Kill Hannah |
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Kill Hannah
November 07, 2003
Interviewers: Jennifer F., Jesica Fowler, and Melissa Lozano |
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HV: Since being on tour have you had
any interesting things happen or crazy fan
stories from the road?
Greg: Crazy fan stories?
Dan: What about... We keep telling the
same crazy fan stories. But, one of our
favorite ones is in North Carolina, a friend and
fan of ours, he?s on the SWAT team so he took us
out last time we were there and we went shooting at
a... we shot all kinds of machine guns and
shotguns and stuff at a firing range and we're
going back there next week and we're going to
go out in black hawk helicopters. So
that's pretty cool. Other than that, we don't
really have any real crazy fans, you know?
Greg: There are people that hang out.
Dan: There are people that are
pretty obsessed sometimes.
Greg: I just told this story in the
last interview, but uh... There's this one fan
in Chicago after one of our Metro shows that came
down after we played and her face was all bloody
from her nose and stuff and I was like, "Whoa,
what happened?" and she says, "My boyfriend punched
me," and I'm like, "What? Why did he punch
you?" "Cause I got to hang out with you guys
before the show and he didn't." And I was
like, "Whoa," and she said, "And I broke
my parole to come here from Michigan." I was
like, "Great, that's awesome!" So, you know?
HV: What's been your favorite band to tour with?
Greg: Well, we really haven't toured
with any bands.
Dan: We haven't done anything long
term yet. All the shows, we haven't played with
any bands for more than like, probably five or
six shows. But we're really looking forward to doing it.
Jonny: Chevelle, Eve 6.
Dan: Yeah, those guys are cool. Eve 6 is
really nice and so is Chevelle. (to Garret,
putting his drums in the room) Garret, you're
making a racket. (laugh)
Garret: Excuse me.
HV: If you could choose a band to
tour with, who would you choose?
Dan: Well, we all probably have a
different thing... I think U2, let's go with U2.
Greg: Yeah, U2 is good, but as far as
what would make more sense with our fans
and stuff... Evanescence I think would
be a really good tour.
Dan: A Perfect Circle.
Jonny: Nine Inch Nails...
Dan: Nine Inch Nails.
Jonny: Jane's Addiction.
Dan: Yeah, we're taking offers,
so... Yeah, so who's reading this? (laugh)
HV: You've played in a lot of different
places, do you have any favorites locations?
Dan: We played for our first time
in Denver about two weeks ago. We were doing
really well there, the radio people seemed to
really get us, so we had a sold out show.
Jonny: Cleveland.
Greg: Cleveland's really cool.
Dan: The jury's still out on
Springfield, Missouri, but I think it'll be
pretty cool here tonight.
HV: I think a lot of people are coming.
Dan: Yeah, hopefully.
HV: So what's the best part of
being in a band? Writing, recording, touring?
Greg: Dan's eating. Uh, worst part
for Garret is touring, as you can see, he's
not very happy at this moment. (laugh) He
hates touring. I love touring. I like the
studio a lot too, he's more of a studio
guy. Everybody in the band's got a different
favorite thing to do. I think a majority
of us... (Garret gets offered cookies) Free
food, he loves it, he loves the touring...
Um, I mean, all of us love being in the studio
and playing live every night too,
so... (Sirens in the background) As
the paramedics go by.
Dan: We don't make very much money.
Greg: Yeah.
Dan: And our health suffers being
on the road.
Greg: There's definitely more downside
of touring than there is downside of the studio, so...
HV: What's been your worst job?
Greg: Wish job?
HV: Worst job.
Greg: Oh, worst job... Jonny, why don't
you? (to Dan) You've had pretty bad ones
too. We've all had bad ones. My worst
job I think was actually bartending a lunch
shift at a downtown restaurant, where they wanted
martinis done a certain way with like you know,
anchovy olives and it was like annoying. And
you had to pack the olives yourself.
Dan: Bartending? You candy ass. (laugh)
Jonny: You have to tell them the
one about the...
