I love your band name. Please tell me it is a tribute to the legendary
Yes the Band name is a Tribute to the entire Von Erich
Family. Loved wrestling as kids and I believe it would be our former guitarist
Bird (Brent) that should get credit for the name. Although when the original
crew broke up I demanded that we keep the name. The guys put it on me to
establish it and that's exactly what I did.
The web site, the domain, the Name and any Logo. (Note: I've ripped off a few Logos obviously and do not own rights- it's just for test purposes only for set up.) I've worked hard for that name and to keep it.
The web site, the domain, the Name and any Logo. (Note: I've ripped off a few Logos obviously and do not own rights- it's just for test purposes only for set up.) I've worked hard for that name and to keep it.
Your style is
definitely an early 80s West Coast punk rock sound. How would you describe your
style?
Holy cow man, umm we are definitely West Coast oriented -at
least I am. I grew up with NOFX, LagWagon and a bunch of other bands that
played shows with Bad Religion and Suicidal Tends in little tiny venues like
the Lompoc Theater and recreation halls in Santa Barbara ,
Ventura and
SanLuisObispo Ca. Jake Hard leans more towards east coast hard core. Lando is
deep down the hole in whatever may influence him and I actually have no idea
what he listens to and will not add nor take away the recipe that he cooks
with. He has an amazing way of coming up with riffs, arrangements and usually a
good melody or chant as you'd have in our genre.
Please tell us a
little bit about your lyrics. What topics do you cover?
Another “crap are you really asking ME that” kinda question.
Totally all heart felt songs. Ha! Most of em are and a few are just for fun. We don't care if no one likes some of those songs as long as we have fun playing em. We all write! We all contribute! It is the best way and only way for us. Multifaceted we are; I play a few different instruments and Jake is a better guitar player than a drummer by far!
Don't print that! Jk
We like to keep him banging away. As for the other guys, they are talented more than most at cranking out songs. As it is though for every 8-12 songs written only one will get a green light from us to continue with to completion. The others sit on simmer.
Topics are non conformist to non conformist.. Just being stupid... Umm we write about the same shit everybody writes about. It's all in just how you say it..
Relationships, Government, Sitting at a Bar, Sex... Whatever.
Is the 2013 EP No Holds Barred your only release? I
must say it is a very smooth sounding work. The clear vocals and music
complement each other well. I really like it.
We have done a Demo. (Oh the stories to tell about during
those days)- Then there's the No Holds
Barred which isn't even in production so we decided to do the best thing-
burn the shit out of it ourselves and hand em out. And I'll probably do the
free download card idea as well. We will go Self Sustained for as long as
possible.
The songs are fast and end quickly on most of them you ask me but it makes no difference just ask DRI. We love the sound that we come up with and the tempos and the changes- all just for our kicks and it's amazing that other people really dig us because we just play or do whatever we want to. Like take a blues song and tear it up or recently I did a cover of an acoustic song that is sort of rockabilly but was written by a singer songwriter named D. Kensrue called “Blood and Wine.” He's a worship leader at a big church somewhere.
About the vocals, thanks I do not deem myself a vocalist. Also I would like to thank the extra voices out there donated from PRP as back ups.
The songs are fast and end quickly on most of them you ask me but it makes no difference just ask DRI. We love the sound that we come up with and the tempos and the changes- all just for our kicks and it's amazing that other people really dig us because we just play or do whatever we want to. Like take a blues song and tear it up or recently I did a cover of an acoustic song that is sort of rockabilly but was written by a singer songwriter named D. Kensrue called “Blood and Wine.” He's a worship leader at a big church somewhere.
About the vocals, thanks I do not deem myself a vocalist. Also I would like to thank the extra voices out there donated from PRP as back ups.
What do you have
planned next? I know you have to be ready for a new release.
We are working on long anticipated new material- nuff said.
Just gotta wait.
I’ve been hearing
quite a bit lately about your band on the live scene. Do you plan on doing any
touring outside Texas
Most likely be only Texas
for another year then my West Coast buddies would like us to head that way...
Let's just get past the end of 2015 and we'll change our minds like we always
do.
You recently played
the Houston
So there I was b/s'n with my good friend Greg Dodson and
talking about doing a big show, and it needs to be all of us playing together
and bring all of our people to do it and do it all ourselves. He says to me
"well why don't we just do it?" So I stood there blank and said I
guess we just need a venue. So next thing I know is people contacted me and I
made some calls and nailed down the venue. I was specific that it had to be a
smoking allowed place because although people come out to shows; they are
usually outside socializing while a band is spilling the blood on stage and
nobody's watching. It made me sick. So all of a sudden we had the venue and my
homie Greg got peppered with bands willing and he made some calls and then we
brought in Jojo S. to help arrange things and bring it all together... So in
what may have been my idea / I take no credit for what Greg and Jojo
contributed. So my fond memory is a living thing because that ball is rolling
and it's gonna stay that way because Houston Punk is Alive and Well! CHAOS
PUNKS RULE!
So now we welcome new guitarist
Days later we are praised for one of the best punk shows and memories attached and the page likes went up and we are booking shows left and right / so much as I can no longer keep up with what the guys are doing anymore. I can only chime in and guess at what I should put on my calendar.
Final words please.
I believe I said enough- I said good day!
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