Interview with Against Me! - Podcast 57

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torch got a hand job oh i didn't see you come in there welcome to sound scene revolution i'm rich and it's uh some week in may or april or whenever you're listening to this it's that time of day and we have a new interview for you guys this week i hope you're excited i am uh before we get into that i want to touch on a few things we still have open and running contests for the riverboat gamblers from texas and for fake problems from uh somewhere in florida it's a tourist town we'll say valhalla florida valhalla florida but uh so we got a contest for those so if you want to know how to enter check out the interviews the last eight minutes of those interviews and we'll tell you how to enter but for this week we have an exciting new interview with everybody's favorite band to hate or love or love to hate against me maybe you've heard of them they're from florida there's four of them one of them has a beard warren who actually guess knows who i am which is horrifying i feel like he's watching me with his fucking beard all stalker in the window he probably beats off when i shower if i beat off when i shower i don't see why warren shouldn't but um so they're good guys though and we talked with mr tom gable of against me he's the singer he lost some weight i guess people say he used to have a drug addiction so uh it's pretty sweet though so you might want to check that out we don't have any new giveaways this week because against me make tons of money on a major label and we were like can we get some shit to give away and they were like fuck that why don't you give away your stuff and i was like well maybe and then they shut the door but uh that's really how it went down uh and there was like fucking piles of money and hookers in the background too and i was like can't we just give away a hooker and they're like we need five of those for andrew he takes five fucking hookers all right so don't act like we didn't try but um anyhow we got those old contests and those are good enough for you so uh listen as we talk to tom about all sorts of fun stuff and i think the first question is still my favorite but uh you can decide and let me know what your favorite question is so uh before we jump into uh that we got a song off of their uh last real album which was uh searching for a form of clarity it's called unprotected sex with multiple partners we played it on our last interview with andrew and we're gonna play it again because it's a good fucking song and if you don't like it you could fast forward through it or you can listen to it again and remember what it was like when you were 14. remember uh and uh tune in for the rest of the

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have taken place at the catalyst and so now we're we've we've migrated to the back this is the green room it's kind of like a van yeah we are hanging out with uh this is our one professional interview we're just kind of i guess and i'm interrupted by fake problems or one of and i'm totally blanking on his name right now sean dude how do you know their names you can't remember the names of the bands we interview but you remember the names of the people people don't matter people don't matter so we're hanging out with tom from against me hello say hi sorry for the uh like the whatever inner no worries no worries so uh we're gonna ask you a couple of questions and uh anything you feel like answering don't worry okay you don't have to so um the very first question is um how does it feel to have uh sold out the scene and why did you do not totally this is supposed to be a puff piece yeah i wouldn't ask some shit like that anyway all right um honestly i do want to know when you guys moved from uh no idea to your first record in fat there was a lot of backlash from that a lot of people like physically attacked your guys's like property and they slashed your tires and shit has there been anything like that from your recent move to sire no no how very straight yeah it's odd huh yeah like you would think but huh well that's like half my interview sorry i mean yes lots of things now were you expecting anything like that no i'm really just i'm just completely over the topic you know like it's such a boring stupid played out cliche thing that it's kind of just a waste of breath you know yeah fair enough i imagine it's one of those things you guys kind of get like attacked or like asked every time so it's kind of like one of those things so i have to ask if everyone else does because i don't want to be the only one if everyone else jumps off a cliff you got to jump off the cliff too right i don't want to be alone but uh you're leaving good to see you buddy it's good to see you too i'll see you in like a month cool yeah yeah yeah for sure asked it on sorry that was steve-o steve-o used to do our website right that's steve-o and he does one two three four go records a very great record label they released he also works at cinder block they released uh there goes a cab driver they released what angry the replacements tribute correct yes they did uh-huh or he did yeah uh-huh now was that just one of those things where he's like you guys want to be on the replacement tribute well i love the replacements yeah one of my all-time favorite bands for sure so when he was like when he asked about it it was like also right when we were around when we were signing to sire it was like we're signing to sire that was the replacements record label yeah we'll do a replacements tribute comp sounds pretty fitting yeah you know a funny story though actually was um we we recorded that cover for the the comp when we were demoing some other songs like in the same session and so when demoing songs for the new record and so when we turned