Kittie: Origins/evolutions | Full Documentary

[Music] [Music] from the first note that they start it's intensity it's aggression I just Kitty when they came out of the gate I mean they came out of the gate [Music] running there'd be like 300 kids in front of the bus not even letting the bus pull out of the venue I don't think they were expecting to be rocked the way that they would be rocked they're just they were just at the right age to just be blowing up right then they made history they were historically important and they touched a lot of people you can go to one of their shows get in the pit and Just Lose Yourself for 90 minutes and hope you don't come out with a broken nose everybody knew who Kitty was because it was just that like raw Teen Angst like I'm in high school and I just want to break something kind of metal you know and we you know kept our noses well and our vaginas clean we wanted to be something we wanted to be a band eventually that that to Ted and inspired people life is supposed to be fun if it's boring I don't want to be a part of it I can remember sitting in the basement and like joking around being like Oh when we play with the death tones or when we play with corn or when we you know what I mean and we would say it like like that it actually happened they took out bands like Disturbed and Drowning Pool and IL Nino they knew exactly what they wanted and it showed the main thing is the [ __ ] you attitude we're remembered as being like a cool metal band and not some shitty act with a lot of people it's just that's not metal well why isn't it metal cuz it's four girls that can't be metal cuz they're too young to really be metal they're they're not good enough to be metal they don't sound like they don't sound like everything I love but for me that's what metal always was so welcome to my home black door to signify the house of evil I actually didn't even paint it it's fine um so yeah this is my house we'll shut this because this is where the cats go poo it's kind of weird we have an old cat so she can't go downstairs she's ancient where should we go first let's check out your living room all right here we go this is the living room in London Ontario humble London Ontario um I've only actually lived here for about a year I bought this at an antique shop um at actually is a gramophone and uh this is where the speakers are we're hiding horrible VHS like American boyfriends and World War II in color let's see what else what other horrible DVDs we have let's see I don't really have that big of a DVD collection that's more Mercedes and other cool people that I know how about this you you probably like this Rob now is the time prophecies top 10 signs we are living in the last days what other cool things do I have only the single coolest thing that anyone could ever own ever you know what you should actually if you can get the rights to it when I open this up start playing the theme song have a few cool things here uh Kitty original Kitty lunch box this is pretty neat um I still actually have a few of these it's kind of Dusty unfortunately but feels like there's something in it though some I creeped out oh there's weird stuff in here I actually this is actually kind of weird I I totally didn't know that this was in here this is from let's see who's this from it's like a letter from somebody we're doing a documentary now because not only the number 20 years we've been a band for 20 years obviously that is the most obvious reason reason but I think we've all sort of come to a point in our lives maybe that we're able to sort of look at things differently all of the experiences that we've had all the people that have you know come in and out of our lives and that sort of thing and I think it's about maturity just as much as it as it's about and respect just as much as it's about being a band for 20 years [Applause] and Mommy also known as Deanna are going to go for a walk in the woods yeah let's watch the mighty Morgan you got it this is Morgan having a temper tantrum Morgan listen you don't want some strange man to get you honey um Morgan was very um bright very chatty uh she liked to role play I was definitely a difficult child growing up um I was not fond of authority um my dad and I really clashed uh a lot I didn't like being told what to do I sort of wanted to do everything myself Mercedes was really really well- behaved child I was just a happy kid wasn't really angry with anything really just like to have a good time and I think I'm still that person to be honest with you we were we came from Brampton where it's very rich in culture and moving to London at that particular time in the mid90s it was like a Barren Wasteland of boring white people in their mom jeans by the time Mercedes was in grade seven she was talking about a band she wanted a band I just started jamming with my sister and I had met Fallon at gymnastics class out of out of all the girls that were in her class she was the one that I noticed first we ended up starting starting to talk about music that we had in common that we liked and it turns out that she liked Nirvana she liked Silver Chair she liked all the bands that I liked she had such a vivacious personality and I was so so quiet we were very very much opposites in that way um so she exposed me to all sorts of things that I I wouldn't have like uh you know going out and you know all hours of the night or whatever like I mean my parents would never have let me do anything like that but I hung out with her and so she was kind of like my cool friend and I was like this little like nerdy gymnast we started talking and she was like oh I play guitar and I was like I literally just got a drum kit like the other day Let's Jam we practiced for I'm going to say say like maybe about a couple of months or so like man we need a singer we need somebody to actually like sing these music she's like can't you sing I'm like yeah I can sing but I I can't sing and play at the same time Mercedes goes oh well my sister plays guitar too I'm like okay cool who's your sister Morgan was in a band that never practiced with this girl named Jen Hedges um so they decided that they were going to do their own thing cuz she didn't want to play with me because I was her little sister and Fallon and I were jamming with another girl that just never showed up to practice so when stuff fell through with guitar player a and Jen Hedges and Morgan it was just like okay well why don't you come downstairs and we'll all Jam together Fallon had come over for like you know to hang out and and riff around with Mercedes and it was sort of like I came sort of came down and was like oh well I play guitar too and then it just be came something from there she's just like this is my sister Morgan she's just like nice to meet you and she was so frightening like she was just scared the [ __ ] out of me when I first met her I'm like huh [Music] hello at the end of 1997 we went to a battle of the bands here at called the office didn't have a bass player and there was a sign up for the next battle of the bands that was going to happen in February and we were all like oh my God we should sign up oh my God should we should we not oh I don't know we were like we don't even have a name we don't have a name we need a name to sign up right and we were like we don't have a name like we don't what do we do we had thrown around a couple names so one of them was Sam Hayne while that was already taken and uh so it came down to Swan or Kitty it makes more sense for a a crazy metal band to have that kind of name because it's kind of cutesy and that's you would would not expect you know uh that name to be associated with that kind of music especially also because we're young and female so it was like oh Kitty let's get this cute little like you know whatever band and um we just in our 14-year-old Minds we thought that that was just the most clever the most clever thing and that's what we came up with we said let's call ourselves Kitty the next logical step for us was to find a bass player and really take it to the next step and actually play a live show I said listen I have this this chick that I know that I met at school who's apparently like a really good guitar player she's really cool she's got blonde hair she's really cute they had a bass player come and play for them and she called one day and she said she got high on acid and couldn't come to band practice and so Mercedes I knew Mercedes and Fallon from high school and they asked me if I wanted to come Jam do you want to come play with us and she was like yeah okay cool I don't have a bass we were like okay she's like I just play guitar but I'm sure I can go get one so I got myself a Bas I plugged it into a PB guitar amp and I went over and jammed with them she just killed it she's just nana I think is one of the most talented people I think I've ever met in my life hands down the girl is amazing