Chattanooga Times Free Press entertainment reporter Casey Phillips spoke with Matt Campbell, lead singer for Nashville’s The Deep Vibration about the band being named by Lou Reed, leaving Dualtone Music Group and the dangers of digital production.
CP: I’ve had your EP “Veracruz” for more than a year. Your Myspace page says you guys are working on material for a full-length follow up to that. What are your plans for the next record, and how do the “18th and Electric” demos fit in?
MC: Well, we don’t actually have any plans to record the record right now and haven’t. We have plans to make one, but we aren’t recording one right now. I guess we aren’t really on the label we were on and haven’t signed the release, so we’re still on contract with them, but we’ll get out of that. We need to sign the contract with them.
We’d like to make a record, but we don’t really know how now. Nobody seems to have any money. We demoed up all the songs at my house on this little tape machine we’ve got. We demoed up a record of all the tunes we’d like to do, and we’re just trying to figure out what to do.
CP: Is that affecting the band’s momentum? Do you feel like you’re spinning your wheels at this point without the money to follow through on recording? What’s the band’s mind set like right now?