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We've got heaps to get through man and I always really enjoy [Am] kicking it with you and talking
about your music and just sort of talking about life and the [Gb] conversation will flow
and it will find itself.
But let's just focus right now on the music.
It's a great title as well, Father of the Bride.
When did you come up with that and what is the sort of relationship?
It was very early on.
I always do better when I know the album titles.
Same thing with Modern Vampires, same thing with Contra.
First album doesn't really have a name.
But it was very early on and you know I'm already thinking about themes and ideas and
vibes and then I can't remember, I can't say for sure.
I think I just kind of happened to see that the movie was on TV and it just like clicked.
I was like Father of the Bride, that's it.
I love that name.
And then of course you know I have to like test it on a few people.
What do you think?
Because a lot of, you know, even like Modern Vampires of the City, you just say that with no context.
Some people are like, okay.
And the same thing with Father of the Bride.
I actually think Father of the Bride, can I just be honest, if I was going to rank it,
I would say it's my favorite album title you guys have done.
I think it's like immediately you can totally picture what that feels like for you as an individual.
Everyone's got a concept of what Father of the Bride means.
Because it's just this kind of crazy bittersweet confused moment of like, you know.
That's a great way to put it.
Even if you're not thinking about weddings or marriage, it literally is just a confused bittersweet moment.
And who else kind of helped you and Ariel put the whole thing together?
The whole album?
I mean, there's songs I did with Rostam.
There's Blood Pop.
Had some really sick contributions.
Let's talk about that for a second.
And we'll get back and we'll go through the lists of individually.
Let's rewind actually.
So we can't gloss over the Rostam collaboration because obviously it's the first time [Ab] Vampire
Weekend have returned without Rostam [G] as a core member of the lineup, or at least [E] on paper.
But he's in the studio collaborating with you and you guys were always super open that
it was never an acrimonious split.
So how did that feel with him back working with you, but knowing that it wasn't necessarily
part of the core chemistry or dynamic of the band.
It [Abm] was more of a free experience.
It's just not that different in a way.
You know, it's very familiar.
And because it's not just with the two of us.
It's not just like, oh yeah, that was like a, you know, a dude I met of like a Craigslist
ad for looking for to start a band.
Then we got successful for a few years.
That's somebody that, you know, I met my freshman year of college.
We worked on music before we had a band.
He was this dude who was like really interested in [Bb] recording.
I remember when we were freshmen, I'd already written the song Bren, which ended up being
on the first Vampire Weekend album.
And, you know, and again, like freshman year of college was the [Ab] time I probably didn't
pick up a guitar that much because busy doing other stuff, you know?
And then I meet this dude who's super enthusiastic about music too.
And he's like, why don't we record that in my room?
I was like, we could record this in your room.
And because he had a mic and, you know, at least some bass, like an inbox, basic Pro Tools setup.
Yeah.
And then that was the first time we did anything together.
That relationship was just as two [Gb] musicians, a songwriter and a producer, two creatives together.
It wasn't like, let's, you know, so we started a band three years later or something.
So I always think about it like we, we didn't literally grow up together.
We met each other when we were 18, but
Formative years though.
Yeah.
We kind of like grew up together as creative people and rubbed off on each other.
And we've had like conversations, we kind of realized we were each other's like first
fans, you know, in a way like him supporting me and what I do, me supporting him and what he does.
So you have more members of the band now than ever before.
You enjoying that experience?
I'm hearing reports of
I think Cardi and Bernie are members of the band.
Cardi and Bernie are?
The band has extended.
You offered me a position in the band before, but like I said, I, and I appreciate that.
But I sort of feel like, you know, I do think your name has to be attached to some form
[E] of creative within the band dynamic.
Otherwise, you really are just grasping for straws.
Who's going to play with you at the bowl?
You worked it out?
Oh, I'm so psyched about the bill at the bowl.
This is to me, this is an all time bill because for Hollywood Bowl and Madison Square Garden
is as my kind of two hometowns.
Yeah.
I really want to have a special bill.
So at Madison Square Garden, it's us, Angelique Kijo, who's a legendary singer, always been
super [Ab] supportive of Vampire Weekend.
We've [N] collaborated on all sorts of stuff.
And then Death Spot.
So it's like all friends and family.
Amazing.