that girl was definitely a pirate she was was so mature her sense of humor was so runchy she's a really wickedly talented person like the kind of person that picks up an instrument and can play it and just like a savant like that's great though do you want to join and she's like yeah sure the girls had a couple of songs together when I when I joined the band and I think they had just been like feeling them out and jamming them out so we would just we' sit in the basement and just kind of pick them out Morgan and Fallon would kind of like start them off they'd have a few lyrics they'd have a little bit of you know Melody we didn't play a show until February 28th 1999 1998 so there's a big gap there where we just wrote songs or practiced kind of you know what I mean well we had signed up originally uh for a battle of the bands we all decided that we would enter it cuz we heard okay there's a battle of the bands like you can win recording time maybe it would be you know in our favor to enter it let's see you know I think we're going to be the only girl band on here let's let's see now this is this is our time to shine and like show people what we have been doing now for about a year at that point and we entered late so when the hand bills came out they didn't have our name on them so we all took black pens and put kitty on the little hand bills and handed them out to all our friends and we had it here at call the office we got the call that we were you know on the lineup for the battle of the bands and uh we played it [Music] I'm remember puking before the show which I did most before almost every show because I was one of those nervous kids that was always nervous about everything it was the scariest [ __ ] thing I've ever done in my life we're all like yeah that that was okay yeah it was good yeah I forgot like three love like three riffs or whatever but like you know I kind of [ __ ] it up and just you know went with it of course we didn't win wouldn't like if we won that battle of the bands that would be like fairy tale this scenario this this experience has never been a fairy tale now we had all the guys cross their you know hands in front of there and and judge us now the judging was starting like H what is this who who who Do You Think You [Music] Are [Music] [Music] and [Music] we played um Canadian Music Week in 1999 which is a music industry Festival it's not so much like this anymore but back then it was bunch of labels pile into Toronto and see some really great artists and hopefully pick some people up we went down to Toronto for the weekend Dave and Deana took us and we stayed in the western Harbor Castle which is like a Swanky ass Hotel down by the water in Toronto there was a guy that walked into the room he was wearing this big fuzzy jires hat and we all of a sudden we're like look at that guy with a hat oh my god let's go [ __ ] with him so we walk up to him and we're like hey man what's up nice hat blah blah blah you know and he's like hey I know who you guys are you're Kitty right and we were like yeah and he was like I'm coming to your show my name's Jason I'm with NG records shakes all of our hands [ __ ] fu we got off stage and he was absolutely floored his face was just he could not believe what he had just witnessed he was just like Canadian Music Week they that's when it happened and you realized at that time that you were going to be on the ride of your life and it was it was [Music] overwhelming down here Carol there's a new song that you haven't heard yet I'll be on the it's called do you think I'm a [ __ ] that's the drum spit was written basically from the time the band formed up until pretty much right at the moment that it was recorded So Over the span of 3 years and we rewrote a lot of things we redid a lot of things it was just you know obviously cuz we were living with these songs for 3 years they were honestly all written in in mom and dad D basement I thought that I would contact my friend g hi hi hi hi you missed the turtle again the turtle what are you guys doing uh I was at Metal Works working with his band and uh Dave came and said look I have have my daughters and I have this band and you know you know and they gave me the demos and the demos were a little bit rough and I said and I heard it you know what yeah it's cool it's cool because you know what they were I think 16 years old at the time really really young and um I said yeah sure I'll do it at the time I had never heard of any of the bands that he had recorded who the [ __ ] is gu Richardson they're like good good good G I'm like oh he did all seven okay I know who that is oh my God [ __ ] gu Richardson did the first Rage Against machine record I walked in and this took the sum of five minutes I said okay I'm gu you're you know Morgan your Mercedes you're Fallon I forget who the other ones were in the band and I said so what's your band about I said well we really want to be metal heavy I went okay okay let's go we had a Protools rig in one room another Protools rig in another room and this was the tracking room with the Protools rig as well he had this big computer station and sitting there clicking things and I'm so really really fascinated by the whole process like cuz it seemed a little bit more more uh the learning curve was much higher than you know tape just like click done we didn't know if we can if we could get it done in nine days that was that really was that really was the hard part about it was can we actually get this [Music] done we were like wow we're actually doing this this is crazy I can't believe this is actually happening at the same time we're being our normal uh czy CRA soles okay this is Frosty why we call Frosty Frosty penis get off my Frosty the penis happy this is Frosty Frosty say hi hey Frosty he's wearing a color fashion and it's red because we made him anyways what's this that looks grab my that's our song that's like put I have yeah no it's you're my ass this is yeah what he said difference I'm like I'm in the recording studio I'm recording an actual real album with a real producer and this is the coolest thing I've ever done in my life like we were so excited and we were probably really annoying to everyone that worked at the studio because we were so [ __ ] excited we were at that point balancing you know work like school and going into to the studio and working super late hours but it was only like 9 or 10 days so to have dinner at the studio we do our homework at the studio and and finished the album at the studio and it was you know not too late we were teenagers I don't think we ever finished like later than 10:00 but the entire time it was school work my name is T and I'm 16 years old and marital status joking I'm single you know you always worry like is this good enough you don't want to let your band down you don't want to let your team down so like I didn't want to I don't want to upset the girls they were all trying their hardest I knew they were and I was trying my hardest and that's all you can do um I can totally understand that they were all scared because you know what I'd be scared if I was that that age brackish what's that about that's not about anything at all just wrot down some words doesn't make any sense yeah the first song that we had ever written was brackish uh I believe like 12 it was like very like very early on like Mercedes and Fallon and I wrote the song um and a lot of people don't know that it wasn't even supposed to be on the album brackish the one part uh this like the sort of background part where you know Morgan is like singing and the back part like kind of like really fast behind it was really inspired by Static X I think of of all of the early songs brackish is the one song that actually does hold up the best and I think that the only element that gives it that sort of feeling and puts it like a head and shoulders Above the Rest is the fact that there is a DJ [Music] track [Music] yeah we paid DJ Dave a um a case of beer to play us some beats and we recorded them and then stuck them under the track and that was that the song was good before but it was just like 10 times better when we had added all that background stuff to it and we get a phone call and they've selected uh brackish as the first single and we're going to be doing a video and all that stuff and we were kind of like wow it was the most crazy phone call we've ever gotten like I've ever gotten in my life I was just like this is going to be like a single like on the radio I think we wanted to call the album strapon I'm not sure every time you do a record that you are actually forced under these exual circumstances those are the ones that usually become great I don't think I realize the gravity of it totally at that point I realize it now there's so many things that I realize now that I'm like why didn't I freak out more when that happened and we didn't know what was GNA happen we had no idea we just