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Denver Dalley is an accomplished singer-songwriter who got his start in Omaha, Nebraska.

Dalley, as the main songwriter, is backed by Conor Oberst's lyrics in the band Desaparecidos. This Indie/Rock band is on the Omaha-based Saddle Creek Records.

Dalley's latest project is Statistics. He is the only solid member of the successful, electronic/Indie band on Jadetree Records.

Dalley is also known as the "nicest dude in rock". And has also recently started another project called Intramural with a friend from Nashville.

Q+A with Denver Dalley of The Statistics

By Tim vonHolten TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2004

I.com: Did I catch you at a lunch time? You should certainly be eating lunch. you nned to keep your strength up.

Dalley: ... I'm just kind of walking around New York. I had a snack before I left. I'm gonna get something later while I'm out. That's what I love about New York, just like grabbin' slices throughout the day. I'm one of those snackers. That whole school of thought of continually digesting instead of having three big meals or whatever.

I.com: Lawrence.com just had a delicious potato and egg burrito from Burget King. While you're in Lawrence, you simply must try one.

Dalley: Cool! That'd be great!

I.com: Is Statistics the one-man show it's being touted as?

Dalley: I'm touring with a full band. I go into the studio and do the bulk of it myself. The EP (Statistics) I pretty much did entirely by myself. I had one guy play drums on a couple of songs. I had some more friends sit in on a few songs on this full-length. But yeah, for touring especially, I think it's just vital to have the live band, especially for the more rockin' songs. Thre are some acts that can pull off the, you know, one guy by himself acoustic, or someone playing along with a sampler. But I think for what I'm doin'-and knowing from my attention span at shows-I think having a live band is just vital to this-like the energy and performance.

I.com: Why are you touring as Statistics?

Dalley: My first band was Desaparecidos, and that was basically my first real passion-that was what I wanted to work on and tour on-just focus on. but everyone in the band's got other projects goin', namely my singer (Conor Oberst)-he's busy with Bright Eyes. So in the down time I just started four-tracking and recording in my room and just kinda working on stuff 'cause I wanted to keep that-right now I'm doing music full time, so I feel like I should constantly be working on it-you know, either out on the road, writing, or just-I don't want to slack or be lazy, I guess. So Statistics just kind of developed and then just came along more and more. Ultimately touring is one of my all-time favorite things. I love to be out and see new places and meet new people. I think it's an honor to have anyone come out to your show and give you some of their money and some of their evening. It's an amazing thing.

I.com: How often can Desaparecidos get together these days?

Dalley: Not very often. We're supposed to be recording this month. We actually got together in December, but we had plans to be recording all through this month and into early February. WE had studio time book and everything. WE got together and said, "We don't want to rush anything and we've got time constraints." It was more than Conor's end than anything. I think the rest of us were all ready and willing to work our lives around it, but Conor's just on a much higher level and he's got bigger commitments and that sort of thing-as far as touring and deadlines go. So we decided to put it on hiatus. As of now there's no plans to work on it or tour any time in the next year or so, but it's something we all love and wanna go down the road. In a way it was kind of a relief to me, because now I can tour as much as I possibly can on this album, which is what I really like to do.

I.com: You must love to be touring like this.

Dalley: Yeah, it goes from January 31st-you guys ar the first show down in Lawrence-though April 10th or some time that week-it's not completely squared away just yet, but 'til mid-April. And then I was going to take the last two weeks of April off and then maybe try to go over to Europe in May.

I.com: Is this kind of touring schedule the norm for you?

Dalley: I've done as much as five weeks before, continuously, but never ten. This is what Ii've always wanted. ... if I could have Desa' and Statistics goin' at the same time, hopin' to be able to bounce from one project to the other, either recording or touring.

I.com: What's keeping you form doing a Bright Eyes / Desaparecidos / Statistics tour?

Dalley: I don't know. We never thought about doing that kind of combination. I think Bright Eyes tends to tour with bands that are sonically a little bit more acoustic-based acts-I think the next tour they're doing is gonna be just conor by himself playing acoustic and two other guys acoustic. I think maybe he didn't want my music-which is more electronic and has louder guitars and that sort of thing-to clash with an evening of music or something. We may someday. We all book through the same guy.

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