SHAI: Hey Adam. Thank you for the interview. The pleasure is mine. Life is pretty good. Philadelphia is a good city for music and it seems to be getting better all the time.
ADAM: So, the big question, what's with the horses all over the album?
SHAI: The horses...
In hindsight I can make more meaning of it than I actually did at the time. Either by coincidence or subconscious influence our drummer Sir Kyle Lloyd had just began working at the horse racing network around that time and had horses around him all the time. Me, I just found the stock photography at Philadelphia's wonderful Free Library somewhat randomly. Horses are good. I liked the lineup where we subsequently wrote the instrument listings.
ADAM: This all began as a one-man show. You were the sole songwriter on Meet Yr Acres. Is this a trend that will continue now that The Capitol Years has evolved into a full band, or will the new members be contributing songs of their own?
SHAI: The record was more or less a one man show but I have been playing on and off and in some sort of variation with the rest of the Capitol Years for almost 4 years or so. Dave Wayne Daniels played bass in Mastercaster and Sir Kyle Lloyd even joined Mastercaster on drums for a month or so before it dissolved.
After the dissolution, we were playing on and off for at least a year and a half, getting our shit together and watching it fall apart. Over and over. After the record was done we finally found ourselves again and realized it was a good idea to play.
Right now the Capitol Years arent playing most of the material from Meet Yr Acres. 90% of our live set is new. It's different as well. As a trio we weren't really doing the album material enough justice. We ended up trying new songs and ideas that seemed to work better live. More energy. Not so much the lopey dopey Beatles thing (even though that's fine and good). It's a challenge. It's a touch more rock and roll.
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