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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Slowpoke

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The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short or long, and that reveals something in itself, but the most important factor is honesty.

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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Ben Chapman-Smith, Cameron Legge & Adam Young of Slowpoke

How do you define what you do and how did you come to do it?

We play kickass, original stomping heavy music. We got there by absorbing a lot of music, practicing and writing and editing.

Describe your first musical memory.

Ben: Attending music class in kindergarten / elementary school.

Cam: Dancing around the house to my Dad’s cassettes while strumming a toy guitar.

Adam: I remember my dad had an acoustic guitar and I wanted so badly to be able to play it, but I couldn’t. That was the beginning of my infatuation with music.

Describe your best musical memory to date.

Ben: This might not be the favourite but it’s near the top. When this girl in high school gave me Appetite for Destruction for the first time. I was immediately obsessed with GNR

Cam: The first punk show that I seen in my hometown of Marystown. Made me realize what I want to do with my life.

Adam: Writing music with my really good friends.

When was a time when a firmly held belief was tested?

Ben: When I left Toronto to pursue music as a career in St. John’s. It tested my belief in whether or not I could actually accomplish this.

Cam:

Adam:

Where do you feel artistic progression leads?

Ben: The shorter answer is artistic competency. I guess it depends on how fast you are progressing and what’s driving you. It can be incredibly liberating but can also force you into inhospitable territory. It depends on how you define artistic progression.

Cam: It really depends on what progression is referring to. In a true artistic sense, I think it’s being able to capture human experiences and emotions and putting them into a digestible context that people can relate to. I think the best artists have a way of tapping into us emotionally on a universal level.

Adam: Inward.

How do you define success?

Ben: For me, musically, success is a cross-section of financial sustainability and contributing interesting and genuine ideas.

Cam: Contributing something that didn’t exist before, while sustaining yourself financially.

Adam: Being happy doing what you’re doing.

What is something you have seen that you wish you hadn’t?

Ben: I once seen a guy taking a dump in a New York subway.

Cam: A coked out guy tried to get in my car while I was parked in a parking garage.

Adam: I saw some pretty awful animal abuse when I was young.

Describe something you haven’t created yet that you’d like to create.

Ben: A performance art/free form improvised doom metal odyssey inspired by traditional function of music in a ceremonial context.

Cam: I have always had an interest in film. I would love to be able to totally go out of my comfort zone and attempt to write a script for a horror film.

Adam: I’m with Ben.

What do you believe is the most essential function of art?

Ben: To genuinely offer a perspective or to share a specific feeling.

Cam: “To disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed” – Cesar A Cruz.

Adam: To hold a mirror up to ourselves.

Something non-musical that you’re looking forward to?

Ben: Getting a new car, no real plans for it but I’m looking forward to it.

Cam: Figuring out the chaos that is my 20s.

Adam: Does building my recording studio count?

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Slowpoke, Slowpoke (2021)

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