An Interview With ...and then they fall
Okay... what can I say about this interview? It's so jumbled and rant filled. The fact that it took place at a bar, and the guys in the band were incredibly drunk might have something to do with it. The fact that is was freezing outside, and was incredibly windy might have something to do with it. Perhaps all these factors lead to the larger fact that I couldn't really come up with good questions. I was trying to come up with some new ones, but they just don't have the punch of the old classics. Maybe I'll go back to it, maybe I'll make up a whole new one. Who knows?
To set the scene: It's Friday, May 3rd, about 12:20am (which actually makes it Saturday). We're outside Bunkers, on the veranda, where it is incredibly cold. ... and then they fall had just played, and now Rock Ranger can be heard in the background. Also, the boys had out back a number of pitchers of beer. Shawnee came up to the interview again, and i greatly anticipated her saying something utterly ridiculous and embarassing, but unfortunately she just walked away, realizing that she soon would make a fool of herself. The interview begins thusly:
NB - Nick Beaton: guitar and vocals in ...and then they fall.
BM - Brett: drunken bass.
MB - My name is Mark. I play the drums, also in ...and then they fall. (said very quietly)
TPS - Okay.. yer gonna have to talk loud.
NB - I though it was a fucking good tape recorder! (Nick had just questioned the abilities of the tape recorder in the wind, and I said it could handle it cuz its' a good one. I was wrong evidently)
TPS - What's the name ...and then they fall? Where did it come from? I hope there's a story involved.
NB - It was Brett's idea.
BM - Personally, I thought it refered to a government falling.
NB - That's just Brett. I thought of society falling.
BM - I take it as a fuckin' horrible, right wing, disgusting, what we call "liberal" government falling. I hope they fall and...
NB - I think it has to do with yanking yer dick while listening to pop-rock.
BM - ... I hope they fall to a capitalist, insane, libertarian government. That's what that means.
MB - Brett likes politics, and Nick likes pullin' his bird. That's what it means. That's what it means.
BM - The name means falling to a libertarian government.
TPS - So Boud would fall somewhere in between politics and "yanking the bird".
MB - Yeah... that's about where I sit.
BM - No that's not what it means!
NB - They're very close really.
TPS - You guys play usually "all-ages shows", so what's the main difference you find between those shows, and the show you played tonight?
MB - We sucked tonight.
NB - No, no.
BM - Well, yeah. Shut the fuck up.
NB - It was fun. I had a really good time. I didn't...
BM - Oh, it was fun.
NB - ... I didnt' actually think we did that bad. I thought we did pretty well. The sound was really good, 'cause we got to use other peoples loud gear, and I like that. There was a couple of fuck-ups, but it wasn't really too bad. We recovered because we... we're gods.
TPS - Nice.
NB - ... that yank our birds to pop-rock, while watching...left... right wing governments fall or fall to capitalism?
BM - Watch the government fall to a libertarian system.
MB - Shut up! Why don't you go back to college, fuck-head.
BM - Fuck off.
(there was then much more bickering between Boud and Brett, mostly about how both were "fuck-heads" i suppose...)
NB - Oh my god! ...and then they fall has broken up.
TPS - What did you think the name stood for Boud? (I asked cuz he was questioning the political answers of Brett)
MB - We made it up in Jaspers!
NB - We made it at the park!
MB - Oh whatever, its' the same damn place.
NB - We were goin' over names for a while. We had some pretty shitty ones. Brett came up with that. And it was mystical. I didn't go for the government thing, but I was pretty sure he did, and I was okay with it, and.. and I thought a society falling was really what it was all about. But government, society, they're one and... yanking your bird. There's lot of things to do with a lot of shit. You just gotta open your mind. You...
TPS - You're scaring me...
NB - Is it because I'm cupping your balls?
MB - At first there was a lot of names with "Brigade" and "Troop" and "Homosexual" and ...and then they fall topped it.
TPS - Nice.
NB - It really... It was hard to top "Brigade-Troop-Homosexual" but...
TPS - What were some of the other names you came up with?
BM - Crap.
NB - Shit, I don't even remember... what was one that I insisted on for like an hour...?
MB - Some brigade.
NB - Some brigade. It was "something Brigade"...
MB - It was lame.
NB - I dunno.. like "the Rock-Brigade" or somethin'
(there is now a lot of awfulness that has no place... anywhere... good work guys! On to the next quesiton..)
TPS - What do you guys like better, the all-ages show, or this show right here?
BM - Definitely all-ages.
NB - I dunno.. it's the same thing. I didn't find much of a difference, only thing is we drank beforehand, cause we were allowed to drink in this venue, and you can smoke in this venue, and.. that's about it. Most of the crowd was just as cold or hot as they've been at any other show, who either care or they don't.
MB - But, there's a lot less emo-kids.
BM - Yes! Lot less emo-kids! I agree completely.
MB - Goddamn emo-kids.
BM - It's fuckin' better that way.