in those demos to like label or whatever just for them to check them out um that that cover was just on the comp was on there you know like it just didn't take it off or whatever and so we're like talking to our a and r guy right or whatever about like what he thought about the songs and he's like i don't know man i think bastards of youth it's a hit man i think that's one of the best songs you've ever written and and we're looking at him we're like yeah it's a good song man it's a really good fucking song i think you're right i think it's a hit i think it sounds like somebody i can't believe it hasn't been i i just didn't even have the heart to tell him at the point i i like someone else had to tell him like man that's that's a replacements cover they're on your record label like it was so fucking classic and amazing i i would have just been like when you there's nothing left to say at that i know well it's it's funny too because like on this tour we played that song a bunch and uh just like closing or whatever encores and it's such an obvious it'll show you like the generation gap in the audience because like half the audience will be like hmm this is a new against me song it's pretty good it's pretty catchy you know and like you know the other half the older half in the back of the bar is like yeah it's it's pretty funny no you guys have been actually playing a lot of the new stuff well not a lot of the new play like usually four to five new songs each night how's the reaction to those it's good i mean you know anytime you play a new song in a set like especially for our band because everybody always you know usually like it's awesome they sing along to songs so you throw in the song that nobody knows the words to and then everyone's just like staring at you and nodding their heads along but uh you got to get the one kid who like doesn't know that it's a new song he's gonna like and they're still singing along yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they're they're muppets yeah their mouths just but it's overall been a pretty good reaction yeah it will be we usually then we'll get like emails or like comments and stuff on my space or whatever saying that like people are into it so far and we we've uh we played a show at the key club in los angeles which was uh like right after we'd done recording and um like we recorded we played a bunch of new songs that night and we've been releasing like the video footage from those new songs on our website and stuff that was uh the benefit show where yeah yeah uh the wheels for humanity bronx and riverboat gamblers actually yeah uh-huh so mad i didn't make that show it was a good time it was a good time i'm sure it was phenomenal never happened well we're on tour now with riverboat gamblers that's true and i did i gotta see that so yeah i'll take that um so you actually mentioned you get comments and stuff on your myspace you i've read that originally you you've never figured it out and it was one of those things you didn't use have you gotten a little bit of you're a little bit myspace literate at this point yeah yeah totally i mean it's a it's kind of a you know catch 22 or whatever like i think uh i don't like myspace i don't have a personal myspace account and i recognize that uh i don't know you know rupert murdoch owns it and like they do really weird things where like they check people's personal interests on the sites and then compile that to use for statistics in order for marketing campaigns and stuff like that but there's an overwhelming amount of people that are myspace members and have myspace pages and the amount of of you know emails that we get to our myspace is is you know really impressive we have something like 80 000 friends quote unquote making quote fingers right there but um yeah yeah um so when you have someone writing to you i think it's just rude to not respond to them or at least make an effort to respond to them so i i felt obligated to figure out how to check the inbox and reply to people who've written to us yeah i gotta imagine that you guys probably have to get way more messages than you can possibly oh yeah yeah totally and i mean well we try and split it up too you know between the band members and jordan who tour manages us and comes it's been touring with us since longer than andrew and warren and uh also you know some other people who work for us and stuff like at least check it because a lot of the questions are really like uh just like where is the show tonight or what time does it start you know stuff that anybody can answer that's maybe not really personal but um some of them you know some of them like i make an effort to answer the ones that are honest questions and are positive i i don't answer anything that's like really negative and has no real answer to it yeah i don't know the ones where it's just well it's what the internet seems to have been made for at this point yeah yeah you guys have got to know that one better than uh just about anybody um we're like the k-fed and britney of the internet for the punk rock world god there's an image so which one of you guys is going to uh be a rapper and which one's going to shave their head and oran's going to be the rapper i'm going to freak out shave my head and have two babies i am oh god i'm so excited for that i will be uh i'll be waiting just wait for my comeback record though it's going to be good it's going to it's going to make it all worthwhile i'm going to dabble in acting too crossroads check it out oh well you gotta you gotta make sure uh the as long as you can do that and people write about your breast size and how it fluctuates then that's the key all i want to say is what the fuck was dan ackroyd doing in that movie dan ackroyd was in crossroads yeah mind-blowing man dan ackroyd was britney spears