The Nautilus Studio M31 Files interview High Desert Strays (part 2)

Studio owners Yves LF Giraud (Studio M31) and Mr Bill (Nautilus Studio) interview High Desert Strays ' Shane Queener and Jessica Munn (part 2). 

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SPEAKER_00 0:20

Let's let's let's flowers of the night gleaming from the moisture hair.

SPEAKER_02 0:28

But I don't I'm I'm actually a horrible writer in practice. Um it's bad. Wait, wait, explain that. I don't practice rehearsal.

SPEAKER_03 0:43

As far as write writing though, I mean writing is it's not practice, it's it's uh it's creative.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

Yeah, and I I think that's what I'm saying is I just I don't do that. I I write out of inspiration. Yeah. And that doesn't come around very often. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 0:59

Well you don't follow it.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

I might I might get one or two songs a year cranked out. How many originals do you have? I maybe have ten.

SPEAKER_03 1:10

That's that's yeah, that's good. So yeah. Yeah, and you fool us for those uh obscure covers because I thought you had more.

SPEAKER_04 1:18

Yeah, I would have guessed more, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:21

That's all uh can you tell us?

SPEAKER_02 1:23

We've been toying with the idea of maybe trying to do a little more stuff that's recognizable that maybe if people song.

SPEAKER_04 1:35

You know, a good song is a good song whether it's an original or a cover. You know, there's so many people, now I'm not gonna mention any names, but a good song's a good song, and a crappy song's a crappy song, whether it's original or cover. Yeah. So just keep picking out good songs. Yeah. That's well, that's my uh that's my maybe the option uh the other options.

SPEAKER_03 2:00

Pick out really bad songs, okay? Shane, you wrote a song for uh a kind of a contest, I guess. Yeah. Uh the brewery. Can you tell us about it?

SPEAKER_02 2:12

Yeah, so I think I think Marilyn Croker put that together, and it was uh they were calling it a songwriter's competition. And all the proceeds, I can't remember the name of the organization in Makus, but all the proceeds went to that. And it was uh I can't remember how many songwriters were involved, but you had to write a song about maybe a dozen people because they only had to do one song, so yeah. There was a few. But you had to write a song that mentioned one of the brewery's craft brews. Oh, uh-huh. Um and everybody got pretty creative.

SPEAKER_04 2:56

Yeah. But did you go for extra dizzy?

unknown 3:00

No.

SPEAKER_02 3:01

I went for uh Cliff Dweller. Cliff Dweller.

SPEAKER_03 3:04

Oh yeah, cool. Yeah, you still do you still do that song? I love that song. That's a great song.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

That's one of the songs we had a month, and that's one of the songs that I did not write out of inspiration.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

Uh huh, yeah. Why made you decide to actually participate in this since you're not sure? Marilyn contacted me. Okay. Um I mean you could have said, uh no, it's not for me because since you you usually just go by the flow for songwriting.

SPEAKER_02 3:31

So I I kind of I kind of felt like it would be a good stretch, you know, for me to do something out out of the normal for how I do things. Yeah, sure. Um but I put I mean I got serious about it. I went and did research and went to the Volcany Visitor Center and did a bunch of reading and searching.

SPEAKER_04 3:51

Yeah, you know, and that might indicate that you just need to have uh some purpose or to get your song writing. Yeah. Uh or a theme, you know. Beer is a great theme. You did have inspiration.

SPEAKER_03 4:08

Yeah, you know, so well you probably had to sample that beer to be able to sing about it, right? He's got probably beer.

SPEAKER_02 4:15

I don't think I've ever I don't think I've ever had a cliff dweller. Oh, I've got to do the voodoo amber. Well, you should have you should have free cliff dweller the rest of your life. That's right. If you know the right person.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

Yeah. Well uh guys, I was wondering if you would be willing to do a song for us. Uh Acoustec, which was leave it here, we step out. You guys grab your guitars and is that okay? And uh, have you thought of what you want to do? Oh, maybe we'll just do cliff dwelling. Yeah, you pick, and feel free to to mention the name of the song as we start. Okay. And then uh we're gonna take a minute to step away, you grab your guitar.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

All right. We are the high desert strays, and this is an original song called Cliff Dweller.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

I died at thirty-five, like my father did before. I made my home in the canyons in the red rocks. I praise the sun, I prayed for rain, I work the ground, it never came. I made my bread from the sago root, ate the fruit of the canyon pine. I am the gold of Anastasi. I am Cliff Dweller. I am the gold of Anastasi. I am Cliff Dweller. You call it Canyon of the Ancients, you call it Valley of the Gods, and you call it Mace of Verde. I call it home, it's where I trud. You see my stories on the rock walls, you hear my song in the wind, my voice still echoes in the keyboards. My footsteps mingle with the sand. I am the gold, anastasi, I am Cliff Welder, I am the gold, Anastasia, I am Cliff Welder. I am a cooler, I am Cliff Dweller, I am Hope, I am soony, I am Cliff Dweller, I am ancient, I am Pueblo, I am Cliff Dweller I am the ghost, I am still here, I am Cliff Dweller.

