{"id":662,"date":"2010-10-05T00:39:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T21:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/?p=662"},"modified":"2012-02-08T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:03:10","slug":"dave-dederers-birthday-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/05\/dave-dederers-birthday-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Dederer&#8217;s Birthday Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"4d38c97fd98e05b44e287f0fa2b7b950\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-9953175473586001\";\r\n\/* pb_bottom *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4010945858\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dave Dederer turns 46 today (October 5). Happy Birthday Dave!<\/p>\n<p>I thought about collecting some older articles to my &#8220;Dave Dederer &#8211; Birthday&#8221; blog post, but I thought an interview would be much cooler than posting some past articles?<\/p>\n<h2>Interview with Dave Dederer (Presidents Of The USA \/ PUSA)<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-03-10_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-667\" title=\"Dave Dederer - Guitbass\" src=\"http:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-03-10_5.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Dederer from the Presidents Of USA \/ PUSA - Photo By Niffer Calderwood\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-03-10_5.jpg 428w, https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-03-10_5-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n2010-09-03 &#8211; Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA &#8211; Photo By Niffer Calderwood<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">1. You have two songs on your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/davedederer\">MySpace profile<\/a> &#8220;Now Elizabeth&#8221; and &#8220;I Can&#8217;t<br \/>\nReach You (The Who Cover), was these recorded purely for MySpace?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Who cover was part of a recording I did as a Christmas present for my<br \/>\nwife. I can&#8217;t remember which version of &#8220;Now! Elizabeth&#8221; is up there, but<br \/>\nit&#8217;s either part of the same Christmas gift recording or a version I did<br \/>\nwith Duff McKagan back when we had our little band The Gentlemen. Either<br \/>\nway, it was recorded at Egg Studio with Conrad Uno. Just me sitting and<br \/>\nplaying and singing with an acoustic guitar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">2. There is also an alternative version of Addicted To The Fame by SUbSET,<br \/>\nIs it earlier or later version of what was released on Addicted To<br \/>\nFame\/Jupiter 12&#8243; vinyl?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We weren&#8217;t very good with &#8220;version control&#8221; in Subset. Even though we only<br \/>\never had the one official release (I don&#8217;t even have a copy of that 12&#8243;!),<br \/>\nwe did a lot of different mixes of a at least 12 songs, and they&#8217;re all<br \/>\nfloating around someplace&#8230;that might be a rough mix from earlier that I<br \/>\njust happened to have on my computer when I set up my MySpace page, which I<br \/>\nhaven&#8217;t looked at in a couple of years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">3. Any hope at all, that the Subset songs could see a light of day?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I would like to put them out and it occasionally comes up, but just hasn&#8217;t<br \/>\nhappened yet. All the tracks are good but none approach the live show,<br \/>\nwhich was truly amazing&#8230;probably even better than The Presidents by<br \/>\nthemselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">4. Back in early 2000 you were talking about releasing album via Orange<br \/>\nRecording. What happened to this release? and are you still planning on<br \/>\nmaking a solo album?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The problem with making an album is then, if you want to do it right, you<br \/>\nhave a band and play shows and go on tour and try to make something of<br \/>\nit&#8230;and that&#8217;s just not what I want to do with my life. I&#8217;m not interested<br \/>\nin making a record or having a steady music gig just for fun. Music is more<br \/>\nimportant than that&#8230;when I&#8217;m really making music it&#8217;s pretty much a matter<br \/>\nof life and death&#8230;you are either going for greatness 100% or you&#8217;re<br \/>\nwasting your time, especially with intense rock music. If I can&#8217;t give it<br \/>\n100%, then I&#8217;m not doing justice to the music, and that&#8217;s not right. That&#8217;s<br \/>\nwhy I stopped touring with the Presidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">5. If you plan to release more songs via MySpace. I&#8217;d really like to hear a<br \/>\nre-recorded version of Untitled (from Dukes O&#8217;Pop cassette). What is the<br \/>\nstory behind that song? To me, it&#8217;s a very Dylanish type of song, kinda<br \/>\nreminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eRj3MCPazuM\">Buckets of Rain<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ha! I just recorded &#8220;Buckets of Rain&#8221; for another little present for my<br \/>\nwife! That was my attempt to write a straight-ahead country song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen Duke&#8217;s O&#8217;Pop &#8211; Untitled<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"audioplayer_container\"><span style=\"display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8\" id=\"audioplayer_1\">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&amp;promoid=BIOW\" title=\"Download Adobe Flash Player\">here<\/a>. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_1\", {soundFile:\"aHR0cDovL3B1c2FiYXNlLmNvbS9tZWRpYS8vZGF2ZV91bnRpdGxlZC5tcDM\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\">6. Presidents jumped early to the online music wagon with Freaked Out And<br \/>\nSmall. (You could say that the title says what music selling online was way<br \/>\nback then) Even thought the things didn&#8217;t go too well with Musicblitz&#8230;Do<br \/>\nyou think it was a valuable experience as online music vice?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I haven&#8217;t thought about it much, but we really were early in that space,<br \/>\nwhich is funny given that I now spend 100% of my working time on digital<br \/>\nmusic stuff, now with Hewlett Packard. I also almost signed a solo deal<br \/>\nwith eMusic when it was first starting out&#8230;would have been one of the<br \/>\nfirst purely digital recording deal<\/span>s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">7. 2006 you said that &#8220;Online music is at about 0.5% of its potential&#8221;, How<br \/>\ndo you see the percentage now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think it&#8217;s at about 10% of its potential. iTunes is now the biggest music<br \/>\nstore in the world. But pretty soon you&#8217;re not going to care whether you<br \/>\nown the music or not and you&#8217;re going to be consuming music in all sorts of<br \/>\nways you never anticipated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">8. Is it all digital format to you, or do you still buy CDs\/vinyls?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I am sitting at my desk at home with five huge boxes of LPs next to me, a<br \/>\nrack of CDs behind me and Rhapsody on my laptop and iPhone and a radio on<br \/>\nthe desk. So I&#8217;ve got it all. LPs still sound the best. CDs are a distant<br \/>\nsecond. I mostly listen to the radio &#8212; particularly to KING FM, which is<br \/>\nour local classical station. I&#8217;m on a big classical and jazz binge.<br \/>\nRhapsody is great for when you branch out like I am right now&#8230;I can listen<br \/>\nto all of Louis Armstrong&#8217;s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens records for a few weeks<br \/>\nwithout having to go out and buy them. It&#8217;s not so much that I don&#8217;t want<br \/>\nto spend the money to buy them, it&#8217;s that I don&#8217;t want the damn CDs or LPs<br \/>\nsitting around the house. Less stuff, please.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">9. <\/span>Speaking of vinyls&#8230;Last PUSA vinyl was the II album. Was there ever a<br \/>\nplan to release later albums in vinyl format?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Not that I know of. I&#8217;m sure if you or someone else wants to pay to press a<br \/>\nbunch of PUSA vinyl and then try to sell it, and give us at least a little<br \/>\ncut, then we&#8217;d be happy to let you have at i<\/span>t!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">10. President&#8217;s started &#8220;a new phase&#8221; earlier this year, how involved you<br \/>\nare with this new phase?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What&#8217;s the new phase? I don&#8217;t know what the heck&#8217;s going on. I just help<br \/>\ncount the beans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">11. Do you still play guitbass on your freetime?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Don&#8217;t have a 3-string in the house but I do play a lot in drop-D tuning on<br \/>\nthe six string, which is pretty much the same thing, and I will occasionally<br \/>\nbust out a PUSA song on request.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutsie.com\/\">Follow Dave&#8217;s news &#038; blog posts on nuTsie<\/a><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Believe it or not, but this site does not write it self. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Support pusabase and buy your health products from<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iherb.com\/?rcode=YUY952\">iHerb.com<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">, and get a 5 dollar discount from your first order by using coupon<\/span><strong> YUY952<\/strong> &#8211; Me highly recommends. <\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div><div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/05\/dave-dederers-birthday-interview\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"like\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Dederer turns 46 today (October 5). Happy Birthday Dave! I thought about collecting some older articles to my &#8220;Dave Dederer &#8211; Birthday&#8221; blog post, but I thought an interview would be much cooler than posting some past articles? Interview with Dave Dederer (Presidents Of The USA \/ PUSA) 2010-09-03 &#8211; Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[19,6,7],"tags":[277,724,278,719,134,720,30,231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}