ME: SO, SAY YOUR NAMES SO WHEN I TRANSCRIBE THIS I'LL KNOW WHO'S WHO
MAX:max
CHRIS:george..., i mean chris, sorry
ME:I'M GONNA TRY TO THINK OF QUESTIONS THAT I DIDN'T ALREADY ASK YOU (REFERING TO A PREVIOUS E-MAIL INTERVIEW I DID WITH CHRIS)
EVERYBODY:hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
LONG PAUSE
PETE:WHAT'S THE BEST BAND EVER TO COME OUT OF THE EAST BAY?
MAX:that's a good question, i really like that question,that's a very good question, aahhhh...
CHRIS:country joe and the fish, oh no, i think that's san francisco
MAX:i like..... i'd say early christ on parade, thats like emeryville(?) and stuff like that, even though they played the city more, like san francisco when they first started
CHRIS: and neurosis
MAX:and i like the old hayward thrash bands like chaos and violence, have you ever heard violence? very good fucking thrash
CHRIS:very metal
MAX:very metal
ME:WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE GAME FOR ATARI?
CHRIS:pitfall
MAX:atari? just any of them
CHRIS:you mean atari 2600, right? okay.
ME:HE (PETE) GAVE ME ONE
CHRIS:oh really, right on!
PETE:I SOLD IT TO HIM
ME: I LIKE SPACE INVADERS
MAX:space invaders, that's the shit
ME:I BEAT THAT GAME ONE TIME
MAX:no way!
ME: I PLAYED IT FOR LIKE 2 HOURS
CHRIS:frogger
MAX:frogger's sick too
ME:SO DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE COINING OF THE TERM "POWERVIOLENCE"?
CHRIS:it was all eric wood
ME:ERIC WOOD
CHRIS:yea, from man is the bastard, he came up with it, mitb used it
MAX:and now it's blown fuckin way out of proportion
CHRIS:all the west coast bands, who, we're all friends, and, that's what happened, i used it in some ads and stuff like that, so, and i put out stuff by all the bands that were kinda falling under that label, so, i mean, eric was the one who came up with it, so he gets all the credit, or blame, depending on how you want to look at it, but, no, it's all credit
ME:SO ARE YOU GUYS INTO BOMBING?
CHRIS:only if it's sadam huesane (i think i spelled it wrong), america rules
MAX:it's the fourth of july, no, if i say i'm down, i'd be a fucken poser because i haven't fucken gone out in a long time, but i'm down for it, i say fuckin bomb the fuck out of everything, i say fuckin write everywhere
ME:WHAT DID YOU WRITE?
MAX:i wrote a bunch of shit, when we were first gash, i actually got gash up man, fuckin, i actually got known as gash, even though it was wack style, but spazz used to be called gash, i got that up, cuz, ah, it was right, like a little before the wave of graffitti got big in our area, so there wasn't too much, so if there was something up, people would see it, you know? i just got it up in pen, but somehow, out of the blue, everybody just started finding out it was me, and started goin "oh, you're gash" and all this shit, and all these writers and shit, and i was all like "dude, it's just the name of a band" but now i write, like, mead (i think that's how you spell it),thinkin about changing it to mero, m-e-r-o, he's eons (pointing to dan who can barely talk cos his voice got wrecked during the show) the thump in the trunk
DAN:i still write, i still do 625
MAX:see he's good, i suck, he takes his time, i'm just down to demolish private property
ME:HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CAUGHT FOR IT?
CHRIS:dan went to jail
ME:FOR REAL?
