APRIL TENTH, TWENTY-TWELVE press. People that pick are generally like bookers and promoters and people that work with the bands most of the time so it’s not necessarily the best new band it’s just happens to be the band that’s actually trying to do the most. It’s like the best, new, most ambitious. It’s not about how good the music is really as what the band really wants to get out there. We’re talking our music down right here. Hey, whoa whoa whoa No, we’re alight! We’re not horrible! Baby: I’m OK. I’m a little buzzed, I’m rich. Nae: So, I was curious, who you guys were looking forward to seeing this weekend, since you are so supportive of the scene, is there anybody so far that’s been awesome or who you’re looking forward to seeing this weekend at Treefort [Music Festival in Boise]? AAA: Aan is amazing. Aan, Deathsongs, Typhoon-‐ our good Portland buds, Built To Spill, ShivasYeah, Shivas are awesome. We haven’t been able to do a lot, we’ve been talking to people. Baby: I’ve been desperately looking for something to drink all day. Nae: So I was going to ask each of you what is
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your favorite adult beverage, what do you guys drink? Baby: He drinks AMF, I mostly drink this 4 Loco drink, its not 4 Loco, it’s like you make this original 4 Loco, it’s got a bunch of ingredients you put in it and it’s like the original 4 Loco You crush up Nodoz It sounds like you’re making crack cocaine. Baby: Yeah, you crush up NoDoz and OE. AAA: Lighthouse is 101 proof Rumplemintz, and then it has a float of Kahlua… In reality we all drink Pabst. Yeah, Rainer, Pabst. For me Rolling Rock is the jam. That’s the cheapest champagne. Nae: So, I have kind of a fun question for you guys, what would you tell 12 year old you about music today? AAA: Powerman 5000 was a huge mistake. I’m telling myself, that’s what I’m saying, it was a huge mistake and you shouldn’t get involved. I’d say keep listening to Rush. A lot. I listened to a lot of Rush when I was twelve. My real answer would totally be don’t listen to things farther than six
hours away from where you can drive. Like stay local because local music is the shit that’s really, really good. That’s not always the case though… In smaller towns… No, 6 hours away? You’re always 6 hours close to a good music scene unless you’re in middle America Nae: Incidentally, Moscow is 6 hours away from Boise.
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AAA: Yeah, you’re always six hours away, and you should find that scene. I would have said “Listen to Bruce Springsteen with a keener ear”. I would have said, “stop playing butt rock guitar solos,” because that’s all I did. You still do that! What I would have said is listen to Flaming Lips a bit more intently. You can’t do that, that’s all you listen to. More local bands when I was younger would have been better. Baby: When I was twelve, I’d have said, “Stop riding bulls, and start playing guitar.” It took until I was 18 or 19 to get out of fucking bull riding. Nae: So we’re with a college radio station, do you guys listen to college radio? AAA: The only reason I was really bummed about moving from Eugene to Portland was because
PAGE FIVE Eugene’s campus radio was so awesome. Everybody has an hour block, is that how you guys do it? There’s a block and you get to choose… there’s people that specialize different stuff, so you tune in to certain shows… I loved it. The PSU radio, there’s a few DJ’s on there that I love. Like when John Raul was doing it, there’s some good stuff in Portland. Of any radio stuff, that’s all I listen to. College radio is always the best, because it’s people who actually care. Nae: And we can play what we want, it’s freeform radio. Baby: Freeform radio! Nae: Absolutely. So do you guys have any fun tour stories or anything funny that’s happened recently? AAA: Berg rescued a kid! Oh yeah! Baby: Yeah, I rescued three children out of a burning SUV. AAA: It wasn’t burning. …it was totaled. We were stopped at a gas station, in California on some little two lane highway section on like 405 or something, and an SUV came out and a car was pulling out of the gas station and the SUV swerved and clipped it and flew literally ten, twelve feet in the air and rolled like three times, all the way over and was in a
ditch, and Berg and I… I thought it was a fight, not a flight, but we were just bookin’ it over there, berg rips the door off of this car, pulls these kids out of it, and one of the kids is like “who are you!?” and Berg for some reason responds: “I’m with your mom.” Baby: I was comforting them! AAA: He was trying to make them feel comfortable, like “I’m not a stranger”, but it came off more like “I’m your new dad.” But everybody walked away from it, everybody was standing up. Yeah, everybody was fine, The car had roll bars and stuff, but we though we were going to be pulling dead people out of these cars Baby: Afterwards, everybody calls me a hero and stuff, you know? Berg ripped his shirt off. [to Baby] You’re gonna get a call from a private investigator that those kids have hired in six years and they’re gonna find their real dad… they know that you’re the real one because you were there when they needed you. Nae: That is amazing! Well, I know you guys have to go but I want to thank you so much, college radio thanks you, Common People thanks you. Baby: C’mon, People!