Mike Miller (Endless Mike and the Beagle Club)
SPB; Why “The Beagle Club”? Do you have a favorite breed of dog?
Miller: Looks like we get two questions for the One Question Interview. Love it.
Why the Beagle Club? My friend Joe used to live on Beagle Club Road. At the end of it was the clubhouse for the South Fork Beagle Club, which was like a group that would take their dogs out hunting together or whatever.
At night, it was abandoned, of course, so we would walk down to the beagle club and sit around on the benches and on the porch and drink and talk all night.
At the same time, we started getting together at Joe’s house to work on songs.
The whole project was born around those nights of just being there. It was a summer when I was feeling a lot of changes in my life hit me all at once, and having my friends and making music together pulled me through to the other side. So I remember that feeling when I think of our name, and it still means a lot to me.
As for my favorite breed of dog? I have a shitzu-poodle named Snoopy. He is awesome, so I want to say that -- but my sister-in-law has two shitzu-poodles and they’re huge babies. So I guess I don’t know what to say about the breed in general, but I’ll still go with it so I don’t hurt Snoop’s feelings.
