{"id":3511,"date":"2017-03-15T07:09:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T07:09:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-11-21T02:53:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T02:53:12","slug":"galactic-cowboys-are-back-a-conversation-with-bassist-monty-colvin-d27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/15\/galactic-cowboys-are-back-a-conversation-with-bassist-monty-colvin-d27\/","title":{"rendered":"Galactic Cowboys Are Back: A Conversation With Bassist Monty Colvin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Callaway is a Denver, Colorado-based music journalist. He wrote for both Heaven\u2019s Metal<\/span> and HM <\/span>back in the day. His first book, Reel to Real by Reel<\/span> was published in 2015. Currently, Chris writes for publications, websites and his blog, Rock Music Opinions<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Book, Reel to Real by Reel<\/span><\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

-Blog, Rock Music Opinions<\/span><\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9 2017 Chris Callaway<\/span><\/p>\n

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Galactic Cowboys are one of the most unique bands to ever exist in the metal realm and now they are officially back and have a new record deal and an album coming out later this year. It\u2019s their first new disc in 17 years, so it\u2019s time to celebrate. Recently I was able to catch up with bassist Monty Colvin \u2013 the interview follows \u2013 but first a little background and commentary on the band.<\/p>\n

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Galactic Cowboys carved out a name for themselves by taking molten-hot, blazing thrash metal, heavy riffs (Dane Sonnier), face-smacking bass (Monty Colvin), powerful drumming (Alan Doss) and pristine vocals (Ben Huggins) and mixing all those savory ingredients with incredibly catchy melodies and angelic Crosby, Stills & Nash-style vocal harmonies. Sometimes the band would up the ante by adding musically-challenging odd time signatures that made prog rock folks smile. To say that the quartet wrote catchy songs is an understatement, but they combined a love of hooks with a dedication to musical sophistication and honest, reflective lyrics. It worked for the small segment of music fans that actually heard the band and\/or saw them live, but for the average music listener from 1991-2000 \u2013 the period when the band was actively putting out records \u2013 there was no knowledge of this incredible band. If you were a King\u2019s X fan at the time, you may have discovered Galactic Cowboys that way as both bands shared a friendship, some business associations, a sizable Christian fan base and excelled at displaying superior musicianship in the confines of songs that highlighted ear-pleasing harmonies and melodic structure.<\/p>\n

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I discovered Galactic Cowboys due to the King\u2019s X association and picked up their masterful 1991 self-titled debut disc around the time of its release. I was impressed that it was released on DGC, basically Geffen, a mainstream label powerhouse. When the band\u2019s sophomore effort, Space in Your Face<\/span>, came out two years later \u2013 also released on DGC \u2013 the band made even more of an impression. Songs like \u201cCircles in the Field,\u201d and \u201cYou Make Me Smile\u201d had such a melodic power over my mind that the disc was permanently in my Sony Discman (with a cassette adaptor for car listening) as I cruised the back roads in between Golden and Boulder, Colorado. My friend Chris and I would crank the volume and joyfully sing along in pure teenage testosterone-fueled bliss. <\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, the Cowboys didn\u2019t stay on DGC after Space in Your Face<\/span>. To this day, I can\u2019t understand why the album didn\u2019t become a bestseller in the metal realm. DGC was a big label; Counting Crows\u2019 excellent, massively-selling debut, August and Everything After<\/span>, came out on DGC that same year. You couldn\u2019t escape hearing \u201cMr. Jones\u201d on the radio and blasting from college dorm room windows. There are some things I may never fully grasp.<\/p>\n

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All was not lost, however. Galactic Cowboys signed with Metal Blade and continued recording with a new guitarist, Wally Farkas. They would release four albums and an EP on the label, with their last studio disc, Let It G<\/span>o, being released in 2000. Alan Doss left the band and wasn\u2019t featured on Let It Go<\/span>; band friend, Jerry Gaskill of King\u2019s X played drums.<\/p>\n

