October 1, 2005
Limbeck – Robb Maclean, Patrick Carrie, Justin Entsminger, Jon Phillip

This interview was done with Sara of Shiny Silver Fords.

C = Cath , S = Sara, R = Robb, P = Patrick, J = Justin, Jon = Jon

C: For the record, state your name and what you do in the band.
R: My name is Robb Maclean and I play guitar and I sing and I start interviews.

S: Which CD of yours do you think best describes the personality of the band?
R: I think for most bands probably it’s the current CD because that’s like, the mood that you’ve been in and the stuff that’s been on your mind, like the sound you’ve been into.

C: How have fans reacted to your new CD?
R: Pretty good. I’ve only heard the good comments about it. I think people that don’t really like it don’t usually be jerks and be like “Oh hey, by the way I HATE your new record”. *laughs* So I’m sure there’s some people that don’t like it as much as the last one, but all the people that I’ve talked to like it more, so that’s good. I’m just saying … I’m not saying that everyone likes it more, I’m just saying that people are really nice and they don’t tell me if they don’t like it.

S: Is there anything in the current music scene that you would change if you could?
R: I think I’d just change like, the standard of what people like… I’m not saying that our band is a ‘high standard’, I think that we’re still learning just the same as a lot of other bands. I think a lot of bands just get exposure at a really young age when they’re really just learning how to play music and write decent songs… And I think that they’re getting pushed into the spotlight when they’re still just learning the basics and writing like pretty nuts-and-bolts songs, and if they had to prove themselves first, as musicians, they’d take a couple albums before they were actually like, in the mainstream, playing their music, and they’d be a lot better musicians, and it would be something that they’d be a lot prouder of later.
*Patrick and Justin walk up*
J: I agree with that.
*everyone laughs*
C: Because you totally know what the question was and everything.
R: Now this is Justin and Pat joining us. Jon’s right here behind you.

C: In your opinion, how do you think the new CD differs from the older ones?
P: It’s more raw.
R: It’s definitely more raw. We recorded it live –
P: Its thumbly.
R: - for the most part so it’s got some more mistakes.
P: It’s raw and thumbly.
R: Yea.
P: And our last one was –
R: It’s a little more grumbly too.
J: And bumbly *laughs*
P: Yea, our last one was clean, glossy.
R: Not like, as glossy as like, other ones…
P: Yea but it’s kinda… semi-gloss.
R: It’s got a little bit of gloss on it. It’s like someone just took a little bit of lacquer and painted it a little bit. *everyone laughs*

S: If you could tour with anyone, dead or alive, who would you tour with?
Jon: Gram Parsons.
R: Yea, that’s a good one. That would be fun, I’d hope that he’d have us. We’d learn a lot from him.
P: Yea.

C: If you could choose any animal to be your bands mascot, what would it be and why?
R & P: Bears.
J & Jon: Red pandas!
J: Because it’s pretty much the cutest animal ever.
P: Ok that’s a bear!
J: It’s kinda a bear.
R: I’m glad we’re on the same page at least.
J: It’s like a mini-bear.

S: Were your family & friends supportive when you first started out?
P: No.
R: They hate our band. *silence*
*everyone laughs*
R: Our friends were more supportive than our family. But, our families are still like “That’s cool. I never thought you’d be doing this, but I’m glad you’re doing so successfully at it.”
P: Yea, they come to our hometown shows when they’re crazy, when we’re not playing in like, pizza party rooms with streamers on the ceiling. *laughs*
R: Yea, they’re supportive… now… NOW. After we’ve made it big!
P: Now that we’ve made it!
*everyone laughs*
C: What bands are you guys currently listening to?
P: The Muffs. Only. Only The Muffs.
R: Yea, we’re listening to that and…
P: I’m forcing everybody to only listen to The Muffs.
R: …And Mike Birbiglia, he’s a solo artist … comedian. Uhm, Steve Martin, he’s an oldie. Uhm, lets see, what else…
J: Uh yea, we’ve been listening to a lot of comedy CDs.
R: Mitch Hedberg, David Krauss…
J: Dave Attell.
R: Who’s the other guy that sounds like David Krauss?
P: Patton Oswalt.
R: Leopold.
P: Comedy and The Muffs.

