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Much thanks to Ellyn, Beth, and Butch for setting it up and making sure it happened, and Senses Fail for being cool, and Robbie for doing the interview.
Robbie: First off, just state your name and your position in the band.
Robbie: So what’s it like being on tour with Brand New?
Robbie: What’s your favorite place to play at.
Robbie: My next question was how do you like Chicago but you already kind of answered that. *laughs*
Robbie: If you guys weren’t in the band what do you think you’d be doing?
Robbie: What do you guys think of the “From the Depths of Dreams” EP?
Robbie: What’s the craziest thing you’ve done on tour?
Robbie: What color is your toothbrush?
Robbie: *laughs* When your not on tour or hanging with the band, what sort of stuff do you like to do?
Robbie: *laughs* What are some of your favorite bands to play with?
Robbie: What gets you guys going on stage?
Robbie: What’s the hardest thing about being on tour?
Robbie: Do you guys have any girl stories?
Robbie: When things get hard on tour, what keeps you motivated?
Robbie: What advice would you give to any musicians like me hoping to make it in the music industry someday?
Robbie: How long have you been a band?
Robbie: How did you all meet? Did you all go to high school together?
Robbie: Do you guys have any final words?
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Buddy: *with his mouth stuffed with food* That was my lip ring *as lip ring falls to the ground* and I’m Buddy. I’m the singer.
Dave: I’m Dave and I play guitar.
Garret: I’m Garret and I play guitar.
Buddy: It’s fucking great. We get to play shows like this, which is fucking amazing. We just want to thank them for taking us out.
Buddy: It’s pretty fuckin sick here.
Dave: Yeah this is defiantly one of my favorites *he mentioned his favorite place but everyone was talking so I couldn’t hear him*
Buddy: I mean come on, best monitors. They were really good here.
Garret: But on this tour probably this one or Pittsburgh.
Buddy: Yeah at this place called laga we like. Ummm the palace was pretty cool. This place called Gabe’s Oasis which we’re playing at in a couple days actually and Club Krome.
Dave: Chicago I thought was fucking great. That was so much fun.
Robbie: This was your first time playing here right?
Buddy: Yeah dude. First time ever. It was nuts. *Dan, the drummer walks in the room*
Buddy: I’d be running illegal drug operations out of my parents basement.
Garret: Yeah we’d have our own drug cartel.
Buddy: Garret would be a hitman and Dan would be in high school. *everyone laughs except Dan*
Buddy: I think its great. We just recorded our full length and we recorded our EP about a year ago. It came out last august really.
Dave: It’s kind of weird how people are getting into it now because it’s been out for a year now.
Buddy: But that happens sometimes.
Dave: Yeah totally. We never expected it to be anything more than just a demo. That’s all it was and now we’ll be putting our full length out later. We’re pretty excited.
Buddy: I like it for what it is and where it came from, but I think we’ve matured as a band so yeah.
Buddy: Uh well Dave just attacked someone at IHOP because he was staring at him. We were having a really weird and really bad day.
Dave: We’re pirates by the way.
Buddy: Oh yeah we’re pirates. We’re called the dark pirates.
Dan: Of the night.
Buddy: The dark pirates of the night.
Dave: Yeah we just go around and fuck shit up in cities all across the country.
*everyone starts talking all at once and cant really tell what they’re saying*
Buddy: One time We decided….well I decided to fuck with the hotel room and for no reason I was going to throw the lamp out the window. You threw the screen out the window *pointing to Dan*
Dan: No I didn’t, you did.
Buddy: I threw the screen out the window I guess and you guys talked me out of throwing the lamp at the satalite dish.
Dave: Then the next day we wake up and kinda feel like shit.
Buddy: We’re retarded. We were just freaking out and everyone’s in this really weird mood like something bad is going to happen. Then we went to IHOP and nobody wants to eat. There’s like four people at the table you know our tour manager, Garret…no wait Garret wasn’t there.
Dave: Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah, these guys were staring at buddy.
Buddy: Hold on!!! I gotta set the whole story. This little red head kid, like this wigger kid was staring at me and I just wasn’t having it. I was like this sucks I’m out of here. Then I went back to the van and Dave was sitting there so I was like this fuckin redhead kid, this red headed step child was starting at me and Dave goes I wanna fight him. So dave goes and our guitar tech Sean goes.
Dave: I go inside and I just stare them down and the kid looks up and I’m just like what the fuck are you staring at!? And then everyone in the restaurant turn around and is like *makes gasping noise* like you could totally hear that sound all at once and he’s like you want a piece of me? And I’m like yeah.
