Scream Out Sessions

[***DISCLAIMER*** Pace University, WPUB, and Scream Out Sessions are not to be held accountable for the language used throughout this interview. Some of the language may be offensive so you can choose to stop reading if you are easily offended. In addition, I'm really bad with spelling so I'm positive there's a bunch of things that are misspelled.]

SOS: Alright guys your tuning in to SOS and I'm here with the members of YO!Scunt. So do you guys want to introduce yourself and say what you do in the band?
Chris: My name's Christopher, I play vocals.
Andrew: and suck cock (response to Chris)
SOS: good to know, good to know
Andrew: He's good at it too. I'm Andrew and I'm not as good at sucking cock but I play the bass [laughter]
Tim: Tim I'm the drummer
SOS: That's it? No sucking cock? (laughs)
Chris: Good with guns
SOS: Oh nice...good to know. So how did you guys start the band?
Chris: I was trying to start a band and I put an ad on Craig's list and if I remember correctly Tim. had an ad saying 'I live in the republic of China, I play in a band called the Angry Jerks , I might come to New York'
Tim: No I was actually in New York.
Chris: and I answered him and he wrote me back. And a couple of months later we were at the Knitting Factory and it was the Casualties show and they said no re-entry so if you wanna smoke a cigarette buy your ticket before, you know, its not sold out. So I was smoking my cigarette outside and sitting there and Tim came bobbing down the street and he thought it was the line to buy tickets so I told him 'No I'm just smoking a cigarette' and we started talking and I asked him 'Where you from? What's your name?' and he told me and I told him and he goes 'Chris from flushing?' And he said it like its suppose to mean something. We started talking and he told me how he plays in a street punk band called the Angry Jerks, so I said Tim from Mou Xing [Sorry Tim, I have no idea how to spell your hometown] and he said Chris from Flushing than we realized we met so we're like alright. So he forgot his id actually and they wouldn't let him in or buy beer. and we hung out that night and it got to a point where we were really, really feeling good and he got lost somewhere by the end of the night. We were going to the bathroom to take a piss and we had a friend of mine that could give us a ride back and he somehow got lost and we went looking for him. He told me about this band from Milan called S.M.C.V. so I looked them up and they had a way of contacting them so I told them that I lost Tim and they contacted him. We started hanging out and eventually he was like let's get bands to go to China like American bands or Dutch bands. We went to a free show in Woodside at Maguire's pub and Frank the same guy who was gonna give us a ride home that night told us to come down. The first night, we went two nights in a row, I think was Status Quo No Show, Eyes of Hate, No Place to Piss, and Blood and Whisky. And we were watching No Place to Piss and they were inspirational. And we looked at each other and Tim was like 'We can do this you know and we can put a band together.' I approached Bomb Walker [Vocals and guitar for No Place to Piss] about getting Danny and he gave me his email address and we kept in contact. He passed the ad that I put up on Craig's list on to Danny, then me, Danny and Tim spend months (interrupted)
Tim: He's not here (Danny)
Chris: We spend months trying to find a bass player and we found a bass player that we would play gigs with. Danny brought a friend that used to be in a band with him and used to be in a band with Andrew and this guy James. Than James brought Andrew into the band which is funny because he should have been the bass player in the beginning since his uncle is The Bomb Walker and he would say how Andrew is a bass player, but I guess it wasn't his destiny
SOS: You have a pretty interesting story. So Tim how did you get here?
Tim: My father is clergy, pays for church and my family moved to America. After I graduated college than I moved to America
Chris: You're living the American dream...(laughs)...how many years was your family here for?
Tim: They came here six years before me
Chris: oh so they came here before you. You were still back there right? Back when the Angry Jerks were still around
Tim: I started The Angry Jerks, actually
SOS: And their still over in China now?
Tim: Yeah
SOS: Do you ever think about going back there and just joining up with them and playing with them?
Chris: He needs a green card (laughs) yeah he's slowing us down now. We can't do much traveling. When you're an immigrant they can take advantage of you, they know you need the green card.
Tim: It's defiantly you know [gets interrupted]
Chris: Like the song says, tragedy. In Asia they take advantage of everyone, you know it happends everywhere.
SOS: So how did you guys come up with the name YO!Scunt. Very original. That was what got me into your band to tell you the truth. I was looking up bands and I saw your name and I was like 'I have to listen to this band.'
Chris: There's a discrepancy in the band about the name. One of the members whose not here and shall remain nameless for the time (laughs) doesn't like the name for some reason
Andrew: I think he doesn't like anything so that's good to hear because now we have proof that it works (band name)
Chris: He claims that he came up with it
SOS: And he didn't?