SPEAKER_03 8:39

Wow. Nice. Love it, it's beautiful. Love it. Well, that was an awesome song. That was. And I'm glad actually we talked about it and you did that one. That was true. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:51

Another one that you've done is about the Dolores 2. Uh have you done several about the Dolores River?

SPEAKER_02 8:59

No, Dolores King. Just that one, and that was a co-write with uh Mark Gibson. What?

SPEAKER_04 9:04

Yeah. Cool. And uh I uh was I can't remember. Were you talking uh about any particular part of it or anything?

SPEAKER_02 9:13

I think in my mind, uh while writing the song it it it was kind of the lower Dolores going through the uh below Bradfield down there, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

The line in the course is I'm going down through the river of sorrows.

SPEAKER_04 9:32

Yeah, right. Uh Jessica, have you been down there? Uh uh ridden your horse down there?

SPEAKER_05 9:38

Uh I haven't rode much down that part of it, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 9:42

It's a real nice ride. You can uh there's a big uh campground at uh Bradfield where you can park your trailer and you cross the river about six times and you go down into this beautiful uh red wall canyon with the ponderosa pines and it's just as beautiful as it gets and uh yeah, yeah, it's a great place to take your home. Yeah, yeah, I had a whole uh string.

SPEAKER_05 10:11

Oh yeah?

SPEAKER_04 10:12

Yeah, yeah, Peruvian Paso corridor's crosses. Really? Yeah. Oh cool Paso Cortas, I called them. Because they had the nice butt of uh corridor where Peruvians don't have so much. They're kind of a front end thing.

SPEAKER_05 10:28

Yeah, oh cool.

SPEAKER_04 10:29

So yeah, I'm into butts, so he likes big buttons.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

Yeah, and that was in the in that Kenyan US, right? Yeah, that's a whole didn't you say you had a bunch? There were quite a few, right?

SPEAKER_04 10:46

I had uh I think I had 18 at one point. Oh goodness. Yeah, yeah. And uh used to get the big ton bales of hay uh uh and put them out there and let them all work on that. And then in the winter when I got like a a snowstorm and I was out in California, one of the times I came back to my little ranch down there and there were like fifty elk had come and run my horses off at this stage. Yeah. They were right down in there. Yeah, so uh uh the horses were glad uh I had to shoe them off at yeah, you know. And the horses came back? Yeah, oh yeah, the horses were still on the property, but they were staying away. Yeah, the elk had pushed them off, you know.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

That was a little expensive deal, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. Shame on them. I know, I know.

SPEAKER_04 11:38

But he was a lot cheaper back then. That was about 15, 20 years ago.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

Yeah, it's got bad last couple years. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:47

So um, just to come to come back to you guys and and and the band, um you you told us that I don't think this one will be out before Saturday, obviously. So I just want to mention again you guys are gonna be at Zoo, Zoo Gathering Cortez on the 20th.

SPEAKER_02 12:02

December 20th.

SPEAKER_03 12:03

And that's do you know what day of the week that is?

SPEAKER_02 12:05

I I believe that's a Saturday.

SPEAKER_03 12:07

Okay. Yeah. Okay. And um anything else after that?

SPEAKER_02 12:12

Any uh There's a little bit of a surprise coming up in January that uh we're allowed to be a little bit more. It won't say it won't it won't affect the the folks in southwest Colorado, but I'm kind of keeping it hush hush for now. But it'll be a it'll be a pretty exciting announcement. Oh it's really exciting for me. I don't know if anybody else will be excited about it or not.

SPEAKER_05 12:37

I'm on the louder. Yeah, what about you? Are you excited? I'm excited about it. Oh, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04 12:42

Cool, cool. Well that's good. Good start. Yeah. And it's musical. It's musical. It's gonna be early next year, is that what you said? Yeah. Okay, okay, cool. Well we'll be looking at it. Are you gonna play for the Winter Olympics? No, I don't think so. Maybe after this gig. The Rose Parade. That's a good Rose Parade.

SPEAKER_03 13:05

The halftime of whatever. Yeah. Um in terms of uh so Bill, you did you did mention it right now you haven't written anything very recent. Um you're doing you're working on the coverage that you said. And uh do you have any projects of recording any of those songs? Uh I'm assuming this one uh clipped away, but you haven't recorded that.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

I have never been in the studio with any of my stuff. Oh really? Any thought of doing maybe? I would love to, yeah. I think it's I think it's getting that time if for nothing else, just to have it, you know, for posterity's sake. Is that the right word? What you guys, yeah. Posterity.

SPEAKER_04 13:50

I think so.

SPEAKER_03 13:53

Poster He knows all about it. We're not talking about posterior. Yeah. Okay, well yeah, hopefully you will. And and um the the thing we like to to to tell people and and we hope to be able to is to keep up with everybody in the area and and once in a while bring you back, and maybe you can say, hey, you know, we have this album, you know, promote that, do talk about that thing that you're not uh ready to tell, then you can talk about it. So maybe in six months or something if you guys are available to that again. I'm gonna thank you both for coming. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us, Eve. Shane, Bill.

SPEAKER_04 14:41

Put it there, huh?

SPEAKER_03 14:43

Thanks for coming and taking the time and we appreciate it. And uh hopefully uh you'll enjoy uh seeing yourselves uh talk about who knows what. You guys are careers going up right now.