If you’re reading this website, suffice it to say that you love weed. A lot. So when you read about this band of dudes who hail from the green state of Vermont, it shouldn’t come as a surprise (though it did for me) that they know their way around a rig and can talk the cannabis talk. It’s rare that this interviewer feels inadequately prepared with enough weed, but lucky for me these guys came locked and loaded.
Sitting on the glass countertop of Twiddle’s backstage dressing room is a gleaming and gigantic slab of amber-colored concentrate. “We’ve gotten a lot more into concentrates these days,” says Mihali Savoulidis, the group’s guitarist and singer-songwriter. “I think it was Brook [Jordan] who got us into it”—he points in the direction of the band’s drummer. “We call it digital and analog—some of us still roll analog, but we’ve mainly switched to digital because it’s easier to travel with, doesn’t smell as much and you can keep more of it.”
For the Vermont quartet who average 100 live shows a year (plus their own music festival, Tumble Down), crisscrossing the country can be tricky, especially navigating nonlegal states in the Midwest and the South. “We have to be careful on tour—and having really beautiful stinky buds may not be the best thing for the tour bus,” says Savoulidis. “But going digital or hitting a pen lets you take a quick hit and go about your day.”
Savoulidis knows what he likes when it comes to weed: “I’ve always loved Sour Diesel, Strawberry Cough and some of the older strains I still love. Our buddy grows a really mean Blue Lotus, and Blue Dream has always been around us.”
As much as weed contributes to Twiddle’s day, music