Buddy: Remember, this is at an IHOP in the middle of the country in Indiana….middle of nowhere.
Dave: I’m like get the fuck up! And he gets up and we go in the lobby where the hostess stands. He turns around and tries to club me and I blocked him and clock him right in his fuckin head. Then he tries to bear hug me right around the side of my waist and then Sean and Nick our guitar tech and merch guy grab him off me and we fuckin annihilate him. And then we leave. *laughs*
Buddy: Yeah we peaced.
Dave: We’re not pro-fighting or anything but nobody’s gunna stare at me that hard and get away with it.
Buddy: Yeah this little punk from Indiana who thinks he’s tough is gunna fuck with kids from jersey?
Dave: He started it man.
Buddy: See I just don’t get it.
Dave: We didn’t gang up on him. I just took him out.
Buddy: Yeah Dave just took him out and then we peaced.
Robbie: You didn’t get in any trouble at all?
Buddy: No.
Dave: We’re pirates. Remember that.
Dave: Oh fuck.
Buddy: I lost mine. I brushed my teeth today with a towel.
Dan: Mine’s clear with this blue swirly shit on it. It’s pretty cool.
Buddy: Mine’s a towel right now.
Garret: Mine’s white.
Dave: Mine’s a blue Oral B.
Buddy: Sometimes I put toothpaste on my finger and do it *makes a brushing gesture with his finger* or sometimes I put toothpaste on a towel and do it.
*someone screams whoa! from another dressing room*
Dave: Shmeca…? No I’m kidding.
Buddy: We don’t really do anything. No literally we do nothing. We hang out with our friends from our hometown kinda.
Dan: We usually just hang out with each other and go to Dave’s house or something.
Buddy: I don’t do anything. There’s nothing to do really.
Garret: I party…with myself.
Buddy: But no, we really don’t do anything. We went to six together.
Dan: Yeah, I was gracefully NOT invited to that one.
Dave: Because you weren’t at the beach.
Dan: That’s true.
Buddy: You shit head.
Buddy: Ummm A Static Lullaby, Northstar.
Dave: Madison.
Dan: Brand New has been cool so far.
Dave: Definitely. Thrice is another.
Buddy: Thrice is alright.
Dave: We only played with them once but they were like the nicest big band ya know?
Buddy: My Chemical Romance. Those guys were cool.
Dave: I black out.
Buddy: Dave kicking me.
Robbie: *laughs* I saw that. That was funny as hell.
Buddy: I don’t know. I kind of just get into it, but also the kids. Pretty much I just feed off the audience. If everyone’s getting into it makes me go…more nuts.
Garret: I like it.
Dave: If kids can’t deal with me giving them the finger on stage…
Dan and Garret: Then don’t do it.
Dave: Exactly *laughs*
Dave: Being not around girl that your going out with.
Buddy: Being not around girls period.
*some guy walks in the room and steals a drink out of their dressing room*
All at once: The hippie man! *everyone laughs*
Buddy: We can’t tell girl stories or else we get in trouble.
Dave: We get in big trouble.
Dan: Playing the show.
Buddy: Playing the show.
Dave: Yeah, like if your having a real bad day and what not like being a real dickhead, then you play the show. Then everything feels a lot better.
Dave: Just stop because it’s not going to happen! Your not going to go anywhere anyway. It’s a horrible industry, don’t get involved. No I’m just kidding.
Buddy: It’s a cutthroat business. That’s why we’re pirates. No no no no I’m kidding.
Dave: Just never give up like for real. Just work your ass off.
Buddy: You just gotta go out and play and go out and sell yourself pretty much. Like when you first start, make everyone listen to your band whether they like it or not. You gotta get a way to get people to start talking about you.
Dave: A lot of people are probably wondering why Senses Fail is saying that because they were only a band for four months before they got signed…..which is true.
Dave: A year and a half. But we’ve all been in bands for a long time.
Buddy: I’ve been trying since I was fourteen.
Dave: Yeah like we’ve all been trying for a long time and every band I’ve been in I’ve thought that this might be the one. You can’t give up on yourself.
Buddy: Yeah that’s the thing.
Dave: I went to high school with Garret *points to Garret* for like a year and the rest of the guys were all friends over the internet.
Dave: Shmeca!
Buddy: Arrr *in a pirate voice*
Dan: Vagina.
Dave: *laughing* vagaina.
Dan: Vagina snatch.
Garret: Weiner.
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