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David: “America's a strange place. It's a really big, big country. And I think a lot about America has to do with momentum, you know, collecting-- people have to be hit from a lot of sides for it to work for them, and it's such a big country that you have to, you have to be all over the place.”
Mark: “There's so many different angles on America, and you've really got to, in order to sell records in America, you have to hit people from the video side, get them at radio; they have to be reading about you in magazines and stuff. It takes a long time to get that going.”
Kevin: “The name Moist? It's evocative; it's provacative; it's impossible to forget.”
Moist recorded and mixed its self-titled cassette (9 songs including "Push") over two days in Februrary 1993. The tape was engineered by a crazy man named Kevin Hamilton who endured 42 straight hours behind the board, fueled by a diet of black coffee and 7-11 burritos. He has never been the same.
Jeff: “We recorded the cassette while the songs were still fresh. Because we were really short on time, we accidentally found the best way for us to record... that it's more important to find a vibe and go with it than to save over details.”
Moist signed a publishing deal with EMI April Music (Canada) in October 1993.
Jeff: “We write with live performance in mind. The play of tension and release is key to our music.”
David: “I like to write as I go along - improving lyrics on stage - improving it four or five times before writing anything down.”
The band created and co-directed its first video for "Push". The video was made independently on a shoe-string bugdet.
David: “We made the video on zero money, pulling very favor imaginable, from free film to all the crew and extras donating their time...”
Moist signed a record deal with Chrysalis Records in America, May 1994.
David: “We decided to go with [Chryaslis Records] because they gave us a hundred percent creative control ad didn't want to change anything about us.”
The band releases it debut album, SILVER, and video, "Push," August 1994 on Chrysalis in America with no re-mixing, re-mastering, re-editing...no compromises...
Mark: “Well it's like this... We do what we do, we sound like we sound. People dig our shows and our music... Make up your own mind.”