had a couple demos we had no idea what was we our plan was to record that record go out on tour in the summer go back to [Music] school [Music] we had played a show uh called the big day off in Connecticut and it was like the biggest show we've ever played and I remember I think there were something like 20,000 people there and everybody takes the day off work and it's a big thing in heart we'd had a interview on the radio with d Snider from Twisted Sister I remember he made like Morgan e spam and whatever and she got the shits from that thank you spam I remember after the show they had these tents where you could sit and the big bands like there was ever clear was there Public Enemy was there they'd sit and they'd give autographs and people would line up to get their autograph well they went and sat us down at this tent and I remember like kind of laughing to myself I'm like oh yeah okay who's going to line up to get our autograph and there was a line like a couple hours long we sat there for like three and a half or 4 hours signing autographs on 8 by10 glossies and there was that moment then that I was just like like I don't think I can [ __ ] do this this is like I don't think I can do this anymore we played a show in Connecticut and uh T afterwards told us she didn't want to be in the Band anymore and everybody kind of brushed it off like okay and that was kind of the the turning point in my mind like what am I going to do now like I don't want to disappoint my best friends I love these girls they're like my sisters what the [ __ ] am I going to do and how am I not going to let them down I think I think the fact that people were asking for her autograph really freaked her out we've gone to New York for like a record company thing a meeting and we were in the middle of a meeting we're sitting there having sushi was like Danny Goldberg and whatever and T pulls me into the bathroom and tells me that she's leaving the band like what happened like what's going on I had no idea what was going on like truly and honestly um I was having a huge problem with number one drugs I think I was one of the most surprised that she wanted to leave I'm like really like what's going on like Morgan I can't do this and when you're 16 years old you can't explain to your friend you can't swallow your pride and explain to your best friend like this is my anxiety this is my eating disorder I'm on drugs I didn't tell her any of that I didn't tell any of the girls any of that I was just like I just can't do this I just I just don't want to do this anymore like I can't and then we went back and sat in to do the interview like nothing happened you know it was it was it was kind of a big mess it it just wasn't the right time for [Music] her yeah no base player we had no PL nothing we had um a big we had done a big photo shoot we had to take her out of we sort of airbrush her whatever her out of it cuz now we were just a trio and it just it I'm like how is this going to how are we going to keep going we just got signed and so at that point we had a a video lined up we had an album release that was coming so it was like who do we know that plays guitar and TOA had been somebody that we all knew I didn't know her actually I just kind of peripherally knew her but Mercedes knew her and she's like yeah how about telina like who the hell oh yeah her really the the girl from the mall the scary one we asked her she came to try out she says um guys you realize that I've actually never played Bas before right we ended up getting telina in the band directly afterwards she had never touched a Basse in her life and two weeks we went to go shoot a video and I'm just like God damn it I hope this works we were so afraid that we weren't going to be that tight unit that we were before cuz like by that point we were good like we were really jelling really really well with Tanya and like she she was like we were just good to toa's credit she did play guitar and uh had never played bass before but we knew that she had a guitar um and she learned that entire set in like two weeks and was there for the shows and for the video shoot I play guitar for probably about a year year and a half and then well Mercedes called me one day and she says um that Tanny left the band for personal reasons and whatnot and she said would you be interested in playing bass and at first I didn't think she was actually serious about it I thought you know 's going to come back don't worry you know and I was like yeah that'd be cool and I was like sure I'll play the bass and she called back and she's like all right well we want you to come over and bring your parents we're going to talk about it and then we practiced and I didn't know if they were actually going to keep me in the band or not but they ended up keeping me and that's how I got in the [Music] band she is not scared best things in life [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] cry let to believe that be okay look at your face scar in dismay but times have changed and so of you I think i' ra as soon as people heard brackish and as soon as people got to see the band a little bit and meet them I think people really wanted to be a part of it at least a few key people wanted to be a part of it enough to make something happen there and I think that that happened fast well you know you can't really predict this stuff you know it's just uh it's magical like there's you know the tunes are there uh the image is there for the girls but then there's a there's that other third it's like the intangible they were kind of a a different band because they weren't really a radio friendly friendly band right but it just happened that we hit gold on that one song no one really knew who we were we kind of came from nowhere and here we are playing in front of like 1,500 people a night people's minds were just blown I mean it's one thing to just be this band that nobody's ever heard of it's another thing when that band is touring with slipnot and cold chamber it's another thing when that band is out on you know the snow cord tour with Fear Factory and Union Underground it's you know you have you get legitimacy as you start getting these tours we didn't care we were just happy to be there and there were a lot of people that were really excited to see us things were just like gaining momentum and like little teeny explosions were kind of building up to this big thing and I don't really know what the big thing was but probably [Music] oest ended up getting a phone call from our booking agent I remember we were like getting ready like back lining stuff and I believe we were in England and my dad walks out on onto the stage and goes hey girls you guys just got osfest you're headlining co-headlining the second stage and like literally we were like yes like we flipped out we were like rolling all over the ground and like like totally like high-fiving each other hugging each other like it was like we were like almost crying it was crazy once we finished ozfest they wanted us back in the studio and we said no because we weren't finished touring because we love to tour that's why we're playing music in the first place right it's one thing to put your heart and soul into a band for three years and nurture those same songs over and over and over again and and and you know pour in your emotion and your your your your your Youth and everything into these songs and then be told by somebody okay now in six uh do the same thing that you did before but in 3 months and that freaked me out like you wouldn't believe I like I can't force these things to happen you know there's always this pressure to uh you know surpass your first album and every band has the the duration of uh their lifetime to write the that first album but then you know when you're on a major label you only have X amount of time to write that second one and you better deliver or it's not going to you know you're you're done usually and a lot of bands do succumb to the sophomore slump we're like oh we're going to have a band meeting and I'm like band meeting I don't want to do band meetings right now like just wasn't feeling it and so then basically they're like okay well you know we need to write this record like you need to in more input and blah blah blah I'm like okay and I was just playing it off like your sulky teenage girl and just didn't just wasn't having it just wasn't having it and then I'm then I remember that I yelled at Mercedes because something that you know you know you're yelling all the time and we don't get anything done because you're always angry and something something to that effect mer is like what are you talking about and then it then I I don't know I just I just was lashing out at all ends I think and forina was just sitting there like what the [ __ ] is going on I guess the last day that they like practiced together like they just got in a big fight and she just stormed off