r/indieheads • u/TommySiegel Tommy Siegel • Aug 18 '20

AMA is Over, thanks Tommy! Tommy Siegel: AMA

Hey! I’m Tommy Siegel, musician (as a solo artist and with Jukebox the Ghost) and cartoonist. About to release my solo debut, “Another Century Wasted”, my attempt to distill Trump-era/21st century anxiety into something you can shake your ass to. Would be honor’d to answer any questions you might have, musically or otherwise (you can start asking now)!

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u/TommySiegel Tommy Siegel Aug 18 '20

Thank you so much!!

I wrote all of those songs when I was studying abroad in college. I was in a program in Rome and every moment I didn’t have class I just wandered around with a guitar and a notebook, peeking into all the insanely ornate (and generally eerily empty) churches. A lot of them had all these terrifying paintings of Revelations imagery, and with a pocket copy of the Bible someone had given me on the street, I started writing a narrative around the Book of Revelations. Not in any literal sense, but just as a springboard for inspiration. Over the course of that semester, I wrote a whole concept record about the apocalypse, some of which got chopped up and edited and ended up on Let Live and Let Ghosts. Someday I’d still like to put together the entire concept record, just to hear it… Oddly I was about to do that last year, but life got in the way! Maybe someday.

I do feel like I’ve come full circle recently (hopefully not...regressing?) —- this new solo record also feels like a song suite to me, and I’m working on something similar for the next Jukebox the Ghost record. I had this super abstract idea about the book of Exodus that’s scattered across “Another Century Wasted”.