E.O.F.O. Zine THANX!
E.O.F.O. Zine THANX!
E.O.F.O.: Im gonna wait for everybody to get over here before we get started.
Justin: Yeah, yeah, these lazy fucking slow bastards - I mean these great people who are in the band.
E.O.F.O.: Wonderful people. Okay, I guess Ill wait for Pat. (Laughter.)
Justin: Pat just stepped in the puddle.
E.O.F.O.: Say your names and what you play in the band.
Justin: Justin Sane and I play guitar.
Cock: Cock and I play bass.
Chris: I play guitar and Im 19.
Pat: Im Pat, I play drums.
E.O.F.O.: How old are the rest of you?
Everyone: 19.
E.O.F.O.: All of you 19?
Pat: Right on.
E.O.F.O.: Wow, youre not that much older than I am. Start out young, be a punk. (Laughter.)
E.O.F.O.: Howd the band get started and what made you guys start doing what youre doing?
Justin: Well, we started the band, Pat and I back in...
Cock: Back in the day.
Justin: 89 (laughter.) Yeah, I dont know, 93 or something or like that, I dont know. We started the band, we were friends.
Cock: And they were losers.
Justin: Yeah, really we were losers.
E.O.F.O.: I know how it is.
Justin: Cause you know what, what it was was Pat and I were the only straight-edge kids in town and all the other kids were getting fucked up and drunk, not that theres anything wrong with that, but it wasnt our thing so we never had anything to do.
Pat: We didnt get invited to all the cool parties.
Justin: Yeah, thats it.
E.O.F.O.: I used to get beat up in high school, like constantly, all the time.
Justin: Im right there with you, bro.
Pat: I used to beat up kids like you in high school.
E.O.F.O.: Yeah, and Im the one who sued the pants off your parents. (Laughter.) No, Im just kidding.
Justin: Yeah, thats cool. But yeah, Pat and I just started playing cause we didnt really fit in with the other kids, so I played guitar and Pat played drums.
Eric (the sound guy): Okay, guys, whenever youre ready.
Justin: Okay, were just gonna finish up this interview real quick.
E.O.F.O.: What happened with all your line up changes?
Justin: Okay, well, Andy quit over a year ago, then through that time we just had some friends fill in, and but now weve got a permanent line up.
Cock: So, what youre saying is me and Chris arent your friends.
Justin: Right, we dont like them.
E.O.F.O.: Man, you guys catch on incredibly quick. (Laughter.)
Justin: They are pretty smart. Ill give em that.
E.O.F.O.: How did you write the song "Go-Go Dancer"?Is it just a little piddly song you wrote or does it mean something? Its our favorite song.
Justin: Nah, its just a cheesy song.
Cock: We dedicated that song to you last time.
Justin: Yeah!
Cock: I knew it.
E.O.F.O.: You remembered! Yeah, we love that song.
Justin: Thats cool. Im glad you like it.
E.O.F.O.: Better play it tonight.
Justin: Okay.
Cock: Oh, we will.
Justin: Well play it. For you.
E.O.F.O.: Aw. But howd you write it? What came about it?
Justin: Ah, I dont know, Andy really wrote most of that song so I dont know. Youll have to ask him.
E.O.F.O.: All right. Any questions you wanna ask me?
Pat: Ahh...
Justin: The Infected Spoon band is awesome.
Pat: Yeah.
E.O.F.O.: Inflicted.
Justin: Oh, inflicted. Do you like Alternative TV?
E.O.F.O.: Uh, I dont know.
Justin: Its a band, Alternative TV.
Pat: Check em out.
E.O.F.O.: Oh, really?
Justin: Your band reminds me of Alternative TV.
Cock: Yeah.
Justin: Theyre like a 1977 like punk band. Theyre fucking awesome.
E.O.F.O.: Ill have to check em out.
Cock: I have a question about the name.
Justin: Yeah.
E.O.F.O.: Okay, this is on the record, this is totally true to my knowledge. The bass player, a lot of shits happened to that motherfucker, big, tall, ugly dude. (Laughter.) All right, he basically lives for movie and television and his dreams reflect movies and television and what hes seen on the big screen. And he had this dream that he was being killed or chased or something had to do with this nasty, twisted, mangled, corroded, rusted, inflicted spoon. (Laughter.)
Justin: Thats where it came from?
E.O.F.O.: Thats where the name came from. Some dream.
Cock: Okay.
Justin: So, if he was being chased by a sausage youd have been Inflicted Sausage. (Laughter.)
E.O.F.O.: Wed be Snausagelong. (Laughter.) Howd you guys get on NRA? Howd you do that? Cause were affiliated with them, they send us a lot of stuff. Ads and shit. Theyre cool.
