As it relates to the music that I make and that Animal Collective makes in general, it was really an eye-opening experience the first time I saw it. We were like 15, it was Dave [Portner, aka Avey Tare] and me, and we were snowed in at a friend’s house. There were a bunch of people there. Dave and I had some mushrooms and.” We were snowed in and this was ’94 or ’95. It was before cellphones, and nobody made plans or looked at the weather so we all just called our parents and said, “We’re stuck here.”
