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This is Ray with Teenage Bottle Rocket. You're listening to Sound Scene Revolution.
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Week two in a row, Sound Scene Revolution. I'm Rich, here with the magnanimous sound guy Nairman. And this week we have a fantastic interview with the boys from Teenage Bottle Rocket. They're from Laramie, Wyoming. Actually, we only have Ray. But, to assist in the interview, we have Justin, part-time editor, part-time schoolteacher, full-time bear. Yeah. Very also good. And he helps with the interview. So, if you like him, you should listen. If you don't like him, you probably should still listen. We actually have a contest this week to give away a copy of the split between Teenage Bottle Rockets and Prototypes. It's actually the very last of these in existence because I bought it from their merch table and they were like, This is the last one!
So, my douchebaggery is your gain. So, you can own the very last 7-inch of the first pressing. It's on black. And it's pretty sweet. So, we'll have a way to enter that at the end of the contest. I was going to do something with fucking Toby, but the last two contests, Toby is good-hearted. But, uh, he has totally fucking not come through on the last two contests. So, he's good intention. He's just kind of a slacker. Anyhow, uh, we got Ray from Teenage Bottle Rocket, Justin, myself, a bunch of people who pop in and out. It's an interesting interview. I don't want to say it's fun or it's good because very little we do is fun or good. But, uh, it's interesting. So, before we get into that, we're going to play a track off of Teenage Bottle Rocket's new album called Warning Device, available on Red Scare.
And it is called Pacemaker. And, uh, then we're going to do the interview. So, check it out.
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I want Justin, Justin, introduce everything here. Get rolling. All right. Well, this week, it's Sound Scene Revolution. And we're sitting in the backstage of, well, the upper stage of Bottom of the Hill with Ray from Teenage Bottle Rocket, with Rich from Sound Scene Revolution, with Justin from PunkNews.org, with Travis, Justin's brother, and Lucy, Justin's friend. Oh! Oh! That's okay. I'm totally okay. Of the female persuasion. Way to pull the grandma. We also have Nerman, the amazing sound man, the sound guy Nerman. That's pretty good. Say hi. Hi, how's everybody doing? Hi. All right. That was a good intro. All right. So, the first question I want to ask is why is the Phenomenauts Van outside of the venue? Do you have any idea why that is?
Yeah, I think they're doing some sort of promotion for a show that's going on this weekend, maybe tomorrow or something. They're going to cast a movie, maybe, for the people that are in line. Interesting. That's a nice one. A little promotion at a show, line. Yeah, we actually drove across the Bay Bridge behind the Phenomenauts Van. We're like, what is that? Oh, that's the Phenomenauts Van. That's interesting. I saw that and I was like, they're not playing it right, are they? Well, now I know. All right. Now, let's talk about you guys. Teenage Bottle Rocket. You guys recently, Warning Device came out kind of in two steps, right? They did, well, three, with vinyl coming up. You guys did the digital and then it came out CD.
Actually, the, like, two separate years, right? The digital came out, like, late 2007. Am I correct? I don't know. Yeah, you're correct. Okay. Maybe I may just be making it up. No, no, no. The iTunes was available in 2007. All right, good, good. So, what would you say is different between this one and your guys' last album total?
I would say... Damn!
We've stumped him. Now, are you stumped because it's an irritating question or because it's a really good question? It's the standard. It's the standard. So, what's... No, no, I mean, I just think that the songs are maybe growing a little... Yeah, the songs are growing a little bit. Mm-hmm. And the... I thought that we got, like, outstanding drum tones and the recording quality on Total was really good. I think that we outdid it with Warning Device. Mm-hmm. And just been playing, you know, a few more years since then and grew a little bit as a band and I think that the songs, really, the overall difference is just... I mean, I think it's the same basic template with Total and Warning Device. We don't try to stretch the envelope too far but we have a couple songs on the new record that are, I'd say, like a little bit more unorthodox to your, like, screeching weasel sound.
