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Interviews: Ross Farrar (Ceremony)
Posted on 2011-03-15 03:00:18
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Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/41932

CeremonyOn the first song of 2010's Rohnert Park vocalist Ross Farrar, lead singer of the Bay Area's Ceremony, lists the things that are making him sick: the sun, the earth, fun, sobriety, new starts, living, death, capitalism, effort, tv, the phone, homophobia, condominiums, the GOP, liberals, the president, head injury, the USA, hysteria, realism, Buddism, skateboarding, hardcore, Catholics, theists, cops, yuppies, rent, lies, mankind… and oh yeah… Black Flag and Cro-Mags!


While Farrar and the rest of the group might be suffering from ailments, it seems that their collective fever might be clouding their judgments in all the right ways. Although Ceremony released two successful records that blended hardcore and powerviolence, on Rohnert Park, they take the edge from classic hardcore and inject weird elements, such as sampled soliloquies, morphine-interfused instrumental interludes, and Robert Frost quotes. The albums daring mix of the avant-garde and ageless caused the album to show up on a couple of punknews' staffs "best of year" lists. Punknews staff interviewer John Gentile was so distraught that anyone would even think of dismissing the mighty Black Flag or Cro-Mags, that he put on an old-timey doctor's "head mirror," wrote out a litany of prescriptions despite his utter lack of medical training, and caught up with Farrar to see if the symptoms could be remedied.



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