Ants Marching

So What You Want by the Beastie Boys.

Ants Marching by the Dave Matthews Band.

Yeah, quite a good groupie.

Oh,

We

did all teach ourselves how to play the violin solo for Ants Marching, though.

The fiddle solo.

You did?

Mm-hmm.

And then the version they liked the most of Ants Marching, that was i- at Red Rocks.

You know, and you see the dates and the shows, and I wanted it to have that kind of feeling that they, that we've caught a tour as it's happening, and w- we're grabbing the best bits from, from different shows.

Was it all recorded in, within the same year, nine months or so?

Yeah.

Um, and you actually played on stage with Casey on Ants Marching, dueling fiddles.

[laughs]

What was that moment like for you? And kinda even just, like, leading up to it, practicing.

And Casey and I had a, we were put in, like, a little, like, shared, like, apartment, like, condo kind of.

So we had, like, like, a living room area and, like, we would, like, play music together and kind of warm up together, which was really fun.

And, um, yeah, when we knew which ones we were playing together, we were kind of like, "Okay, like, what kind of approach do we wanna take here?" Like, uh, Casey's definitely more of, like, a, an organized planner, I think, when it comes to music, so he had all these very specific arrangements, ideas, and then I was kind of like, "What if we just, like, turn it into a fiddle tune?" [laughs] And that was kind of the beginning of the Ant Eaters, was like, I'd had this idea of a fiddle tune when I had been working on Ants Marching for the Raleigh show, and then we didn't do it.

Um, so I, like, played him that first part, and I was like, "I kinda was, like, coming up with this fiddle tune," and then we, like, wrote that whole tune together and we were like, "Okay, like, we'll kind of trade back and forth, and then we'll build into the fiddle tune." And then when we were on stage, like, we didn't tell anybody about it, and then we were on stage, like, we did the trades and then we were like, "Build it, gonna build it into the tune." And then it was like, "Okay, now we're moving on to the next part." So we kinda looked at each other like, "Okay, like, you know, we won't do that one." Um, but then we, we wrote a tune together, so that was fun.