What do we know about this band? They're from San Francisco. This year is their 20th anniversary, by the way. Satomi Matsuzaki plays bass and sings, Greg Saunier plays drums, John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez play guitars. "But what is Deerhoof really? Hell if we know. Pitchfork went so far as to label Deerhoof as “the best band in the world.” The New York Times described them as “one of the most original rock bands to have come along in the last decade.” And you know what - that's absolute truth. And - we've got a story from John, check it out:
"When I joined Deerhoof, we all had "main" jobs that paid the rent. Satomi was waiting tables at a restaurant and also working as an editor of a magazine in San Francisco. Greg and I both had office jobs, he doing filing work and me doing data entry sorts of things. I remember when I entered 7th grade, my parents highly recommended taking a typing class because "you can always get a job." Strangely enough, they were very right! Being able to type fast meant that I didn't have to work in restaurants (which I did try -- dishwashing and busing -- but was terrible at), and it also meant I could sometimes listen to music at work, which was highly fun -- I even had a job for a little while wherein there was so little work that I could bring in my laptop and work on electronic music at work. When Ed joined Deerhoof, he had just left a job at a yoga magazine company in Berkeley. I think it was a telephone job or something. He also worked as a cashier at a great video store called Lost Weekend, and he kept that job for several years as he liked it and had a lot of close friends there. At the moment, none of us have second jobs per se, though some of us sometimes do production work (recording/mix/master/remix) for other bands, and all of us play with other people sometimes, and that can occasionally bring with it the possibility of a free ice cream cone or something. There have been times over the years that we considered going back to our day jobs so that we didn't have to be so worried about how everything went in Deerhoof, but at the moment I feel happy to be what we're doing and very lucky that we're able to make a living doing it. It's a wonderful job, and it also enables me to meet interesting people and start different collaborations that never would have materialized otherwise."