11 Questions:
Q: Describe your style of music, who do you sound like?
Surf Rock; just imagine beach party music straight from the 60’s, yeah, that’s what we are aiming for.
Q: What are your main musical influences?
The Surfaris, the Beach Boys, Dick Dale
Q: What/Who have been your biggest influences in life and on your lyrics?
I grew up with the Beach Boys, and so just that is a big influence on my songwriting. Most of our songs are instrumental, so we don’t have many songs with vocals. However, the songs that do have vocals do not have very personal or revealing lyrics, most of them are about cars or girls.
Q: What's in your CD player?
Brian Setzer’s “Rockabilly Riot” is now; I’m in a huge rockabilly fix right now.
Q: What other local band would you pay to see play? Why?
The Red Shift, they are amazing, they’re like a blend between rockabilly and old school punk, and they put on a great show. Other than that I can’t really think of many, we play with so many different bands that paying isn’t worth it most of the time, because we know that we will see them soon anyways.
Q:What Non-local band would you pay to see play? Why?
GWAR!!! you just can't beat their live shows, haha.
Q: How did you meet?
All of us met through school one way or another. I met Shaun in the 6th grade, and didn’t actually become friends with him until around the middle of the 7th grade, we started learning guitar and bass together sometime around then as well. I met Alex when I attended the Bay Area ISD Career Center in 11th grade, he was in my class and we just became friends through that. He was already in a band, but Shaun and I had no drummer at the time, so we asked him to fill
in on drums for a while, and he just ended up being our full-time drummer.
Q: Is there an interesting story behind the name of your band? Who came up with the name?
I came up with the name. Like mentioned in the bio above, at the time we were more of a surf/horror punk band, and we thought of the name Brain-Eaters after a Misfits song, but that was taken, so we went for the next thing that came to our mind, Heart-Eaters.
Q: Tell us about your first show together
All of us were in a band together before, so it really wasn’t anything new. In fact, our first show consisted of a few covers of our old band.
Q. What have been the high and low points of the band so far?
The lowest point of the band so far has been the two summers we were together. The first summer was when Lucas had just left the band, so we took a break from shows to work on just playing our songs with only one guitarist. Just this last summer was also slow, we really didn’t book too many shows, no particular reason, we were just lazy. The highest points would definitely be early this year when we started to get our name out there, and we were starting to see a lot more crowd response and such. We also just recently played in Kalamazoo with a band called The Hex Bombs, and they were great, we got paid a lot of money and the crowd loved us. It was by far the best show we’ve played.
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?
Well, if it would be one of our songs, it would probably be “Attack”, and if it were a cover, probably “Wipeout” by The Surfaris. Both songs are simple, catchy, and showcase the genre very well. |