Fair enough. Yeah, I actually... I was reading... You guys... You and your brother used to be in a band called... I'm gonna get this... Homeless Wonders, correct? That's right. And one of the complaints, I guess, you felt about the band was you guys changed sound a lot, like, pretty frequently. Yeah, totally. We were just kind of rolling with, like, what we liked. Mm-hmm. You know, it started out like slapstick, screeching weasel and then we got into, like, a veil and then fugazi and then it ended up just, like, a mess. In the end, you're like, just... We gotta do some cool shit, though. We played with it at the drive-in at Gilman Street. Really? Yeah. Wow. So, that's not something I would've expected to hear. But, uh... Now, going from something like that, I mean, obviously, I've read you guys have not, like, a template sound, but you're kind of dedicated to the kind of sound that you've made with Teenage Bottle Rocket.
Do you find, like, is that confining at all? Are you guys okay with that? Is it ever, like, sometimes... It's confining and we're okay with it. Yeah. I mean, you know, I mean, it's, like... I think that there's, like, some big players in the genre. Mm-hmm. And how are you gonna outdo those guys or whatever? And I think that it's, uh... Could be, you know, it could be, um, hard for your band if you want to, uh, you know, achieve certain things. Mm-hmm. And everything like that. Um, but I like it. I like it, uh... Fine, I really like the fans that are into the genre and everything like that. Like, playing in Chicago and hundreds of people with leather jackets on and everything. I like that a lot. But, yeah, I mean, like you said, it could be kind of confining.
Yeah. You guys ever like, God, you know, maybe we should just do a math rock album. Just kind of... No, no, no. Take it out of the box there for a little bit. I don't think so. I don't think so, but, like, there's a couple songs on the new record, like Pacemaker in particular, and then we also have a couple new ones since Morning Device comes out, or has come out. And they have been... I wouldn't say you're like... I wouldn't categorize them as pop punk. Yeah. But, like, the next record that's going to come out is going to be chock full of pop punk songs. So, I don't... We're going to continue to write songs that are outside the template. Yeah. But we're also going to stick to it, too. Like, we'll just do it all. Fair enough. Do whatever you enjoy.
I mean, pretty much. Yeah, I mean, we want to, like... Like, being on Tour of Dead and Me, they're not, like, restricted towards any sort of, like, genre of punk except for just they're a punk band. Yeah. And we would totally love that. You know what I mean? And, like, you know, the bands like Lawrence Arms that are, like, playing really big shows. Like, what, you know, what kind of punk is Lawrence Arms or whatever? It's not such an easy question to answer, but with us, it's like, oh, they're pop punk. Well, plus people enjoy... Ramone's Core. Ramone's Core. Oh, Ramone's Core. Plus people enjoy labels, so that helps you as well. Yeah. Anything people can throw a label on, they're happy. Can I get a water in there, Miguel? Hold on.
Water break. I mean, the whole, like, Ramone's Core, that's an awkward... One of the more awkward genre names, but, like, with Insubordination, like the Insubordination Fest and, like, Chicago just being, like, a huge... Like, every time anybody plays there, it's, like, a huge thing. Like, it seems like right now it's actually a pretty healthy time, though, to be playing that music that you don't, like... You don't necessarily need to be stretching it, though, do you? I mean, it seems like it's a fairly, like, lucrative genre. There's enough people who, like, buy every color of every vinyl that comes out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Shh. Yeah, I'm not complaining at all. I'm just saying that we are not... We haven't, like... We're not going to restrict our band by saying that we're only going to write pop punk songs.
We're a pop punk band, but we're going to, like, continue to, you know, write whatever we want to fucking write. Right. Fair enough. All right. You won't... I'm sorry I said fuck. Was that offensive? No, you could say... No, no. This is the... Dude, this is the internets. Okay. Yeah, no one... You could say a lot of things. Not like anyone listened. Sound scene revolution. That was good. So we were telling you earlier this is about potential touring plans. I mean, are you guys looking to tour full time? Like, is that... I mean, I know you have a nice job. Well, one thing that we've... Yeah, yeah, we all work. We all work. We don't live off our band. But one thing that's nice about not touring so much is when you go out, it, like, makes a difference.
