Every Time I Die: (LtoR) Chris Byrnes, Keith Buckley, Jordan Buckley, Andrew Williams, Michael Novak What does the typical ETID fan look like? Just super overweight. Wasted and fat. With the title Gutter Phenomenon, you were referring to Bloom's theories about rock 'n' roll, right? Yeah. It was basically a theory about society that this guy, Allan Bloom, had written [in The Closing of the American Mind - 1987] and he said that rock 'n' roll was a gutter phenomenon and that the people who were listening to it were sinful and that it was responsibl e for American culture going down the drain. I thought it was funny. People originally thought it would be a flash in the pan but it's still here. It sort of sums up our whole approach towards it too. I read somewhere that you are a high school English teacher, is that right ? I was. I am officially a teacher, but I don't have a job right now. I'm doing the band full-time, but if I wanted to I could go and teach.
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But you don't like high school kids? Actually that's the problem is that I do like high school kids. I was so young when I did it, but, especially in America, it has sort of become more about making sure kids don't hurt each other. You're more of a referee than an actual teacher. Nobody wants to take responsibility for kids anymore. If you're not their parents then you don't want anyth ing to do with it, you just want to make sure they get on and off the bus without a scar and that's it, and that's too bad. Some day I'd like to go and teach at a college level where peop le are working towards a career and hopefully I can offer them something.
You've made the music a little 1999: Burial Plot Bidding War EP catchier, given people 2001: Last Night In Town more to hook onto, whereas before it 2003: Hot Damn! was stick and move kinda warfare. 2005: Gutter Phenomenon Yeah, it's not even parts that stick, it's more the vibe and emotion that sticks. People get a certa in vibe off a certain song so they react to it. We're not going for things that are going to get stuck in your head all day, we're going for things that when you see us Don't you think you can make a diffe live you're gonna remember what every rence to kids' lives, give them some one was doing during a certain part. thing different to what a normal thinking person would. It was awesome because I did it a few years ago befor e the band really took off There are not many bands who can and since some of the kids in my class reach back to the past and still soun were graduating I would see some of d like those a new band the way ETID do, and beca kids at bars in my hometown. They woul use of that I think you have the d come up to me and tell me I was the potential to appeal to a cross-section best teach er they ever had and what ever but maybe they were just saying of listeners, is that the point? that because Yeah, that is absolutely the point. A lot they liked me because I wasn't that strict of bands are throwbacks to the eighties on them beca use I was like four years metal scene or whatever, but we go back older than them so I couldn't really be even further to the stuff that we were a dickhead to 'em. I'm really proud of the actually raised on before we even knew stuff I did and I'm really grateful that what we were listening to. Not the stuff I got the opportunity but to make that my that our friends got us into but the stuff that whol e life I woul dn't be willin g to do that unless it was with adults our parents got us into, things that we at a college level. were hearing as infants. That's the stuff that I think we are bringing to the table and hopefully people are appreciating it. What are you expecting of this Aust ralian visit? Oh man it's going to be so amazing. It's something I've always wanted to What stuff did your parents listen to? experience. I want to meet as many peop le and do as many things as possible. Hey, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin; does the word “Buc kley” mean anything over there? It's my last my Dad liked stuff like The Eurythmic name and I heard it s and weird stuff like that. But the first conc means like if you haven't got a chance ert I went to was Iron Butterfly, I saw in hell. Pink Floyd when I was 13 or 14 years old, my parents took me to that. Yeah, we say you've got Buckley's chance, which means no chance. Or we Do you think a lot of kids go to show say, you've got two chances, none s 'cos it's the fashion now? and Buckley's. Yeah, but I think we've really done as That' s great ! We were in Europe and this guy that much as we can to get away from that. worked at a club was saying, We tour with a lot of bands where that is your chances of getting laid are zero sort of their key, and we're and Buckley's and I thought, what the hell does not talking shit on that, we understan d that it's just as important that mean? So I looked into it to look entertaining as to be entertainin g, but I think people that and I asked my Dad about it know us personally know that we have really no idea of what is and he had some Australian fashionable at all. friends who told him what it meant. There's also a Do you care if people Buckley's wine over there call it hardcore or hard that I would like to drink. rock? I don't care at all, Fuck, it would make whatever makes them sense if your relatives happy, whatever were convicts over here. category they have to put That's what I'm thinkin' it in to better understand man. They were probably it is fine. But I don't even shipped there a long time know where I put it. ago. My whole objective is to hang out and make What's the best the most of it, play a few description you've ever shows… heard for what Every Time I Die do? And what should we I have no idea, maybe expect? Trashcore or something, Probably the drunkest White Trashcore. Keith Buckley you've ever seen in your life.
“People that know us personally know that we have really no idea of what is fashionable at all.” - Keith Buckley
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