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Interview with Pistol Grip conducted 3/21/02 by Jordan
Johnson.
| Jordan:
Alright, who is who, and who plays what in the band? J:
Where did you guys meet and when did you start playing? |
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J: So how did you guys hook up with BYO records?
S: Well, Chase worked there for an internship for a while and then my brother worked there. We came out with "The Sounds Of The Streets", it was a split and we recorded six songs and sent it in and they liked it. That's pretty much it.
J: So what do you guys do when you aren’t touring?
S: Deliver pizzas, Drink... yea.
H: Pretty much.
S: I go to school actually too, I go to Cal State Fullerton.
H: If we have jobs, we go to our Jobs, other than that we just drink, pretty much, what else....party. Yea. Not that much though.
J: Do you guys have plans for another album?
S: Yea, I think we are recording in the fall. How many songs do we already got?
H: Damn, in the fall?
S: Yea, I think we’re going to start recording in the fall, we got like 8 or 9 songs already.
H: Sometime next year.
S: It’ll be out in like the spring. Late winter, early spring.
J: Where are some of your favorite places to play and bands to play with?
S: Favorite place has definitely got to be the Glass House.
H: Seriously.
S: The Glass House is like our home.
H: Glass House, the fucking Troubadour.
S: The Troubadour in LA is very good.
H: We just found out Reno is really good.
S: Yea, Reno is fucking awesome. There’s not a lot of kids there but they got alotta energy. I asked them why and its because there is nothing else to do out there. And what was the other question?
H: Bands to play with.
All: (singing) Fuck You Jordan.
S: Favorite bands?
H: Bands.
S: Oh, I don't know.... One Man Army is pretty cool.
H: Yea! One Man Army is fucking awesome.
S: The Mob 40’s.
H: I don't fucking know. The guys I hang out with.
S: Yea, pretty much our favorite bands to play with are the bands we hang out with.
H: I can’t think of any.
S: the P.B.R. gang.
H: The Worthless is cool to hang out with, I haven’t heard their CD.
S: Oh, Worthless.
J:
Do you have any funny stories from on the road?
S: Justin came out of
the closet on the road.
H: No.
C: Well, we went on tour with the Mob
40’s and 3 days into the tour, they broke up.
H: They broke up.
S: Ed
broke his tooth.
C: And I broke his, their guitar players tooth. They broke
up that night and everything was going fucked up, just a bad night. And he came
up to the van and did like a blowfish on the window and this guys all “hit the
window”. Alright so boom, I hit the window and broke his tooth.
H: What else
happened?
C: I don't know what else.
S: We stayed at some house out
in Colorado, and Kyle uh, Kyle was drunk and woke up in the middle of the night..
H: And pissed in the living room!
S: Yea pissed in the living room.
Sleep walking!
All: (laughter)
S: I don’t know what else.
H: That's
pretty much it. I don't want to go deep into this because...
S: We are just
pretty much belligerent drunks.
J: That's the way to go. Alright
wrapping up, Any closing comments guys?
C: Uh...
S: I wanna go home,
fuck my girlfriend.
H: Slayer rules!
C: Slayer sucks!
S: Alright,
just do your fucking GG Allin and we can end the tape. Go, do it.
H: Yea
fuck you, Slayer rules.
S: Why don't you do the fuck yourself thing?
H: Yea, I was gunna do that but you just interrupted me with the whole Slayer
thing.
S: I didn’t interrupt you with the Slayer thing, Chase did!
J:
I’m going to edit most of this.
H: Ok, rock and roll, drinking..
S:
Rock and roll.
H: And uh, you know, fucking if you like that kind of shit.
S: I don't have any closing comments.
H: Just do what you want, and
if you mess up who gives a fuck.
J:
This is where you are supposed to plug stuff like, “yea, go to our website”.
S: Oh! Yea go to our website.
H: www.pistolgrip.net,
you can see naked pictures!
http://www.byorecords.com
Pistol Grip photo Courtesy of BYO
Records
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