You know, I mean, if you're constantly... You know, this is the third time we played Minneapolis this month or something stupid like that. You're just gonna fuck yourself over. So we try to, you know, space it out enough where we're making a difference and stuff, you know? And it's pretty hard for you guys to do local tours, though, because, I mean, realistically, there's not a whole lot of... Well, one thing that's cool about this tour is, like, in the past, we've toured with the Phenomenonauts and the Epoxies and the Groovy Ghoulies, and they're really great bands. But I feel like there's, like, a schtick that's, like, kind of like they're all gimmick bands in a way. A little bit, yeah. Like, they're good bands, don't get me wrong, but, like, it's nice to be on the road with Dead to Me.
Like, it's another, like, straight-up punk band and that's what we are, I feel like. Like, there's a difference between the Groovy Ghoulies and T.H. Bottle Rocket to me, and it's, like... You guys don't write songs about spacemen. Well, I think it's more of an aggressive thing, like, head-banging your ass off going for it type deal, and, like, the Groovy Ghoulies, it's, like, rock and thing. I love the Groovy Ghoulies, I always have. Oh, yeah. But it's nice to be on the road with Dead to Me. I feel like we're on, like, we're on the road with the fucking, like, awesome, they're such a good band. Yeah. Like, I feel like they have more in common with us than any other band we've ever toured with. That's good. And then we're gonna join up with the copyrights, and it should be pretty much the same thing.
Yeah. When are you guys joining up with the copyrights? In Chicago. In Chicago. Of course. It seems to be the nexus for all things related to... We do great in Chicago. It's amazing. It's amazing how things worked out there. It's just crazy. Such an awesome town. Home of the Bulls. Home of the Bulls. I just hadn't said anything in so long. I choked. I'm sorry. You're not that funny. He's fine. What's your name? My name's Rich. Or, you may know him as Dante 3000. Okay, yeah, I know Dante 3000. Yeah, that's Dante 3000. We need to start making that introduction earlier. No, we don't.
We don't walk away if we make that introduction earlier. We'll be like, I fucked that guy. Actually, one of my friends was like, oh, this is Dante 3000. He's like, I hate the way you type on the internet. And just walked away from him. It was an exception. Well, I like Dante 3000. I like Rich because he's kind of... I thought he was kind of an asshole, but then he wrote about the Teenage Battle Rocket and was like, oh, he likes us. Cool. The asshole likes us. Right. You know, if the asshole likes you, that means you've got something going for you. There you go. It's always a bonus. The asshole buys records at least. That's the thing. He's into it. He's into it. It's the guys who complain who pay for the records. Everybody else just downloads them.
The kids who are all about the scene, they're the ones not spending money. No. That's how they go to shows. Anyhow, so back to music. Fine. I'm just... I'm trying to make... answer the questions people want to know. People being me. So, you guys recently shot the video for Down in the Basement, correct? Yes, sir. Now, have you guys done a video before? No, we haven't. How was the whole experience for you? It was exhausting. Yeah? We, like, sang through the song probably 50 times. Holy crap. And got so much footage. I thought it turned out pretty cool, though. Yeah. It's a really good video. Now, it's up on your MySpace. Has it gone anywhere? Have you guys ever seen it? Like, does Fuse have it? Anything? Like, I don't know what music video stations there are, but...
It hasn't been played on Fuse. Yeah, I don't... But it's... It's on YouTube and stuff, you know? That's the easiest way to get it out there. And then there's, like, I think a place that's playing in Toronto on TV. Okay, yeah. And then there's... I heard that Stephen from Stephen entitled Rock Show or whatever really loves us. Really? Yeah, so we sent him a T-shirt, so maybe he'll wear a shirt on his show or something. I don't... Something. That's all it takes. Yeah, man, we're gonna be huge next to Vince Sevenfold. We're gonna be opening up for Green Day. God. Mm-hmm? Nothing. What, you... I was gonna say a bad joke, but I just... Opening up for Green Day? Was that what... Oh. The Giant Stadium. Oh. But I signed against it. What? We would love to play with Green Day.
