Quotes by Matt Spiegel

“We consider ourselves to be the Civil War re-creationists of music. Were paying tribute to the song and the artist, but we serve the song. At first, we were sort of like a secret club but now its not so secret anymore.”

“Were sort of like musical anthropologists.”

“Its our joy. Were hearing it come together for the first time. The gigs are great, of course, but those Mondays are our secret little thing.”

“Theres still a lot of low-hanging fruit even four years in. Theres no end to what we can do.”

“There are some things that are more difficult and commercially successful. Writing original songs is more gratifying on some level. But this is so much damn fun because we invented it and perfected it. The fact that we let the music speak and then poof! -- its gone -- manages to somehow give us artistic integrity in a cover-band framework. Weve got something magical here, and we have to protect it. We dont want to suck any of the joy out of it.”