It was a big job, but we definitely needed to do it for posterity.” He was very involved in the re-mastering.
#311 transistor cover archive#
In addition to the music, the Archive package also includes a 60page book full of rare photos, flyers, memorabilia, and artifacts from the bands personal collection spanning 1992 – 2014. Going through more than 20 years of music and memorabilia took the group a year and a half to put together. What seems like another book of pictures actually entails so much more. With 5 members over 20 years, I’m surprised they were able to condense it down to just 60 pages.
Our manager was saying ‘Okay, I need old photos and stuff’ and I was like, ‘Well you can go through my keepsakes boxes.’ Nick Hexum’s collection alone seems quite taxing to go through.Īs Nick tells us, his keepsake showed up to be quite extensive: “Well I had 2 boxes of keepsakes, where I would just toss everything in from press clippings to laminates to lyric sheets to photos and these are really heavy boxes by the way. “Those boxes have been sealed for probably 10 years, so it was really ancient stuff. He opened it and he said this was like an archaeological dig! There was pony tails from when I had long hair on the Music album: there was wisdom teeth, tons of pictures of girls – Just tons of photos of us partying all of us in the studio, lots of pictures of us smoking.
It’s a fun peak inside the history of 311.” So there was a bunch of things from that I included in the photo book. If you look at the cover of the album, you have a plain white backdrop with hexagon shapes coming together to make a central image that kind of looks like a bee-hive with ‘311’ and Archive centrally located at the top. It’s symbolism to the bulk of the music on Archive coming from their home studio called The Hive. “It was just about the coming together of a place that’s always been the center of our activity,” Nick says of the symbolism with Archive cover-art. “We always run into each other at the Hive, it’s just our energy center.
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