Mike: Tame question to start things off...I noticed on your cover, etc that there is no Mortal in the Mortal Micronotz. Have you dropped it?
Dean and John: I haven't.
Steve: We haven't dropped it, we just simplified it for all those lame bozos out there, who can't put 2&2 together.
Dean: It's easier to fit on the cover...all the songs are copyrighted to "The Mortal Micronotz" on the back. Its hard to fit that many words on the front.
John: A lot of people just call us the Micronotz anyway.
Mike: Ok, you just completed your first major tour, how was it?
Dean: Great. Wonderful.
Steve: Very educational. It wasn't great all the time. There were times when it was just fantastic, we had the best time we could possibly have, and there were times when we wished we weren't even born...
David: The worst part was just sitting in between shows, for two or three days. Being in a town where you don't know anybody, and you have to sit for 2-3 days, its--
Mike: Did the mini tour last year and all your road trips prepare you for it?
Steve: A little bit. We kind of knew how to deal with each other.
John: We didn't get into fights, which was weird because--
David: Last time we gone only 2-3 days and beat the shit out each other!
Dean: We learned how to pace ourselves. We knew we had 2 weeks ahead of you, that you better start eating meat instead of Fritos and a little more orange juice instead of beer.
(detailed discussion of the tour follows, I cut it out cause John's tour diary that follows pretty well sums it up...got around to talking about the fact that they got to visit QCA, their record pressing plant in Cincinnati, (you can see the QCA stamp on their album, in the vinyl) and naturally slipped into talking about the new EP...)
John: It's gonna be out in mid-October.
Dean: The cover is just fabulous!
John: Yeah, it's just bitchen.
Dean: It has nothing to do with the music, but that's beside the point! It's so bright, it's an airplane! It's pop art!
Steve: The record's not too bad either...we're real happy with the record, I'm speaking for all of us I guess. It was a totally different thing this time when we went into the studio, we had a much more technical outlook on it, and the record came out more technical and more exactly what we wanted cause of the fact that we pushed for it this time.
John: The first record we got bullied around a bit. It's our own damn fault...but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
David: If you're paying you do what you want.
John: Yeah, we had to pay this time.
Mike: Did Ramona expand in time for your record?
John: Well, not specifically for our record, but we were the first people to use their new sixteen track machine. We were the guinea pigs.
David: It was in between the change.
John, Yeah, half the record was recorded on their old board with their 16-track...
Steve: Then it was remixed on their new board with the 16-track.
John: So it sounds kind of strange...not really strange, just strange to us.
David: It doesn't sound anything like the other record.
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