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Radio Diary
Radio Diary interview conducted December 2006 by Dasha Matsuura.|
To start off the New Year, I had the chance to, quite literally, have a chat with Mike, Jerry, Walter and Dan of Radio Diary. You are now in chat room “chat41198362580069620694.” |
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Jerry: you can’t name shit from now on until you graduate high school
Walter: FUCK YOU
Jerry: :-)
Walter: :-)
Jerry: love you too
Walter: i named the band while in high school
Jerry: I said from now on
Jerry: bitch
Mike: I think we should be called crumpet cake
Jerry: you can’t name shit mike period
Dasha: so introduce yourselves
Walter: ...one ring, to rule them all...
Dasha: Walter stop
Walter: sowwey
Dasha: soooo introduce yourselves
Mike: i'm mike and I play the guitar
Jerry: I play le bass...that’s French for bass and my name is Jerry
Walter: I’m Walter, and I play the other guitar :-)
Dan: I’m Dan and I sing
Jerry: did you know in Spanish, bass is bajo and bajo also means low like me. I'm the "lowest" in the band. Just some random fact
Mike: bajo means smelly in Filipino
Jerry: i'm not smelly
Walter: I’m Frank, I play drums and get into car crashes
Dasha: how did radio diary start?
Walter: I walked up to frank, our original other guitarist, after he played a show at lunch in high school, and asked him if he wanted to start a band, and I promised Joey, our original drummer, he would play drums
Mike: really that’s how it started?
Walter: I don’t even know how jerry got in the band the first time
Jerry: me neither
Mike: but jerry was originally the singer
Dasha: what is radio diary about?
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Walter: I just wanna make music people enjoy |
Jerry: seriously though.... I love the people in this group and I enjoy performing live with them. It’s too much fun not to do this.
Dasha: so all of you have been in marching band, what other musically affiliated activities do you have?
Walter: I played recorder in elementary school and clarinet too
Dan: I played drums in a few other bands before this
Mike: I’ve been in school band from 4th grade - freshmen year in high school playing trumpet, baritone, I also took lessons in piano, and I picked up guitar in 7th grade
Mike: and I was in calico jack and the winded
Walter: mike and me were the trumpets, jerry...was in begging. Band to play trumpet as a senior :-)
Dan: I recently started playing acoustic guitar and singing with that too
Jerry: but my forte is the kazoo
Mike: Frankie was in band with me
Mike: that’s how I met him
Jerry: and clarinet for 8 years...no joke.
Dasha: how did you all meet?
Walter: let me tell this one
Mike: so I met Walter when the winded played with radio diary
Walter: I met jerry in high school marching band
Mike: and at the time Frankie was in the winded with me
Walter: then we played with the winded
Walter: then Dasha brought us Dan
Walter: fuck you mike, I wanted to tell it
Jerry: thanks Dasha for that
Dan: I was stoked that day when I met you guys
Dan: we're not in this to be famous and get bling and biatches and hoes
Jerry: shit son
Walter: I am
Jerry: speak for yourself Dan
Mike: i'm in it for the music
Dasha: what do you guys have planned for the near future?
Dan: shows
Walter: finish the EP
Walter: finishing recording
Walter: mini tour thing
Walter: BITCHES AND BEER!!!
Dasha: whom would you guys ideally like to tour with?
Walter: danger:radio, man without wax, and breaking the sky
Dan: breaking the sky
Mike: and linkin park and aerosmith
Walter: and the Beatles
Jerry: I'd say...K-Fed and Will Smith
Dasha: how has line up change affected your musical process?
Walter: we've had three drummers, two bassists, two other guitarists, and like, four singers
Walter: we have a dedicated singer for once
Jerry: cause we're always changing
Jerry: but FINALLY!
Mike: yeah I think with old radio diary, things are definitely more solid now
Jerry: way more solid
Dan: yeah I need to stop getting sick
Dan: and quit smoking
Walter: that’s not gonna last
Dasha: how do you influence each other?