Chris: I asked Tim in front of him. Tim you know it, the night of the snow storm and we need to practice. Not to far from here actually is Fortress studios which has been around forever. That night me and Tim made it and Danny lived in Washington Heights at the time so he couldn't make it and we were talking and I remember correctly I was like yo, yo scunt this and that.
Tim: Danny calls me up and says yo I have a name. So I asked him what is it and he said Yo! Scunt
Chris: The night of the blizzard I was like this has to be the name. Danny claims he made it. The only reason I think is funny is that I send a email months ago and somebody was like how did you guys come up with the name so I check the reply and he wrote he worked in a Home Depot and the guys who worked there were all Caribbean and they used to call him a scunt. I forgot what he said for the yo and I called him out because I thought of yo because all the British punks say Oi since it's their street slang, but here in Queens I don't usually walk around going Oi. I usually say yo Andrew yo whatever you know. Oi feels so forced.
SOS: Were you guys in any other bands before Yo!Scunt ?
Andrew: We choose not to talk about those bands
SOS: No? No names? Well we know that Tim was in another band.
Andrew: Aw you fucked up Tim (laughs). Me, Danny and James who's not in the band any more were in Self Riot and we were together for about three years. Did a lot of tri-state area tours. And we started getting a little popular but than things didn't work out. We parted ways. James wanted me back in the band at that time so I kinda forced my way in the band. No one actually invited me. They asked me you know how to play the bass. I stole Danny's bass. (Laughs)
Chris: I got an email from Andrew saying that James invited him to come down. When I got to the studio Danny was like 'What are talking about, Andrew said that James invited him down?'
SOS: So you were just like 'I'm coming in the band'
Andrew: Yeah pretty much. I was in this other band called North Blush, we kind of broke up and for me, I have to constantly perform, I need to be on the stage and play music. I feel very unsettled if I'm not. So I heard their shit and James and I, we were actually jamming at the time, and he was like 'Oh you gotta join the band' and I joined and like six or seven months later he quit so I'm in the band and James isn't.
SOS: I read on your Myspace that you all have individual influences, so what are some of your influences?
Tim: I listen to everything actually. When I was 17, I was listening to Guns 'N' Roses. So then I started listening to punk bands.
SOS: What about you Chris?
Chris: Obviously I'm a big Misfits Fan. We all like some of the same music, but then some of us, like I think Tim and Danny like Joy Division whereas me and Andrew could probably care less. Me and Tim may like another band that Andrew and Danny may not.
Andrew: These are all hypothetical, don't quote me on that.
Chris: When I was six years old... [Interrupted by Andrew]
Andrew: Don't quote me on that!
Chris: ....the three things I was listening to was KISS, Rolling Stones, and The Kinks. That was the shit to me. I tried to get guitar lessons. As a kid I was very hyper, I was on Ritalin. I focused more on roller hockey. For music I would just sit there and play E minor.
Andrew: He wasn't playing chords, but he was playing it alright [laughing].
Chris: I mean I like a lot of black metal and old reggae. I love the Beastie Boys. The Beastie Boys are the greatest live band. SOS: Well their sound is unique. There are not a lot of bands out there that are able to incorporate different music genres.
Chris: Especially that type of music. They improv live. They'll do the first half of one song like Car Thief and they'll go into the second half and it will be Paul Revere.
Andrew: [interrupts] I listen to everything form country to jazz to, you know, punk, electronic, ska, Mindless Self Indulgence. Me as a bass player, I can only play the bass, I can't really play any other instrument. I can fiddle around with a guitar or drums, but when it comes down to actually playing, I can only play the bass. Anything to enhance my bass playing, like hardcore funk or constant triplets that sounds like a machine gun going off, to ska and jazz bass lines, where you utilize the whole neck, different sounds and fading. Tribal music with beat, whatever is out there. Whatever has soul. Whatever is passionate. Whatever ,you know doesn't, suck (laughs).
SOS: Alright guys what has been some of your favorite bands to play with?
Andrew: No Place to Piss, that's mine (laughs)
Chris: No Place to Piss
Andrew: They're great because it's my uncle and it's my uncle's friends that I've know for fucking years. It's so fucking great to play with them. Just watching them is so fucking great.
Chris: Straphangers
Andrew: Straphangers are just a great band, bands that have given us a ride home, what's that other band's name ?
Chris: Stress Bomb
Andrew: Stress Bomb has also given me a ride home as well.
Chris: So Scandalous
Andrew: So Scandalous, we give them a shout out, Seizure Crypt.