Justin: Oh, really? Thats cool. Thats great. Well, theyre really cool. Im sure that if youve worked with them at all then you would know that.
E.O.F.O.: We interviewed the UK Subs that night and printed what we had.
Justin: Oh, great. Well, just a friend of ours had our tape and gave it to Nicky who runs New Red Archives and Nicky liked it and so he called us up. As simple as that.
E.O.F.O.: Cool. Do you have any more releases coming out, any 7"s, CDs, albums or anything?
Justin: We do, but we just dont know any realease dates really. We had a split CD, I dont know if youve ever heard or seen that split CD with us and this band from Vancouver called DVS. Its not being pressed anymore. Our songs on that CD are going to be reissued Justin and
Pat: With some live songs.
E.O.F.O.: Yeah?
Justin: And that should be out hopefully the end of this year.
Cock: Then, theres the...
Justin: Then theres the new thing were gonna do. Were gonna do a brand new full length, but that will be within the year.
Cock: Yeah, theres a split with Against All Authority is out. We had some but we didnt bring enough with us on tour so we sold out.
E.O.F.O.: Way to go.
Pat: The live split picture disc with The Dred.
Cock: And that, we sold out of that one too.
Pat: That sold out too.
Cock: We were supposed to get this one split that was with a band from Japan called Obnoxious. Justin and
Pat: It never arrived.
Cock: Yeah, we didnt get that one.
Justin: Everybody else has seen it but us.
E.O.F.O.: Do you have any significant others back at home? Any of you guys married or dating?
Cock: Nope, except Pat.
Justin: Um, no, kinda dating someone.
E.O.F.O.: Youre all gay. (Laughter.)
Justin: Yeah, were all gay.
Pat: I have a significant person.
E.O.F.O.: Yeah? You married or anything? Any kids?
Pat: No, no, no, bite your tongue.
E.O.F.O.: No, hell no, go to hell, blow me.
Pat: Shes already been married. She doesnt want to do it again.
E.O.F.O.: Sounds like my dad. Okay, a hometown mailing address so it doesnt have to go through the record label.
Justin: Oh, yeah. A-F, PO Box 71266, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Pat: Definitely mail it to us.
E.O.F.O.: Yeah, nothing against NRA, but when I mail to the record label it just takes forever, so I mail it straight to the band.
Pat: We make sure our address is on all our releases.
Justin: Its on all of our releases.
Pat: We even put it on things that arent our releases so write to us through that.
E.O.F.O.: Ill be sure to put not to write to Anti-Flag cause the Post Office hates that. I remember I read that somewhere.
Justin: Yeah, exactly. They fucking rip our mail open, rip it up, you name it, they do it.
E.O.F.O.: Well, I guess if I have anymore questions Ill hunt you guys down and tie you to the hood of my car. Cock and
Pat: Okay.
E.O.F.O.: Thanx for taking the time.
Justin: Yeah, fuck yeah, this was really cool. Im glad we finally got to do it. Glad we got to see your band, fucking awesome.
E.O.F.O.: Thanx man.
Justin: Inflicted.
E.O.F.O.: Inflicted Spoon.
Justin: Inflicted! Okay.
E.O.F.O.: Spoontang. You gotta check out our web page. We got a web page.
Justin: All right. You have to send me a tape. If I give you money, will you send me a tape?
E.O.F.O.: Ill send you a tape anyway.
Justin: Are you sure? Ill give you money.
E.O.F.O.: Im positive. We have a web page for our zine too and we linked your site and NRA to it.
Justin: Aw, thanks.
Pat: We dont know what that is, but it sounds great.
E.O.F.O.: Well write it down and give it to you guys. Its not all that. Basically, were giving you free advertising cause youre so awesome. So I guess well let you guys go play.
Justin: If you would send me a tape, I would love that.
E.O.F.O.: We will definitely do that.
Justin: And you need to check out Alternative TV. Youll fucking love them.
E.O.F.O.: I will.
Justin: Alternative TV.
E.O.F.O.: You guys ever heard of Special Duties? A friend of mine gave me a tape and was like You sound like Special Duties. Listen to it. He was talking about "Anthem" the song I wrote. Hes like That sounds just like Special Duties.
Justin: Thats cool. Well, get anything thats like the best of Alternative TV. Go to like your local cool record store and ask them if they can order anything by Alternative TV. Theyll look it up.
E.O.F.O.: I will fucking do that.
Justin: And then like the best stuff is anything that has some live stuff on it with some studio stuff.
Cock: Theyre wacky live.
Justin: Yeah, its cool. Youll dig it, man. Its a good band.
E.O.F.O.: All right, Ill get that.
Justin: Okay, were gonna go play. Fuck yeah, thanx a lot. (Jumbled thank yous.)