Dean: You can tell it's the same band but there's definitely a growth. A malignant growth...(laffs)
John: Dean sounds like he's two years younger now.
Dean: I do?
Mike: The EP cover was designed by Frank Loose.
Steve: Who? (sarcastically)
(lotsa silly laughter, I dunno why...)
Steve: Frank put in a lot of work, and received very little. He put so much, he did a hell of a job. At first, he sent us some preliminary sketches and he caught a lot of shit we gave him. You know, a lot of orders to do, and he just did them all and came up with pretty much what we were after.
John: He did a very good job.
Mike: I'm sure you guys have opinions on what they said in that famous interview...
John: Well, as far as that's concerned, we really don't know, cause we stayed with them in Chicago for a couple of days. At one point that did come up.
Dean: They seemed to refute themselves. They claimed--
David: They claimed it was the person who edited it kind of changed a lot of things. Supposedly they said a lot of things about Lawrence, but they weren't trying to be insulting, but--
Steve: They weren't promoting, but they had no intention of insulting.
David: But they didn't act that way, they didn't act snotty toward us or the town while we were there, which makes sense, but they sounded like they'd like to come back and play.
John: I think they're a bit discouraged because they left a huge following in Lawrence, who was just fanatical about them, and they moved to Chicago where nobody knew them. I think they thought they were going to be an overnight success story in Chicago, which, far as I know, hasn't happened.
(Dean at this point gets on me for my lame questions....says "ask us something that has nothing to do with the band!)
Mike: Okay, okay, okay. You guys are criminals now...(everyone laughs)
Dean: No!
David: Not anymore.
John: We've been cleared! We paid our debt to society.
Mike: You got nailed for trespassing while skateboarding...
David: We got charged with criminal trespassing and damage to personal property.
Dean: You're printing this in the interview, so all you skaters buy our record! (laughs)
John: Well, you see man, we got into this pool and was going for it....(John and Dean get into all this skating slang, sarcastically I guess...)
David: Actually it really sucked. (laughs) That was the worst pool I ever skated. We were there ten minutes, then...
John: We got locked in--
David: Until the police came. We had to wait.
(general laughter)
Steve: It definitely wasn't worth it.
John: The hassle, the $65...
Mike: I'd think our readers would like to know what you all did for the city. (Community service)
Steve: Well, I've been working at the Art Center wiping off tables and running to get old ladies' lunches.
Dean: David's had it worse.
Steve: Yeah, David had to sand down an oil tanker (laughs)...
David: It's terrible! I only had to spend the first day, scrubbing oil off a tanker, but it was horrible. John had to pay more, but me and Steve had to work.
(argument erupts over what John did...)
Dean: But I didn't have to do jack shit cause I'm not a criminal! I would never break a law, or do anything morally wrong!
Mike: What happened to you that night?
Dean: I was at the movies...
David: We went to practice and he didn't come that night.
Steve: We all just agreed that Dean was a pussy faggot for wanting to sit around with his girlfriend instead of out skateboarding with us. (laughs) No fight, just...
John: A general consensus.
Dean: Well look, you can't live on hamburger alone! You must skate and have other things too...
John: The full spectrum of experience.
Steve: Dean, you shoulda been out there with us.
Dean: Yeah, it's a great experience rubbing down oil tankers and getting handcuffed...I would never break the law! I'm a strong believe in our government and the rules they put down!
Mike: You guys did not just hop on the skateboarding bandwagon. I gather that you formed because of it?
David: We skated since sixth grade.

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