Whats a rhodes?
Steve: Rhodes piano. It’s an electric piano. It’s really faint on the record, he just plays a couple of notes in “History.” And switchblade? Please tell me he’s not knife-fighting. Steve: Switchblade is actually on “Everything Must Go!”, the first track. It’s the last noise. It’s a certain switchblade he smuggled into Canada from Germany that he bought on the Rieferbahn in Hamburg. It’s good to know that you’re breaking the law to make better and more creative records. Steve: Exactly. The law, man, they’re holding us back! The Man is holding you down. Steve: They won’t let us make the sounds we need to make. The sounds you need to hear. Now, one of the things that initially grabbed me about The Weakerthans is that you seem more covertly political by describing the barriers that get put up between interpersonal relationships and effective communication between people, this feeling that if we can break through those barriers, perhaps social evolution and, more importantly, revolution can
