On The Couch With The Blakes

We took a break during the windstorm on Sunday to sit down with Seattle rockers The Blakes who were enjoying themselves aside from the fact that their keg had just tapped out.

Right off the bat we got the question we most wanted answered out of the way, the trio now owns two cell phones as opposed to the one they were sharing earlier this year. They still have one van though but did inform us that they had recently picked up two scooters and were loving them, even if they still hadn't gotten them registered. Garnet didn't seem worried about the registration and informed us that they had gone about two years in Seattle without registering the van and hadn't had any problems.

Earlier in the day at the show I mentioned to Danny that The Blake's sound seemed to have a Rolling Stones influence to it. The guys agreed but also let us know they drew their material from other great acts like The Kinks, CCR, Sam King, and Argent who Snow and Bob were adamant I wrote down.

We took a break when the guys from the Black Angels stopped by to say hello. Our conversation then drifted into talking about the new album which the guys self leaked about two-thousand copies of before signing with Light in the Attic two weeks ago. A July EP is now in the works and the full length album should be released by Light in the Attic around August/September.

This interview was the highlight of my day. It was great to see a group of guys who had put in so much work finally getting the success they deserved. You know we couldn't let the guys get away without asking about guilty pleasures and this is what we got.

Snow - Phil Collins
Garnet - Stryper
Bob - Abba or for the more obscure, Bucks Fizz.

Thank you to The Blakes and watch for them in Seattle this year at The West Seattle Summerfest, The Capitol Hill Block Party, Bumbershoot and all summer long cruising the streets on environmentally friendly unregistered scooters.

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