Ken Andrews, Failure: WHY FAILURE BROKE UP

On this Ken Andrews Interview: Ken is the co-founder, vocalist, guitarist, bassist and co-songwriter of the alt band Failure. Ken talks candidly about why Failure broke up and how they wound up getting back together. They weren’t sure if there would be an interest in the band coming back together, but when they booked a show at the El Rey theater and it sold out in minutes… they knew they were on to something
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[@Gonko100]

Discovered them just now, with "in the future your body..." I think its fair to say it is a perfect rock record.

[@lessthanpinochet]

Their entire discography near perfect. Super underrated band.

[@JacobNNorton1982]

Year of the Rabbit is amazing also. There’s only one record.

[@mikereseigh]

All their music is excellent . So is his solo stuff and his other bands.

[@seekerofpowerfulideas2727]

I’m 18 and started playing guitar at the beginning of this year. Failure is one of my biggest musical influences and hearing that Ken started at the same age as me (with a focus on songwriting like myself) is really comforting.

[@seekerofpowerfulideas2727]

Great interview, btw!

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

Hey, thanks so much Erica, really kind of you. And best of luck playing guitar, it's incredibly fun and exciting!

[@Kubooxooki]

What a great way to start a life in music! Congratulations, Erica. Enjoy it all the way throughout your life.

[@jessebarrera5471]

Erica Harrington good luck to you and keep on pushing!

[@ccgbassandmore3]

How's it been going lately?

[@kriskenmonroe1]

Lol, I found Failure in '96, and I didn't want them to do a "Greatest Hits" thing when they got back together either! And thank goodness, they are better than ever and absolutely killing it.

[@zacharyyoung1083]

About 40 minutes in, Ken comments on the connection to the fans and the ego which drives many singers/frontmen. The first time I saw Failure was headlining a small club near UCSB in support of Comfort, probably early in 1992. Slash records posters all over the place. He performed the first song with his head down and his back turned to the crowd. I had never seen anything like that. It was so different and fit perfectly with the aesthetic of the music. One of the defining moments of my young life as a concert goer. Saw them twice again in Nashville for the Fantastic Planet re-release an for Heart of a Monster. They were so fucking good... Keep going man, you’re music still has fans and you guys make a kind of music that nobody makes anymore..

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

Thank you for listening Zachary Young! 🎉🔥😇 subscribe: elg.fun/subscribe

[@billy2896]

I've listened to everything I can find that's fronted by Ken Andrews multiple times. It pains me to see his lack of online attention. He deserves millions of listeners and dollars for how good he is.

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

Glad you enjoyed the interview Lynx Hearthweru, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !

[@kidwajagstang]

Ken Andrews and Matt Talbot are probably the most underrated and under appreciated musical genius’s. If Hum and Failure booked a show together, 1) they would HAVE to flip a coin for who plays first and 2) the tickets will require that everyone use tongs to handle such a hot item 3) could possibly result in all those in attendance to realize that NOTHING in life will EVER be greater than that show and possibly 4) While not certain, but theres a high possibility that such a huge amount of “awesome” in one place could result in the very fabric of the universe unraveling…. I, for one, would somehow find a way to make it to such a show, ESPECIALLY if it was a ONE TIME show. I don’t care if it was at a Mayan temple in the middle of the Amazon, I WOULD find a way to get there!!

[@Unitedfruitco]

Ken is a total genius. I almost always love everything he is involved with.

[@dnaglitchgaming6565]

Ken Andrews solo album “Secrets of a Lost Satellite” is the best. Right up there with Fantastic Planet and Magnified.

[@dnaglitchgaming6565]

@@CosmicConnection968 I’m just a guy with good musical taste and my own opinion. Never said anyone had to agree with me or else... Fantastic Planet will always be my favorite hands down. I grew up listening to Failure and followed Ken through the years. To me his passion and knowledge along with talent is like he is a Trent Reznor that didn’t go main stream. Again just my opinion.

[@scottbaines4747]

@@dnaglitchgaming6565 Satellite is an insanely good record. Secret Things, Allergic, Write Your Story, In Your Way and China Dream are all amazing tracks.

[@nichreynolds7712]

I think his solo work gives you a good idea of how failure gets its sound. His solo album sounds nothing like failure. Just like autolux sounds nothing like failure. Failure is literally a perfect marriage of ken and Greg's styles. Ken is the pretty melodic pop rock guy. Greg is the grunge, shoegaze,stoner rock guy. You add these two together and you get dissonant, pretty, dark, strange , happy all mixed together into a stew....that stew is called failure.

[@johnsonpgd9164]

Saw them the other night, almost 30 years after the first time I saw them. Still amazing, still tight, still my favorite band of all time. Thanks Ken for this interview. Really enjoyed it! 🙏🏻

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

Glad you enjoyed the interview Johnson PgD, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !

