120 Minutes Interview with Marcy Playground Sunday Dec 21,1997
{Part 1}
Matt Pinfield(MP):...Welcome back to 120 minutes. I'm Matt Pinfield and right now joining me are John and Dan from the band Marcy Playground. Guys, welcome, good to have you here.
John Wozniak(JW): Thanks Matt, hi.
MP: Anyway, let me ask you about the origin of the band name, because people
want to know where thats from. It has some background from where you're from originally...Minneapolis.
JW: Right. Yeah. Marcy Playground comes from the school I went to when I
was..ummm..about, lets see from ... K through 4th grade. Marcy Open School
in
Minneapolis. I used to write all these stories about Marcy Playground and
stuff like that later on in life.
MP: So it was one of those situations where it was a name, something you
held
on to for a long time.....Dylan, whose not here right now, and you have an
interesting story about how you were reunited after years from going to
school
together. Can you tell us a little about that.
JW: Yeah...ummm... Actually I didn't go to school with Dylan, because he
went
to a totally different school in Minneapolis.
MP: But you're from the same town.
JW: We're from the same place, yeah. No, we met in New York. It's a shame
he's
not here. Yeah, It's a shame he's not here.
MP: Isn't he driving a van back like out West so you guys can tour?
Dan Rieser (DR): We bought a van out in California. He's the one who
volunteered to go pick it up and drive it back here.
JW: He got stuck.
MP: Everyone plays a different role when you have to take care of things.
Right?.
DR: He's the driver of the band, right.
MP: Has he always done that?
DR: No, no, no. We all share in the driving.
MP:Thats, cool. You have to. Especially when you have to do those long,
long
drives, you know, I mean when you have to stay awake for ages.....We'll be
talking more with the guys from Marcy Playground in just a bit....
Matt Pinfield (MP): I'm hanging out right now with John and Dan from Marcy
Playground...Now you reside in New York, or New York outskirts. Tell me a
bit
about how you came together as a band. Because people find it interesting,
the
whole, New York music scene.
John Wozniak (JW): Dan?
Dan Rieser (DR): Uhh...Lets see here....ummm... well...from what I
understand,
John's been writing these songs for quite a long time. And he hooked up
with
Dylan, who's the third member of the band, who isn't here. He hooked up
with
Dylan I guess about three years ago. And a mutual friend introduced them.
They
started playing together. Ummm.... Dylan, who I've actually known for about
ten years, we've been playing music together for.... for yeah, about ten
years
in many different situations. He first told me about the band, he gave me
some
tapes, and went and checked out a few shows... and I became like a... a fan
pretty much immediatly....and then uhh... I guess they were having
..uhh..drummer problems for a lack of a better term...and Dylan asked me to
come down and do some playing with the band...and did a couple gigs with
them...and thats
JW: That was like two and a half years ago
DR: Thats when we became a band.
JW: Thats when the genesis really started.
MP: Thats cool. We'll be back more with a video from Marcy Playground. But
until then, check out the Top Ten Singles in Alternative Music this week
and
look who's at number one. (*points at John and Dan*)
End of Part 1
Transcribed by Dennis Woods.
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