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While all those Metal Blade recordings are excellent, At the End of the Day<\/span> (released in 1998) stands out the most. The cover, for one, is fantastic. Monty Colvin is an excellent painter and put a lot of time into the cover. It\u2019s not a small painting by any means; it was for sale at one time on his website and the dimensions were impressive. But let\u2019s be honest, an album cover only goes so far; the disc itself has to stand out and At the End of the Day<\/span> does just that. There\u2019s even a suite of seven songs that successfully navigates through different musical approaches to a satisfying finish.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a long time, 17 years to be exact, since Galactic Cowboys have released an album. Band members have done other things in the interim, including Colvin who released a handful of excellent records under the name Crunchy and regularly produces an entertaining podcast, Monty\u2019s Rockcast. But the most important thing is that Ben Huggins, Dane Sonnier, Monty Colvin and Alan Doss are back together now and creating that ear-pleasing sound. Please join me as I catch up with bassist Monty Colvin.<\/p>\n

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One more thing before we get going with the interview: Doug Van Pelt asked me to photograph Galactic Cowboys during the tour for the Machine Fish<\/span> album in 1996. I took my vintage Konica 35mm camera to the Mercury Cafe in Denver that night and got one good shot of Monty Colvin playing bass in his usual entertaining fashion. There were no other good shots. Doug never asked me to take photos again. At least the show was phenomenal.<\/p>\n

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Chris Callaway: So how are things going?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Monty Colvin: Well, pretty good. This week I\u2019ve been working on album covers designs. That\u2019s what I\u2019m doing right now. I\u2019ve got seven paintings going right now. They\u2019re smaller; they\u2019re like 12\u201d by 12\u201d little canvas panels, but I\u2019ve got this whole motif going that I\u2019m gonna try to do as many paintings as I can and hopefully will come up with one that\u2019s just killer. And if we don\u2019t, we may end up using a photograph or something. (laughs)<\/p>\n

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CC: I think you should do a painting. You\u2019ve always had great paintings for covers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: Well, thanks. I hope so. I\u2019m trying.<\/p>\n

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CC: Let It Go<\/span> came out 17 years ago. What led up to doing a new record?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: It was kind of unexpected. We weren\u2019t looking for anything. We weren\u2019t even really talking to each other about playing. I got a call one day from this guy and he said, \u201cHey, there may be a label out there that would want to sign you guys. Would you be interested in getting together again and doing an album?\u201d I said, \u201cYeah, I think we would love to do that.\u201d I started talking to this label, who I can\u2019t mention yet; they want us to hold off until a later date when they can make a big announcement out of it. Anyway, I started talking to this label and they were really interested in signing us and [I] literally talked to them for a year \u2013 almost to the month and date, all that \u2013 for a solid year, talked to them every few weeks we\u2019d talk on the phone, kick back and forth with questions and ideas. It literally took a year and we finally came to an agreement and signed a deal with them. It\u2019s kind of a surprise to us. (laughs)<\/p>\n

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CC: That\u2019s awesome. It\u2019s not one of those things where it\u2019s going to be released in Japan only and then be released here?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: They\u2019re talking worldwide and also vinyl, CDs, downloads and the whole bit. It should be a pretty legitimate thing. We\u2019re excited. We\u2019ve been working on songs for the last few months and we are finally starting to lay some tracks. We\u2019re feeling really good about it. [We\u2019ve] got some great new songs.<\/p>\n

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CC: What would you compare it to that you\u2019ve done in the past? Will it sound like something completely new directionally?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: I think this will be something that spans all of our albums in a way, but I think it\u2019s definitely a throwback to the first three where there\u2019s a lot of heavy, up-tempo stuff and some real thrashing stuff. We\u2019ve got a couple ballads in there too, but just a lot of heavy stuff [that\u2019s] at the same time real melodic. If I was going to compare it to anything, I\u2019d say it\u2019s probably somewhere between the first three albums, with a little bit of Let It Go<\/span> and stuff like that thrown in there, but definitely a lot of energy. I\u2019m digging it.<\/p>\n

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CC: Do you have any favorite songs yet?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: I don\u2019t know. I think we\u2019ll probably know better in a month or so after we\u2019ve starting laying more tracks and start to see them come to life. Right now, they\u2019re pretty rough but I can tell that they\u2019ve got a lot of promise. I think once we start building them and getting harmony vocals laid on there, a lot of them will really come to life. Some of them may not happen like we thought they would. Right now I don\u2019t think I have a favorite, but I\u2019m really excited to see what they end up sounding like.<\/p>\n

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CC: You guys are going to incorporate a lot of harmonies like you always do.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: Yeah, I think that\u2019s just our sound. We\u2019ve always got harmonies on pretty much every song. That\u2019s what we do. We don\u2019t plan on changing that.<\/p>\n