We got, we got rap.
We got Angelique from Benin, you know, African music, Vampire Weekend.
And then in here, we got Richard Pictures, which is my Beats 1 co-host, Jake Longstreet's
Grateful Dead cover band opening at the bowl, getting a nice tasty vibe, just setting things up right.
And then we got to Tanara one.
Wow.
Just incredible.
I don't have a personal relationship with them, but we had that middle slot open and
we're trying to see who we could get.
And we're like, we just want this to feel like a special bill.
And somebody was like, I think Tanara one, like somebody had talked to Tanara one's crew
and I was like, oh, that's sick.
And also love it's like three different types of guitar music.
Would you do a time crisis on the stage at the bowl during the day?
Just recording a time crisis.
I think something like it would be sick to do a time crisis in the bowl at like 1pm before
soundcheck kicks in.
Yeah, that could be cool.
And I think also sometimes they let people like kind of hike in the bowl during the day.
Really?
Let a few hikers in just to set a vibe while we record a TC over there.
That'd be tight.
I had all this TC related material, but who cares?
I love that show.
It's on, by the way, it's on.
It's like, it's upset.
You know, this is obsessive in my house, right?
My son goes to sleep.
Oh, the whole family?
My son goes to sleep to it every single night.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I don't know how I feel about that.
I mean, like, it's like, I go in to check that he's asleep and you're just like filling
his brain with all this pro grateful dead rhetoric and telling people that Steve [G] Miller's
a bad man.
And I just, I don't know how I feel about all that.
You know what I mean?
Daddy, what did Steve Miller say about Jerry Garcia?
It's like that in the morning.
It's like that.
It's like that.
It's like, it's like you're in my house.
It's crazy.
I get in my car.
My son's like, can you play Harmony Hall?
I'm like, I can play Harmony Hall, but we didn't have enough Ezra for one day.
[E] You can never have enough.
Between Vampirokin and TC, we [B] got hundreds of hours of [A] content.
I just want to say, Steve Miller, just apologize.
Just apologize.
All is forgiven.
Apologize to Jerry's children.
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We've got heaps to get through man and I always really enjoy [Am] kicking it with you and talking
about your music and just sort of talking about life and the [Gb] conversation will flow
and it will find itself.
But let's just focus right now on the music.
It's a great title as well, Father of the Bride.
When did you come up with that and what is the sort of relationship?
It was very early on.
I always do better when I know the album titles.
Same thing with Modern Vampires, same thing with Contra.
First album doesn't really have a name.
But it was very early on and you know I'm already thinking about themes and ideas and
vibes and then I can't remember, I can't say for sure.
I think I just kind of happened to see that the movie was on TV and it just like clicked.
I was like Father of the Bride, that's it.
I love that name.
And then of course you know I have to like test it on a few people.
What do you think?
Because a lot of, you know, even like Modern Vampires of the City, you just say that with no context.
Some people are like, okay.
_ And the same thing with Father of the Bride.
I actually think Father of the Bride, can I just be honest, if I was going to rank it,
I would say it's my favorite album title you guys have done.
I think it's like immediately you can totally picture what that feels like for you as an individual.
Everyone's got a concept of what Father of the Bride means.
Because it's just this kind of crazy bittersweet confused moment of like, you know.
That's a great way to put it.
Even if you're not thinking about weddings or marriage, it literally is just a confused bittersweet moment.
And who else kind of helped you and Ariel put the whole thing together?
The whole album?
I mean, there's songs I did with Rostam. _
There's Blood Pop.
Had some really sick contributions.
_ _ _ _ Let's talk about that for a second.
And we'll get back and we'll go through the lists of individually.
Let's rewind actually.
So we can't gloss over the Rostam collaboration because obviously it's the first time [Ab] Vampire
Weekend have returned without Rostam [G] as a core member of the lineup, or at least [E] on paper.
But he's in the studio collaborating with you and you guys were always super open that
it was never an acrimonious split.
So how did that feel with him back working with you, but knowing that it wasn't necessarily
part of the core chemistry or dynamic of the band.
It [Abm] was more of a free experience. _
_ _ _ It's just not that different in a way.
You know, it's very familiar.
And because it's not just with the two of us.
It's not just like, oh yeah, that was like a, you know, _ a dude I met _ of like a Craigslist
ad for looking for to start a band.