(this is where I started up again after leaving the interview "on the shelf" for a few months. Why did I do this? I can't honestly say...)
TPS - Simple question: favorite colors?
NB - Oh no. You gotta be fuckin' kidding me.
TPS - I ask everyone what their favorite color is!
BM - You don't have any more fucking questions than that?! You definetly have more questions than that.
TPS - Yeah.
BM - Alright. My favorite color is blue. Er... no no. Purple.
NB - I like mauv.
TPS - Nice.
MB - My actual favorite color is green.
NB - What? Mauv is my favorite color. It's like a purplish-pink. It makes me feel pretty.
(at this point its' all jibberish. Much of the conversation is lost in yells and laughs. The only clear part comes about a minute later with "I gotta piss real bad." I believe it was Brett. Then he went to do just that, after much debate on the subject...)
NB - Do you put down like, every word said?
TPS - Well no. Every word's recorded but I... I edit it.
NB - Dont' leave out some of the cool stuff and make it look like... editted together so I say "I wanted Rock Brigade! I'm cool!"
MB - Everything you just said is in.
(again, here there is too much background noise to really get a lot of the talk down... it's mostly jibberish about how girls don't like Nick - and that's Nick talking... not me! And later, Brett, upon leaving the bathroom, scaled the wall of Bunkers, and talk of the "Love song" - a new song played for the first time that night.)
TPS - If you guys could play in or with any band, not necessarily in, just if you were playing a show, with a band, who would you wanna play with?
BM - Wha?
NB - Like, with any band in existence?
TPS - Yeah.
NB - Fuck, I dunno. What do ya mean? Like by genre? Or..
TPS - No, just with any band.
NB - Well, if you wanna do it by genre...
TPS - Nick, it can be any band. Like yer playing a show, and then like, yer opening for some band, who would you wanna open for?
NB - They go by genre...
MB - Well fuck! Shut up and answer the question!
NB - Why is it me?! Someone else is allowed to answer!
MB - C'mon!
TPS - Nick's the leader.
NB - Yeah. I'd go with Radiohead. Because they're my favorite band. But, GENREwise, I'd say like, Tricky-Woo...
BM - I was just gonna say Tricky-woo!
MB - They broke up boys.
NB - Really?
MB - Really.
BM - So what, they fuckin' broke up, then fine. We're pickin' the band.
NB - So we're on the bill with them then. Damn.. that show was cancelled
BM - Tricky-Woo.
TPS - Boud?
BM - Uh... genrewise, I would say, probably Tricky-Woo. However, if I was going "outside the box..."
TPS - I like that. "Being experimental..."
MB - Yes. Experimentalization, I would have to say... uh... uh...
NB - The Rock Brigade?
MB - Uh... um... alright, just let me think here. Just continue, and I'll come back.
TPS - Okay... so I guess he's not going to answer.
MB - I'll answer later and come back.
TPS -What's yer favorite drink there Nick?
NB - Uh.. alcoholic or non?
TPS - Doesn't matter. It's open for interpretaion.
NB - Green Kool-Aide is my favorite "drink." I like it. I enjoy it quite a bit.
MB - Alright! I got it!
TPS - Okay: the band that Boud would play with:
MB - Myra.
TPS - What's Myra?
BM - Who the fuck's Myra?
MB - It's.. it's this chick, and she plays really good music.
TPS - Alright.
NB - Alright. So what's you guys' favorite drink?
BM - Draft. From the Maple Leaf.
NB - Ugh...
BM - Keith's draft. $8.50 - not bad.
NB - What about you Boudreau?
MB - Where's that rock and roll?
ALL - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...!!!
NB - Oh my god!
MB - Okay... my favorite drink would have to be, either green Kool-Aide, or a nice cold glass of Pepsi.
BM - Kool-Aide?
NB - Cold Pepsi too. I'd put that on my list. I like alcoholic beverages, like, I like a beer, ya know sometimes. I don't have a specific..
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BM - What?!
NB - I don't have it narrowed down to a draft.
BM - Oh come off that crap.
TPS - A particular draft from a particular establishment.
BM - I like draft from the Maple Leaf for $8.50...
NB - Kool-Aide's only pennies a glass!!! (probably the best quote of the entire interview)
TPS - That was such a good line!
BM - It's an advertisement.
TPS - Yeah, the Kool-Aide people are gonna pay Nick... That was well played.
NB - Alright, more questions.
MB - Oh, also, I like strawberry Frutopia.
TPS - I never had Frutopia.
MB - Its' a good drink.
TSP - What would you guys say are yer musical influences? For the band, and individually.
BM - I don't have musical influences.
MB - I don't listen to music either.
NB - I do.
BM - I listen to what I get on IRC. That's what I listen to. What you send me.
NB - I listen to music, I do, but I'm very, like, close-minded. I'm not, like, alectic to the point where I gather every, like, different band I can. I stick with bands that I like.
BM - Nirvana!
NB - Please mark that Brett said that.