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CC: And some odd time signatures in places I\u2019m sure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: Yeah. There\u2019s a lot of different things on here. We\u2019ve got a couple songs that have the long instrumental things in the middle that take off into different directions and are a little more progy-sounding, but I would say the basis of every song is really a strong melodic song. Some of them are heavier and faster or whatever, but we try to concentrate on each song being really melodic and catchy at the same time.<\/p>\n

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CC: Are you the primary songwriter for this album?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: I did write quite a bit of it, but what I did on this album is I wrote a lot of the music and I would have like a chorus but at that point, I would go, \u201cI\u2019m gonna get Ben (Huggins) in on this and see what he can come up with for the verses.\u201d He flew down a couple times \u2013 well actually flew up \u2013 to Kansas City from Houston and hung out with me for a couple weekends and we sat around and kicked around lyric ideas. He came up with a lot of lyrics for the album. We\u2019ve got a lot of songs like that where we collaborated. He and Dane (Sonnier) wrote a song together that\u2019s turning out really cool. Alan (Doss) brought in a couple songs. We worked on some of them together, so I would say there\u2019s going to be a lot of band influence driving on here.<\/p>\n

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CC: Do you have any more Crunchy projects in the works?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: No, I really don\u2019t. I\u2019ve mainly been just concentrating on the Galactic album and I\u2019ve been really happy doing that right now. I had some guys who were playing with me; it\u2019s probably been three or four years ago now. We were really good. It was really sounding good. They did the harmonies and everything and we played a few shows. Then they had a chance to play in this pirate band. Have you ever heard of pirate music?<\/p>\n

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CC: No.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: They get together, they dress up like pirates and they stand there with acoustic guitars and play pirate songs.<\/p>\n

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CC: I didn\u2019t know there were pirate songs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: Well, apparently so and people, I guess, go crazy for it and they\u2019re booked all the time. They even asked me if I wanted to do it and I\u2019m like, \u201cNo, I\u2019m really not the pirate type.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CC: (laughs)<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: (laughs) That\u2019s what they\u2019ve been doing and we haven\u2019t played in years, so I\u2019ve put the [Crunchy] thing on the backburner. I could still go ahead and write and make my album \u2013 I was playing most everything on the albums anyway \u2013 but I haven\u2019t gotten around to doing it. I\u2019ve decided to turn my attention to Galactic and that stuff.<\/p>\n

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CC: What is the songwriting process like for you?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: I just go and pick up the guitar and start jamming. Almost every time, I\u2019ll come up with something like a riff or a chorus or something. Once in a while, I\u2019ll get a line in my head [where] I\u2019m like, \u201cYou know, that would make a good chorus.\u201d I\u2019ll sit down and write a chorus with those words and end up developing it into a whole song. But that\u2019s usually how it starts. There\u2019s times when I\u2019ll start with words first, but a lot of times I\u2019ll just pick up the guitar and jam along with a drum machine or whatever, start riffing, and songs just start coming out.<\/p>\n

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CC: As far as actually getting into music \u2013 I know you did the Awful Truth a long time back (a band that also featured Galactic Cowboy\u2019s drummer, Alan Doss). Was your cousin Dee Dee (the late Dee Dee Ramone of the Ramones) at all responsible for helping you get into music or develop that interest?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: I was actually way into it before I even knew he was doing that. Of course, as soon as I saw what he was doing, I started seeing him in magazines and stuff. It did kind of give me hope because they weren\u2019t like Dream Theater or anything; they were these guys that\u2014it could have been anybody\u2014they were just guys that could barely play in the beginning but they were writing these killer songs and they had all this energy and attitude. I think they ended up making great albums. They were an inspiration in that way, just like, \u201cWell, hey, maybe I could do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CC: What\u2019s your bass setup like these days? What are you playing as far as basses, amps and whatnot?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: I usually use Ampeg stuff for the low end. I have kind of a bi-amping system.<\/p>\n