i had no idea like how do both of you know that i've never even seen i watched it i'm serious it's like dan ackroyd's a good actor man he's been in some amazing movies you know ghostbusters yeah yeah you know like great outdoors whatever you know he was in that movie wow he had to have some kind of contract going on that one i can't imagine that he looked at that he was like this it's a hit well i mean you know it's britney spears so and it's this right here this is going to be my broke back mountain before broke back he's branching out yeah oh anyhow um so i want to ask the it's been mentioned uh the first time when you guys uh made the dvd the all the labels were talking to you sire actually passed on you guys that round yes now was it in any way kind of like the cheerleader where the one guy who doesn't pay attention to him that's who they're interested in were you guys the proverbial cheerleader and then sire was the one guy who didn't really have any interest in you and you guys had to impress well i don't know but kind of i guess and i mean it was definitely uh like we respected the fact that they weren't being stupid about it whereas all the other labels were being kind of stupid about it you know and they like all the other labels are very cliche in their approach to everything like very stereotypical we're a major label record major record label and we're gonna um you know wow you with our money and like take you out to fancy dinners and buy you records and like you know whatever you want and uh then they were very just like we're a record label and we would like to put out your next record and uh we talked to them a bunch and and then in the end ultimately from that first round of talking to them they were like well maybe this isn't the right time you know and i mean i think a lot of it too had to do with the fact that there were the other labels involved and they realized that it was like getting to a bidding war type point so they were kind of like and we don't want to be a part of that bidding war type thing so very cool thanks for uh listening long enough to reach the break you're at the halfway point so if you want to uh you know go to the bathroom drop the kids off at the pool maybe rub one out wax your legs down i don't know what you fucking people do do some of that and then come back for the rest of the interview in which uh tom talks about uh touring and bitches and hoes and how if tom had a neighbor that was killing people he wouldn't snitch because tom isn't a fucking snitch all right so if you got to kill people do it next door to tom gable he's no fucking snitch um before we do that we're going to jump into another song from searching for former former clarity this is the single well one of the singles it's from her lips to god's ears the energizer and it's about a famous political figure who happens to be a woman and i don't mean dick cheney when he stands up and tucks his penis in between his legs because even though he has titties and he doesn't have a penis when he does that it's still gross to think about having sex with dick cheney it's wrong so we're going to do that and then we're going to jump back into the interview and uh let me know what you think

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show we finished on uh december 23rd was the last day of tracking and we mixed in february and uh do you need me to turn the lights on no they just went off okay and then uh we uh we will be done mastering this week yeah so is there a set release date on it yet we're hoping you'll lie but it really like it's all tentative until we actually finish mastering and finish the artwork for it too we had a like a little glitch with mixing where we had to go back and and have some stuff touched up so you know how has this been like just recording process what wise compared to anything else that you guys have done uh we've taken a lot more time i mean all in all once this is actually released if it does come out in july and we started recording in october that's the longest it's taken us ever to like make something you know and uh granted not all that time was spent doing it but definitely you know the longest amount of time for a record to be produced out of us but um it was definitely the most intensive i i feel like the most uh i don't know i've i've ever pushed myself songwriting wise and yeah it definitely like when we finished writing or when we finished recording and when because i didn't stop writing until we finished recording but so when we finished recording like i had never i just felt completely wiped out i was just like i can't fucking do anything anymore i just need to take a little bit of time and take a break i just was completely drained well it seems like every album that you guys have been doing it seems like everyone you guys take a little bit more time on and kind of make it more of a complete effort is that kind of how it's been yeah except for with this one it really was more of a continuation from clarity like we didn't stop from clarity we recorded clarity and uh went on tour immediately afterwards and like it came out you know shortly after that tour there was a really quick turnaround period with that record and like immediately when it came out we were on tour in support of it we toured for a year straight and during that year is when i wrote the record and once we finished touring for clarity it was right when we went into the studio we took one month from when we stopped touring before going in to start recording yeah you guys don't take a lot of downtime do you like you're usually what 10 months nine months out of the year on the road and whatnot yeah yeah pretty much and you know i'm i know that that won't be how it is forever but right now it's it's kind of how it has to be now well that's like every