TPS - No, I'm putting everyone's sentences into one big paragraph.
NB - Bands I like, and like, that I think rock, and that I actually listen to...
BM - Tricky-Woo.
NB - Harvey Danger...
TPS - They're awesome. Which Harvey Danger? The first Cd?
NB - Yeah. Anyway... this isn't the interview.
BM - Yeah James!
TPS - It's a conversation!
NB - Anyway, Harvey Danger. I like.. I like the Foo Fighters. Their older stuff. I thought that fuckin; rocked. I like... I like Matthew Good Band, I mean... I do.
TPS - So do I.
NB - They're good.
MB - They're gay.
NB - Yeah well, I don't listen to Boudreau that much.
TPS - He's just a drummer.
NB - Yup. He's just a clock with... hands? Dammit! Clocks have hands! Anyways... Tricky-Woo.
BM - I don;t have any influence in the band whatsoever, but uh...
NB - What? You definetly have influence...
BM - No, I don't have any influence.
(this argument about "who's the influence in the band goes on for quite some time. However, it's mostly just bickering and it's not really all that funny. I really must take all these left over bits from all the interviews and make something up with them... hmm.. we'll see!)
MB - Well, unlike these close-minded rockers, quote unquote..
BM - I acn't believe yer doing this interview...
TPS - I've had worse.
MB - I listen to a wide spectrum (laughter from the rest of us) of music.
NB - A wide spectrum...
MB - That's right. This is my time. I listen to just about everything. And it has influence on me a great deal. Like the great Martin Luther King...
BM - Oh.. he's fuckin; drunk...
MB - He once said, about Brett, he said, "Kids with long hair shouldn't get drunk, and take POLITICS!"
NB - Anyways. He's... he's...he's off on some stupid rant. Ask the next question.
TPS - If they made a clothes line after you individually, what would it be called?
NB - A clothes line?
TPS - A clothes line. Like, a line of clothing, not the thing you hang yer clothes on.
NB - Oh!
TPS - Yeah, an actual line of clothes.
NB - Oh! No, I had a good one for a "clothes-line".
TPS - Okay.
NB - "Have Your Clothes Hang Like a Horse"... right after me. I fuckin' hang man.
TPS - Okay...
NB - That was a pretty clever one.
TPS - That's a pretty clever one...
MB - That's also what people say when they have small penises!
NB - I don't listen to Boudreau.
TPS - You've established that. Okay, what would you call a line of clothes?
BM - I'd call it "Nick Beaton"
TPS - Why... hah.. would you call it "Nick Beaton"?
BM - 'Cause he's a fuckin' sexy individual.
NB - Well thanks.
MB - I missed the question with all this ranting.
BM - What do you fucking wanna call a clothing line?
MB - A clothing line?
BM - A clothing line. Like fucking Jeans Experts or whatever.
MB - I'd name it after myself. I'd call it: G-Money-Funk-Beat-Rapmaster-Funk-Issa-R-R-R-R-R-XX-P.Diddy-Flippin'... (Brett walks away)
NB - Look! You made Brett... Brett come back. He... I'll tell him to stop.
MB -... XX...
BM - What?
NB - What do ya mean what? "What? We were doing something out here?" (great impression of Brett by the way...)
BM - It's getting fucking cold!
NB - It is. You want my coat for a bit?
BM - Yeah.
NB - I'm like his boyfriend.
(there is now a ramble that is really just a misunderstanding of somethign Boud said. which was "I'm the pornographer." Nick thought he meant he was the only one in the world.. it was quite silly... And then there was a brief talk about the future of all of us, and further mockery of the tape recorder.)
TPS - Well, you guys got yer start, well, you played yer first show at thePuddingStore shwo last year, right?
NB - MmmHmm.
TPS - So uh... what do ya.. what do ya have to say about thePuddingStore?
NB - Uh... I've never actually been to the website.
BM - I have.
TPS - It's not a website.
NB - Oh, guys.. it isn't? I thought it was. It's not a website?
BM - No, it's a website. I've been there!
NB - You fuckin' idiot.
TPS - It's a store man! Why do ya think I called it that?!
NB - Anyways... yeah, I've uh... I thought it was a good.. good show. You put on a good time. I don;'t know what you guys think of thePuddingStore...
MB - Dear lord. I frequent thePuddingStore.
TPS - He does. He signs the guestbook.
NB - Oh really?
MB - That's right. I mean... I frequent thePuddingStore, and I frankly was quite honored to be part of this prestegious, PRESTEGIOUS event. (Brett goes inside here which causes another small kafuffle)
TPS - Thanks. This right now, or the show?
MB - The show.
TPS - Okay, cool.
Okay, I have made a decision. This interview is getting REALLY long, and it's late, and I'm tired, so I am cutting it in half. This has been part 1 of it. Part 2 will be up later. This part HAS to go up, cuz it's been so long since I started it. I hope you;'ve enjoyed it. See you in the "... and then they fall interview part 2: Getting More Incoherant"