In a rare interview with Tortoise’s Doug McCombs before the forthcoming Mogwai anniversary ATP season, the bands’ frontmen talk about adapting to electronics, learning to experiment, and a new album for 2016
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Stuart Braithwaite: Do you remember how Tortoise first started out?
Doug McCombs: It was kind of a long process for us actually. John Herndon and myself decided we wanted to play together, in the late 80s, and we did a little bit here and there. We weren’t sure exactly what we wanted to do but both were playing in conventional rock bands; so I think we knew we wanted to do something a little different, that touched on other music that we were into. Eventually we arrived at the idea of trying to be a bass player and a drummer, and that was it. When we started recording stuff I would overdub a bunch of bass parts and he would overdub a bunch of drum parts, and eventually we came to the conclusion there should be two drummers and two bass players. That’s kind of how it all started.
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