Sceneazine.com
Andrew Saul (guitar) – Jewish
Artie Revel (drums) – Puerto Rican
If I was a butterfly on the wall of one of your rehearsals…who would you say is
the “leader”?
Our rehearsals are pretty crazy. We all know what has to get done going into a
rehearsal and hopefully it gets done by the time everyone goes home. Although when
people start getting distracted by the Internet and food, I’m usually the one that tries
to keep us on track.
Tell me the funniest, wackiest thing to ever happen to you during a gig?
There were a lot of funny things (to us) that happened at our early shows mainly
around Dom forgetting words and stuff like that. At our second show we were playing
a brand new song and Dom had a really long mic cable and by the end of it we realized
he wrapped a good 10 feet of cable around his arm because he didn’t know what to do
with it. Another more recent wacky thing was we played at a midget bowling event
and we all got to bowl midgets. Felix and Jon were the best at that.
There are many “bells and whistles” in the studio today…how do you think your
studio sound translates to a live performance?
Our studio recordings are loud and raw which is exactly how we sound live. We
write our songs with the live performance in mind. We definitely don’t do anything in
the studio that couldn’t be reproduced live. To paraphrase something Joe Elliot of Def
Leppard said, “If you want to play arenas, write music that sounds good in arenas.”
What has been your greatest disappointment to date? What is your greatest
triumph?
There have been a few disappointments such as not being able to play the Rocklahoma festival because one of the organizers didn’t like Dom’s voice but we don’t
let those affect us and we keep moving forward. Our greatest triumph is probably
recording 9 songs in 24 hours over 3 days which became our album Nothing Bad
Happens, Ever.
What makes you unique or
different?
As I said before, we never
take ourselves too seriously and
as a result every sh