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Interview
by SashaS
22-10-2004
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More on: Bowling For Soup
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Of life and laughter
Bowling For Soup’s shouting the blow
Sporadic is music for people who’ve had enough of bad news and the world’s vacillation on the brink of calamity; it mostly is about life, and everything, being like ‘A Hangover You Don’t Deserve’. There is a cure of that very same nomenclature, an album by Bowling For Soup. Yeah, the large Texan band that brought you delight with irrelevant hit such as ‘Girl All The Bad Guys Want’ and their third album of goodies - ‘Drunk Enough to Dance’.
As they blew through London for a show where even lowering of the banner with the band’s named caused an ovation and the rest was like the best feel good party you can wish on anybody, we squeezed into the band‘s dressing room to exchange few words with singer Jaret Roddick [né von Erich] and bassist Erik Chandler [né Rodham Clinton] and quiz them on the state of the American election. Larger-than-life guitarist Chris Burney [Van Malmstein] would join but, with a babe by his side, he remains silent in the corner; drummer Gary Wiseman [Wiseass] is some place else, so we get half the picture and an entire attitude.
Sidelining brain power behind the laughs, humour and onstage bonhomie, we geared up for a talk about reality.
Do kids on tour come and talk to you about American policy of installing democracy by military means around the world?
“No, never but journalists and radio people do a lot.” Jaret informs us. “Kids never ask us because they know who we are and that’s not what we do, that’s not why they listen to us or why they come to our shows. Kids come to us and ask ‘What’s it like in America?’ or ‘Does everybody have a gun?’; the things kids want to know but ever so often you get a kid who asks, ‘Do you support George Bush?’ and we don‘t really like…”
During this Presidential election, do you get Texas biased?
“Well, that’s just the thing,” Jaret explains, “he is from there but that doesn’t mean he’s got support from everyone there; I can tell you I’m anti-Bush but I will not tell you exactly why; part of the problem is that I don’t like him personally.”
Never ex-kidults
What politicians appear to forget is that teenagers are interested in more immediate needs, such as new trainers, T-shirts, next party, approval of peers, sense of belonging…
“There is a very big push in America right now,” Erik adds, “to get young people out to vote. In the last election less than 10 per cent of people between the ages of 18 and 30 voted… We are all for voting, educate yourself and make an informed decision, vote.”
“We don’t preach politics,” Jaret continues, “but we tell people to get active in their community and do something if they want a change. It’s almost like there is a fad in America, in music especially, of anti-Bush feeling.”
Have you ever acted smart in an interview?
“No, never, I always say what comes into my head,” Jaret proudly announces. “If it is smart, it is smart. I choose my words very carefully because I don‘t wanna be caught up in them; I use vocabulary I know I can use and I say things I know I have some knowledge of. So, that it is - real. I avoid questions I don’t know…”
How many times have you given in to groupies?
“No, never,” Jaret protests, “we are family men: two are married, two are engaged, two of us have kids. We also tend to spend more time at home these days…”
The clue is f.u.n.
You are named after Steve Martin’s comic routine; is he gonna cut it as Inspector Clouseau, taking over the role of the late/great Peter Sellers?
“It’s gonna be strange,” Jaret opines, “because the guy’s made some serious movies in meantime. I feel he is still funny but silliness of his routines in the 1970s is gone and it’ll be interesting whether all that will be brought back for Inspector Clouseau. I think he can nail it.”
Are you digi-devotees?
“I love iPod and mine can’t go through its rotation within three weeks, or something,” Jared proudly proclaims.
“He’s got the greatest collection, ever, and we listened to it on the flight back over [to Europe] and it was heaven,” Erik confirms.
“I had three computers going at the time,” Jaret elaborates about the time it took him, “and loaded CDs for our on-the-road entertainment. Great little machines,” he concludes as the band is called to start getting ready.
Just over an hour later B4S simply explode with feelgood and take everybody with them. You simply forget what hell we’ve created on our little third rock from the Sun.
Rock still has the power and the latest proof comes from a rural area of Serbia, Sokolovica mountains, where natives kept wild boars away by blasting music 24/7! It worked because they played Meatloaf; if they played B4S, there most probably would have been a party of the entire wild ‘hood!
Stop upload!
BFS remake 'Gilligan' theme!
Grammy-nominated band [for their biggest hit] have recorded a remake of the ‘Gilligan's Island’ theme song for new reality TV series, ‘The Real Gilligan's Island’, set to premiere on 30 Nov. in the USA.
The show is based on the '60s comedy that starred Bob Denver. Castaways include a real-life skipper, first mate, millionaire couple, movie star, professor and farm girl, who will work together to try to get off the island. Episodes are modeled after some of the situations that occurred in the original series, the Atlanta-based cable channel said Wednesday.
SashaS
22-10-2004
Bowling For Soup album ‘A Hangover Your Don’t deserve’ is already available on Jive/BMG
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