Chris: When we play with bands, the bands are there to see other bands, like these guys. The Blackout Shoppers, Straphangers, and all the other bands we mentioned they go to shows and they watch the bands. They're not just into going and doing their own thing, they're also in to seeing what else is out there.
SOS: Are you guys like them? Do you stick around after your shows?
Andrew: Yeah, we try, especially he (Chris) has been injured, with a hernia. For the past, fucking forever. SOS: Tell me about your hernia? I read about that.
Chris: I can't really get into details for legal reasons. I had bilateral one here (points to his hernia) and one here ( points to the other side).
Andrew: he likes to pull them out so be careful (laughs)
Chris: I've been showing everyone, you can't show it to your radio listeners.
Tim: They can hear it (laughs)
Chris: We played a show; I think it's safe to say it was the worst show we ever played. It was a birthday party in Coney Island at a restaurant for a girl named Molly. And she played in a band in a band with a girl named Noodle. I forgot the name of the band. I think it was called Skim Milk.
SOS: I know them personally.
Chris: She had a show, and Blackout Matt, who plays with plays with them. I'm not gonna say where he lives. He lives pretty far, uptown Manhattan and he has to take a train ride to get down there. He actually saw me and Tim on the train sharing a walkman, listening to DIR. and he walked over "Yo, Yo, Yo, YO!Scunt". We turned around and it was Blackout Matt. He's the guy you'll see him, he'll go to shows and not just because he's playing there.
Andrew: I mean the best thing going on right now is the guy Tom from Seizure Crypt. He puts on the 131 show over there, you know, every Friday he has a live band. He has a good set up going too. And it worked out really well, the turn out was great. You know? Some of the bands like Busting Chops always bring down a lot of people. Like Old York.
Chris: They're all based out of Brooklyn, but they play here like two times maybe three times in a very short time. In the past couple of months and they came here. Caught in a Trap, they're from Brooklyn and the upper part of Queens. They got a big following here and stuff. I mean Tom, he's all about bands. He used to play in this band "China House" back in the 80's and the early 90's, a death metal band. And he, you know talks about how myspace makes it so easy to, computers in general just email, email send a song. Used to be post office with a garbage bag with cassettes and letter in an envelope. He's (Tom) a real DIY kinda guy.
SOS: Do you guys consider yourselves DIY ?
Chris: Yeah, you know we actually are in the process of putting out a EP, which I guess originally was intended to be a CD but..
Andrew: CD would have been 14 songs Ep is only 11 songs. (Laughs)
SOS: Not really a lot of CD's are 11 tracks.
Chris: Yeah but a lot of the songs are pretty short.
Andrew: Like the way we recorded it, we started in the kid Ron's house, and this kid Ron was just like the ultimate crack head.
Chris: He's not even a crack head, he's schizophrenic.
Andrew: But I mean he had his own place. It's like a two story house.
Tim: Three story
Andrew: Three story, yeah, and he didn't have to work or anything. His parents hook him up because of his condition. He had the drugs set up in the dining room with mics. There were roaches everywhere. The kid kept asking us for weed every 5 minutes. It was just like
Chris: "You guys got any weed?"
Andrew: (laughs) Yeah, you walk in the house.. "Sup, you guys got any weed?"
Chris: I mean he's a nice guy
Andrew: No he's a cool guy but,
Chris: He's a weird kid , but I love the kid. I have seen other people record, but I've never. It was complete chaos. We actually played some shows there. He had a barbeque show. The first show was this band Lane who was some kind of metal band that he knew, there was us, without Danny.
Andrew: Danny is a fag.
Chris: He was in Atlantic City. And a bunch of friends, this band
Tim: Eyes of Hate
Chris: Right, well the second show was Eyes of Hate, us, and this band called Test Specimen. [Andrew : Starts Laughing]
SOS: I know, those kids are weird.
Chris: I have no comment.
Andrew: Yeah, it brings back memories of my first show with you guys.
Chris: you guys know that was the last show. [Andrew starts to laugh.] Chris: They started a fight; we don't really like to talk about that.
SOS: Alright.
Andrew: Don't wanna step on any toes.
SOS: So I heard you guys are putting out a comp.
Chris/Andrew/Tim: Yeah.
SOS: So what bands are on it?
Chris: It's done, we actually have it right here. This is it [shows the cover], nobody has seen it but you. Let me slide it. [slides future album cover from underneath stacks of papers.]
SOS/Andrew: Ohhh!! [Bunch of papers fell.]
Chris: That's garbage though, that's garbage actually, that is garbage.
Andrew: He says that now.
Chris: Danny actually cut that out. He had no idea what it said. Tim worked some of the things out on there. Some of it said, one says fly, one says mother and daughter killed in random car accident.