[@ryan3656]

Failure produced music unlike any other band or musician. It spoke to my liminal thoughts and help me explore my own mind and discover what I’ve always needed. Never have I ever heard music more soul touching than theirs.

[@stalebreadzz]

Ken is such a talented, knowledgeable, cool dude. I’m glad he got the guys back together to record more. Failure is my favorite band hands down!!!

[@mikereseigh]

I love his voice too. Btw the solo ep is excellent too. Wish it was longer.

[@nickpruett8022]

I have met Ken a few times, he is an introvert and definitely doesn’t suffer fools gladly.

[@nichreynolds7712]

I'm sorry. But Ken is NOT am introvert. Greg is. Ken is very active in the scene. His hands have touched many media forms we unknowingly Ingested. So many commercials, movies, TV shows have Ken's work all over. Whether ppl know It or not, everyone has heard his work.

[@earthskraper]

My favorite band of all time.

[@cmeza1985]

This guy is awesome, pretty well rounded in smarts and creativity with an incredible and low key profile. Glad I saw them at pioneertown.

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

Right on Christian Meza, thanks for listening! 🎸💥🙌🏻

[@gosunoob1577]

great interview, and interesting questions

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

Thanks for your kind words @gosunoob1577 and glad you enjoyed this 👍🏻🎸♫

[@sarahheibs9264]

Fantastic interview, thanks for this! Love Failure so much. These guys are incredible talents and so inspiring.

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

Thanks Sarah, glad you dug it and ty for listening!

[@sarahheibs9264]

@@EveryoneLovesGuitar So happy I found your channel. These are some rad interviews. I love what you said about Ken's voice, I totally agree. It's nice to hear the technical side of things and also these in depth stories. Will share this far and wide! You have a really nice voice too.

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

@@sarahheibs9264 Wow, thanks so much that's really kind of you to say all that. Really glad you enjoyed it so much. You know how to make a guy blush 😊

[@tara2262]

my God. Kudos to the host for not going straight Chris-Farley-meets-Paul-McCartney in this interview as I surely would have interviewing Ken. I adore Failure, seeing them play alongside Swervedriver a couple years ago was one of the greatest concert experiences of my life. Truly - right up there with Tool. Thanks for this content!!

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

Thanks Tara, glad you enjoyed this :-)

[@erniebaker1432]

Love this band! only found out about them about a month ago.love fantastic planet and everything after

[@elpechero4567]

You really need to listen to Magnified, its one of their most aggressive, alternative, work. Also Comfort is good.

[@HINRG14]

@@elpechero4567 Indeed.

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

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[@Szeszmongoose]

Thanks for the interview! I resonate with you totally on being absolutely taken away by Ken’s voice 😊

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

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[@toddcameron1289]

Pretty sure I discovered Failure as they were an opening band for Local H in ‘96 or ‘97 at a concert in Detroit. Saw an interview with Kevin Martin from Candlebox recently where he mentions Failure - and so I am currently on a KZbin Failure K-Hole.

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

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[@riblets1968]

I'm roughly the same age as the band members yet I never heard about them in the 90s! WKDF at that time was pretty good about promoting lesser-known bands from the South but not so much on West coast bands. I, like their young fan base, discovered them rather recently, in my case via one of Rick Beato's videos. I immediately took an interest and I was blown away! They were and are like no rock band I've ever heard then or now and I started looking for albums. I will admit that there is a learning curve for Failure but it's worth it. In the Future [...] is my favorite album to date. It's very well done and the production is amazing.

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

Yes, I agree riblets1968 - thanks for listening!

[@zacharyyoung1083]

For sure, they are a lost band from the mid 90’s so under appreciated. Also check out Shiner from Kansas City, great fucken band.

[@riblets1968]

@@zacharyyoung1083 I just did. Wow! Thanks for the tip!

[@lessthanpinochet]

@@zacharyyoung1083 Damn, what an amazing find. Very Failure-esque.

[@e3uphoric51]

What a great and insightful interview. :) "Folding laundry and watching the news. Looove it." 😂

[@billy2896]

and his voice is heavenly :,>

[@HornedBee]

After listening to failure's music I realized they shouldve been named epic fucking win

[@nickstrange2989]

Awesome interview - really fascinating to find out about Ken's influences - especially those early Cure albums - Pornography and Faith - the guitar and just sound in general is pretty amazing to this day, especially on Pornography. I discovered these guys on a college radio station back in my hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Magnified is still my favorite album because of the sound innovation and great dark rock riifs. I luckily got to see them in Vancouver on their reunion tour - I truly hope they play there again someday. Anyway - just wanted to share that - huge fan of the band!!! Cheers from Victoria, BC, Canada - --PS - Another great band called Hum with a heavy psychedelic shoegaze sound just released a new album - I hope anyone who's a fan of Failure will check it out - and dig into their early albums - 'You'd Prefer An Astronaut' and 'Downward Is Heavenward' - I believe their newest is called 'Inlet' - cheers everyone!

