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to write, we’ll wait until we get into the right moment
when we’ll kick into overdrive.”
“The lyrics can go anywhere, when you start the music
you can kind of guide it to be any setting that you
want, once you get that setting it’s kind of easy for the
lyrics to find their place.” When it comes to songwriting,
the climax can be unpredictable, perhaps in comparison
to making love, or being massaged by a beautiful
woman. “It’s just like if a beautiful chick is giving you
a massage,” Cass says, “and all of a sudden she just
gets into the right spot, it shoots through your body—
the same thing with music. We’re
sitting there listening to our new
demo on the couch and I’m sitting
there getting chills. Sometimes
there will be words where
I’ll get too picky with where I’m
not feeling too much there. Then
you have to come to the realization
that sometimes those are
words that are meant to be, not
to necessary give you chills but
they’re setting up the big moment.”
and Maynard James Keenan, they’ve created this signature
by their uniqueness, their speaking voice sings
their lyrics and speaking it has become their own thing.
Therefore, their voice becomes an instrument and it
becomes needed on this planet.” Ashley Red gives their
listeners a lot of credit to come to their own interpretations
with the lyrics. “Face Me” is one song that immediately
darts out and grabs your attention. The main
guitar riff has great potential, and Cass’s vocal lines
are very emotional. “I just had the riff in mind I had this
thing going in my head,” explains Michael, “I had been
going through some things personally anyway, it was
With the transition down South,
Ashley Red looks forward to entertaining
a new audience that
awaits them. There’s a lot of integrity
with bands from south
Florida; an unwillingness to compromise
with not only their music,
but their overall message, despite
the changes throughout the industry.
Cass explains how the industry
doesn’t affect their sound, “We
have something here, even if they
come chasing after us, [we’ll] let
this evolve into what it is. We write
strictly for us, we write what feels
good.” Ashley Red are at a point
where pretty soon they’re going to
be ready for the industry, but now
they’re concentrating on building
a strong fan base and some foundation
in south Florida. “None of
us have ever had rich families,”
says Cass, “everything we’ve got
we’ve had to work for, we’ve had
to be very honest and we’ve all got
good hearts with it. I think the
hard part is pushing the world to
the side and allowing yourself to
do it, and once you get past that,
it’s easy.”
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36 • RAG MAGAZINE • APRIL 2004