Interview With Dave Ver Lee

Yesterday I got a chance to sit down with Dave VerLee from the band Corporeal (of Halo cover fame)and talk about everything from the bands latest album to the current state of video games. We did this using a futuristic technology called AIM... maybe you've heard of it?

Anyway, below is excerpts from that interview and at the bottom is a link to the whole interview. It's pretty interesting stuff (and kinda long so i didnt want it to destroy the front page). Also you'll notice that there is now an "Interview" section on the right hand side of your screen.

I again just want to say thanks to Dave for his time... Ok, here you go:

Eight: So if you will please state your name for the court we will begin the interrogation...er... interview.

Dave: Dave VerLee

Eight: ok, well i just wanted to say wow... I know a lot of people have seen the two Halo theme videos on YouTube and I’m really REALLY impressed.

Eight: you guys have a lot of talent.

Dave: thank you

Eight: so, first you're going to have to kind of explain the story behind the live performance. I had originally read that it was a High School talent show.. but thats not really the case is it?

Dave: No, it was a high school talent show. It just wasn't a competition. Libertyville High School calls it "Collage" because it is a collaboration of the different varieties of talent at our school. The story behind our performance is this: I got my Rolannd GR-33 guitar synth for Christmas our senior year, and playing around with it I found some pretty cool sounds. I am not really a halo fan, but our bassist, Robb Leu, is. We're in a lot of classes together, and eventually we came up with the idea of covering the halo theme. I arranged our piece by, including the Mario bit, and distributed the music to the band plus Hanah and the three blue sophomores. after a couple practices we performed and it was awesome!

Eight: it was most certainly awesome.

Eight: So where along the line did you think "what we need is a violin"?

Dave: Hanah was in my music theory class, and I've known her most of my life. When I think about the theme, I just think "violin solo". So all the puzzle pieces just kinda fit together.

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Eight: it seems a lot of people really over look audio. Like getting a huge screen TV but not getting speakers and using the tiny ones that are built in.

Dave: yeah. I like using headphones for the "total emersion"

Eight: i c... i haven’t used headphones. But the TV i just got has a headphone port... worth considering

Dave: definitely

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Eight: On Eight Bit Childhood i have talked about creating a game called Santa Takes Manhattan for online distribution... i have NO programming skills, and don’t even know were to start, BUT in the unlikely event that this game somehow gets started (let alone completed) will Corporeal do the music?

Dave: of course

Eight: that’s the answer i wanted to hear.

Dave: an it will rock

Dave: awesomely

Eight: fantastic.

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There is more to the interview. You can read it here I took the liberty of fixing most of the grammar and spelling errors from our typing... though admittedly most of them were mine.