DAN:yea
MAX:yea, there was this shit where these guys hit these antique cars runningdown market street in san francisco right before the unvailing, like a weekbefore, they climbed into the yards and fucking bombed the shit out of them after this artist got flown in to do them, so the cops went out like that next night, and basicly, just anybody who was just standing in front of a wall just admiring art would be stopped and searched, so dan got busted with a bunch of cans and shit
DAN:we were at this fuckin wall of fame, like, a legal wall, staning there lookin at it, fuckin cops rolled through the alleyway, they leave, so we walk out, then we realized we were goin in the wrong direction, so we turn around to go back through the alley, cop stopped us, "what are you guys doing coming back in the alley, we just saw you leave" and the next thing you know, they throw us in the back of the paddy wagon, we were in this paddy wagon where they seperate like juveniles from adults, and we were adults, and i was seperated from this one dude, he was this crazy, like, crip, man, i don't know where he was from, man, you never see crips
MAX:nah, you never see crips
DAN:nah, but this guy was straight up crip, man, i was glad they seperated me from this guy, man, i was like two months 18
ME:HOW MANY COMPILATIONS ARE YOU GUYS SUPPOSED TO BE ON RIGHT NOW?
CHRIS:you mean upcoming?
ME:YEA
MAX:i don't know, we don't even know
CHRIS:we've been overcommitting
MAX:i think there's too many comps, mabey there's too many splits, but then again i'm doing a label that's doing comps and splits so i must be full of shit but it's like, i like a band right, and then you wanna get one of their records and then you find out it's a comp and it's only one song, and it's just like everybody does fuckin cd collections now, so you don't even buy the comp
ME:DO ALOT OF KIDS BUG YOU FOR YOUR EARLY STUFF?
CHRIS:yea
MAX:the charles bronson split
CHRIS:untill our cd came out, sweatin' to the oldies, all our old stuff's on it, not that i'm trying to plug it or anything
ME:"IN STORES NOW", HOW MANY SONGS DO YOU GUYS HAVE
MAX:it's over 200
PETE:JESUS!
MAX:even though, by la revancha it was fuckin, we had about 115, scince then we've gone in and recorded at least 4 or 5 times
DAN:yea, but do you think it's 200 though?
CHRIS:i think you'd be surprised
DAN:yea, i think it might be somewhere around 160
MAX:we probably recorded, what, mabey 10, 15 times?
DAN:nah
CHRIS:it's at least 10
MAX:seven inch,second time,third time,dwarf jester,spazz/brutal truth,cfdl/ romantic gorrilla,la revancha,toast/skate comp.
DAN:5 inch
MAX:monster x, lack of interest
DAN:alot of times
MAX:it's like 12
ME:I NOTICED YOU HAVE A BOSS METAL ZONE PEDDLE, DO YOU WANNA GIVE DAP TO THE METAL ZONE?
DAN:well, actually, you know, i had the old one, the heavy metal, but it kept, like, shorting out, so i went, and just fuckin, like i could find the old heavy metal i had, but they were all used
ME:I LIKE THAT ONE
DAN:yea those things kick ass! yea that's a trip man, cuz alot of people don't use peddles anymore, i like peddles
PETE:WHAT MUSIC WERE YOU LISTENING TO WHEN YOU FIRST LEARNED TO PLAY DRUMS?
MAX:i watched, like, chris from aditude adjustment, cuz back then he was like one of the fastest that i saw, it was chris right?
CHRIS:yea, he wound up in machine head
PETE:REALLY!?! SHIT
MAX:yea, so i was watching chris, and i saw troy, from 7 seconds, and i thought that he was really good because he hit really hard, and he went fast and stuff and he went double time on the hi hat, because alot of people go "1-2-1-2-1-2" (indicating a medium pace), but i like it when people go double time, and, yea, and fuckin d.r.i. too, i saw d.r.i., and the first time it was fuckin rad, and crossover even, i liked how the guy was playing, i started practicing with hangers, like clothes hangers, sitting on my speaker trying to mimmick what i saw live, so i was tring to go "1-2-1-2" while going "1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2" (indicating a much faster pace) you know? so i just learned from there
ME:WHO WOULD YOU SAY IS YOUR TALLEST FAN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE?
CHRIS:some guy named gabe?
MAX:in where?
ME:NEW HAMPSHIRE
MAX:new hampshire!?!... yea, i don't know, i don't know man, that's a tough question(I POINT TO MYSELF, GIVING IT AWAY SLIGHTLY)
MAX:oooooooooooh!
EVERYBODY:OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
MAX:okay
CHRIS:that would probably be jason
MAX:yea, jason
CHRIS:definately