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Yo, you guys just played, you have fun?

Oh yeah. It was a lot – everywhere we play, is fucking awesome fun. Even if it's not fun at the time, like people not paying attention, the next time you play there, you see the fire you started and every time you play it just gets better and better, you know? But definitely was fun.. first time we played in Atlanta.
I was with Foundation for a couple, well basically the past week and I saw you guys play in Maine and that was some of the craziest shit I've ever seen. Kids jumping off of kids, stagediving off of nothing. Is that the normal thing in Maine?
In Maine, it's all about having fun. Like, no one cares about how they look when they're doing shit. It's all about losing their mind and never about hurting anyone else, it's just about risking your own life. Like you'll never see anyone jumping off a cab feet-first, you know what I'm saying? My friend Gabe says Maine is like 20 years behind everything. So being out there, hardcore - just the essence of what it was 20 years ago is happening in Maine – I dont know. It's a different way of looking at it I guess, but it's fun. The group of kids out there are awesome. We're all friends and it's a real tight scene, a couple hundred kids.

I heard you broke your jaw - that's what you said in Main...

Yeah.

How the hell did that happen?

I broke it in Mass at a show, being a hippy and just having my eyes closed in the middle of the pit. I got hit. It was in Haverhill – at a real dark show, and all that. It sucked.

Hows the tour been so far?

The tour's been awesome, you know? You can't ask for more going out with good bands and people – you get to play to people every night. You know when you go out by yourself, there might be ten people at a show. It's still fun, but it's just awesome to play to more people. There's just more potential for your shit to get out there more.

My buddy (Jeb) told me you guys played Augusta a bunch, how many times have you played Atlanta?

Atlanta? We've never played – we've never played Georgia before. I actually thought you meant Augusta, Maine. It's the capital, and we've never played their either. (Laughter) Nah, this is our first time here – it's awesome. You guys have a cool scene. How long have you guys been playing? Overdose and Foundation? You guys started about the same time?

Yeah we've been playing about two years. You know, it has it's ups and it's downs, but it's definitely fun regardless.
It looks like you guys might be on the gaining side.

Yeah, finally. It feels good.

I bet.

Any particular shows that stick out in your mind this week?

This week? The South Paris (Maine) one. I mean, Amherst is awesome – there was a shitload of kids there. Pat going off and having mono and almost dying. Ripping it. I had goosebumps during that whole performance. Long Island getting a surprise with the kids reactions – in Daytona, too. They're all fun. Highlights are destroying Daytona last night. (Laughter)

Dude, that drive from Virginia to Daytona was awful. Have you guys had any van problems or anything so far?

Our gas tank, we just found out, is leaking. We have to pump really slow. We did a bunch of test pumps to see what we could do to make it better. We figured out just pumping super slow works. We were putting in like $15 at a time just to keep it from going too much. We just found pumping way slow is better.
I don't know where I was, but you told me a story about some sketchy bar in New York, could you repeat that story?

(Laughter) Everywehre we go, pretty much, we just look for adventure. Safe shit is boring, you know. Everywher we go, we're looking, if we have the energy, we're looking for something interesting to have an experience you never would have had. We went to Brooklyn for our first time and we stayed there – we got there at 2:30 AM. We headed out on foot just to find adventure. Saw some old dude walking and said “Lets go talk to this guy.” He was wearing gold sweatpants – all saggy – and a 90's baret, you know one of those hats that looked cool in the 90's and said “This dude looks interesting.” We just talked to him for a while and shot the shit with him. I guess he thought we were cool, I think because we're not Jewish and it was a really Jewish neighborhood. He was like “You guys aren't Jewish! That's weird... but you're white!” So he brought us to this underground bar – we had no idea what it was gonna be like. When we got there it was a bunch of thugs gambling, sellign crack and coke and shit. Got a blunt or two smoked it up and hung out til sunrise. There were two transvesittes – like 6'4”, huge. The dude was like – his name was Muarry – he was the type that talks like this far from your ear, right in your face. He was like “I don't wanna get you too drunk, you might make the same mistake I did and bring one of these things home.” As soon as he said that one of these huge Rupaul dudes walked by.

That shit is ridiculous.

It's hard sometimes not to prejudge people and situations. You wanna make sure that whatever you do you don't regret it, but, I mean, you just gotta take risks. Because without taking risks you don't get any rewards. Even though all I got out of it was a crazy story. (Laughter)

Yo – your record. When did it come out and how can people get ahold of it?

It came out a while ago and we've gone through some changes in the band – we lost a guitar player – it was a while to find a new one. We just found Darryl, who's the man. You can find our record, I think, through Think Fast! Records, live shows, any live show you can get it from us, download it online. I'm not opposed to people getting it for free, I love that shit. Learn the songs, see if you like it or not -- buy it. Anyway you can find it and get it, find it and get it. “Burn it off the internet and bump it outside,” Immortal Technique...

But yeah, we're working on a new record now that we got a solid guitar player. We're just working on a direction and a message.

Awesome. When do you think that'll come out?

We're trying not to do any plans. Our goal is to have it recorded at the end of summer and have it out hopefully next winter. We're gonna take a break from touring and all that until then. But still do fun things like this here and there. Can't turn a week or two weeks down with our friends.

Well that's pretty much it. Anything else you wanna say?

Shout outs to Foundation, Overdose, and Atlanta, and everyone that saw us on tour and continue to see us on tour. Come see us again. Thanks to everyone.

That pretty much concluded the interview, but while we were shooting the shit outside the show, Aaron comes out with this solid gold story that is too good not to get on tape and in print:

Yo, alright, Daytona. The 30th, December 30th. DTN, Wake Up Call, raging. It starts off at a KFC drive-thru with the DTN roadie running up to our van and asking if we wanna go break into the go-kart track and race some go-karts. I said fuck yeah. So Segar, their roadie and I started up the go-karts and were racing them when Zack, our roadie, all of a sudden was like “The cops are coming.” So we fucking ran and jumped like three fences. One of the fences was a spiked and the spike went through their roadie's sneaker and foot and he was bleeding. So we jumped in their van. So we got seperated. I gave our drummer my weed and told him to bounce. So he ran with my weed so they fuckign drove off. Zach got cuffed – everyone in my band got fucked with but they said they didn't know me. Long story shot, all of our phones are dead, our drummers missing, we found our van and they ended up saying they were gonna pick him up. So we went to the strip club and fuckign wild out. I ended up getting kind of drunk. And I jumped off a three story building into the pool. We broke all the furniture, umbrellas, all that shit. All the stuff I want to do, but am too afraid of getting anyone else in trouble for my shit – it just happened that eveyone else was down so...

Later on, we found our van, but we didn't know what room they were in. We found them and they told me they threw my weed in a ditch. They were like, “We threw it in a creek.” I was like, “WHY?!” They said the cops were after them, so I just said I'd be right back. I went outside and just started smashing everything in sight and they came running out yelling “Yo we were just kidding!” They had my weed the whole time and I almost fuckign cried. So then I sat in the dirt parking lot by the van, so happy, smoking weed, and listening to the Bad Brains and fucking Cro Mags the whole time. Just sitting in the dirt. Fuck yeah. That was my night.