Then we got successful for a few years.
That's somebody that, you know, I met my freshman year of college.
We worked on music before we had a band.
He was this dude who was like really interested in [Bb] recording.
I remember when we were freshmen, I'd already written the song Bren, which ended up being
on the first Vampire Weekend album. _
And, you know, and again, like freshman year of college was the [Ab] time I probably didn't
pick up a guitar that much because busy doing other stuff, you know?
And then I meet this dude who's super enthusiastic about music too.
And he's like, why don't we record that in my room?
I was like, we could record this in your room.
And because he had a mic and, you know, at least some bass, like an inbox, basic Pro Tools setup.
Yeah.
And then that was the first time we did anything together.
That _ relationship was just as two [Gb] musicians, a songwriter and a producer, two creatives together.
It wasn't like, let's, you know, so we started a band three years later or something.
So I always think about it like we, _ we _ _ didn't literally grow up together.
We met each other when we were 18, but_
Formative years though.
Yeah.
We kind of like grew up together as _ creative people and rubbed off on each other.
And _ _ we've had like conversations, we kind of realized we were each other's like first
fans, you know, in a way like him supporting me and what I do, me supporting him and what he does.
So you have more members of the band now than ever before.
You enjoying that experience?
I'm hearing reports of_
I think Cardi and Bernie are members of the band.
Cardi and Bernie are?
The band has extended.
You offered me a position in the band before, but like I said, I, and I appreciate that.
But I sort of feel like, you know, I do think your name has to be attached to some form
[E] of creative within the band dynamic.
Otherwise, you really are just grasping for straws.
Who's going to play with you at the bowl?
You worked it out?
Oh, I'm so psyched about the bill at the bowl.
This is to me, this is an all time bill because for Hollywood Bowl and _ _ Madison Square Garden
is as my kind of two _ hometowns.
Yeah.
I really want to have a special bill.
So at Madison Square Garden, it's us, Angelique Kijo, who's a legendary singer, always been
super [Ab] supportive of Vampire Weekend.
We've [N] collaborated on all sorts of stuff.
And then Death Spot.
So it's like all friends and family.
Amazing.
We got, we got rap. _
We got Angelique from Benin, you know, African music, Vampire Weekend.
And then in here, we got Richard Pictures, which is my Beats 1 co-host, Jake Longstreet's
Grateful Dead cover band opening at the bowl, getting a nice tasty vibe, just setting things up right.
And then we got to Tanara one.
Wow.
Just incredible.
I don't have a personal relationship with them, but we had that middle slot open and
we're trying to see who we could get.
And we're like, we just want this to feel like a special bill.
And somebody was like, I think Tanara one, like somebody had talked to Tanara one's crew
and I was like, oh, that's sick.
And also love it's like three different types of guitar music.
Would you do a time crisis on the stage at the bowl during the day?
Just recording a time crisis.
I think something like it would be sick to do a time crisis in the bowl at like 1pm before
soundcheck kicks in.
Yeah, that could be cool.
And I think also sometimes they let people like kind of hike in the bowl during the day.
Really?
Let a few hikers in just to set a vibe while we record a _ TC over there.
That'd be tight.
I had all this TC related material, but who cares?
I love that show.
It's on, by the way, it's on.
It's like, it's upset.
You know, this is obsessive in my house, right?
My son goes to sleep.
Oh, the whole family?
My son goes to sleep to it every single night.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I don't know how I feel about that.
I mean, like, it's like, I go in to check that he's asleep and you're just like filling
his brain with all this pro grateful dead rhetoric and telling people that Steve [G] Miller's
a bad man.
And I just, I don't know how I feel about all that.
You know what I mean? _
Daddy, what did Steve Miller say about Jerry Garcia?
It's like that in the morning.
It's like that.
It's like that.
It's like, it's like you're in my house.
It's crazy.
I get in my car.
My son's like, can you play Harmony Hall?
I'm like, I can play Harmony Hall, but we didn't have enough Ezra for one day.
[E] You can never have enough.
Between Vampirokin and TC, we [B] got hundreds of hours of [A] content.
I just want to say, Steve Miller, just apologize.
Just apologize.
All is forgiven. _
Apologize to Jerry's _ children.
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _

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