I'm playing... We're doing a split seven-inch on Adeline. Oh, really? Yeah, with this band called The Broadway Calls from Longview, Washington. Oh, yes. So, yeah, Broadway Calls Teenage Bottle Rocket split on Adeline. Cody sang a song called Dean's Dream. It's by the Dead Milkman. Oh, nice. And an original by me called Bitch Face. Nice. What is that? Funny, I actually... Should be out in like a month. I had a friend in college that we called Bitch Face. You can tell them the songs about them. I will. Why? I don't talk to them much anymore. Because, well... His name was Bitch Face. Oh. Who would have thought? It's always about a girl. Oh. She's a bitch face. It's no less offensive, really. You know? It's not like, oh, she's a bitch face.
It's alright. It's just how it is. A little plug in on the sevens there. Yeah. For you listeners out there. For people wanting to buy shit. Now it's going to be a split seven. Now how does Mr. Jag feel about releases on other labels and all that? Well, before we make any move, I clear through Jaggerton just because he's done so much for our music we don't want to fuck him over. We want to stay on Toby's good side. The guy likes to fight with people. The Jagermeister is known for fighting. That's the greatest nickname ever, by the way. So, yeah. No, no. We love Toby and we would never do anything behind his back. We would never secretly release a seven-inch on Adeline. You know what I mean? It would be hard to do that as well. Yeah, like it comes out and he's like, hey, what the fuck is this guy?
He's like, we don't know, man. They just put it out. What? There's another teenage bottle rocket somewhere. But he's supportive of our moves if they're fucking like... He's supportive of our moves if they are smart. Right. If it's a good move, he'll say, go ahead and go for it. But, I don't know. If it was stupid, he'd say no. Did you guys look at any other labels when you were doing Morning Device? No, we didn't shop it around or anything like that. You were good? Yeah, we're committed to Red Scare, you know? It's kind of like our booking agency. I mean, Red Scare is a big label. We want to make... I wish it was bigger. I wish we sold a lot more records or whatever. Everyone wants to sell a lot of records, right? I mean... Yeah. And the only way to do it is just keep on running the label, keep on releasing music on it, and hopefully it could be the next big thing or whatever Toby gets to.
Same thing with our booking agent. He's up and coming. And it's like we can move to a bigger booking agent right now. But it's like we were with this dude. I could call him whenever I want. I love him. Might as well stick it out with him and see where he takes it. You know, like hopefully... Who's your booking agent? His name's Andrew Harper. So maybe he'll be like the next big booking agent. Yeah. You know, I mean, we have to... We'll see though. If we move booking agents I'll just look like a total douchebag, but I'll talk to Andrew first if we did or something. I don't know. Before you call him a douchebag. We'll discuss it with him. Well, I call myself douchebag. Rich, pay attention here. Come on. I can't. I don't listen. I'm sorry.
I was honestly thinking about other things. But, uh... So that's good though. Still with Red Scare. So, uh... We're gonna take a little break from the interview and, uh... I'm gonna sail something and this is probably the worst part because I don't think anyone listens to the middle section but, uh... We asked Ray a question regarding some possible trash talk between a Joe Queer of the Queers and some things he said about Teenage Bottle Rocket and Ray was a little worried that, like, maybe he came off like, poorly or he was a jerk. Anyway, Joe Queer said these things on the, uh... Queers MySpace. Nothing too inflammatory, just kind of a little rude. And, uh... I asked Ray what he thought about it and afterwards Ray was like, God, I hope I didn't come off like a dick.
I don't want to be, you know, insulting. And basically what he said you can listen to it and get your own meaning from it but afterwards Ray was like, you know, I just... It was one of those things we listened to the Queers we liked a lot of their music it bummed me out at first but, you know, then you move on and, you know, basically he hopes one day to play with the Queers and kind of have everything be cool. Like he said they kind of pave the road that Teenage Bottle Rocket plays on, you know, and so he doesn't want to talk shit on the people who helped lay the way for him. So, that's it. I mean, I don't know Ray I don't want to put words in Ray's mouth but that's kind of what he had said to us and I don't want to have anyone fucking listen to this interview and then go up online and be like, Ray from Teenage Bottle Rocket called Joe Queer a pussy and if he sees him in public he's going to fucking manhandle him.
