They realized, after all, that fans were now following them from show to show, especially in the US, so they had to take more risks – changing sets, changing songs, changing the sounds themselves. They could only prepare so much to be this free. “Every night is so crowded now that it could be the best show, or just rubbish,” Walker says with a wink. “That’s exhausting too, but it’s energizing.”
“When you spend all that time training, you lose your ear, your connection. You get really good at the one thing you do, and you stop listening to what other people are doing,” McKenzie says. We feel more at peace when we say, ‘I’m going to make a bunch of mistakes,’” Mackenzie says. This is a good thing.’ Those things you can’t write into the score will be more fulfilling, more magical, more interesting—at least to us.
Early this spring, four months before the start of their American tour, the King Jays realized they had a problem.
They’ve been experimenting with streaming their shows for years, which is roughly-It is necessary Practice in the world of American jam bands they unwittingly wandered into. But knowing that music mixed for a stage is different from music mixed for laptop speakers, for example, McKenzie wanted to voice good. He remixed each show after it finished, allowing an outside company to sync it to their video only when he was satisfied. It was not, then, a live broadcast at all, especially a live broadcast; They were music recordings, released weeks after the concert ended.
But the bigger issue was money. This is because the band outsourced this task, and Weirdo Swarm had to pay per view. “We didn’t really feel like it was ours to charge it. Stu’s vision was to make it free,” says Keeble, their booking agent since she first brought them to the U.S. in 2014 and global manager since Moore left the band in 2020. To do it for free.” and Make the footage look right, because it becomes archival footage.
Few bands have embraced free culture more than King Gizz. Like the Grateful Dead, Phish, and a host of related heads, they allow tapers to capture and share their performances. But in 2017, they are slowly starting to make this redundant Polygonwanalandtheir fourth album that year but the first they released with an unexpected ultimatum – make your own copies and sell them yourselves.