S: If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?
P: X-ray vision.
J: Morphing… So we don’t have to drive anywhere.
R: Toast.
*everyone laughs*
C: Toast?
R: Pre-buttered toast.
S: They have that.
R: No, they don’t.
S: You buy it and you put it in the oven…
R: Don’t lie to me.
S: They do! They really do!
R: I know that popcorn technology can do that, but not toast.
P: They have a microwave type thing that you can put like water in and it’ll freeze it.
R: I didn’t hear about that, I’ve heard people saying that they wish they had that.
P: No!
R: Like, me.
P: Have you seen those peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by Smucker’s that are already made, and you just put them in your toaster?
S: Yea, we have those.
P: Those are good.
R: Have you seen toaster strudels? My lockers are full of pop tarts ever since toaster strudels came out. *silence* OK, back to the interview.
P: Toast. You want to be able to make toast… Actually, I think I’d want time travel, because I’d want to be a cowboy and a pirate, not at the same time.
R: I’d want to be able to know what time it is… at all times.
*everyone laughs*
P: “Robb, what time is it?” *points at wrist* “12:45” *everyone laughs* “thank you”. It’s like ROBB’S SPECIAL POWER. POW! 12:45. Like instead of fighting… You know like, batman when he’s like “BAM!” “KAPOW!”, you’re like “SHAZING! 1 o’clock”
R: My archenemies are always late.
C: Ok!
P: Robb, fighting the war against punctuality. *laughs* For punctuality, not against.

C: Do you guys have any interesting tour stories?
P: Oh, do we ever.
R: This one time we played in a party room. There were streamers everywhere, and it was really bright and colorful and we got to play videogames for free all night. It was cool. And I was on time. What else? What happened really good on this last tour?
P: Cliff?
J: 3 homicides.
P: Yea… Ok well our van broke down in South Carolina and we were on the way to an in store – we were supposed to play at a record store in North Carolina, and it was like… We started driving at 7 in the morning, so everybody was really tired… I think I was driving and the van –
R: POW! PA PA PA PA PA PA PA PA. That’s what it sounded like, if you could put that on paper, or Internet.
P: So we pulled over and we decided we weren’t able to drive. *laughs* It’ll be a soundclip: “Click here to hear the sound of the car by Robb” [Note: I’m working on getting that sound clip up.]. No, we decided to drive through a shop, and we drove to the shop and like this guy, Cliff, was like … really… racist.
R: *BEEP* *BEEP*.
P: And not cool, but-
R: “*BEEP* man if I knew you guys were in a rock & roll band I would have worked on your car before a *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*’s car.”
P: Yea, it was pretty crazy, but he fixed our car. Unfortunately, he did a really, really bad job of it.
J: Kind of…
R: He didn’t do a bad job, he did the best he could because he didn’t have –
P: Because he lived in South Carolina.
R: He didn’t have like, the resources.
P: Middle of nowhere.
R: Exactly. He was from a small town, he didn’t have what he needed to fix it that day, he could have ordered it…
J: He told us.
R: Yea, he told us it wouldn’t be a quick fix, so I wasn’t surprised that it broke again, but -
P: But then he invited us all over for steak dinners and said we could play at his house.
R: As loud as we could.
P: So we did, but we decided to get a hotel and uh…
P & J: Set off fireworks.
R: Just in case! Just in case he’s a weird dude.
J: We went to Waffle House.
R: It was a good night anyways. Oh! And then Encino Man was on TV.
P: Kind of like… Sometimes when you guys are on tour, and you don’t have a show and you decide to get a hotel, and then you eat really good food and you set off fireworks, and then you come home to go to bed and you turn on the TV and Encino Man is on… Something about the universe completely aligns, and everything’s perfect.
J: Yes.
R: It was great, and I finished the whole movie. No really, sometimes its hard to do, you get tired.

S: What’s your favorite breakfast food?
J: What’s your favorite breakfast food?
R: That’s what the question is? I don’t really eat breakfast anymore but…
S: That’s not healthy.
C: Breakfast sucks!
R: Uh, oatmeal is really good.
S: Pop tarts?
R: Nope. Oatmeal.
S: I thought you said you liked pop tarts?
R: In my locker.
Jon: I like bacon.
R: “Ever since my friend’s mom started giving him 2 toaster strudels a day to take to school, I started to put my pop tarts in my locker”.
J: Jon’s favorite is bacon.
R: I like the smell of bacon, it wakes me up.
P: If I have to eat breakfast, I’ll eat fake-bacon sandwiches.
J: Yea!
P: Those are good.
R: That’s more like a dinner though…
P: Yea, you usually eat it at dinnertime, but it’s a breakfast food.
R: Well I eat chocolate milk.
S: Quik?
P: And squares.
R: I eat triangles a lot. …I like pizza.
J: Quesadillas.