None of that shit. So, I don't know. I don't want to feel like I have to get in the middle but I just want to say Ray was a good dude and he was well intentioned about it and if Joe Queer wants to fucking talk shit on anyone for being a sissy who went to college you can talk to me. I don't even fucking play in a band. I just talk shit on the internet. I'm completely useless. So, and God, how sweet would it be to be in Joe Queer's blog? Ah, that'd be masturbation material for a month. Anyhow, we're going to go back to the interview and you can hear that part but before we do we're going to play a track off of Teenage Bottle Rocket's new LP warning device. It's called In the Basement. Enjoy it and be sure to listen at the end to learn how to win the very last copy of the Teenage Bottle Rocket prototype split on 7-inch vinyl recording technology.
Alright.
You guys, now you have a bunch of other releases that have actually like another way and you guys have the A-Bomb 7-inch. Now, those are all still impressed, correct? Or actually? Yeah, I have like 30 copies of another way and it's going to be gone. Oh, wow. And then we're like going to continue to press the A-Bomb 7-inch until we die. Just like 200, runs of 200 of like different colors every time. Nice, nice. And so now we're changing the cover art. Oh. Ooh, attention. So it's like blue vinyl with blue cover. Yeah, blue lettering. I noticed that. And then the next one's going to be green. Ooh, that's good. And then we'll just like keep rolling from there. Until eventually you run out of colors and then... Until it's just like we press 200 and they never sold out and it's just like oh, the last pressing of it.
Who knows? I mean, imagine how many times no idea of repressed reinventing Axl Rose. Oh, 19. I can tell you that. It's like crazy, you know? I mean, not that we're going to do that. Just keep it going, man. Keeping it going. As long as someone's going to buy it, why not, you know? And then like I think that Toby's going to release a CD that's going to be another way. The A-Bomb 7-inch to split with Bill the Welder. Some live songs that's on this record that we have on this tour. Nice. And kind of like our Remains CD. Didn't you do a split with the prototypes? I'm sorry? Can you do a split with the prototypes on It's Alive? The prototypes. Prototypes. Yeah, we did a split with the prototypes. We played with them in Castellan, Spain as well.
Okay. Because I think I have that at home somewhere. It's good. It's sold out now. Sold 1,000. I got two copies. Oh, look at me. No, no. I think we have like 10 left downstairs. Black and clear. Yeah, we only got the blacks. I'm that dude. Wow. That's a collector in the house. Yeah. Bet you're a little more nervous about sitting so close to me now. He's going to be fine. I'm nervous tonight. Oh, don't worry about it. There's going to be some fucking a lot of people here tonight, guys. There is. Holy shit. Well, I mean... Like pre-sold 150 tickets. Well, you're playing with two hometown bands. Yeah. Totally. Which helps. Actually, the last time we saw these two bands... It was down the street. It was down the street. It was crazy. I actually haven't seen kids move.
Yeah. In San Francisco, kids aren't really... Not to shit talk our scene, but people in San Francisco, they like to wear hooded sweatshirts and kind of stand like, you know, like they're trying to keep warm the whole time. And so... Dead crowd. Yeah. He's even in the van and the hood's already up. I know. We have... We're discussing the wonderful scene in the Bay Area and how... Fuck yeah, dude. How people in... Dude, dead to me fucking carries that shit dead to me. Like in San Francisco, that's what we fucking do. Yeah. And that's Tony. Never mind him. That's Tony. That's... This is... Tony. What's the average? Do I... Oh, I actually have real questions. Not real questions. Moving forward with actual questions. So, uh... Better Teenage Bottle Rocket song consisting of one line repeated over and over again.
Go away or She's Not The One. And why?