Andrew: But it was all random.
Chris: Tim originally came up with the idea of having American bands go to China.
Chris: He had the idea, why don't we put out a comp. And we didn't get as many Chinese bands as we wanted.
Andrew: Well we got three bands.
Chris: We have on SMCV, Angry Jerks,
Tim: Point Blank.
Chris: Point Blank, Life for Drinking, Numeric, Loud Speaker, A Generate Blood, and I think there's one more band. No Name you said?
Tim: No Name.
Chris: No Name, those guys and from the New York area you have us YO!Scunt. You have No Place to Piss, Straphangers, World War IX, Blackout Shoppers, Seizure Crypt, Distraction, ICU, there's a couple more, we have 14. No Redeeming Social Values actually opens. That was a good story
Andrew: Yeah.
Chris: Hell Fire Boys Club.
Andrew: I don't even know if they're around anymore, those guys.
Chris: And there's somebody else.
Andrew: CD release party! (laughter)
SOS: Are you guys going to put up the comp on Interpunk or how are the kids going to be able to get it?
Chris: There was talk, I don't really handle a lot of the computer aspects, but there's talk, we're setting up our own website.
SOS: So kids can just order it form there?
Chris: Yeah Freakouts Records which is going to (interrupted by Andrew)
Andrew: Release it in a month.
Chris: Yeah right a month, we're in it for the money.
Andrew: Yeah right, for the money.
Chris: We're gonna release 50 dollar CD's, we're gonna release the comp.
SOS: I'm sure the kids will be able to pony up 50 dollars.
Andrew: Absolutely.
Chris: And then we're gonna make it so that people who are not in New York or not available in many stores, can get it. There's that record store in Brooklyn called, the one that the member of ICU opened...I saw a show there. They have shows there once in a while. So I was there for one show. It was pretty crazy people jumping around, and drinking, there was all vinyl around. I love the wall of vinyl. And I was scared to bring it down because, you know, people, lean back against the records and I was worried about the vinyl.
SOS: Did you guys have a chance to play at CBGB's before it closed down?
Chris: No we did not.
Andrew: I did, not with them
Chris: I heard poetry there.
Andrew: I got arrested there.
Chris: yeah, he got arrested there. That was pretty fucked up.
Andrew: I got arrested by the bouncer trying to go to the girls bathroom.
SOS: I fucking saw people doing it in the girls bathroom and they didn't have a problem with it.
Andrew: well what happened was the bouncer came in and told me to leave and I told him to go fuck himself. And he didn't like that so than he kinda grabbed me.
SOS: Alright, seriously what the hell were you doing in there because I told the bouncer that someone was bleeding from the head, on the floor and he didn't move.
Andrew: No, it was a long time ago.
Chris: It was years ago.
Andrew: maybe like four or five years ago.
SOS: Recently they don't care. The guy on the floor was out cold, bleeding.
Andrew: well the guy on the floor wasn't probably cursing him out, I was.
Chris: I told Danny, that me and Tim went to see this band there and it was the last time that they played and my mother's dog was dying. She is dead. And she died maybe like a month later, but she was sick and I got a phone call while I was heading in the back and the bouncer who heard me and saw me. And I was using that as an opportunity and I felt bad, I really did. So I can get outside so I can have a cigarette right. And we went out back.
Andrew: To roll a joint.
Chris: yeah right, I mean I don't really care, I mean I felt bad I took advantage since my dog was dying. "I was like my dog's dying please can I go smoke a cigarette?" I mean I had to ask him two, three times. He let me out back so.
SOS: So what's the best venue that you guys ever played at?
Chris: The best venue like they take care of you, you have fun?
SOS: No the one made out of a cardboard box that you had to make...no the best venue.?
Chris: Depends on the promoters.
Andrew: What was that place?
Chris: Midway. They had the greatest sound system. They recorded us when we were there.
Andrew: I wasn't there
Chris: He wasn't the band with us yet. It was just before.
Andrew: I wasn't there
Chris: It's a sports bar.
Andrew: With cheap beer.
SOS: Yeah, with really cheap beer.
Chris: 131, right here on 14th Ave. What I like about playing there the sound, it's not the best sound, but it's definitely not the worst. The drummer usually, if the sound is fucked up has the hardest time, hearing everybody but me play. A place like that is really tiny and I can hear everything, he can hear everything [points at Tim], he can hear everything [points at Andrew]. The Wreck Room, I've had some good times in the Wreck Room, I've had some bad times in the Wreck Room. But Redzone's always been wack. That's all I can say. It's been wack.
SOS: That's actually really close to where I live.