C: So let’s say that Justin Timberlake walked up to you and told you that he wanted to join your band. What would you do?
R: Let’s not say that.
*everyone laughs*
P: I’d say ‘hell yea’.
R: I mean, he’d add a lot.
J: Let’s do a group collaboration of ‘Rock Your Body’ and ‘Cry Me A River’.
P: He’s really… good. I don’t know if you guys give him enough credit.
J: I’d want to collaborate at any chance we get.
R: No, I never didn’t give him credit, I’m just saying…
P: We’d collab.
J: We’re already lined up with a collaboration with Cash Monopoly though.
R: Yea…
J: This guy that we met in New York.
P: That’s a tour story. We played this show in New York City, and we were loading out our trailer, and our van was parked illegally and we got a ticket. Then, there was like, a rap show that was starting right after our show, and this dude was like right by our trailer and somehow I think someone like –
R: We were backing up our trailer, and it backed over a can of coke or something, and it exploded, and a drip or two of it went on this guy’s polo shirt. And he’s like “You guys have to buy me a new shirt! Who’s paying for my shirt?” and I was like “Not us, because I don’t even see any coke on your shirt.” And he’s like, “It’s right there!” and he pointed to it, and I was like “I still don’t see it, and even if it’s there I’m sure if you wash it it’ll come out.” And he said he needed a new shirt, and I was like “Well, get it dry cleaned.” and he was like “Who’s going to pay for the bill?” and I was like “I don’t know… you?”.
P: Then he said he needed $5 for dry cleaning, and then everybody broke it up and he walked off. Then he came back and he decided that he wanted to like, collaborate with us… So he got Robb’s phone number.
R: Didn’t call yet.

S: What’s your favorite Dr. Seuss book?
R: Is ‘Green Eggs & Ham’ a Dr. Seuss book?
S: Yea.
J: That’s my favorite!
R: That’s not my favorite. Uh…
J: Uh, is ‘The Lorax’ by Dr. Seuss?
R: I guess that’s a classic, right?
J: I like ‘The Lorax’. Is that by him?
S: Yea.
J: Yea, that’s my favorite one... Because I love trees.
P: ‘The Grinch Who Stole Christmas’?
S: That’s a good one, that’s a good movie.
P: It is. ‘Cat in the Hat’ was a crazy, messed up movie though.
S: I have a ‘Cat in the Hat’ dress.
P: Did you see the movie though?
J: I have 2 cats and a car full of hats.

C: If you were stranded on a deserted island with no food and no one but your band members, who would you eat first and why?
R: I think we’d probably just live off the land.
S: You don’t want to eat anyone?
C: Well, if there’s no food… What if it’s just like, a bunch of sand?
R: I definitely wouldn’t eat anyone.
C: So you would just die?
J: There’s fish on an island.
C: Well maybe they are poisonous fish.
S: Maybe the island’s covered with jello.
R: Maybe this is unrealistic.
C: If it was covered in jello, then they would eat the jello!
S: Just kidding.
R: I just really wouldn’t eat anyone. Even if they were dead already.
P: Yea, because someone would have to die in order for us to eat them. So, we’d probably just live until someone died.
R: But if someone died, would we really eat them?
P: No, we’d keep living… until someone else died.
R: We’d just keep dying.
S: Who do you think would die first then? Or last?
C: Yea, who do you think would survive the longest?
Jon: Me.
J: You wish… *laughs* I’d eat Jon Cheese, because he’s a basic food group.
R: I’d probably just go swimming.
C: Swimming?
R: Yea.
S: What if there are piranhas in the water?
R: Then I’d die first!
*everyone laughs*
P: Then he’d be the first to go.
R: There’s your answer. *laughs*
P: Robb would be the first to go.
R: But, what if we ate piranhas? They’re fish, we’ll catch ‘em. *laughs* There, you just introduced food into the equation, you ruined your own joke!

C: That was my last one, do you have any closing statements?
S: …for the internet world.
P: Yea… Get off the internet.
R: Thanks for logging in!
*everyone laughs*
P: Go ride your bike. NOW. Go ride your bike.
R: And DON’T check myspace before you do it! Close the browser. Stop browsin’. Go outside and browse the clouds.
*Interview ends. About 10 minutes later, Patrick tells us to add something else to the “last words”*
P: Make your own noise! Last words.