Um... I'm gonna have to go with... Go away because it just gets the crowd moving. Like even... Even Frozen Stiffs in San Francisco start to pogo. Untuck their shirts, let their hair down. Nice. I will go... I will accept that. But, uh... I think She's Not The One is a great song. It turned out, like, way better than I thought it was going to. So, it's kind of ballsy writing a song with no lyrics, really. You know? But, uh... We get away with it, I think. We catch a little bit of shit, but we kind of just do our own thing. Well, it's kind of funny because, like, realistically, as, like, an outside observer of the Ramones core, you know, like, pop punk scene, like, there aren't a lot of bands that can play a song with either no lyrics or one line.
Like, realistically, like, a lot of band songs from this scene, if you take the words away, the song pretty much disappears. Like, it's the melody. Oh, if you want to see a train wreck, watch Teenage Bottle Rocket when the vocals are on. It's, like, three chords. You're like, oh, what have we done? Mics. Mics. But, I mean, those songs work. And I don't think many bands can actually make them work. Like, are you guys... I mean... I think that, like, with a lot of bands that are going around in today's music scene, sorry bands out there, but it's really fucking easy to stick out, you know? Just write good songs. You know? I mean, not that we write the best songs or anything like that, but we try our fucking best to write really good songs, and that's just, like, seemed to, like...
That and, like, Toby have been the things that, like, keep moving the band forward, you know? We've been on the up and up for a while now, and it's pretty amazing, you know? And hopefully it doesn't flatten out, you know? If it keeps on going up, it's going to be badass and everything like that. But, I mean, even if it does, we're totally happy with what we got and very thankful. We're from Wyoming, for fuck's sake. We're playing in... We played, like, in front of, like, so many people in L.A. the other night. It's sold out tonight at the bottom of the hill, probably. Yeah. It's going to be, like... I'm sure it's going to sell out. We're from Wyoming, you know? There's more people in, like, Pasadena. I don't know, dude. There's a...
You know, there's only 500,000 people that live in our entire state. Wow. But it's pretty cool. We've, like, done some big shows in Laramie.
We play with All in a garage. Whoa. Whoa. Against Me played there. Fugazi played there. That's pretty impressive for... Lawrence Arms played there. It's pretty badass. That's more bands that have played there than in San Jose, California. I can tell you that. For a fact. Nobody plays San Jose. Fugazi's like, there's nothing DIY about San Jose. It was on Ian McKay's birthday. Nice. Did you make him a cake? He yelled at me for whistling. What?
That doesn't sound... What? Like, what? You were just whistling? I think I heard his ears. I got a big old Wyoming whistle. I've heard he's a little grumpy, actually. That's because he doesn't do drugs. If he did drugs, Ian McKay would mellow the fuck out. And he'd be much cooler to be around. Mm-hmm. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Can you break it out? Where is this one? Plug your ears.
Oh! Holy shit. I could see why he wouldn't be so big on that if you were close. I was excited. If you're at home, I'm legally deaf. That was good. I like that. That was probably the highlight of our interview, too, I'm going to add. Oh. I really think you should start the set out like that. Just come out, leave the music playing, and then just cut the music and whistle. Everybody in the club will just stop and turn on a dime. It's like, Skylar, cut it, and then whistle. I knew it, but I'm not in a band, so there's probably a good reason. Now. He's in the pit, not in the band. I'm not. In the pit. He's actually in a band called One-Eyed Hoagie. Yeah. It was a penis joke. I don't know. It was really... Thanks for the explanation. I would have never figured it out.
It was really... We thought it was clever. One-Eyed Hoagie. Yeah, it was a reference to Walden and his work.
I'm not familiar with his work. I was 18, dude. Shut up. All right.
Justin's over there laughing, and it hurts my feelings. All right. So, like you had mentioned, you guys have... You're actually doing fairly well, all things considered. Between the last time you guys were here, which was, I think, almost two years ago, and now with the new record and everything, what has been the biggest change for you guys, I mean, in terms of a band? Probably adding Miguel on bass. Joel graduated from college. I moved to guitar. Miguel started playing bass, and everything's, like, kind of gelled since then. And it's cool, like, if you flip through Miguel's records at home, you're going to see a lot of the same records that me and Cody and Brandon have, and he's totally on the same page. Cool. And he looks like Dee Dee.
