| UNDEROATH talk about Aaron Gillespie’s departure... |
| Written by Shahlin Graves |
| Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:30 |
 UNDEROATH keyboardist (and now the longest tenured member) Chris Dudley talks about former drummer Aaron Gillespie’s departure from the band to Review Rinse Repeat: "It was definitely a long time coming. Obviously, we had been in a band with him forever, but musically it had become increasingly harder to write with him. As a lot of people know, he has pop-rock tendencies and that was not where we were going with the music. There was that, but there were personal things and what not. He’s not going to leave the band because he does not like a song or something. He is doing another solo record right now. All in all, Aaron leaving was really beneficial for everyone involved. I was talking to him the other day and he said he was saying that he was working on his record and everything. It is so awesome because for a long time it had been—in a lot of ways—the five of us on one page and then him on another musically and in other ways. With him leaving, he is able to write the music he wants to write and work on his own, which he wanted to do for a long time. For us, it was awesome because when Daniel joined, he was on the exact same page as we are, as a person and musically. Aaron actually heard the record a little bit ago and he thought it was awesome and could not believe we had done it. I’m sure when his stuff comes out it is going to be awesome. All in all, for everyone, it was really good." Dudley also spoke about new drummer Daniel Davison: "We had known him for a long time. I met him back in 2001. I’ve known him for almost a decade now. We used to tour a lot with his old band back in the day and we’ve tour with him quite a bit. He was always an awesome dude and obviously he’s a really good drummer. We honestly did not know if he would be interested in doing it because at the time he was playing a band called Colour Revolt, which is this really good band and one of his favorite ones. He is also managing two bands and stuff. We were like, “Man, he’s got a lot on his plate. To ask him to do this as a full time thing, we don’t even think he would want to do it.” But, we felt that we should ask him anyway because we wanted him to do it. We pretty much called him up and were like, “Hey do you want to do this?” and he was like super into the idea. We didn’t ask him to be in the band. We were just like, “Hey do you want to come down and practice with us and see how stuff goes?” From the first thirty to forty-five minutes of the first practice we had with him, we were working on new material, which was crazy. He was really in sync with us as far as the music that we wanted to do. He was like, “I have this idea of doing this and this” and it was exactly what we wanted. There was a lot of good collaboration going on." Read the full interview with Chris Dudley HERE.  |
