.
Aug
will you come to portland again? I was working in the arctic circle last time you were here. ryan wolf
humble brag. also, no.
Aug
How did your voice get to be so amazing? What influences you the most, in life?
i got my astro chart read. the only notes i took were:
“your house of creativity is connected to your house of suffering.”
Aug
Hi my name is Dante Castro from No. 14 Studios in Somerville, MA. Our studiospecializes in live concert recording. We would love to record your entire set at Obrien's on 11/17/11 . Our rates are $150 for just audio, $200 audio and video,$250 for audio, video and photos.We have a 16 channel mobile Pro Tools rig, all of our studio mics, and a NikonDSLR camera. After recording the show we will edit, mix, master the audioand resync the video for a finished product. All post services are included.
wait are you paying us? sure.
Aug
how do you like making crepes? (lemon meringue with strawberries?!! well done.)
never, and i mean NEVER, work for your family business. lol.
Aug
Do you guys plan to tour the UK ever....? x
We never did. I wanted to. Our french & german friends always told us how hard it is to tour the UK, but the americans we talked to told us…it’s just like touring the US. :) BYOTreats I think is what they meant.