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

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[@lessthanpinochet]

Hum is awesome. Inlet might be the best album they've ever released.

[@Bpjames]

Disappointed that I couldn't find that video for Not a Secret Dance by Bloc that Ken had made. If anyone has a link I'd appreciate it!

[@bradrepellent]

There’s a couple links up for it now if you haven’t checked it out!

[@seeingeyegod]

Man I really want to see this video he's talking about that won the MTV contest in the late 80s

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

loads of people do, no one has found it unfortunately :-( Thanks for listening :-)

[@kidwajagstang]

55:21 Yes, indeed, Peaches was a National chain. They never had anywhere near the same number of stores as Warehouse, Sam Goody, or Tower Records, but they had AT LEAST one store in most largely populated cities or metropolitan areas in the US. There’s a video somewhere that details all the most famous record stores/chains and their current status. From what I can tell, Warehouse is now F.Y.E. (For Your Entertainment) and is hanging in but is HEAVILY inflating prices. Rasputin Records is currently the largest independent record store chain in business. They have a couple of “Flagship” stores scattered around that are ENORMOUS that are called Mad Monk as opposed to Rasputin’s. I live in Modesto CA and we have a Mad Monk that is divided in half. Half thrift clothing, half entertainment media (new and used) with a floor easily as big as an average Walmart, so it’s nearly impossible to know with 100% certainty if they do or don’t have something in stock bc the unorganized bargain bins are a lot of the same things in the organized areas, just priced lower. But you HAVE to hunt! So with the bargain bins it’s just luck and how much time you have and are willing to spend going thru everything..

[@probotdrummer]

I love that bass sound!

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

I feel you man!

[@markg999]

Good interview. Yea i always felt it was maybe that lack of huge ego that kept them from blowing up. All the big bands of the 90s they all have these larger than life frontmen and thats just not Kens style. Though Cobain probably would have enjoyed being under the radar as a frontman of Nirvana. Failure make amazing songs and is probably one of my favorite bands of all time.

[@Themsheetz]

Anyone got a link to the video he was talking about for the band Bloc? I couldn’t find it on KZbin.

[@kidpresentable]

Great interview man

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

Thanks for listening 🎸

[@orion10x]

Was there @ Peaches in Fort Lauderdale

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

Very cool, used to live there as well 🙌🏻💥🎉 subscribe: elg.fun/subscribe

[@bossman-jk9tl]

I'd love to see the Bloc music video, but I can't find anything about it online. Anybody have it?

[@EveryoneLovesGuitar]

I've looked as well, I don't think it's around. Thx for listening :-)

[@trickster398]

I tried looking for it too, damn what luck!.. Rock on ken Andrews! No mainstream group has ever scathed his compelling notion to music!

[@steuartliebig6617]

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[@EtcEtcAndEtc]

breathing intensifies

[@briansays2286]

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[@mmattcisterna5591]

So.. why they broke up on that moment?

[@boutinelass]

At the time of this interview Ken was divorced. Ken’s reference to his personal life tipped me off. Bummer.

[@EtcEtcAndEtc]

strange how people who don't record music hear things totally "wrong", re 'No One Left'. There's no way you could play that bass part and anything like that guitar sound at the same time. If it was possible to play something like that on the bass at once, the distortion on the bass would make it sound totally 'interfered', the harmonic shape of the bass sound would get really ragged in the top end. Also it's clearly that behind the bridge/nut clang guitar sound. Sorry to be a prick, it's just moments of hearing someone so completely misunderstand something that was immediately obvious to me, that I realise I hear things completely different to the 'layman', it's like we're hearing a completely different performance. Cool story, I know.

[@joshuawalsh7598]

Ken Andrews is not the person you want to meet in public, was rude and not nice at all. I dont know why I spend my life believing in his music and telling others about the band. I truly feel I was mislead and very hurt.

[@bleacherseatsports1933]

He probably didn't like your face...it's very punchable looking!

[@trickster398]

Elaborate? Interested on what happened

[@bossman-jk9tl]

He's pretty clearly an introvert, you probably just made him uncomfortable.

[@joshuawalsh7598]

I truly don’t want to elaborate as I don’t want to bother much about it , introvert maybe and uncomfortable might be the case. I just can’t support that attitude as I would never do that to one of my long time fans. It is what it is and life goes on and you never know what’s going on in people heads at the time.

[@trickster398]

@@joshuawalsh7598 sorry about the experience man

[@totalpartykill999]

Ken is so well rounded in his skill sets.