I wanted to start with discussing the band's background. "Quest for Oblivion" is your first album and it shows a maturity and confidence rarely seen in a debut release, so I take it Sun Crow is not your first musical experience. Tell us a bit about your prior experiences and how Sun Crow started out?
That's a compliment, thanks. Well we've been around a few lifetimes, you'd say we are all old mossbacks. Keith (drums) and I have played together for many, many years. We were in a band in Seattle back in the day called Rawhead. Very different kind of stuff, but with similar dark spirits. That's something we have always shared together.
There was a fire. Our friend Gary had a rehearsal facility and a recording studio that burned down, he lost everything. I had my gear there, it all went up too. Keith and I thought it would be fun to knock around and play Sabbath in a few local taverns once I got gear back together. We met up with Brian and Charles and got down together for some fun.
People kept asking what our real band sounded like, beyond Sabbath covers. We took the cue and that became Sun Crow and resulted in Quest for Oblivion. Our friend Gary ended up recording and mixing the album, a real twist of fortune.
Coming from Seattle, the birthplace of the grunge scene that introduce us to such amazing bands as Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Tad and Mudhoney among many others, I want to ask how much an influence grunge had on your musical upbringing and what bands you could say have been continuous influences for Sun Crow?