time i've read anything about you it's just any member of the band they say you know this is your one chance to kind of get in as much of it as you can totally just you know if you have right now you know because when you're 40 you're probably not going to want it two or nine ten months better to burn out than fade away right there you go that's a good way to look at it uh has there been one thing like recently with either recording wise or just notoriety wise now that with the move that you guys have it's really been interesting you guys are really beginning to respect it like that it's afforded you sort of what say that again yeah i'm sorry that one got totally tangled has there been anything with the move to sire like that that move has afforded you that has really made you like you know it's been just an experience that you wouldn't have had otherwise working with butch vig yeah completely yeah what's that been like it was awesome yeah i mean he's an amazing person he was amazing to work with and uh i i can't like i'm really happy with the record that came out of it but um yeah i mean that was something in itself like really just making a record i think that we were really happy with was what it afforded us well if they can do that yeah well that's what it's supposed to be yeah you know that's the whole point of a record add that and the helicopter god that would be yeah the hovercraft was nice but too much though too much you know i think the helicopter was a really good place to draw that line exactly do you i i have to ask i mean i hate to get keep getting back on this do people really believe like now that you've done this that it's like oh they must just have like a fucking money pit and they must they must ride in limos everywhere yes people really believe that really even though like if you go to the ungated back area of the catalyst you're in a van i don't know i mean not everybody believes there are there's some people i'm sure that have you know whatever ideas about the way things work but you know that's just because a lot of rock and roll or whatever is built on that kind of like mythology and that like that that's the way things work when it's not the way it works and especially not the way it works anymore you know you don't like the rock stars or whatever of like the 70s and 80s do not exist anymore and and bands and record deals like that don't exist anymore well it was one of those uh old record deals that they were talking about i think it was i can't remember if it was led zeppelin or the rolling stones which is a horrible fact that i can't distinguish of the two but uh they had a record deal where all their artwork no matter what they had put on it was paid for by the record label so they went through these ridiculously like you know ornate lps that just cost the record label you know money hand over fist yeah you're not gonna get a label nowadays it's like yeah we'll cover that no no no no they'll all you know they'll be like yeah you can put whatever you want on it or we'll take it right out of your advance and we'll charge it for you and you'll get three cents on the album good luck with that but uh anyhow do you uh and this is just because uh i'm really i i spend a lot of time on the internet at work so i'm like inundated with these kind of people so i really wonder how it how it is so i'm sorry if i kind of dwell on this no problem um do you feel like a lot of your i don't even want to say old hardcore fans but like the people who say that they were into you from like the get-go do you feel like they at all attach these kind of beliefs or these value systems to you that aren't necessarily your own that maybe they got that they kind of inferred from listening to you or that they just felt that you should have um i like to think that that um with like you know earlier records or or you know the band that we used to be i guess or the people that we used to be that that the people who were into us at that period of time that we were on the same page and that we were talking about the exact same things and and into the exact same things and that um that just that that a lot of times the way music work is that is that you have a record and it defines a certain period of time in your life those for me you know and then to have a band or people like move beyond that it kind of is hard to handle for certain people and but but that's the way it works you know like we're we're real people and and we we grow just as anyone else would grow and we you know like we change just as anyone else would change and i don't think that's a negative thing in any kind of way or a bad thing yeah that's fair enough um hold on i can't really read my questions which is really not good um oh it actually got mentioned earlier you guys are going to be doing a tour coming up with mastodon and cursive and part these arms are snakes and planes part yeah planes mistaken stars or yeah yeah that's right um how did that's a really really diverse lineup like awesome lineup yeah i'm not saying it's bad but like i think tonight's lineup was pretty diverse and pretty good but i mean this is like almost complete opposite sides of the spectrum how did that come about um well i mean that's you know kind of what we're interested in doing you know it's kind of like breaking the mold when it comes to touring and trying to bring uh different like audiences together you know that's that's an exciting thing for me to do with music but um we're fans of mastodon and uh they're i guess fans of us because they agreed to do the tour but again they at least don't yeah so they they agreed to do it we met them we played together and it's south by southwest a couple days ago and uh they were they were awesome you know like people and and as a band and like we went out to dinner together