here's part 3 of our interview with the band. questions 1-20 can be found at:
www-personal.umich.edu/~egery/GVSB/articles/gefgen049.html
>21. What's the stupidest thing you've ever done (as a band or individually)?
>Hmmmmm. Thinking I could jump onto a moving train?-ej
>Too many stupid things to remember: The other night I was walking down the
>middle of Avenue A with an orange parking cone on my head... but i like doing
>stupid things.-sm
>
>22. Theoretically (of course), if all of you got in a fight, who would win?
>Alexis. He's part bionic.-ej
>the FLY (alexis) would definitely kick our asses...-sm
>I may be the brawn but Johnny would mindwarp me with his psychology and social
>worker skills and, of course, Scott and Eli are lyrical ninjas. Together we
>are an awesome and supernatural force of nature, like Bill Paxton's
>Twisters.-af
>
>23. WHY DON'T THEY COME PLAY IN BUFFALO, NY? Or Southeast Asia? Or Australia?
>Or etc?
>Yeah! Why not??-ej
>we played Buffalo in around 94... we sounded horrible (our soundman passed out
>at the mixing desk) and overall, the show didn't go that well... but that's
>not why we haven't been back... just not on the regular route... where's a
>cool place to play... let us know, we'll play there...-sm
>We are too afraid of Ani DiFranco.-af
>
>24. what were the reasons behind soulside's demise? did your ideas of "music"
>not necessarily agree with those of bobby sullivan?
>everything's got an expiration date... i think the break-up of soulside was
>more circumstantial than about anything really bothering us (besides having
>just got done with a 3&1/2 month euro tour, which didn't help)... we all split
>up, changed our lives, did different things, and later, GVSB formed... in
>retrospect, it was kinda nice to end on a high note ("Hot Bodi-Gram")...-sm
>I think we were all very tired of doing the same thing and arguing all the
>time. And our last tour was in Europe for 3 months straight and we were ready
>to kill each other by the end of it. I think we only played 2 shows after
>that tour- Fort Reno and 9:30 club.-af
>
>25. Are you disappointed about the relatively low number of sold copies of
>Freak*on*ica?
>You mean relative to the Offspring?? Hey man, I just makes the music, I don't
>sell it.-ej
>It would have been good if it had sold a little better, for sure, but really
>the disappointing thing is that given that Geffen collapsed, the record only
>had about 3 months of active life span... and that said, its the biggest
>selling GVSB record to date, so... what can you do>>-sm
>I think it sucks that it didn't sell 28 million copies. People should be
>singing Park Avenue at their weddings.-af
>
>26. What do you think is the reason for the low sales?
>What did I just say??-ej
>"Right place, wrong time... curses forvever..." its because we are cursed,
>that's why... curses forever...-sm
>How's does that expression go-"the only sure thing is death and taxes"?-af
>
>27. What happened to the Roxy video?
>Ask Edgar Bronfman. jt
>Lack of radio killed the video star.-ej
>We basically never made a video for any song off "freakonica." By the time
>"roxy" came out as a single, Geffen was basically already dead as a company...
>so of course, they weren't too interested to throw money into a GVSB video...
>even the "park ave" THING, is not a proper video... it was never meant to be a
>video... I think that given the climate at MTV all labels are looking for new
>ways to promote bands other than videos... because, realistically, the main
>player of video's five years ago (MTV) doesn't really play as wide of a
>variety of video's anymore... -sm
>It got lost somewhere between our mouths saying yes and Geffen's checkbook
>saying no. It did give us that "come hither" look for a little while
>though.-af
>
>28. Will GVSB do any festivals in Europe this summer?
>I fucking hope so!!-ej
>Unfortunately, we probably won't be doing any european festivals this year...
>we will hopefully be recording an new album for Interscope this summer...
>festivals again maybe summer of 00.-sm
>Maybe in Australia in April, maybe in Europe in the Fall.-af
>
>29. All GvsB albums display a distinct musical progression. Any ideas in
>which direction(s) the next album(s) might be heading?
>More noise and more artificial life.-ej
>Looser & more wild.-sm
>Remember the whole backstreet boys angle we discussed.-af
>
>30. What would be your ideal tour/festival line-up?
>The Jesus Lizard
>Cher
>Jennifer Love Hewitt
>GVSB
>Paula Abdul
>Les Savy Fav-jt
>
>Main Stage:
>GVSB
>
>Second Stage
>GVSB
>
>DJ Tent
>House of GVSB-ej
>Stay in small clubs, its better.-sm
>
>Duran Duran
>Massive Attack
>Placebo
>GVSB-af
>
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