Chris: Continental, the guy at the door with whatever, with the china man hat. He's gonna shoot some lightning, spit some crap.
Andrew: Eat shit.
Chris: That guy it's safe to say, I'm not throwing any stones or anything, but, he takes a nice place like that, a guy like him at the door, and doesn't make it nice to play there.
Andrew: Take that. Take that.
SOS: Alright so I'm guessing you guys have never played internationally, but if you were to play internationally, what's the first place you would play?
Chris: China, personally.
Andrew: Yeah. Rip that whole town up.
Chris: I'd like to play his old town, Mao Jing (hey I warned you I can't spell). I already know who I'd like to play with. I'd like to play with the Angry Jerks, I'd like to play with SMCV, they've gotten a lot of fans. Actually most of their CD's were recorded by Tim's old band, the Angry Jerks. So they actually had an opportunity in front of them. They recorded their CD's which were DIY. That one I don't think they recorded (Tim shows a CD.) That was an earlier one, but that one there (points to another CD.) The Angry Jerks recorded it. They're great and they sound good. There getting ready to go to Europe, these guys (talking about the band.) It's funny because they're husband and wife.
Tim: The drummer and the singer.
Chris: They weren't always, you know, they worked for the government for the longest time and everything.
SOS: The singer is the one with the Mohawk? (looking at the CD cover picture.)
[Andrew starts laughing.]
Chris: Yeah (mentions the names and nicknames of the lead singer and the drummer. I have no idea how to spell them. Sorry.)
Chris: Actually me and Tim used to drink at this place every once in a blue moon. We have a couple pictures down there.
Andrew: Yea
Chris: And then Tim one night, this was way before we even had a band together. Just friends, hanging out Andrew called "yo dude we got it." Actually we got it played on Official Chaos, (Talking about this song by SMCV that got played on Official Chaos Radio.) this radio station and it was just so cool, like "yo man we got this shit" and they played this song by this band from China man, you know, that no one has ever heard here. And it's great. They're great. Amsterdam we have to go there.
SOS: That was my first guess. I thought that you guys would say Amsterdam as your first answer.
Chris: I've been to the Netherlands many times and my favorite city is probably Breda, I've been there once. I've been to Amsterdam many times. I've been to Holland many times. I've been through other cities for like a set of 2 hours or to change trains to go to another part of the Netherlands or something. That's the funny thing. SMCV is getting ready to go back to Europe again for a tour and they're playing like 30 shows or something. Last time they played a lot of shows but with like a couple of days off. It was like 40 shows in 41 days or something like that. They're not playing anywhere in the Netherlands at all and I send them messages to go to Europe.
Andrew: (interrupts) Just call them up man.
Chris: To go to Amsterdam. Eastern Europe would defiantly be cool.
Andrew: I mean as soon as Tim gets his visa, we wanna start hitting up shit.
Chris: Australia.
Andrew: At least across country and shit, you know. Because I'll drop everything I'm doing to go, even if it fails miserably and I'm out ten thousand dollars. Fuck, just do it and have fun and act like a pompous rockstar, like everyone else does who goes on tour and then comes back.
Chris: I know right.
SOS: Were you guys able to get your van yet? Gotta keep the interview moving.
Andrew: No.
Chris: No the transmission fell out.
SOS: Really?
Chris: Yeah that's sad.
SOS: That is sad.
Chris: I actually thought about that before today. Oh wow.
SOS: You can Craig's List it. Someone I know got a van off of Craig's list.
Chris: No that's the thing though. Like
Andrew: (interrupts) Oh crap the shit fell. (Talking about the guitar strap that was used as the back to the chair.)
Chris: The whole thing about playing music, it's nice to play shows.
Andrew: I like playing. We played a birthday show down in Brooklyn, all the way down by the Staten Island Verrazano Bridge. Pretty far down, and this girl, uh-ho, I remember passing this grocery store and the name of it was The Poor Person's Place (laughter). I'll never forget that.
Chris: It was a little grocery store. There was definitely a point where you can smell the body heat. I couldn't be in the room. Andrew was going nuts, stepping on Danny's fucking cables. Tim was probably dying back there. It was just like hot as fuck and the drums are in the back. And it was only really the birthday girl who was the only one into it. Everyone else was really not into, into it. So the boyfriend of the girl with the party was like, you know, we put out a blog saying we'll play your birthday, anything, you know, [the boyfriend] like my girlfriend likes your band on myspace, would you guys come down and play. And we played, you know, she knew the words to whatever four songs we had up on myspace. It was fun we had a couple of people were in and out, you know, check out what's going on. Her boyfriend gave us twenty five dollars and than the boyfriend's brother, he actually was getting ready to leave to go into, not the merchant marines, the coast guard and he was like " here's an extra twenty five for the gas."