I could see that, yeah. Fair enough. Does it ever get obnoxious touring with your brother? As someone who's lived with his brother... Well, yeah, you know, of course. We fight like brothers. Right. But it's cool. He's the best drummer, man. I love him. Fair enough. All right. That's so cute. Are you done? No, I got one last question. Well, maybe more, but one that actually matters. Will you keep going? I'm into this. Okay. Yeah, you sound stoked. I recently read, and you can choose to answer this or not, Joe Queer made some seemingly disparaging remarks towards you guys. I don't know if you've heard about this. Yeah, we read it. You read it? I don't know. We'll post them, I guess, if we go through with this on the website. But, I mean, what are your thoughts on that?
I mean, was it legit? Was it something they actually meant? I don't know. My personal thoughts whenever I read it, I thought it was just hilarious. It's kind of funny how I'm like a 15-year-old kid waiting to meet Joe Queer at a queer show, and he was kind of an asshole to me, and then like, here we are 15 years later, he's an asshole again. But, man, really, on a personal thing about the whole thing, like, we always looked up to the queers, and it kind of hurt my feelings and stuff, but I think that he meant it as, like, to be funny, man, you know? Because I don't think he really knows much about our band. He, like, made fun of us for having college degrees or whatever. That's definitely something that, like, everybody should, if you want to pursue a college degree, go ahead and do it.
I'm not going to let, like, anybody, like, say it's not punk to graduate from college. Fucking, I graduated from college. My resume's going to fucking stand out on top of Joe Queers. But, anyway, anyway, it's like, it was all funny. He's like, they're going to beat me with their vegetarian burritos or whatever. We're not vegetarians. We're from Wyoming. We eat meat like crazy. I don't think you could be a vegetarian in Wyoming. But the thing is, is that, like, we've always looked up to the queers, and, like, hopefully we'll be able to play a show with them sometime. We never have. And I know that Joe really likes Cody's songs. Like, one of our friends wrote a comment on their MySpace underneath his blog about it, like, that was talking shit on us or whatever.
And, he was just like, you know, way to fucking shit on bands that have looked up to you forever and everything like that. And, Joe wrote him an email that was like, it was all tongue-in-cheek and, like, don't take me serious or whatever. And it's just like, that's cool and everything and I respect that. But you could always say, like, you know, fuck you, man. Fuck you. And then, like, a week later, be like, dude, that was just tongue-in-cheek. Especially on the internet where, like, you can't tell what anybody means. Why would you, like, the thing is, is, like, I don't want to go to war with anybody that's, like, basically paved the road that we're driving on because, like, what's it going to do? Like, it's going to be nothing but negativity towards our band.
Like, I don't want to really deal with, like, questions like this at every show from fans that like, the queers that like us too. It's like,
let everybody get along and nobody can, you know? And it's just like, you guys know me. We're the easiest fucking people to get along with. Like, Cody fucking loves Joe Queer, you know? And, like, and, uh, I kind of lost track of things after, uh, after the beat-off record, but, you know? Hmm. It's just like, it's cool, man. I like him. Yeah. I think a lot of it. I like him, and, like, it hurt my feelings for, like, five minutes, and then I was like, you know what? It's just funny. It's hilarious. Well, I think, I mean, Joe Queer also has kind of an image almost to maintain in that aspect, where, I mean, a lot of people do recognize him as kind of an asshole, kind of standoffish in some regards, so. Well, let's be realistic here, guys. Put yourself in Joe Queer's shoes, you know?
There's a band called T.H. Bottle Rock that's playing the same genre of music as you that's fucking shit up. That's a lot better than you are. What? So, I mean, that's all, like, subjective. That's all subjective, you know what I mean? Like, you guys are better than the queers are. The queers are better than you.