and that was the end of it was like no I'm [ __ ] done I'm sorry [ __ ] you guys I'm leaving which is exactly what I said unfortunately at the time I think you know we felt like we just sort of had to go on and and you know it was a little bit of a a bitter scenario or whatever but it it really sucked losing that because we were friends and we had so many fun times together and then it just seemed like because the band became so serious that you know politics and money and parents and all this stuff became involved in this huge mess and then you know just couldn't take it anymore kind of thing for Oracle uh that was like another really we did it with G again it was obviously you know we took two weeks to record it this time and so we just kind of decided to go in the studio uh the three of us Mercedes telina and I writing Oracle was probably one of the most frustrating experiences they wanted to be more metal I suppose which um I didn't agree with I thought it was a a mistake my feeling is is they were almost trying to be like a Slayer because Slayer never goes after hit songs they go this is who we are this is what we do this is who you know know you don't look like it [ __ ] off I hope benstein dies that's really mean I hope he dies let's go okay come on okay say hi [Music] G we are am I being surprised by what song I'm going to be doing next yes yes [Music] the two his sisters Mercedes and Morgan they knew exactly what they wanted um they were very smart they knew going into it so we we we actually had a little bit more time but we also didn't have to work work as hard and things were were done like a lot easier and we had a lot more fun my I know I'm all tangled up too yep we had Jeff doing uh bed tracks with us which was nice cuz we had two guitars in there with me well when they asked me to play um it was kind of surreal I I sort of had a premonition about it which made it that much weirder and I love Jeff so much I love him he's like my brother and I wouldn't take back the time that we had with him but I wanted to I wanted to have another girl in the band you know when things started to kind of blow up for us really we just sort of looked to the people that we knew to you know fulfill crew duties and that sort of thing it's not like there's like an agency that you can go to to hire you know you just you know somebody that plays guitar well and can string a guitar knows how to tune knows a few things hire him up there was shock I guess because there was now a kitty with a penis but you know um it made me happy it helped us out an awful lot Jeff you have a funny T line on your head I thought you just said you have a tampon on your head yeah you have a tampon on your head it was amazing honestly that feeling of them asking me cuz they could have asked anybody and why would they ask like a big hairy dude that 10 years older than them to play guitar you [Music] know songs like pain or even like what I always wanted in Winter mouthful of poison even Oracle itself all songs severed that song is brutal it was hard for us to write Oracle it was really hard for us um especially with her because I at the time I hadn't really come into my own for writing songs I think maybe the production was a little bit better it was just a vicious vicious [Music] [Music] album [Music] [Applause] say [Music] Fus [Music] sh oh Morgan's going to kill me there you go there's Morgan's grade eight graduation like right before she got like super goth so that's before the band whenever somebody left the band or whatever it would always be like well saw that one coming you know and it was always she was always surprised I don't know why you could always [ __ ] tell one of these things is not like the others it just kind of seemed like telina wasn't very interested in being there as soon as her she really did take off quite a bit she wasn't really around to the extent that Morgan and I were there and Jeff Jeff was there the entire time she just didn't really seem interested anymore at that point telina was becoming disillusioned with being in the band and so um again there was just like a lot of kind of weird feelings around that when you're that successful that fast and you're young some people handle it better than others and it maybe was for the better that some of those member changes happen I know most of them are also still friends to this day and um it was always Morgan and Mercedes at the core of the band that did the song writing and that was I think the the main thrust of the original band in the first place the only thing that's frustrating about recording I would have to say is when things break cuz you know you get the mentality and you're ready to to do something and like the vibe is there and then something breaks and you're like okay I got to try and psych myself up again and maybe it won't be as good so that's the only really frustrating [Music] thing my dad and I got together and we were like starting to pick out people just in case the [ __ ] hit the fan and we had met Jen at farm club uh when we did the taping for that and uh we were like hey let's talk to her kind of see what happens okay we actually met up at South by Southwest and hung out for a couple days we went and see Mastadon we saw other really [ __ ] cool bands we had a great time and the purpose of that was for all of us to really hang out together be with each other you know kind of 247 to make sure it was the right fit you know like they got along very well she was older she was mature she had been playing bass for you know a very very very long time so um they felt obviously more they they were comfortable with Jen for sure and then it was like cool you have two days to go home get your life and get your [ __ ] together you're going to London Ontario we're going to blaze through the set and we're going on a a two-month tour cool [Music] [Applause] [Music] cool yeah well that's as good as it gets yeah I unfortunately um [ __ ] as them if that was asked them if that's where the party was because I didn't know what was going on there's a bunch of dudes out there and I was say hey is that where the party is it's a treatment center they're not having a party when Jen joined the band we we let her do like a Basse Solo in the middle of the set just so people could be like wow like this this is she's really something you know she's really talented some of the stuff she would do even on the songs on spit were just remarkable you know like I don't know she's like a female Cliff Burton kind of thing you know so Jen was a force of nature very uh powerful personality and that crazy hair and and the humping the base and you know she'd do these back bends and her hair' be touching the ground and yeah until the end was written and recorded sort of amongst uh some interesting happenings with the label we were involved in a little bit of a lawsuit and so it was delayed for quite some time so there was a lot of uncertainty and the thing that really helped us through all of that was writing new jams and and playing them and recording them I felt like that help gave us some some Hope by the time we recorded Until the End Jeff was looking to pursue his other band th bleed it actually just came to a point where I sat down with Dave and um he pretty much just said this is what you need to do you know perfectly fine great we're going to support you as much as possible Jeff we love you you know great have a great time we are so excited for you part of me he thinks I would have liked to be a little more involved in the writing and stuff like that but I understand when it at the end of the day like it wasn't my band kind of right it's theirs and they already had the mold there so they had to that's how it [Music] goes we are currently at Long View Farm Studios um recording our third full length album and I believe it will be called until till the end and we're stuck in the middle of [Music] nowhere we've been here for about two weeks actually and um we did a a couple days of pre-production and uh we're just about done um the vocal tracking right now at the two we Mark um so things are really moving along rather nicely actually Bo sounds really good Moran well thanks trying real hard it sounds great you know found it sounds so good I'm just going to try a double track on you real quick see what that sounds like bitching the the setting was was really beautiful uh we worked with Steve Thompson who I believe had worked with like corn in the past and that sort of thing he was a little bit of a name so we thought oh okay we'll go in and we'll do this and I was able to work work with this award-winning producer that had all this history and I was able to pick his brain I was like so what was it like working with Whitney Houston what was it like working on justice for all which for me as a base player I certainly had a lot of questions about the good thing about kitty is when we tracked is they played