We're a band. We're hired for parties. We have to know what to do.
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“We're a band. We're hired for parties. We have to know what to do.”
— Gord Downie · Hired
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✦ About the Author
✦ More by Gord Downie
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We're a band. We're hired for parties. We have to know what to do.
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Even 'The Inevitability of Death' is kind of a funny song more than anything. I mean, I thought it would be funny imagining radio deejays cueing it up and announcing it as people are driving off to work.
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I work a couple of hours a day with a guitar or pushing words around, so over time I have a lot of material, so I don't get into this feast-or-famine situation.
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We were big Clash fans, you know, big Who fans and I think we would listen to this music and talk about music and do nothing but music night and day, and when it came time to actually making our own music, you feel compelled to sort of tuck all those influences away, not show them.
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I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.
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I get hired because I improvise well.
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If I were FX, I wouldn't have hired me.
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As Looker got larger, the talented people we hired started to see things that we couldn't. And what had looked like a company the three of us could run out of our houses for a few hours a day became something bigger. Much bigger.
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I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!