I don't know a thing about William Elliott Whitmore, I just found his comments about hardcore amusing.

D: How did you open for hardcore bands with just a banjo and microphone without getting heckled off the stage?

WEW: Very carefully. [Laughs.] When it was my turn to get up there, I knew I better bring the fucking noise. And then when it came time to open up for really big bands, like Converge in the U.K.—we were playing for 2,000 people. I had never done anything like that before. I came from the basement. So I was like, ‘Okay, now I got to really do it.’ But anymore, people in general are ready for anything. It’s not like it was 15 years ago, when, if you were playing in front of a hardcore audience, they might not put up with you coming up with a banjo. You might really have problems. I feel people have lightened up. The Converge fans couldn’t have been more respectful. Even people that really like hardcore music don’t want to see fucking 10 hardcore bands in a row. You need some kind of palette cleanser in there. I’m kind of a palate cleanser. [Laughs.]

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