everything you know it wasn't a question that you know we used a click track and you know was on precises and that it was all by feel and you know when they did all the tracks and everything you know a lot of it was you know what they played which to me is a testament of how good they are it it was just awesome to try different stuff out on different bases play around with different tones we really worked on making sure that Distortion was just right uh that was really exciting to do I was able to try out you know different pedals different things and so for someone like me who's a bit of a Gearhead I was like this is [ __ ] incredible honestly I I like I like a lot of the songs on until the end I don't know that I regret a lot um listening back I kind of maybe wish that we had done things a little bit differently in the studio maybe maybe a different producer maybe even just a different studio uh mind you it was a like I said it was a really fun awesome recording process and we had a lot of fun it was a really really great [Music] time feel waiting [Music] coming [Music] [Applause] Downes down oh oh you try to face this work the [Music] darkness we wouldn't work Sundays and we would try guitar players out so we would have people either Drive In or fly in uh and we would try them out on Sundays so we had Lisa come out really really nice super nice person laughed at our Jokes which is kind of a big deal to us cuz we were pretty adamant that you know they had to have a sense of humor Lisa played in a band uh called to see you broken out of Seattle um and I thought they were a really cool band they're um hardcore band and you know again scouring the internet for for talented women to to play in the band it was sort of just like let's reach out to her and see what she says and and she agreed uh to come and and play for us and and join the band for a bit she certainly had the look beautiful girl good person um fit in certainly enough with with the three of us to to have it make sense I think think we told her when she decided to join the band or when we were like okay yeah we'll get Lisa to play with us um I think we told her that okay so we want you to be in the band and she's like okay and we were like now we're going to have to fist you she was like okay and that's how we knew kind of she was she was okay and she got our Jokes which was good so I think that's I'm pretty sure that's what happened Artemis was actually going to support us and and and really get the word out there about until the end and it was just such a good vibe we had someone new in the band and it was like everything was like this is what we wanted right that oh that's what that video that's what I do before shows to warm up shake the guy from Lost profit is wearing Le pants this is Lisa PS hey Lisa what you doing hi watch hi [Music] [Music] Lisa you guys always listen to St before you go oh yeah yeah because they're my favorite K like now I just want to go out there and be like [ __ ] yeah you don't want to be in [Music] it am I going [Music] [Applause] [Music] to when we kind of came to Jen and Lisa and we told them hey we can't pay you a retainer anymore it's we we don't have the money everything seemed fine but then I guess it wasn't fine with Lisa and there really wasn't much Touring that we did for Until the End uh after that cuz I mean it was completed in 200 4 and I knew uh that Jen was going to quit eventually anyway because she had already started another band you know I I wanted to have more of a creative voice and I was able to satisfy that and with suicide City if you want to go live your life over there go ahead have fun I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing sometimes in life you have to do what's best for you and I was doing something that was best for me and I knew that you know I was going to be losing some relationships in that part sck guitar player and bass player just left it's just you and me again Mercedes and I just kind of were floating around aimlessly we weren't really sure what we wanted to do um all we knew is that we wanted to continue to make music we didn't know if it was still going to be Kitty it was kind of a struggle you know what I mean Morgan and I had actually in 2005 early 2005 broken up the band and just didn't tell anybody we actually had done a few demos under the name Sweet Revenge uh of songs that were just kind of different um just trying to find out find our identity and that sort of thing we actually had gone to the Epic Records Office or whatever to try to like shop it and like there was some interest there and that sort of thing but I think they really just wanted Kitty so they were kind of disappointed everybody that we every labeled person oh but where's the heaviness it doesn't sound like kitty and it's like but that's the [ __ ] point we wanted to try to maybe find a new identity with just the two of us and weren't really sure what what uh what was going to happen her and I look at each other and we're like great so I guess we're going to have to do this still okay which is fine same [ __ ] well I guess we better find a guitar player and bass player it was actually my dad who I I think he went to like turkey Fest in Strath Roy and saw a band play and it was a band called Sherry uh just kind of like a local rock band or whatever and terara was the guitar player in the band they came out to watch a show and I think my whole band was actually very ecstatic because it's Dave and dander and they were kind of uh uh I don't want to say legendary but know they had had they had cre managed a very successful band they they went there and and you know watched her set and they were like oh yeah you got to have this girl over so she came over and it's just like she never left so yeah I guess I just ended up jamming with them a few afternoons and then they did introduce Trish Donan to the situation on bass I remember seeing them on much music and reading about them and thinking it was pretty neat um that they they had made it big in our city we knew that Trish Trish had played in a band uh like an all female band I guess from from London called her um like back in high school so we knew that she like played an instrument and I think Mercedes had tried to find her phone number through a friend I ended up calling um Mercedes uh this guy gave me her phone number and I called her that day it was a Thursday and I said hey like I want to audition for the band playing bass and she said okay learn these three songs and come over on Saturday here's some songs I think we like Cent her some songs or whatever and a couple weeks later she tried out and she was [ __ ] awesome so we were like great let's do [Applause] [Music] it you're C [Applause] [Music] uh we met up with Jack Pony and ended up going into the studio for funeral fans will know with funeral for yesterday that it it was more of a softer album we we worked more in a way that um I think it was it was to get more songs on the radio it was just basically like hey Tara let's write some leads whatever you want to do on this record go [ __ ] right ahead you two Trish go right ahead not all of what you hear on that album as far as guitars go were planned A lot of it was off the cuff in the studio um you know here go play I ended up writing like an entire set of Bas lines beforehand and then when we went to record probably 90% of them changed and I had to relearn them as I was recording them so our producer took a completely different approach with the sound of it I mean as a musician when you take your time and put it into your creativity and focus really hard and work really hard and then someone says no to everything that you've done it's it's it's hard to swallow may I don't know maybe maybe we're naive going into the studio we thought that it was going to be just like every other time where we just do whatever the [ __ ] we want and we love it and it's great when it's yellow you're going to be in hello [Music] there was definitely a little bit of a like a power struggle I would say um with what we wanted to do and with what Jack wanted to do and obviously he won cuz he had the stronger personality and we just at that point just didn't even give a [ __ ] we just wanted to go back out on the road I don't know what happened I can't even remember but there was like this huge fight between him and I and I got so mad at him because he was just treating me with zero respect that I actually left the studio and walked back to our apartment and I logged online and and um our tour manager had messaged me and was like oh hey how's it going in the studio and I was like I just got in a big fight with Jack I just left and and um our man our tour manager hos was just like you got to go back to the studio for the girls like don't worry about him just go back so I walked back and I kind of cooled off and when I went back in he just decided not to talk to me anymore for the