Interview with the Blanks 77 Live at KDVS by Mike G., Zoggie, & Fletch
Rena: C'mon, give us some Interview, we hear Fletch gives good interview
MB: and he wears kneepads
Mike G.: say hi Fletch
Fletch: I'm not talking to them now, they'll just make fun of me
Rena: Fletch ain't got no time
MB: I love to play with balls
Mike G.: So how long have the Blanks been together?
Rena: 5 years
MB: 5 years
Zog: 5 years.
Mike G.: what got you inspired to become a rock n' roll band?
Chad: Rock n' roll bank!? Uhhhhh
Rena: Duhhhhh uhhhhh (scratches her head)
Mike G.: what's the scene like in New Jersey?
Tim: uhh the pope was just there
Rena: we don't know, we haven't been there in 2 months. We have no idea!
MB: That's why we're out in California MB: Headwound, Wretched Ones, those are known. Broken Heroes, kinda
Rena: Bristles, kinda...
MB: Casualty's from New York
Zog: There's really nothing else there?
Rena: Coney Island?
MB: Nothing else
Tim: Pizza parlors on every corner
Fletch: You have turnpikes, don't you?
MB: Toll Roads
Rena: One big ole' turnpike
Mike G.: So you are on tour with the Anti-Nowhere League, how long have you been on the road?
Tim: Too long
Rena: 9 and half years
Chad: since September 1st, we started off in Germany for 2 and a half weeks, when we got back we went right back on the road
Tim: Germany was great!
Fletch: Did you make a lot of money in Germany? I hear American bands get loaded in Germany!
Rena: oh yeah, we're RICH!!!
MB: Blo-Jobs every night!!!
Rena: We only lost 3000 dollars
Tim: no, no, really Germany was great, we got FREE food, FREE beer.....
MB: Free bread and cheese next day
Chad: A place to stay every night, No hassles
Tim: And we only lost 300 dollars
Rena: I lived on butter rolls and French fries, salty French fries
Mike G.: how did Germany respond to you guys?
MB: They loved us
Chad: They loved us
Tim: uhh we played Zurich, Switzerland, they said we go!
Chad: They never heard of us before & the charged the stage and broke everything. It was unbelievable
MB: Big ole' barriers in front of the stage...they tore 'em down
Rena: they say in Germany if they like you, they throw things at you
Mike G.: what kind of things did they throw?
Rena: knives, chairs....
Chad: Spit
MB: (jokingly) hand in the air
Tim: NO!!
MB: that was a joke, a big ole' joke
Mike G.: so where are you heading for tomorrow night?
Chad: Reno, Nevada, Then back up to San Francisco, and that's going to be the last show for the Anti-Nowhere league
Rena: that's a free show, but I think it sold out already
Mike G.: How does a FREE SHOW sell out?!
Tim: Vouchers
Chad: so come out and see the ANL cos they're not going to be around much longer, but they're a bunch of Crybabies
Fletch: Those guys are on their last leg
Rena: they got no time, they're old and married
MB: (very drunk at that point) And the big old Lion from Wizard of Oz playing drums... (actually, I thought the drummer looked like Benny Hill dressed up like a lion, that was dressed like at Biker -- Mike G) Fletch: Why don't you do some self promotions
BLANKS 77
1303 Myrtle Street
Hillside, NJ
07025
Chad: we got a German import CD on NASTY vinyl, then a 12" picture disk version of CD on Vinyl
Mike G.: What's the picture gonna be?
Chad: the front is going to be the same as the cover, and the back is a collage
Rena: and a naked picture of mike
Chad: we got another 7" coming, a split with Submachine, we cover a Dwarves song.
Mike G.: So I hear the Dwarves are you favorite band
Rena: We love the Dwarves
Chad: We have Blag's number!
MB: We met the voodoo glow skulls tonight, they had a Giant Tour Bus!
Chad: Megataph goes
Rena: Epitaph
Mike G.: so you're on Headache Records?
Chad: We're on Headache, Nasty Vinyl, and we might get on Taang. But we don't know if we wanna be on Taang yet
Rena They gotta buy me vodka
Tim: we want a Voodoo Glo-Bus!
Rena: Yeah, we want a 11 bunk tour bus and we'll be happy
Fletch: You get in any fist fights with Rancid?
MB: That's what sucks about California, everyone knows Rancid, but nobody KNOWS Rancid!
Mike G.: Any last words?
MB: you go