of society, sorta underneath it all and not really a part of it. ok I think that the reader deserves to read some of our lyrics just to get a feel for us heres a song called "off limits". I started writing it and bob finished it. It's about the way it seems to us that in our town kids are criminals all guilty of the crime of being young. the particular incident that inspired me to write it was when a kid stood up to a cop and took a swing at him.

chorus: OFF LIMITS TO YOU x3

fuckin rule

I love that song and it kicks ass to play it

ok heres another song called "Bowling Song"

Chorus: when you can’t stand the pressure

when you need a good time

funny thing is, this song started out as a poem bob wrote in English class. he put music to it and it just got faster, louder, more energetic every time we played it to the point that now we’re yelling LET’S GO BOWLING!!! and most kids don’t even know what its about.

so far, the majority of places we’ve played have been in kids back yards and the such. I like it that way. we just pull up in a van, unload our stuff, play and try to have a real good time. sometimes it sucks because we put our hearts into it and get shit in return. I guess its because theres not as many punks or punk oriented kids in this town and a good chunk of the kids there a just spineless gawkers who are there to see and be seen. last really good show we played was back in august. beautiful. some kids from outta town were there and they were kids that could at least understand punk music and not just stand there staring at us with their arms folded up. well this show was really awesome. kids were singing along. we had a stage of a hay wagon and the stage was getting rocked by the kids and by bob and me jumping all around. it was a true show with true appreciation. now we’re trying to play outside of this little town and actually find cool kids. so up to the city we go looking for clubs. we have a couple of pending dates and some places but who knows how that will go. we had this one show at a place called the Penny Arcade. tim woke me up one saturday morning on the phone telling me that we had a show on Sunday night. great lets do it I said. so it ends up being some stupid metal night and a band had cancelled. the booking dude was desperate for a band and when tim called him that Friday night we were set. well Sunday comes and I got to the club, with all the equipment in the van and waited for an hour in the cold parking lot for tims car, they had gotten lost and were on their way to buffalo. well they finally got there and we unloaded the shit and went in and got our free popcorn. no soundcheck no nothin. we sat thru a real metal band. it was comically ridiculous. I could probably go into detail about that, but who the fuck wants to hear about it. so after that was done we got up, got our stuff onstage and played. it took me awhile to get used to the whole sound of it but when I did it was cool. it was a hostile crowd I tell ya and we had a whole of four fans that we gave a ride to. so I guess that was an experience. oh, and the guy said he lost money on us. but he still wants us to play there again.

we recorded a little three song demo in bobs basement a while back to send out to clubs if they asked for it. I gotta give credit to tim, who came upon the mixer we used, and to bob, who tweaked it just right. its a tape made on bobs stereo using our pa head and mixer to mix it all and it was made in a basement what do you expect. actually I think it kicks ass. I love that little tape and it sounds so fucking perfect when you turn it up loud. to me our music is perfect. I'm sure its not that way for other people but to me every word and every note is pure and it couldn’t be any better. I'm proud to say that the kids that understand us are really into us. so that's cool we have a few supporters back home. but what I really want to do now is start playing other towns, maybe buffalo, pittsburgh would be a cool place. I also gotta check out the scenes in places to the east like ithaca and shit.

ok let me get something straight with all you kids out there, theres nothing metal at all to our sound. not even in the remotest bit. also no ska nor any of the other offshoots of this whole thing that have gotten real popular. just punk. fast, depending on your idea of fast but not so fast that it falls apart. good pit music. damn I wish I could be in the pit when I'm playing. hmm a real crappy description of our sound would be something of the old cause for alarm. I mean their old stuff, the song I'm thinking of is "united races". thats only one example I can think of but its hard to describe for me. uh faster than dfl, shit I really can’t describe us. I'm sure people like the folks at maximum rock and roll could classify us in a jiffy though.

punk rock started out almost as a definite thing, but now it is just huge conglomerate of different things. it is such a wide category, for example the tape I have on now that I snatched from a place we played, has stuff from the queers to us bombs, h2o, even bouncing souls. they all have their points that make them good, some points are stronger than others though. I'm not advocating being a musical whore either. listen to music you like, to hell with what people think, and don’t waste your time trying to like something. its all weird because what was once underground is now common place. maybe it all was for the better. good bands influence better bands and it seems to get better. to me punk rock is mostly in the lyrics but also definitely in the music that delivers the lyrics. ideas, ideas, ideas. this is punk rock, not really a look, but looks come from ideas. me, I don’t wear band shirts. I don’t need to advertise a band near and dear to my heart to some little shit that will defile the band by buying their record. the kids that go all out and spike their hair are all good, but if they haven’t done anything besides look punk, then what the fuck is it all about? to quote the dead kennedys, "punk ain’t no religious cult, punk means thinkin for yourself, you ain’t hardcore cause you dye your hair......" or better yet kill your idols, "words without actions will quickly be ignored, if your only here for the fun theres the fucking door."

to me, Plumber’s Union is mostly about being true to yourself. its amazing if you think about it how many times people lie to themselves each day. you don’t owe shit to society in general. a lot of kids think they should live up to what they see on tv, or what standards the school or parents, etc, gives them on how to be. I feel that these standards don’t even apply to me because I'm not like these people. I hate money and because of that I never have a lot of it. anything I have is also my friends. if I have something and someone else needs it, I'm obligated to give it to them. needing and wanting are things people get fucked up on though.