11 Questions Q: Describe your style of music, what bands would you compare yourself to?
Decide for yourself.
Q: What are your main musical influences?
Too many to list.
Q: What/Who have been your biggest influences in life and on your lyrics?
The people around us, the govt., authoritarians, etc.
Q: What's in your CD player, IPod?
The Cartunes live at the Machine Shop.
Q: What other local band would you pay to see play? Why?
Probably either Ray Torres or Brett Mitchell because they’re both nice guys and very approachable.
Q: What Non-local band would you pay to see play? Why?
Iggy and the Stooges, because that would be a great show any nite of the week.
Q: How did you meet?
We all became friends and recruited each other that way.
Q: Is there an interesting story behind the name of your band? Who came up with the name?
A.J. and our original bassist came up with the name because of how animated they thought we looked while performing.
Q. Tell us about your first show together
We played in A.J.’s parents’ garage on the fourth of July… there was no PA system, our amps weren’t working properly, our drummer had only been playing for about three months and the crowd consisted of merely family and friends.
Q. What have been the high and low points of the band so far?
Highs: -every show we’ve ever played –smashing instruments –getting paid handsomely upon our first gig without our old drummer –drinking –making people want to watch us –meeting other bands –releasing our own music on our own terms –Ned Anderson (b/c he makes us all laugh) – the movie we made, “Bloodshot+Desperate.” –people who like to dish it out but can’t take it, approaching us and then getting what they deserve.
Lows: -sound guys –drunken promoters that hate their jobs –an audience without Steven’s Dad –cold garages –Big Mike’s roof caving in –D.K.B. and every band that sounds like his –getting lost in Flint –burning bridges –the Deity –receiving advice from people that hate us anyways
Q: You are the first band to play a song on another planet for aliens that have never heard our music, you can play any song ever written, what would you play? Why?
“I Am The Walrus” by The Beatles, just to confuse them.
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