Walter: jerry makes me want more burritos
Jerry: yeah, I have that effect on people
Walter: mike makes me wanna play computer games
Dan: I think in the songs we write things come out
Dan: we hear it and it’s like ‘Yeah that’s sick’
Dan: like mikes intro to kiss and a title
Walter: frank makes me want to get on his laptop
Walter: and Dan makes me wanna leave the one I’m with, start a new relationship with youuuuu, this is what I doooo
Dan: 143 Walter
Jerry: <3
Walter: what are you, an asian in 8th grade?
Jerry: hih fie!
Dasha: Dan's coughing and laughing and choking and probably going to die over here.
Walter: hahaha sweet, can I have his parents?
Jerry: no don’t die
Jerry: singers are hard to find
Jerry: can I have his chiodos shirt
Dasha: lyrically where do you find the most influence?
Dasha: and for all of you musically where do you get influence?
Dan: most of the words come from feelings that I’m having or shit that’s going on in my life |
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Walter: uh, first it was rufio and thrice, then it was the fall of troy and other crap like that, now its a lot of really dancy stuff like this providence, and danger:radio, man without wax/blane, I take a lot of ideas from friends bands too
Mike: musically I got my influences from Tim Burton, Danny Elfman, fall of troy, new finch, nurses and a lot of classical music and movie scores.
Mike: I want to be a movie score composer when I grow up
Jerry: mike.you're gonna be famous guitarist with RD so shush
Dasha: what are everyone's nicknames
Jerry: Walterina is Walter’s.
Walter: mike is Jessica Simpson, jerry is the mexicant, frank is forthrite, and I don’t have one cuz id be lame nicknaming myself
Walter: THERES NO T IN IT DAMNIT
Mike: wasn’t Dan, danamation?
Walter: those nicknames suck
Walter: except mikes, it’s the best
Jerry: we'll call Dan "bi-curious George"
Mike: people call me Mickey too because my voice gets really high when i'm excited
Walter: DUDE DAN
Walter: i'm gonna call you danzig
Walter: dude. Listen. cuz Dasha is "mother" and you’re Danzig
Walter: its perfect
Dan: omg yeah
Dasha: how do you guys want to portray yourselves to fans?
Mike: easy to talk to, fun guys
Mike: who aren’t big headed in anyway
Jerry: yeah, we're not fake to people. We are who we are. We don’t "want" to be anything but ourselves
Dan: I don’t wanna be one of those people who is "too cool" to still talk to people and just be a down to earth normal nice guy
Walter: as the truth, hell, I’m a freaking loser
Walter: I have a dictionary next to my bed to look up words I wanna know
Walter: dude, you know how lame I am?
Walter: first time someone in lower d left me a comment a long time ago, I got excited...fucking Myspace
Walter: it’s a blessing, and a burden
Dan: Walter stop hating yourself
Mike: I think Walter called me the first time lower d left him a comment
Mike: hahaha
Walter: I probably did hahaa
Walter: I wanted to brag and show you how cool I was
Walter: then you got one a day later
Dasha: who is the band Myspace whore?
Dan: I never go on. I'm proud to say it’s not me
Mike: Walter and jerry
Walter: Dan is the Myspace whore
Dan: I haven't been on mine in like 9 months
Mike: Dan has a Myspace?
Dan: I haven’t even taken the time to delete it. Yeah exactly, its ooollld
Mike: and I still haven’t gotten an add!
Dasha: what do you think of San Diego music and bands?
Walter: a lot of them sound the same
Walter: chug chug chug wreer wreer wreer
Dasha: is there anyone in particular you like?
