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 Butterfly Effect frontman CLINT BOGE is gettting back in touch with his rock & roll roots via THOUSAND NEEDLES IN RED. The affable vocalist tells TOM HERSEY about the formation of the new band.
There is an unspoken rule governing interviews with musicians who are talking about their “new” bands. Like a John Cleese ‘don’t-mention-the-war’ scenario. Questions about the previous, invariably more popular, band can often be greeted with huffy responses and protestations.
This isn’t the case when Clint Boge, a man who cut his teeth in fronting acclaimed hard rock act The Butterfly Effect, gets in touch to talk about Thousand Needles In Red. In fact, Boge admits to have involved himself in Thousand Needles as soon as he heard demo recordings because it reminded him of the salad days of TBE. “As I heard it I thought, ‘fuck man, this sounds like the old Butterfly Effect stuff. I’ve gotta do this.’ It was kind of like a chance to relive my childhood. It made me reminisce about The Butterfly Effect; how that was such an exciting time in my life. We were thinking at the time, let’s do it, let’s have a crack. At the very worst we’ll have some fun and write an EP.”
But where The Butterfly Effect cut their debut EP under comparatively meagre circumstances, Thousand Needles In Red went a different route. Where most bands working on their first EP would be scraping together cash to record at the studio closest to their practice space, Boge and Thousand Needles In Red travelled to Los Angeles to record on hallowed nu-metal ground, NRG Studios, and enjoy the all the spoils of the City of Angels. “We stayed at this amazing, off the hook party house. We were hanging out with movie producers and porn actresses. We’d go out and we’d be sitting just across from Dave Navarro, Brent from Mastodon and Lemmy. It was crazy. This is what we were enveloped in while we were there.”
From the party maelstrom that Clint describes fondly, the band’s debut seven-track offering was created. Listening to the self-titled EP, the reference point of early Butterfly Effect material is immediately validated. Dirty guitar riffs and vocals eschewing Boge’s latter-day melodicism define the recording. As Clint suggests, “it’s really raw, dude. And that’s what we wanted, we said to the producer who we worked with that we don’t want to polish it. We just want straight down the line, four on the floor, dirty rock that has a bit of edge and a lot of grunt. We just wanted to make a good rock-out album”
Exercising his inner rock pig in Thousand Needles, Boge will return to writing a new album with The Butterfly Effect after a brief tour with the newer act. With a chuckle, he suggests how his involvement in Thousand Needles In Red could influence the band’s next record. “Instead of harassing the dudes in Butterfly Effect to write an album like Begins Here or even the EP again, we’re doing Thousand Needles In Red. So the rest of the dudes in The Butterfly Effect are probably loving it because I’ve stopped whinging about wanting to do some heavier stuff.”
THOUSAND NEEDLES IN RED play Friday Mar 5 at Villa Noosa with Drawcard, and Saturday Mar 6 at Never Land with Goons Of Doom. Their self-titled EP is out now. www.myspace.com/thousandneedlesinred.
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