We recently connected with Ben Nelson and have shared our conversation below.
Ben, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Do you wish you had started sooner?
Sometimes but not really, I think it took the time it needed to grow into what it’s become
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
Me and Dante met on Craigslist like 10 years ago, my buddies who I was in a band with at the time had seen an ad saying someone was looking for a band to play drums with. No one In the band had a car so we had to ask him to drive an hour to come pick us up, which I was honestly tripping on because I thought we were gonna die. Some random dude from Craigslist is picking us up to drive an hour away, that’s a f*cking horror story dude. But it ended up going really well and that project split ways real soon after that. But every 3 months or so me and Dante would get together and jam around for a few hours, which was also weird because we wouldn’t speak for 6 hours and then one of us would go “alright dog I gotta dip I’ll catch you later” and we wouldn’t talk for a couple weeks and then do the same shit over. We ended up working on some small projects here and there through out the years and then in late 2019-2020 I started writing the first record ‘The Comedown’ which came out in 2021. In 2022 we started playing live which has been gnarly to see the songs come to life in a new way. I don’t know if any of that answers the question
Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?
I’m not sure I believe there are non creatives. I think a lot of people are working high stress/low paying jobs in order to survive, and in result of that I think a lot people don’t have the luxury of time or peace to experience that side of themselves
Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?
Yeah I wish I would have dived deeper into myself at an earlier age and not been so fearful of the unknown. I think it’s easy to perceive an alternate reality of yourself based in fear and start spiraling down that hole.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://elephantden.site/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elephantdenband/
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6lHh6b5h1N8xRdlwfSy136?si=rlmCHaDtSiCqBheS6Q_NSQ
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Mads