Walter: before today and pierce the veil
Mike: I think San Diego’s music was going down hill for a long time. There are way too many cookie cutter hardcore bands, some are good but those are hard to come by, but now I think people are starting to come around and be into more
Dan: I like the general "scene" that’s going on but I dunno about a lot of the local bands
Mike: then just a few chugging chords and wert wert werttsss
Dan: all the dissonance and the "norma jean" hardcore chords
Jerry: The San Diego scene has changed too much since we started out. At least Walter and me...There isn’t much unity and there is way too much competition. Some wise people taught me that art is a community not a competition
Mike: chasing paper. We love Chasing Paper.
Dan: CP! 143! OMG!!!
Walter: Tim personally commented me inviting me to a show, and we started talking, then me and jerry went to hang out with him and Dave at bassam, then we slowly met the rest, and we played a show, and I love them, yes, and I love Dave’s new beard. They have showed us many good things, and told us many good ides
Dan: I really like chasing paper. They play good music and have really good lyrics that are deep and honest
Jerry: local bands I like Misc. Ailments Foundation, A Scribe Amidst The Lions, Chasing Paper, Pierce The Veil, Forthrite (RIP), Carpe Nocturn, Lower Definition, and My American Heart.... oh and Stranger’s Six.
Mike: local bands for me: lower definition, pierce the veil, nurses, cosmonaut,
Dan: My American Heart
Walter: MAH!
Walter: funny story, we actually saw their first cd before they did, me and jerry drove up to hang out with Jesse and Jeremy, and showed them
Dasha: do you guys have any fans that really stick out in your mind?
Mike: Brittney
Jerry: Brintney is from Massachusetts and she's awesome
Dan: greer
Walter: greer isn’t a fan. He’s our bitch
Dan: hey now, bitch is a coveted position in bands nowadays
Jerry: and Nydia.she hasn’t missed any shows at all in the history of RD
Walter: we don’t have any fans, only friends
Mike: one time when we were playing a show, this naked chick ran up to the stage and started humping Walter
Walter: that was a dream mike
Mike: damn it
Jerry: so true. All our "fans" are our friends
Mike: yeah we don’t have fans. We have friends: )
Walter: hell, I don’t even have any friends
Dasha: If the world were going to end what would you do with your time?
Mike: break into a store and get a wii
Walter: steal mikes wii
Dasha: mike you are a dweeb
Walter: that’s what I’d do
Dan: well, I think I would try all the drugs I haven’t done, find some hoes, and get really comfortable before I died
Jerry: prolly just wait for the world to end with my novia.
Walter: I would find hayley from paramore
Dan: yeah dude! Can you say tag team?
Mike: I would be with my minnie too and we will break into a store and get a wii and then go to Disneyland
Walter: then I’d steal mikes wii
Dasha: what is your favorite place in the whole world?
Walter: Washington
Walter: mike is gonna say Disneyland
Dan: Portland, Oregon
Walter: jerry is gonna say something corny like with his girlfriend
Jerry: NO!
Mike: Disneyland or Disneyworld or Disneyland Paris or Tokyo Disneyland, or Pammy’s house
Walter: hahah fuck Oregon. It treated us bad. When we went up to Washington to play a show
Mike: so we were on the way to Washington
Walter: our first time out of town, and we went allllll the way to Washington
Walter: shut up mike
Mike: and we lost control on this road on a mountain but Sasquatch saved us
Mike: true story
Walter: right as we got out of California, passed the state line, and I finished peeing in that Arizona tea bottle, there was dead stop traffic
Walter: and what happened, was a truck driver flipped his big rig so they took us through all these detours through the freakin’ boonies and we are in this big van full of people and equipment, and people are hounding our ass
Walter: and it’s like, a straight drop on the right hand side, where i'm sitting, so i'm scared shitless
Jerry: old ladies with shotguns sat outside the houses there...
Walter: and people in gas stations tripped me out
Walter: we would pull up, and some dude would start opening our gas tank
Jerry: only good thing about Oregon was no tax, at McDonalds double cheeseburgers actually ARE 99 cents
Walter: there’s no sales tax
Dan: only property tax
Dan: i'm hungry. Hey Dasha you wanna drive me to taco bell later?