Andrew: Yeah the gas money.
Chris: Stuff like that is fun but the travel. If the people are good to you, I love it. People in different time zones, that's really fun, just to travel around, meet new people that never seen you and have never heard of this band saying 'wow that was a good band.'
SOS: It's really nice to see bands that actually want to travel and not just make a shit load of cash and retire, but they're actually in it for the music.
Andrew: Hell yeah.
Chris: And it's nice to be able to pay for the trip you know?
Andrew: Wait till I have some money than see what I say. (Laughter)
(Chris' phone rings and Joe Six Pack from No Place To Piss is on the line.)
Chris: Can we put Joe Six Pack on? (Answers phone) Let me call you.
Chris: Joe Six Pack your on speaker phone. I've gotta call you back, we're being interviewed right now for Scream Out Sessions on Pace radio. But do you wanna say hello to the public viewers? It's Joe Six Pack, say hello man.
Joe Six Pack: Yo what's up, this is Joe Six Pack from No Place To Piss. OI! OI! Fucking OI!
Chris/Andrew/Tim: Yeah!!
Chris: Joe can I call you back after the interview bro.? I don't want to be a pompous rockstar, go ahead tell me right now. (Leaves the room to finish phone conversation.)
Andrew: Anyways.
SOS: Anyways, what venue do you guys want to play that you have not played yet Andrew: Oh man, I wanna hit up Cali. See how the scene is over there especially since I haven't done a lot of traveling and I love fucking traveling. So I'll fucking go anywhere, you know, why not.
(Chris comes back in still on the phone)
Chris: Hey Tim Q20a or Q20b has the last stop here?
Tim: Uh.. Q20b.
Andrew: Q20a runs down, Q20b runs down to 14th I think. Don't hold me on that. (Chris leaves again.)
SOS: So Tim where would you like to play?
Tim: Sweden.
SOS: In the U.S. Sweden? (Laughter)
Tim: No.
Andrew: In the U.S. where do you wanna go?
Tim: West coast. I wanna see how everything is out there.
Andrew: Hell yeah, yo, we'll pretty much own it. Fucking a.
SOS: What is the most insane thing that has happened during one of your shows?
Andrew: We've done some crazy shit where like, you know, Daniel starts juggling the mics, throwing tampons, and throwing tomatoes.
Tim: Tampons.
Andrew: We got tomatoes thrown at us too, though.
(Laughter)
Andrew: Some drunk girl decided to fight with Chris. It was pretty funny. Two times.
SOS: So who won? Chris or the girl?
Tim: The girl.
(Laughter)
Andrew: Just for sheer obnoxious behavior and drunken stupidity.
SOS: Guess not.
(Tim steps out of the room.)
Andrew: Now I'm all alone and shit. Everyone left. (Yells) Bring me a beer to Tim. Old D.
SOS: So do you guys have any bad show stories?
Andrew: I think every show is a bad show, personally. I mean we're YO!Scunt, shit, I'm mean.
(Chris walks back into the room)
SOS: Well if you enjoy yourself.
Chris: I'm sorry about that. That was rude.
SOS: It's fine.
Andrew: you should be sorry, they cut the interview. We're done.
Chris: I know I probably kept him on the phone longer than he kept me on the phone. So there you go.
SOS: So any bad show stories?
Andrew: The one show that we played in Brooklyn, that birthday party, the one with the uh.., not the small one, the one that was like the bar and the..
Chris: Birthday party for Noodles.
Andrew: Noodles. Yeah, yeah. My bass amp was literally, the stage was like a school auditorium stage and the wood floor was vibrating so much that my bass amp was sliding across the stage. Really sliding back and shit. That was one thing that was kinda annoying and my wire kept cutting out. And Tim's bass drum kept sliding.
Chris: Yeah actually, one band, I'm not gonna name names, but we were one of the earliest bands, not the first one and not the second.
SOS: The third?
Chris: Maybe third or fourth, but one band that went on, were the first on right before us lets say.
Andrew: Had a carpet.
Tim: Oh yeah he did.
Chris: Had a carpet and I went and I asked one of the guys in the band and he said "you gotta ask our drummer". So I asked the drummer and he said "no we're getting ready to leave, we're getting ready to get out of here." and they ended up staying for the whole show.
Andrew: Doesn't mean their equipment did. We're not sure about that.
Chris: Yeah so...
Andrew: Well we're still gonna hate them anyways.
Chris: They didn't give it to us, but eventually one girl sat down in front of the bass amp.
Andrew: Rosie actually.
