John: So which song are you doing?
Mike and Jim: �Super Stupid�
John: By?
Jim: Funkadelic
John: So how�d you pick that one?
Jim: Oh my God. How much time does that thing have on it?
John: You can just keep talking and talking.
Jim: We went around � what � five, six, seven different songs before we finally decided on the stupidity. What were some of the other ones that we thought about? (To Mike) I�m talking to you.
Mike: I thought Brendan was in here too.
Jim: We had like some Pink Floyd tune that was God awful�
John: God awful because of the Pink Floyd tune or because of you?
Jim: (laughs) Well, I just hate like Pink Floyd.
Mike: The way we got to Funkadelic is we tried to decide on a song that everyone wanted to do. So, this was the only one we could come up with that everyone was cool with.
John: Now, why did that rat bastard Hamilton (Scott Hamilton from Small Stone Records and in reality a real good guy) shit can the Zeppelin cover?
Mike: Is there any way we can make that sound a little cooler? Say that we diplomatically found a song that we all liked. In a cool way.
Jim: (laughs) Oh, that�s bullshit.
Mike: Wait, that�s what we did. We went back and forth �
Jim: In some hugely passive/aggressive way.
Mike: What did we start with?
Jim: We started with�
Mike: Zeppelin.
Jim: Yeah, we started with Zeppelin.
Mike: �Kashmir� was shit canned because Senor Hamilton said the drum sound wasn�t good enough.
Jim: The drum sound on this one is excellent.
John: Go figure. So he didn�t think it sounded good?
Jim: Right.
Mike: He was like, �Hey, you guys wanna go back in? Hope you�re not bummed out about it, but you got a whole new lineup, blah blah blah.� So it wasn�t even that �Kashmir� sucked, although it did.
John: It was more like the debut of Greatdayforup Mk IV.
Jim: Redux.
Mike: Right. Exactly.
Jim: So after that, we had some other Zeppelin tune. �In the Light� was in there.
Mike: It was something we were actually learning.
Jim: �Living Loving Maid?� I can�t remember. There were at least seven or eight...
Mike: Zeppelin, Floyd, Cactus�
Jim: Wasn�t there a Queen song?
Mike: The only thing we could come up with was Funkadelic.
John: We know that Dave, the old bass player, had some personal issues he had to work through. Who�s the new guy playing bass?
Mike: The new guy is Brendan Slater.
John: From?
Mike: He was in the Clay People.
John: Hey, there he is.
Mike: (to Brandon) You were in the Clay People.
Brendan: I was.
John: So why did he decide to join your group?
Mike: We gave him an offer he couldn�t refuse.
Jim: Cut off a horse�s head, put it in his bed.
Mike: We were playing with this other band, Idols Never Die. We needed a bass player, and we said, �Come to Texas� (for South by Southwest). So he went, and he had so much fun that he quit the other band.
John: Now wasn�t Idols Never Die your other band? Is that done?
Mike: It wasn�t my other band. I was asked to play in a band. It was some of the guys from Clay People, and it sounded good at first, but then it quickly sounded�
John: Not good.
Brendan: It went from like a little bit more cutting edge, harder version of Stone Temple Pilots and got more and more radio as it progressed.
Mike: It completely became just about the radio.
Brendan: I wanted to play metal. Not pop-rock.
Jim: And metal we have.
John: Now what about this guy over here? Now (noting his Greatdayforup t-shirt and DrumArt hat) it�s not quite as bad as wearing your own band�s t-shirt to your own gig�
Jim: (laughs). I know, dude. It�s all I had.
John: Thinking, �Just in case the press stops by, they�ll know what band I�m in.�
Jim: And look what happened. The press stopped by. You know who you�re talking to.
John: I�m more like a gadfly with a keyboard. So how�d this guy get in the band?
Jim: I got begged.
Mike: We had played together a couple of years ago. Like a little side project.
John: When he�s not running DrumArt�
Jim: Dot com.
Mike: I played with him a couple of times a couple years ago. And we were drummer-less, or becoming drummer-less. I think we asked you more than once.
Jim: I was doing Secret Guy at that time.
Mike: We needed a record contract before Jim would join.
Jim: That�s right. I wasn�t interested in talking to them until I could see the contract (laughs). Y�know, we played together and obviously hit it off and just waited for the right time to come along. And the right time came along. Although I was in another band, and those guys didn�t take it very well.
Mike: They took it well at first, because you were going to do both. I went to the show to see that other band, and was, �Oh cool, hey what�s up?�
Jim: And they were, �What�s up with that?� So, whatever.
John: Was this when Mike had long hair?
Jim: It was.
John: Do you think it was because of the long hair?
Mike: I was very intimidating when I had long hair.
Jim: You looked at least six feet tall.
Mike: You weren�t planning on leaving those guys.
Jim: No, no. Things just got to busy. I had to make a decision.
Mike: We had to say, �Do you want to be with the good band, or the not so good band?�
Brendan: Mike had a conversation with that other band. Said there was going to be some damage done to their kneecaps.
Mike: They were pissed too.
Brendan: I think this is my sixth band in ten years since playing in Albany.
Jim: So you�re on your way out?
Brendan: Well, if we�re not touring on a bus�
Jim: With groupies�
Mike: Strippers and cocaine�
John: Tires filled not with air but with hookers� Now when are you guys gonna start thinking about the follow up to Flores De Sangre.
Mike: The plan is to start writing in September. Dick around in Jersey and Boston over the summer. Got some shit coming up.
John: What are your touring plans? You guys going nationwide?
Mike: We�re gonna give away all our kids.
John: Your kid isn�t even out yet and you�re already selling it.
Mike: We�re gonna sell our kids and go on tour.
John: Can�t you take the kids with you and have them work the merch table?
Brendan: Set up gear.
Mike: Mine�s gonna be my guitar tech.
Brendan: I told you my fucking pedal goes RIGHT THERE! That�s a distortion pedal � it goes in the MIDDLE!
Mike: Maybe for South by Southwest. We�re going to try to not do anything and set something up for 2007. Record, go out on tour for a little bit.
Jim: Get a bunch of good gigs in. Maybe do CMJ.
(We stopped to listen to playback of �Super Stupid�)
Jim: That�s a whole lot of cowbell. This is gonna be the �Need More Cowbell� track.
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