The Hundred In The Hands’ Jason Friedman and Eleanore Everdell – HuffPost 10.15.10

[Note: This is part of an interview that can be useful for new artists.]

Mike Ragogna: How did the two of you meet?

Eleanore Everdell: Jason had another band before this one called The Boggs, and he was releasing his third record with that band and needed to put a live line-up together, so I joined just for a tour.

Jason Friedman: Yeah, we met and were on the road together about a month later. Then, we were on the road for two months, and that’s how we got to know each other. We were just driving around listening to music, and we realized we had a lot of common interests. So, when we got back from that tour we were given a couple days in the studio, and we banged out what ended up being our first song, “Dressed In Dresden.” That’s how it started.

MR: Did you find yourselves writing material together as you toured?

EE: Writing on the road is…I’m always impressed when people can do that. I think it’s the hardest thing ever because you don’t really have that much privacy, and when you do, you kind of just want to zone out. It was more that we were on input mode. So just listening to a lot of music and talking a lot about ideas, that led to a creative period when we got back from touring.

JF: The way we write is, we both kind of write on our own in short bursts. We both write lyric sketches and music sketches, then we get together and start recording and writing at the same time. So, the songs slowly come together as kind of a combination of us.