There's room enough for the fucking both of us and, like, 20,000 other bands like there is going right now. And, like I said, we've always looked up to the queers. Hopefully we'll be able to play with them again. Or, we never have. Eventually. Play with them for the first time. Well, we played with, like, the guts at the Insubordination Fest and Wimpy sang, like, the best eight songs on A Day Late and A Dollar Short. But, I don't know, maybe, you know, Joe Queer, I think that he's secure. I don't think that he's, like, seriously insecure about Teenage Bottle Rocket doing good. I think that he just, like, was trying to make a joke, you know? Yeah. It was just basically, like, we're the best pop punk band there is. Parenthesis, don't tell Teenage Bottle Rocket.
Isn't that kind of saying, like, actually we are? It's weird. If Joe Queer steps out of his way to recognize you guys... I don't know, man. See, the thing is, is, like, if Joe was here, I'm sure they'd have a thousand different things to say about it. Maybe we should totally not put this in. We can take it out. It's getting pretty weird. I just don't want to, like, seriously, I can tell you guys, I mean, I pretty much told you exactly how I feel. Yeah. You know, like, that's always not the, that's never, that's never the best, that's not always the best policy to have. You know? Yeah. Like, seriously, like I said, I don't want to go toe-to-toe with the queers over, like, something that he wrote on the internet. Well, I mean, but the thing is, if he's saying it's, you know, tongue-in-cheek, then why would he, you know, for you to say you're hurt for five minutes and then you got over it, like, what's the point?
Like, I mean, there's no... Yeah, exactly. How could there be a problem? So, I think we're going to wrap it up. I want to thank you for taking the time and to... Come on, one more question. One more question? No, yeah. No? Sound guy Nairman was like, fuck you, one more question. You had your chance. All right, dude, that's cool. No more... No, man, that's good, fine. No, it's fine. Fucking Gestapo. No more questions. All right, no more questions. We are out of time. All right. Thank you for taking the time. All right, thanks a lot, you guys. Oh, yeah, plug. What do you want to talk about? Like, you got the album? So, teenagebottlerocket.com, myspace.com, teenagebottlerocket.
Shoot us an email, man. Let me know how you feel. Favorite band.
Revolts. Revolts. Revolts, dude, out of San Francisco. Yeah. Very nice. No, no, dead to me. I changed my answer. Oh. I agree with you. Revolts suck. Moving forward. All right. Love Revolts. So that wraps up the interview. I thought it was good. I thought I was pretty terrible, but Ray was good and Justin was nice. So, there you have it. Anyhow, like I said, we have a chance to win a copy of the Prototypes Teenage Bottle Rocket Split on Black Vinyl. Actually, the last copy available. So, be sure to listen and learn how to enter. What you're going to do? Send an email to soundscenerevolution at gmail.com. Include in the subject line Teenage Bottle Rocket Contest. Include all relevant information. Name, age, address, shit like that. And answer the following question simply to prove that you were listening.
The following question is, there is, like we said, there was a little tongue-in-cheek jab by Joe Queer to Teenage Bottle Rocket. What two bands would you most like to see get into a fight? Personally, I would be big on seeing Backstreet Boys and NSYNC go at it, but not like in their heyday. I mean like now when they're like old, washed up men and one of them is like openly gay. And so, I think that'd be pretty fun to watch. Biggie and Tupac Never, now, how do you have such terrible taste? Anyhow, so, yeah, whoever you'd like to, you can thank Soundguy and Airman for that fine bit. Whoever you'd like to see go at it, send that to us at soundscenerevolution at gmail.com. We'll pick one winner and then we'll get the very last copy that I believe exists of the Prototypes Teenage Bottle Rocket Split.
I mean, maybe you could find it somewhere else, but this is the last one Teenage Bottle Rocket had in. It's fucking free. So, it's the last free copy your ass will get. So, enjoy that. One last track off of the Teenage Bottle Rocket's album Morning Device. It's called On My Own. I hope you enjoy it. We'll see you guys all next week. Send us emails, Myspace messages, gmails, forward chain letters, lolcats, all of that. We'll talk to you soon. Bye.
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