K C R W Radio
Morning Becomes Eclectic - Transister
Jan 9 1996

1- 'Look Who's Perfect Now'

03.10

Chris Douridas - 'Look Who's Perfect Now.' It's Transister live in the studio. First song that I heard from this band actually just a couple weeks ago. I'm Chris Douridas and We are joined in the studio by Keely Hawkes on vocals, Eric Pressly on guitar; acoustic guitar there, Gary Clark on guitar as well. And we are joined today by special guest drummer Matt Laug who people will know for his work on Jagged Little Pill, the Alanis Morisette album. It's great to have you guys here.

- Thanks for having us.

Chris - This is really, the song you started I mean you guys, this is, if we go back like about eight weeks..

Eric Pressly - Eight whole weeks.

Chris - Eight whole weeks, this is when all it began. I mean, I guess I got the tape like two-three weeks ago and you got the tape to me I think the day after you get back to LA right?

Eric - Yes.

Chris - Ok, so before you came back to LA you had just finished this tape.

Eric - Almost just finished it. I left Gary with two mixes. There was yeah, there was [....] recorded and most of the mixes were finished.

Chris - And how much later did the rest of the mixes come to you?

Eric - Just a week.

Chris - A week?!

Eric - Yeah! We had a day left off and we finished the other two mixes.

[....]

Eric - [laughs]

Chris - I see, so you brought me 3 songs. While he was mixing a couple more.

Eric - That's right.

Chris - And then, thats when I heard them and I flip down [....] I called you and said 'Can I get this on a DAT?' And by then you got me other mixes. And you brought me in DAT.

Eric - I brought you. That's right, six songs. That's you [....] stuck me in that little room.

Chris - Yeah little room.

Eric - [laughs]

Chris - And then I started trying them on the air. People went nuts and here we are..

Eric - Here we are.

Keely - Here we are.

Chris - I know that you've got several record labels interested in you at this point. What followed was a lot of phone calls from people listened this "How can I get this?" I have to say again, as always there is nothing to buy at this point. Its simply demos. And you guys are...

Eric - They are demos but I mean its not as if, you know we spent some time on them.

Chris - Yeah.

Keely - Much more time actually.

[....]

- You can consider them masters, [....] to be finished.

Eric - [laughs]

Chris - I see, I see but really they are only like. At that point there are only six songs and now you have written the seventh since then we gonna be hearing this morning.

Eric - A little later yeah.

Chris - Yeah ok. What we are hearing now is of course live performances of songs from Transister. How did you guys come together? I mean lets go back nine weeks ok?

[laughs]

Chris - Before you got together..

Keely - We [laughs] [....] more than nine weeks , so we actually get together cause I have known Eric for four years now. Four-five years and these guys were working before that on an [....] project.

[....]

Gary - Keely get us a solo record from EMI Germany. And Eric produced some tracks, wrote some songs.

Keely - That's right yeah.

Chris - So that's how you met Eric, Keely.

Keely - Yeah. In LA. [....]

Chris - In LA Working for tracks for that album.

Keely - That's right.