and it was really cool but um i have no idea how we got cursive to agree to do it don't even ask me if you and mastodon aren't like enough on the opposite side of the spectrum all of a sudden there's like cursive in it it's like that was such a hail mary play too we're like let's ask cursive and like it was like holding our breath till we heard back from them and they were they were like yeah and we're like holy shit they're they're gonna do it it's fucking amazing oh my god that's like um henry rollins i don't know if you've ever listened to him speak he talks about how he was on the album with william shatner and they got um god i'm not going to be able to remember his name but the guitarist uh singer from king crimson um um totally blanked on his name but he got him because the producer basically called him and he's like we have henry rollins and william shatner in the studio and he's like i gotta be there and i think that's exactly how when you guys went to cursive and you're like it's gonna be us and mastodon and they're like we would be stupid not to at least try and see this yeah i'm glad they're doing it it'll be fun so it's gonna be like co-headlining is it gonna be one band like at the end every night you guys gonna switch off no it's well we were like when we agreed to do it we were like well mastodon's playing last every night we're not playing after them yeah so they're it's co-headlining but they're playing last every night we also like you know as we were talking about earlier we're playing like a lot of new material and we want to play more new material on that tour so like you know they're going to be their record's already out and it's older so they'll they're not going to be doing a lot of new material so it makes more sense for them to be playing last i think well i mean it's got to be weird to take i mean i wouldn't want to take the stage after that i wouldn't want to take the stage after you guys either but i wouldn't want to take the stage after master yeah i mean i imagine that's just like entering a war zone yeah so it's just better to leave it totally um one of the last things i want to ask you guys is you've been uh really active with the uh uh jay robbins uh foundation for his child yeah um how i mean i know you've worked with them is that kind of how you guys have gotten involved with that originally it's just yeah well i mean obviously we you know we're friends with jay and janet and uh like you know hearing that was totally you know really heartbreaking news but um so we want to be involved with that but i i i i hope you know obviously that if we didn't even know them that obviously we'd still be involved with that and is there anything coming i mean i i know we're doing a benefit show on the 14th in gainsville florida for it okay yeah and for those who don't know is there a website or anything like that because i i know of it uh to donate to them yeah it's on the desoto records website yeah yeah they have a set up through that uh-huh okay fantastic yeah um thanks um is there anything else you guys want to hit on before we wrap this up just thanks for the interview oh no problem man thanks for uh taking the time and good luck with the tour and new wave comes out sometime this year ideally yes it will hopefully be out this year all right we all look forward to that thanks very much man i appreciate it handshake for those who can't hear all right so that wraps up our interview i hope you enjoyed it like i said no new contest this week uh we still are running the fake problems and riverboat gamblers contest so you guys should really check that out and check out those bands both exceptionally nice guys exceptionally good bands who probably well at least fake problems are gonna be a lot bigger riverboat gamblers i don't know because well they're old now and so you know at the ripe old age of like late 20s you're no longer hip but fake problems man they're like 20 years old they got like fucking eight more years before they're not cool or at least one more album until they you know sell more than five fucking copies and they're not cool anymore because god fucking knows you can't support a band who actually might be able to have a fucking album you could find in a store you only have to be able to get it through download eating off the internet or getting a fucking copy off a hieroglyph somewhere carved into a fucking cave because once a band might be able to sell a fucking album god forbid a best buy they're no longer fucking cool fucking hate you people all of you looking at you you guy who's jacking off listening to my fucking podcast that's sick eight people just stopped and were like he can see me all right um feel free to email us uh sound scene revolution at gmail.com we have myspace i think it's myspace.com backslash sound scene revolution we're pretty fucking everywhere we got like a thousand fans on the myspace and at least five of them fucking listen every week because they i am me and they tell me how great i am no but if they did it'd be fucking cool uh we're gonna leave you guys with one last song off searching for former clarity and it's the title track this really isn't like a big hit song i don't even know if they play it live because we didn't see them when they played in santa cruz because we were interviewing mike from riverboat gamblers maybe you remember that was last week check it out but uh it's a great fucking song it's fun uh not really fun but it's a good song and you should like it so tune in next week when uh we'll have tom gable once again from against me on a phone message calling warren a little pig and uh it's it's touching really uh we'll see you guys on next week no the doctors didn't tell you that you were dying they just collected their money

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