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CC: Kind of like what dUg Pinnick (King\u2019s X) was doing?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: I\u2019m not real sure what he\u2019s doing these days. I\u2019m just using a lot of the stuff I always have, which is Ampeg heads or cabinets for low. I just got a Mesa\/Boogie Rectifier, Dual Rectifier, for the high-end, which is where I get my crunch, distortion and that ringing, obnoxious tone. I just bought a new one for the studio. I\u2019m so excited to use it, \u2018cause first practice, I was like, \u201cOh yeah, there\u2019s the sound!\u201d I used one of those from, probably, from Machine Fish on and live especially, it\u2019s [got] a killer tone. Some guy stole it when I was doing Crunchy and I haven\u2019t had one for years. So, on this one, I got a mini-endorsement from Boogie and so I went ahead and got a Dual Rectifier and I\u2019m loving it.<\/p>\n

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CC: That\u2019s awesome. I know that John Entwistle (legendary bassist for the Who) used to do the bi-amp thing where you get the biting high ends and that killer bottom end.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: Yeah, I think the first guy I got really inspired to do distortion from was Lemmy. I went and saw Motorhead one night. In between songs, he would strum his bass and it was just this massive wall of distorted death. I\u2019m like, \u201cI gotta start distorting my bass!\u201d I went and bought an eight-string [bass] out of a pawn shop. It was one of those aluminum neck things — so a weird bass \u2013 but I was just getting this massive distortion and started playing through guitar heads. That\u2019s kind of where it started, back even in the Awful Truth days.<\/p>\n

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CC: These days, are you pretty much playing traditional four-string basses or are you playing eight and 12 as well?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to probably be playing any 12. I\u2019ve still got a 12-string but I ended up liking the eight-strings more. [They] are a little easier to play and they don\u2019t weigh<\/p>\n

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as much and all that kind of stuff. I was just a little more comfortable with them, so I am going to use a couple 8-strings on this new album, but mainly 4- [string basses]. I\u2019ve got a Zon four-string that\u2019s my main bass and then I\u2019ve got a couple of 8-strings that I\u2019m going to play on some of the slower tunes and some of the groovin\u2019 songs and stuff like that.<\/p>\n

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CC: I always thought it was cool how you guys were able to articulate your faith in your music. Was that ever difficult to do?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: No, not really. I\u2019ve always just written songs about stuff that\u2019s on my mind at the time. If it was something spiritual or something I was going through, that\u2019s what I would write about or if it was just a story. If I heard somebody say something a lot of times it would spark an idea for a song. I just went with things like that\u2014whatever inspires me at the moment.<\/p>\n

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CC: Do you have a funny story that stands out from your days as a recording musician?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: The first thing that popped into my head — there\u2019s a lot of crazy, I don\u2019t know, weird unfortunate stuff that would happen (laughs) to us. The first thing that popped into my head was on the first album, we were working in this old studio and the engineer in there was always having to fix equipment. It was old equipment and stuff like that so he was always like, \u201cHang on, I gotta fix this.\u201d So, we\u2019d just hang out waiting for him to fix stuff and while he did we finally went, \u201cHey, let\u2019s play some Wiffle ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CC: (laughs<\/span>)<\/p>\n

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MC: (laughs) We\u2019re playing in the recording room and the place was covered in burlap and all the walls were covered in burlap and foam and stuff. We made a ball out of duct tape. I can\u2019t remember what it was, maybe just a Wiffle ball bat. We started playing Wiffle ball and we\u2019re like, \u201cIf you hit it off the back of the studio wall, it\u2019s a home run.\u201d We wasted so much money just hanging out and playing Wiffle ball and football out in the parking lot. I wish we had some of that money back.<\/p>\n

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CC: Was it ever frustrating for you? You had nice recording budgets for the first two albums, you had DGC \u2013 especially the second record [Space in Your Face]\u2013 was it frustrating for you guys when it didn\u2019t go as far as everyone thought it should?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: Yeah, definitely. We were told we were going to be the biggest band in the world. We were on Geffen; they\u2019ve got Guns \u2018N\u2019 Roses and Aerosmith and all these huge bands. It was frustrating and plus we spent so much of that money. We got a big signing deal to do [the albums] but we spent so much money making the albums that there wasn\u2019t anything left. It was kind of disappointing to say the least.<\/p>\n

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CC: Are you officially back together or are you back together to do the album and see what happens?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MC: We\u2019re pretty much together as a band. I guess we\u2019ll all probably do side projects and whatnot, but as far as [the] band, we\u2019re in it for the long haul. As long as they want to keep us making albums, I think we\u2019re all down for it. I would say we\u2019re officially back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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