MAGNET knows a thing or two about good music, art and interesting people, so when Dengue Fever was asked to be guest editors, we all replied within minutes: ”Yes, please!” We have had our noses to the grindstone as of late because that’s what you need to do when you release your latest full-length studio album, The Deepest Lake, on your own label, Tuk Tuk Records. It’s a hell of a lot of work, and us sitting down and writing about subjects other than ourselves sounded like a great respite. So thank you, MAGNET. Enjoy the info, rants and inspirations. Who knows where they’ll take you …
Ethan Holtzman: Whenever Dengue is on tour and we end up driving long nights on the lonely highways, one of the band members inevitably scans the AM frequencies for Coast To Coast AM With George Noory. Whoever happens to be co-pilot will twist the knob back and forth until we either tune in with excitement or give up searching and listen to one of the band member’s iPod playlists. In Los Angeles, Coast To Coast starts at 10 p.m. on AM 640. The subject matters vary from conspiracy theories, latest UFO sightings, Bigfoot reports, cattle mutilations, mining on the moon, ghosts, psychics, weather control conspiracies, crop circles—all the good stuff. One part of the show is called “Open Lines,” where callers from across the country can call in and talk with George Noory and the featured guest of the night. You can hear some real whack-a-dos chiming in, but some can be surprisingly entertaining to hear on the long weary road trip. I can still recall a memorable C2C show while driving through Oregon late in the night. The host and expert were talking about a child psychologist who had recently seen a large male Sasquatch while hiking near the Oregon caves with his family. It was a daytime sighting, which is apparently quite rare as they were nocturnal creatures. While listening to this riveting report, I suddenly realized I was driving through that exact area where the sighting had occurred. In an instant, my eyes scanned the roads searching earnestly for a giant hairy hominid cloaked in shadows. There’s no doubt that Coast To Coast helped the interminable miles fly by no matter what side of the coast we were touring.
Video after the jump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nay2jSWremQ