entire rest of the summer it was really awkward and every time I recorded he would say the bare minimum words to me or speak to me through someone else like he wouldn't even speak to me that set the dynamic for Trish and Jack to not have a very good working Rel relationship he he was just very very particular about his work and um I don't think the girls have ever run into that before funeral for yesterday is our biggest radio um hit so uh we charted in the top 30 for active rock [Music] radio anymore it's time to get I I went through a really bad eating disorder with the band uh during that time and like the the funeral the funeral basically the funeral album cycle um and it was it was an eating disorder a mental thing and I just couldn't handle a lot of things but I will be honest um in that a lot of it did start that summer that we recorded in New Jersey she did develop Anor EXA while we were touring and it was very scary because there she there was some she was being very dangerous and she knew it Trish is a smart girl there was a point where they all sat me down and they're like you like you have an issue and we're worried about you and if you need to leave the band to get better like you you should but I was still such like in denial and so caught up in myself that I I just didn't care or I didn't really think about it I just I wasn't pretty much anytime anyone spoke to me or said anything I just it just went in and out well she was be she was becoming very unhealthy like uh she was too skinny um One Night in particular she actually fainted off of the stage kind of went downhill from there and turned into something really bad for me and I had to leave the band I just couldn't do it anymore I remember waking up one day going I can't tour anymore I just can't even get out of bed I hate my life I cared when she left the band I really did I really did um because it wasn't wasn't her fault do everything that [Music] could Mr s freed Meer it's Dave Lander calling uh just wanted to touch bases with you see what day you want the girls to come up this week give me a call when you get a chance or shoot me an email let me know what's going on talk to you soon bye I was at home and I got a phone call from my house and I thought that it was going to be my dad so I actually picked with the phone and said hey Dad what's going on cuz who else would [ __ ] call me at 7:00 in the morning but my [ __ ] dad um and it was the neighbor uh down the street who was a police officer and uh he said uh Morgan there's you know there know issue there's a problem your dad is dead and I was just like like the wind and everything just like came out of me I was sleeping and I slept through a phone call from the police and cuz I was [ __ ] drunk the night before and uh I woke up to my sister banging on the door and she was banging on my side door and I open the door and she goes dad's dead and I go [ __ ] oh wasn't a nightmare it was a nightmare absolute nightmare so get in the car uh Morgan's neighbor at the time drove us to my mom's place we weren't allowed in the house yet cuz he was still in there so so we waited in the backyard it was a shitty day I was with them that day when it happened and um completely unexpected and just it was like oh [ __ ] yeah more than anything I felt bad for my mom because she found him and there it wasn't like he was dead for hours hours there was no saving him I was was in my pajamas for 3 weeks but there was people coming fans there was like oh John ARA um who who was one of our techs at the time you know and and previously like there was just people coming through the house for 3 weeks there was people sleeping in the basement you know there was never really some sort of like a saying or you know thing of AD you know piece of advice that he gave that you know has has stuck with me I think it's more I think the lesson that I've learned in losing him and that's that you know it doesn't really matter you know about all of this like family and you know your relationships and and caring about those people that you love and and giving them the time day you know making them feel good those are the things that are important what are you going to do right there's nothing you can do it's just you just have to continue on Dave Lander their father and uh we were talking about the tour and all that he was giving me some details and then Morgan sent me the album funeral for yesterday and you know track list kind of these are the songs we want you to learn and I definitely put it on and I hadn't really listened to Kitty in a couple years and was just what is this like you know I didn't expect it at all going from spit and Oracle like that's kind of the stuff I remembered of kitty to funeral from yesterday which is very poppy in my mind anyways iy came in with bruises all over her arm right here and she she was like in these skate shorts and this wife beater shirt skate shoes looked like she could like I wouldn't want to meet her in a dark alley and she had this huge bruise on her arm and someone was like what did you do oh my friend and I were punching each other in the arm okay you're not going to punch me are you want a beer want some Crown you know let's hang out let's at the time we were drinking and smoking cigarettes and whatever and it was just super chill and the first time we jammed same thing like it just to me it just clicked after everything that we had gone through uh with funeral for yesterday and just sort of feeling like kind of disappointed with the production and just sort of feeling like we offered something up that didn't really feel true and genuine to ourselves we wanted to do something that was pretty much the complete antithesis of of funeral for [Music] yesterday Morgan and Mercedes for in the black a lot of that they had already written together and then they invited me in and then there was times where I would say um okay well I have this could we use this maybe this part I have this riff do you think we could incorporate this into anything or hey Morgan here's a riff do you hear anything extended from [Music] it [Music] uh we approached Sig freed Meyer who we actually had worked with uh on Oracle he was like third engineer on Oracle we have had a very green second engineer [ __ ] up left right and Center what's his name his name is Ziggy so he had some experience with us then like we became friends and you know he's had you know worked with tons of bands in in the area built this beautiful beautiful house um with an amazing tracking room and everything like that so we were like you know what we're going to go there we're going to record this album um and it was a really awesome redeeming great experience what's what's your goal for tonight Morgan um you better say something [ __ ] awesome make Tara scream with pleasure what's your goal tonight Tara to scream with pleasure what's your night or your goal tonight sigy watching and all the maybe holding maybe hold the camera dude obviously it's quite obvious this entire time we've been here holding the camera has been my job yeah she came in to do a backup vocal and she's like Sig I love this place and I was like really that's I'm so glad you like it you know and then that was the first time that she sort of hinted at we should come here to do our next Rec with you you know and it was like yeah yeah you should okay that's fine I'll just keep do [Music] go I [ __ ] [Music] up I probably realized my value in the band on my second um album with them which is in the black um when they were using some of my work as well so some of my riffs they I was decorating the songs a lot more with um guitar [Music] parts [Music] that's some [ __ ] laugh dance [ __ ] right there I think the biggest discussion on the sound of the record was our last two records kind of sounded like dog [ __ ] and this next record needs to sound [ __ ] crazy heavy it needs to bring back all the elements that we were initially that we started out as but then we also need to push it into a new Direction and the girls wanted it raw but [ __ ] heavy we really started to come into our own sound then and actually having somebody that understands us like Sig freed we discussed the songs and like the order and structure and and uh the overall sound was to be raw but heavy like it was to sound polished but not overproduced we made a good point of not adding too many Harmony vocals and like glisteny polished you know Airy kind of things because that's what they had done in the previous record and they were trying to to get they were trying to really strip that part of it way like have it be intimate still have it be but just heavy like and just sound really good in the black certainly was the foundation that we wanted to to build on and sort of I want to say like the standard that we wanted to set for Kitty and who we are now you know as opposed to who we were 15 20 years ago let's make it count so we made it