Chris: Yeah, and this guy, Dave Dynamite. I think he plays guitar for Status Quo No Show, came up with a rope.
Andrew: He gave me a wire, and one of the other guys tied the bass drum to the stool he was sitting on. They hooked us up, he came up to help us out.
Chris: Different people, you know, hooking us up because the P.A. was crap.
Andrew: I mean everyone still loved it. It was, you know, different.
Chris: Danny broke a couple of strings.
Andrew: Danny broke some strings, yeah. And Danny's gay.
SOS: That's all the interview is going to be "Danny's Gay."
Andrew: It is, Fa***t.
SOS: Poor guy he's gonna come, listen to the show, find out he was called gay 8 times.
Chris: It doesn't necessarily mean homosexual.
SOS: Not at all.
Andrew: But, it could also mean he does like sucking dick or something.
Chris: No, no Danny I don't think so.
Andrew: Nah. We love Danny.
Chris: We love Danny.
SOS: Now you do?
Andrew: No, he knows it. Danny loves us. He just wants to give us a hug.
SOS: So now I'm going to start asking some questions that are not about the band. What was the worst jobs you guys have had. Did any of you have jobs before the band?
Chris: Worst jobs? Well my job now. It's pretty bad actually.
Andrew: (laughter) Work in general.
Chris: The place, it sucks. I work now. It really beats your body down and can injure a person and whatnot. I've worked in some pretty crappy places. I've worked in a household for like three days and I thought I was going to get a piece of ass. The girl had money for a hotel and everything. I called up "somebody died". I lied, it was pretty bad. Oh my god, that was a pretty bad job. Burger King. I've worked in Burger King, that was horrible.
Andrew: Aw, corporate pig.
Chris: I had one late night manager who was cool, he would take care of us.
SOS: You're aware that the listeners can't see the smoking weed sign, right?
Chris: But yeah. I got to smoke joints there. I was a children's entertainer, like Barney and shit. That was wrong.
Andrew: (shocked) You were Barney?
Chris: I was Barney. (everyone laughs) and I was Batman.
(Andrew Can't stop laughing)
Chris: Back then there was a guy who would warm up the crowd and get the money. He would handle the money and he would make the cotton candy. Batman was the wackest thing to go out there. The kids would be rushed up on sugar and then I would have to do the " bat sign." (Spreads his arms out to look like bat wings.)
Andrew: And throw him out the window.
Chris: You see Barney, the kids are all there (Andrew interrupts.)
Andrew: He's having a flashback.
(Everyone laughs)
Chris: The worst was when we played a project because they have in the basement like 89 kids from everywhere. You have other kids there. There's like 11 year olds and 10 year olds hanging around like " the Barney is a white boy, he's got blue eyes, you can see it through his mouth." you know, they're trying to hit you, so you got the tail, some kids are like 60 pounds or less, you turn around.
Andrew: He's like, Yo, like Godzilla. Before that he's like (makes Godzilla sounds) back the fuck up bitch.
Chris: Tim was in the army for a little while in China that had to suck to be in the army, you know.
Tim: No, I had fun, you know.
Andrew: Shooting rifles, driving tanks.
SOS: How long were you in the army for?
Tim: Like 40 days. It's a training class.
SOS: Is it like everyone 18 and older has to go?
Tim: Yes. Everybody who goes to college had to take that class.
Chris: In case of the Americans.
Andrew: I was in telemarketing.
SOS: Yeah?
Andrew: Yeah. For the New York Times. I used to tell people it was a delivery service. I used to come and deliver the paper and they wouldn't know who was there and they see it was me.
Chris: Tom was my boss actually. He was like the guy. He got divorced. He was the kinda guy to go out. Tom was (interrupted by Andrew)
Andrew: Oh. The motivational guy?
Chris: Yeah the motivational guy. I lived in Florida for a couple of months. And once for a few months and I would get lottery tickets and that sucked. The station was a sham. My last paycheck, turns out, they never fucking paid me for it.
SOS: So did you guys have to deal with any stalker fans?
Chris: What? Soccer?
SOS: No stalker fans? Like people who follow you around.
Chris: Soccer? S-o-c-c-
(Everyone starts laughing except Chris)
Andrew: Yo lets go play right now. I'll meet you outside.
SOS: Stalker.
Andrew: Stalker.
Chris: Oh! Stalker, I thought you said soccer. Me and Tim, we like soccer. Stalker, no, no stalker.
Andrew: We tried auctioning off out guitarist James and we had no bidders.
Chris: Andrew will get them though. Because Andrew is a chick magnet. Defiantly, he's not the singer.
Tim: He plays bass and he's young.
Chris: He's a chick magnet.
