Dan Briggs: I’m super partial to stuff off the first record, which was before I was in the band, but I was listening to a lot when it came out. I love that stuff and it seemed that any time we’ve played a song off it live in the last few years, most of the fans we have now don’t go that far back. I wished people knew the older catalog more because I have a blast playing those songs, mainly from the first record. There is a possibility we’re going to try to dust off one or two songs we haven’t played in four or five years, since I joined the band, for the CD release show and some sequential tours after. We’ll see how motivated everybody can be. I feel like a lot of bands forget their old catalog and for the people who have been around with you for the whole time, it’s important for them just because they have stuck with it for so long and I feel it’s important to us just to keep it fresh.
I’m horribly bored with the set we’re playing right now. The one highlight is right in the middle when we play the new song; it’s great. Other than that, it’s just like, we’ve played “White Walls,” “Foam Born,” “Selkies,” and “All Bodies” millions of time, so many times. I think with this tour, we hadn’t toured in seven months, and this set list rolled off our tongues just because we’ve played it all so much. I would definitely say for our headlining tours coming up in the next year, we’ll be playing songs we haven’t played in a while.
If there was one band you could tour with, past or present, who would it be and why?
I would love to take the band The Dear Hunter out on the road. They’re definitely a forward thinking, incredible band that’s just a totally different spectrum than Between The Buried And Me. They have a ton of Queen influences and Beach Boys, but mixed with Mars Volta and all kinds of crazy stuff. I would just love to watch them every night.
That’s the thing about touring with bands; you want to tour with bands that inspire you and make you get up and play. This tour has been great. I’ve never really heard The Faceless or 3 Inches Of Blood and the first night I was watching The Faceless, they blew me away. I watch them every night and 3 Inches Of Blood play right before us and always get me pumped. That’s a great thing, but I feel that if I was on tour with a band like The Dear Hunter, I would play the best I’ve ever played in my life.