count and I think to be honest with you it's one of my favorite [Music] records are you filming going on YouTube yeah anyway we're in Europe we're in Amsterdam we're tired yeah cool hey what's up we're hanging out in the bathroom in England in London England at the underworld this is our first stop of the UK part of the tour and we're playing in Wales and Scotland hi hi we're back we just wanted to show how much we love you um and how pissed we are that there's no sausages in Germany we're on a train right now we're going from Moscow to St Petersburg we just played a show in Moscow the awesome Ivy and terara really have to pay us in it's ridiculous um we can't get into the bathroom these trains are possibly World War II can you see my breath we're inia help yeah Mo CH that married the Eiffel Tower how did they let that happen I wonder how they consummated their [ __ ] marriage as well did she sit on the top pretty pointy she on the top what's up everybody we're Kitty and we're currently in Paris France playing on our in the black European tour and we are pleased to present to you the exclusive the internet exclusive of our video for Sor I [Music] [Music] know this feeling is in oh let build sunless do [Applause] [Music] never [Applause] [Music] back when Kitty started you got a big budget to do a music video and it was supposed to be big and it was supposed to be huge and you the goal was you're going to get played on Headbangers ball or you're going to get played on the rock show or you're going to get played on cable television people don't watch MTV or much music in Canada like they used to today you shoot a music video for essentially the sole purpose of posting it on YouTube and having a three and a half four minute commercial if you will for your new album there was a band that back uh around I think 2002 uh that we had toured with and they were signed to a major label they the label spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on their video and to set them up to be like the next big sort of new metal thing and their album sold 3 00,000 copies and it was considered a failure and they were dropped the days of a record label you know pouring a bunch of money into you and throwing it against the wall and seeing which bands stick definitely are a thing of the past spit came out sold half a million records went gold I mean kitty have a gold record I mean how many bands from their generation how many of their peers have gold records there aren't many and then as as the times changed all of a sudden people are downloading music you know they're not looking at things the same way anymore they're not you know it doesn't mean the same thing to go into a record store and buy an album or go on even going on iTunes and buying an album it's just easier to download it the funny thing was I actually went over to to my cousin's house and her son who was at the time 13 years old he had a PC laptop and a CD burner and I had just finished a mud Vin record and I said hey what's his nipster he say Uncle G it's Napster oh right Napster and he opens it up and uh he goes was it B you just finished and I told mud vean and he actually typed in mud Vin and the whole record came came came up and I said so what do you do now he says oh my friends give me a sheet of paper with all the songs that they want on them I go find them and I only charge him five bucks a CD and I went you do what and from that second I went we are [ __ ] do like whatever it is that makes you happy but you know if you have done that maybe you know go to support at a show you know that's where bands are making their money now right it's coming to the show you know buying some merchandise ticket sales that sort of thing you know we can't take back what's happened with you know the industry and the fact that file sharing is is so easy that you just you don't even feel like you're doing anything anything wrong I I just killed a plastic bag all right we've arrived at beatroid Studios to start work on our sixth album and uh yeah here it is Morgan you have good handwriting arts on crafts okay you have to write it in the actual logo okay that's can can you make us say Cy instead it's just very this is something you get keep for the rest of your life I don't want to keep this [ __ ] why does it say 11 cuz that's the year 11 that's how that's how loud we were going to be guys how are the guitar tracks going so far they're real good eh oh yeah so far they're going really well actually um everything sounds really good and tight we each have only done one so I think this time around instead of doing I guess two tracks each we're just going to do one so um well for now uh to leave a lot of space for extra things and make it sound bigger and brighter that's what Siggy said I'm just trying to say it and I know yep trust me standing over in the corner going like this to us say it say the right [ __ ] say it Spirit and the body will follow my R light you all right with the the new album uh you can definitely expect uh to be faster to be heavier um I think we're going to try to um give it uh a sound that has a lot more depth and dimension than uh from the last uh album in the black so uh and a lot more guitar work uh car of ter here it's mown Tera ml it's pronounced MC loud Tera MC [Music] loud uh why don't you talk about um what did you have what have you done differently uh recording the drums than you know you would normally do you're pretty much the same run-ofthe-mill um well this time around we wanted to overall change up things so uh we did what Mercedes has done for many many years except for the last record and we tracked to 2in tape once again uh I got a wonderful machine from Los Angeles a number of years ago uh from a place called The Mix room they had several machines there and they were selling one and it was a machine that I'd always wanted Mercedes makes the beat sound slightly different mer playing the drums but I mean whatever you just you don't get that intensity like you don't push the chuses like when you when you hit a kick drum a little bit harder in a chorus it actually it smacks a little bit differently it hits the gear a little bit differently hits the tape a little bit differently and it actually changes the tone you don't get that with the fake [ __ ] you ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] the biggest thing was uh Ivy couldn't be here for the making of the second record um Ivy had uh had Married An American gentl and there were some issues getting across the border I don't remember the exact details but uh so we did that whole record with no Bas I've never done an album in my life where there was no base as you were building the elements when are you uh when do you think you're going to be able to come back I don't know I was just it's kind of just like waiting for [ __ ] paperwork to go through and [ __ ] in that process we were sending I songs like our basement recordings um from my mom's basement so we were sending those to Ivy so she could you know learn the songs and stuff like that and get ready for when we record we went into the studio literally right afterwards so as I finished you know each day we would do rough mixes and I would send those rough mixes off to Ivy and then she could get a Vibe for the tune uh start writing some ideas on bass and that kind of stuff and um I think initially I was going to have her send me stuff just so I could hear it as we were going along but it just didn't happen there was just you know time constraints like at the end of the day you're going to get your bass tracks done I'm just like I'm just worried that people are going to be like oh my God I is not in the Band anymore blah blah blah blah blah you know what I mean like you know how people like to talk right for sure yeah they could have easily found another bass player I mean they've obviously had others throughout the years I could have got you know probably Jeff Phillips or whoever just hey learn these baselines or write some baselines or whatever and record this album but they wanted me to be a part of it they are definitely Kitty has always been a family [Music] unit it's probably my the most personal album this intense feelings of remorse and regret you know all the things that were never said and all the things that were never done feeling like I should have been and could have been more things like that when it came to I failed you we just we made this like tighter faster it was just and and more elements to it as well like we didn't want it we wanted to keep it raw still but uh you know we played a lot more with uh with like textural uh atmospheric synth tones and sounds and underlying thingss and effects and you know a lot more harmonies that kind of stuff I'm just happy because I'm happy with it you know what I mean I don't give a [ __ ] what anybody thinks you know I don't care if Joe blow down the street likes it or not I made a