11 Questions Q: Describe your style of music, who do you sound like? We are a rock and roll band. We sound like a rock and roll band. Q: What are your main musical influences? Some of our favorites are Cursive, Brand New, Moneen, and BruceSpringsteen. Q: What/Who have been your biggest influences in life and on yourlyrics? Our family, friends, and professional wrestling. Q: What's in your CD player? Get with the times. CDs are out, iPods are in. We have everything fromPrince to Hot Water Music and from Justin Timberlake to Minus the Bear. Q: What other local band would you pay to see play? Why? Vince Dynamic. They are way too good. Q: How did you meet? John moved to Kalamazoo to meet people to play in a band with. One day he was enjoying several roast beef sandwiches and he saw that Dale looked like he played guitar. Dale moved their to play in a band, too. He wanted to sound cool so I included that. John forced Dale to play the bass against his will. They met Steve through a mutual friend. One day,at lunch John and Dale slapped fives and Steve wound up with putting on his John Deere trucking hat. They were friends ever since. Awhile later, the boys stole Nick from a sissy band and made a man out of him. Q: Is there an interesting story behind the name of your band? Who cameup with the name? We are all dear friends. Q. Tell us about your first show together We played at the Skyroom in Bay City, MI. There were over 600 people there. It was fun. Q. What have been the high and low points of the band so far? High points would be tour and meeting professional wrestlers. Low points would be when we couldn't find a drummer for two years and not meeting professional wrestlers. 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? We would play our fierce brand of rock and roll. We would make their alien heads explode and save the universe. |