Interview: The Strand
Posted On Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 By Phxgoth.com
What is The Strand? The Strand are a bunch of friends who get together and occasionally rock out on stage. On a rare occasion we have been known to release an album or three. If you want the specifics of our band, our bio reads… “The Strand is a six piece band based out of Chandler, Arizona whose music ranges from industrial dance, to EBM, and industrial rock.” If you want to know each of the band members, I will also direct you to the bio at www.strandland.com, but my name is Dave and I do the screaming and a lot of the songwriting. How did you get into making music? The original intent was to record cassette tapes of industrial beats to listen to in the car when driving around. But that was a long time ago. My friend Arman Bastani and I made music on our Amiga computers, trying to emulate the crazy music that was coming out at that time from Wax Trax Records. This was in the early 90s, and we lived in the suburbs of Chicago. What bands influence your sound the most? When I started writing music I was into Front 242, KMFDM, Skinny Continue Reading