Andrew: I like Frank Sinatra.
Chris: Chick's love him.
SOS: Do you have any stalker girl fans or guy fans? You never know.
Andrew: No, I think my guitarist is actually stalking me. He used to work at the job with me. I used to catch him checking me out when I was like doing stuff. Reaching for the top shelf, he'd be looking at me from the corner of hi eye. Fucking Danny, I wish he was there right now.
Chris: Fucking Dave would be like " What are you guys doing?"
Andrew: Oh yeah, me and Dave used to have rubber band fights and I mean like intense rubber band fights to the point where we would shoot rubber bands in each other's eyes and shit.
SOS: I can never get them to shoot off.
Andrew: we work actually in the C.U.N.Y. Law school and people would come to the window after I just got shot in the eye, and I'd be like can I help you? (Makes a weird face.) and they're like looking at me like (makes another weird face). "what do you need." " Ah I'm alright, what do you need?"
Andrew: I had a record.
Chris: Yeah, James his name is GrandMingMaster666 and ask him if he's fluent in the Kung Foo of the Lizard Style, because you heard rumor has it that James could walk on walls. Because that's one thing of the lizard style.
SOS: Are you serious right now?
Chris: Ask him.
SOS: Your going to have a bunch of 18 year old freshmen sending him IMs.
Chris: James likes music and he still plays, but, James furthered himself in the martial arts field and he takes it very, very seriously, he studies two kinds. (Martial arts). But ask him if he can walk on walls. Andrew's seen him. Andrew never wants to admit it, but I can tell when he comes to band practice and I look at Andrew and I go "you saw him walk on walks, didn't you?"
Andrew: I won't admit it. You'll never get it out of me.
SOS: You're just going to deny it?
Andrew: I will, Chinese water torture and all.
SOS: Alright guys, what's your favorite fast food joint?
Chris: I don't frequent it much, it's good but it's also bad for you. Gray Papaya is really good, White Castle is good. I mean if you wanna go by chains, you know.
Andrew: What about barbeque? That's not bad.
Chris: Yeah, but it's cooking. Falafel is good. Little falafel joints are the best because you get food quick and its good shit.
Tim: Sasohn.
Chris: yeah, Tim introduced me to Sasohn food. It's southern Chinese food.
Andrew: It's like, official , like Cajun, you wanna share it with the whole world. It's seriously good . It's crazy shit like liver and blood.
Chris: I couldn't eat the meat with the blood. I wasn't feeling to well. I just had my operation and I was dehydrated so I had the plain chicken brought, these guys had the spicy one.
Andrew: Yeah, the big bowl with real spices, not like ramen noodles. The real fucking Chinese shit, straight out of Flushing not downtown Manhattan. It's the real Chinese food over here.
SOS: This is it for Pace . We're in downtown Manhattan.
Andrew: So what? So what?
SOS: The best place around there is McDonald's, guys, that's what I was hoping you'd say.
Chris/Andrew/Tim: Oh God.
Chris: That sweet and sour is really good.
Andrew: Pick up the Sasohn.
Chris: Sasohn is really good.
SOS: Final question. The most important question. In a fight between Ronald McDonald and Barney, who would win?
Andrew: Oh, fuck, Chris was Barney, so yo fucking Barney, man. He's perfect. He's got that whole tail whipping thing, where he spins and shit, you know.
Chris: I wouldn't mind seeing Barney get whooped though. I'd like to say Godzilla.
SOS: Godzilla?
Chris: Godzilla
SOS: What about you Tim? Barney or Ronald?
Tim: Barney
SOS: Andrew, I'm guessing Barney?
Andrew: Barney definitely.
SOS: Alright guys, any final quotes, comments, anything?
Chris: Thank you for having us on.
SOS: You're welcome
Chris: And it's good what you keep doing, you know put on a show and have listeners. It's real support.
Andrew: Listen to him.
SOS: Tim any last words?
Tim: Drink Old D.
Andrew: Get fucked up!
[everyone laughs]
Chris: Tim drinks old English Malt liquor.
SOS: No comments on Danny?
Chris: Danny is working at Pop Burger right now.
Tim: And he's gay.

THANK YOUs
SOS would like to thank all of the members of YO!Scunt for taking the time to do this interview. Chris thank you so much for your honesty throughout the interview and all of the great stories that you have shared with our audience. Tim, thank you for sharing your past in China with us and for letting our listeners know more about Chinese punk bands. Andrew, thank you for the comic relief and for all your enthusiasm throughout the interview. Danny I know you were unable to attend because of work, but you were great at the March 31st show. Thanks guys for the pizza, beer, and good times.