record that I like that I think sounds good from the Highland barro for the No Mercy metal showcase I'm here with Morgan from K first of all congrats I filled you out today heck yeah thank you very much we're very excited we're we're here and we're going to play a show and it's going to be awesome let me ask you something as far as the album title is this something you are writing for yourself or for the kitty fans as far as the title and the content it's it was it was definitely for me I mean I'm sure that uh when a lot of our fans listen to it they are going to be able to take something away from it and I guess uh you know have there's might be correlations in their personal lives with a lot of the things that I wrote about but it was definitely for me it was like a a cathartic experience I've you know had a rough couple of years and uh um you know it was uh it was something that I needed to get out and be very honest about so Ivy couldn't come to jam with us um because she was obviously still waiting for her visa um for the US she had gotten married and stuff like that so uh she couldn't leave the country I had just gotten married and you know I wanted to start kind of a different route in my life my husband and I were starting a clothing company a screen printing company I know that there's probably a few reasons but from what I understand it was just mostly like hey you know I'm married now I want to you know try my hand at you know married life and just kind of settle down for a little bit and enjoy my relationship and and you know grow up and and stuff like that we all have to do it she was trying to do her immigration and I had a a lot of sympathy for her and there was a um a good a good chance that it was is going to screw up her immigration some some of the process of actually working with Kitty in the states and so she she went through with it but she she was I I think actively trying to depart for a bit she did the first tour for I failed you um and she did Australia as well but she walked on the bus that day when or the bandwagon when we went to go pick her up and she walked off to go get some more of her stuff and I turned to Morgan I said this is her last tour and she said don't say that and I said this is her last tour and it was her last tour I went in there really expecting to be more involved on every level which when it came time to deal with any kind of business side of things it was you know nobody really asked my opinion and I remember after her very last show the two of us were just walking down the lane and I was like how do you how do you feel about uh that being your last one and she was just so nonchalant she like pretty good actually I think I'm good and it was kind of a nice little walk we had and then we probably went and found some beer okay well we don't know really what we're going to do Ivy's you know she's not in the Band anymore and that's cool we were like Trish's back around let's see let's see what she says and you know I had asked her and she was is actually like really really excited and actually really shocked I remember getting the text message when I was at work and she said hey so Ivy's leaving the band but we have a tour book like I know you said you'd want to fill in do you want to and I was like yes immediately I was like yes let me see if I can get it off work uh I had and I'm going to be honest about this I did have reservations about having Trish back in the band and Morgan was like you know I talk to her everything's all good she's in a way better place and I was like good that's all I needed to know then I think it was always a great regret for Trish that um things didn't work out for her the first time and I think she did want that second opportunity to um kind of try again kind of prove to herself that she could do it I think it was 45 shows in 45 days like we had no days off it was it was wild um so we were out for a month and a half straight show every day toured around the country did a bunch of Canadian dates um and it was awesome hey hey [Applause] [Music] hey Kitty was a really easy band to be in it was really really easy that's why you know I think there was no there was no [ __ ] when I was in the band there was there was no crap going on it was so easy to be in that band it it it needed to happen in that way it needed to happen in order in order for me to leave in order for me to go back to school in order for me to live post and to become who I am now so I think that the way it happened the way it played out and needed to happen it was one of the wildest times of my life without a shadow of a doubt if you're part of this circle like good for you cuz it's pretty fun little circle I cannot underline enough that I come from a very small town and it is amazing to me that I have been to South America I've been to Russia I've been to Australia all over Europe all over the states multiple times Puerto Rico etc etc and this is all be because of Six Strings the main thing is the [ __ ] you attitude you know [ __ ] off we're going to do it anyway I would I would always always do this all over again why um because I'd hate to see how boring my [ __ ] life would be without it yeah there I mean there's been so many life lessons you know I think if there's really I guess one thing that I could take away from it it would be that uh I think I've become a a better a better person for all of it the biggest thing was really having those friendships with those girls and being able to do something so unique they basically trailblazed a path for women in a genre that there weren't women in and then they watched basically women [ __ ] their way through that genre and become the opposite of everything Kitty ever stood for yet Kitty stayed more successful than most of those other women through the process which Ian was really a testament to them I really have to like applaud them because they stuck to their actual guns Kitty fans thank you for everything thanks for accepting me in the band and uh it definitely wouldn't be the same without you and for the other girls I I love them dearly too you know they they all brought amazing strengths to the band and I'm grateful for the experiences that I've had I'm grateful that we have been given this opportunity you know we were lucky we can probably play until we no longer want to play because I believe fans will want to watch us until we no longer want to play the beautiful thing about this industry or the beautiful thing about life is the potential for anything to happen is always there I don't think anyone can ever say definitively this is the end this is the last thing we're going to do uh unless you're 6 feet under and there's no physical way for you to do anything the future of the band on the other hand I don't really know I mean again it's uh whatever they want to do it's not up to me anymore everybody knows where I stand we're the masters of our own destiny we get to choose when the time is right and that's what I that's what I've always liked about being in this band it's not over I don't have a final statement because it's not over and we always come back for more Morgan is it true that you guys are writing new material uh yes it is true the rumors are true and here we are at the Lander Castle uh getting ready to practice in this small bedroom that has been turned into a musical Studio how's it feel to jam on some new stuff um well we've only been doing this for what about a month now um to be honest with you for me it kind of felt awkward cuz we hadn't really played in a really long time Mercedes has been jamming the whole time since we kind of you know petered off with things um but it was mostly just awkward because it kind of it almost felt like I don't know like it's like it's like riding a bicycle you know you get back on and you can do it it but at the at first it's kind of like wow man where's my training wheels so yeah uh but it's been [Music] good whenever we decide to do our our next album we'll do it with Sig and it will there will be that consistency there you'll be able to say that you know this is from the the new era of kitty you know in the black I failed you and yada yada whatever this record's called not called yada yada I think it should be called go [ __ ] yourself

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Keywords: King of Docs, Kings of Docs, free documentary, Late 90's, Sisters, Morgan Lander, Mercedes Lander, All-Female Metal Band, London, Ontario, Kittie, MTV, Radio, High School, Film, Time Period, Rare, Concert Footage, Behind the Scenes, Tour, Eras, 25th Anniversary, Unique Look, Feminism, Modern Time, First, Popular, 90's Roots, 25 Years, Heavy Metal Stardom, Teenagers, Thrashing, 6 Albums, studio, tapes, fans, pop culture, pop, trailers, trailers 2023, documentaries, music, punk rock, band

Id: F0UNHIfVw2k

Length: 93min 55sec (5635 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 30 2023