Apparently punknews.org has a regular feature called Band On Band, where members of two different bands interview each other. On Monday they posted an interview in which Tony Foresta of Municipal Waste interviewed Jon Lewis of The Dopamines, and vice versa. As you might expect, it is utterly insane.
Some choice exceprts to follow:
Apparently punknews.org has a regular feature called Band On Band, where members of two different bands interview each other. On Monday they posted an interview in which Tony Foresta of Municipal Waste interviewed Jon Lewis of The Dopamines, and vice versa. As you might expect, it is utterly insane.
Some choice exceprts to follow:
From The Dopamines portion of the interview:
Tony: I notice when you play that sometimes you do head windmills even though you have short hair. What the fuck? Are you clowning us long hairs?
Jon: I’ve been rocking the windmill for a while now, and I really don’t know how that started. I sing a lot, so I don’t get to jump around and fuck off like I used to in other bands. So during the few moments I DO get to fuck around, I tend to do some pretty wacky shit. So does Jon. I suppose a pop punk band with short hair would look wacky rocking the windmill. I’ve been trying to grow my hair out for a while now but things keep coming up, like my wedding for instance, and cutting the hair is an unspoken requirement, although my wife was upset that I cut my hair and my beard. Such is life. But NO, I’m not clowning the long hairs, I’m promoting Metal moves to all hairstyles and musical backgrounds!
From the Municipal Waste portion:
Jon: When we were hanging out in Richmond, I recall a mutual friend telling a story about you guys, “eating someone’s rent money” in Gainesville back in the day. I didn’t get the whole story, but it seems like you guys probably have your share of insane tour moments. You can’t escape this interview without recalling at least one……go!
Tony: Oh man that story is really old. So old I can barely remember. I may fuck the facts up on this one but here it goes… We used to be hated in Gainesville. Not by everyone but there was a lot of people that wished we didn’t exist. This was in the Waste Em All days. We were a younger more reckless band and Gainseville was a different place 10 years ago. That 90’s PC shit was still very prominent in the scene there and a lot of people wanted to have drawn out discussions about the “dick and fart” joke you just made. We made it our point to terrorize these poor folks as much as possible. One night after we played a gig at the Ark with Tragedy we decided to head over and crash someones acoustic show down the street by running in screaming/moshing and wrecking stuff. Basically just making jerks out of ourselves. So of course we got kicked out in a matter of seconds and we retreated back to our old VA friend from Swanks house (Tony Weinbender) and proceeded raid his and his roommates fridge. I eventually passed out but from what I gathered the next day that said refrigerator also contained a shitload (I mean A LOT) of mushrooms that belonged to one of Tony’s roommates. Anyway, from what I recall the next morning I wake up to a bunch of people yelling and my band mates are all sitting around me still awake tripping balls poking my head and telling me we need to leave. I think one of the things Tony’s roommate yelled was, “Dude you guys ate my rent money!” I thought those guys hated us for years. Tony didn’t give a shit. So yeah, one of our first times ever in Gainesville we had to flee town because we ate all of someone’s drugs.
It is at least that entertaining throughout, and contains quite a few fun stories about touring and raging. Though, Tony, that bit about the beer you guys pass around at the beginning of every tour… dude, you better hope the cops aren’t reading this!