Dasha: If you could grant each other one wish each but not yourself what would they be? Let’s start with Jerry.
Jerry: Walter, I'd get you a high school diploma
Walter: you bitch. Do my math for me
Jerry: Mike...id get you your own theme park full of Michael Jackson look alikes
Dan: what the hell...
Mike: holy shit a whole dance group of Michael Jacksons
Walter: all doing thriller?
Dan: I despise him
Mike: hey hey hey he had good music
Walter: haha
Dan: keyword there being "had"
Jerry: Frank, I’d get him a Luis Vuiton penis so he can replace his real one cause it just ain’t good enough
Jerry: Dan, I'd get you nicotine patches that actually worked
Dan: hahahahaha
Jerry: I think I’m done
Walter: I’d resurrect Walt Disney for mike…no idea why
Mike: hells yeah
Walter: get jerry a personal performance from Coheed and Cambria
Walter: Dan a house that’s not so fucking FAR from us, and some hair clips so he doesn’t have to keep fixing his hair onstage
Walter: <3
Dan: so true though
Walter: and Frankie, a LV house, with a LV girl friend included
Jerry: Walter is the bestest
Dasha: mikey you're up
Mike: id get Walter a new guitar and amp, jerry a new guitar and amp, Dan a license with unlimited gas, Frankie a new beamer since he crashed his last one like 2 days ago
Walter: you materialistic bastard
Walter: I grant you Walt Disney, and all I get is a guitar?
Dan: I would grant Walter a hot girlfriend
Walter: hahahahah
Dan: no actually, a car and license would probably be best
Jerry: you can’t be changing your mind
Walter: I have jerry, so I’m good in that department
Jerry: I’m the TAXI walerina doesn’t need a car
Dan: for mike I would give him more guitar pedals and equipment than he could handle
Dan: for Frankie I would give him a time machine so he could undo that car accident
Walter: wait, fuck Frank’s wish, he's not even here
Mike: yeah recording is going to get delayed a little because our engineer/drummer got in an accident
Jerry: he’s in the hospital dying, tell them mike
Dan: I thought he was at home dying
Jerry: shh, that’s not exciting though
Mike: hush well get more attention if he’s in the hospital. Ok let me tell the story
Mike: HEY
Walter: what?
Walter: shut up, I’m bringing back Walt Disney for you
Mike: ok so Frankie and I were supposed to hang out one night and I called him but he didn’t answer. He calls me a few hours later sounding slightly bummed out
Mike: and I asked him what was up. And he said ah we just got into an accident he apparently was turning and lost control of the bmw and smashed into a pole totaling the car and his nose since his airbags didn’t go off
Walter: mike and frank are the rich kids in the band
Dasha: Frankie breaks everything and finally broke himself
Walter: hahaha
Mike: haha exactly
Dasha: Any final statements boys?
Walter: thanks to this band, I’m the happiest EVER, cuz it has like, granted me things that I would have never dreamed. I’ve become friends with so many cool people, and bands, and people in those bands like, I’m friends with a few of my favorite bands right now like danger:radio, and man without wax
Dasha: Walter are you naked on the computer again?
Walter: yes and I’ve gotten to see new things that I would have never seen. Drove all the way through California, went with another friends band to Arizona for the first time
Dan: seriously though being in this band is amazing. I love it. Damn Dasha you're good
Jerry: I guess just that, we've been around for a very long time and we finally have a line up worth talking about. I think 2007 is gonna be a great year for us. Thanks to everyone that has stuck with us for this long...
Mike: and we have a show on January 20th and an EP coming out very, very soon
Walter: I love lamp
Jerry: look out for some pretty cool special guests on the EP :-)
Mike: thanks for stopping by San Diego.
Website: http://www.radiodiaryrock.com
mp3s: http://www.myspace.com/radiodiary
Interview by and photos: Dasha Matsuura
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