Dan: Oh God no, I could tell you these
for hours. The actual worst one was probably I
had to walk racehorses in the morning (Greg
laughs) at like 4:30 in the morning and the
thing was I only did it for a few days, and
it was a seven day a week job, so there's
no break from it. And I got to... all the
racehorses are inbred, so they bite you
and kick you and everything. And all these other
people I was working with were all illegal
immigrants and ex-cons and stuff, so it was
really --
Greg: How old were you?
Dan: Oh, I don't know, 17. It was
really funny. And I quit because a horse
almost kicked me in the face so I just left
that day. Jonny, worst job?
Jonny: Uh, I've only had two jobs
my entire life. One was an internship which was
fun and the other, I worked at a skate shop for
half a year or something like that. So... yeah,
I didn't really have a bad experience there either.
Greg: (laughing) Garret, this
is his worst job ever right here.
Garret: Yeah, my worst job was actually,
I have two. One, I worked for Best Buy for one
day and then quit. They put me in the television
department and I can't stand TV. And then
the other one was baling hay. I volunteered to
help my father-in-law out baling hay for his horses
and it almost killed me. I couldn't believe how
heavy those things are and the thing just keeps shooting
them at you. So you have to catch them and
set them up, catch them and set them up.
And yeah... I was like, near heart attack and I
thought I could handle it. I had to clean up, yeah,
for a week I had to watch their house and clean up
after their horses. And it's... I love horses,
but they are a lot of freaking work.
Dan: When I was walking the horses,
this guy pulled a knife on me because my horse drank
out of his horse's water bowl.
Greg: (laugh) What!
Dan: And he pulled a knife on me...
and this was all at five in the morning, so
you're not really, you know. You don't know how
to deal with it at that time. It was great.
HV: If you weren't in a band now, what
would you be doing?
Dan: Walking racehorses. (laugh).
No, I don't know. Greg, you start.
Greg: What would I be doing? Probably
something in the music industry. I love
music, and I love film too, so probably something in
music or film. I went to film school for
awhile and then realized I wanted to do music
more, so... And may as well take advantage
of being young and being in a band, so that's what I did.
Dan: I would move out of the country
and probably start a... I don't know, I
really don't know, a winery? Maybe try
to get a job at a winery in a different country,
I'd like doing that.
Greg: That's great man.
Jonny: I didn't get to finish college,
cause I just got stuck with this band. Look
at us now (laugh). No, so I'd probably finish
college and then probably stick with music, do
something in the industry.
Garret: Probably engineering. I'm
into the...
Dan: Conducting a train? (laugh)
Garret: I've got one of those hats
and the blue overalls already. I like to travel,
so... I don't like to tour, but I like to travel.
HV: Is there a reason for the butterflies?
Greg: (noticing recorder was stopped,
gets it recording again) Now it's recording.
Hopefully that all recorded otherwise, you're fucked!
(laugh) Uh, butterflies, yeah. They've kind of
always been with Kill Hannah before any of us
really got in the band. You know, even from the
first name of the record, or the first record was
named Hummingbirds the Size of Bullets, so
there's always been --
Jonny: (laugh) Hummingbirds and butterflies
are completely different.
Greg: Yeah, but I'm talking about the CD
insertion where you see dead butterflies in the casing
of Hummingbirds the Size of Bullets.
Dan: Want to hear an interesting story
about the butterflies in the CD?
HV: Sure, yeah.
Dan: If you open it up, you know,
there's all different pictures of butterflies. A
lot of those were captured out of our big grill
of the van, we were driving the van, touring.
And uh...
Garret: All of them.
Greg: All of them, really?
Dan: And we stopped at a gas station and
we noticed there were all these multicolored butterflies.
Most of them were pretty intact and they were huge and
really colorful and we picked them out with tweezers.
We have it on video tape too actually. we're
going to try to put it on something someday, so you
can see it. But, we took them, put them in a box,
and then we brought them home and scanned them into
the computer. So they're actually butterflies that we
killed with our van.
HV: Do you have any early childhood
memories you can think of?
Greg: I don't know if I'd like
to share that. I don't know if you'd
like to know. (laugh)
Dan: I know yours.
Greg: (laugh) Yeah, these guys know
some dirt on me... Dan?
Dan: Oh, I don't know.
Greg: In music, or just in general?
HV: Just generally, the earliest memory...
Garret: I remember my grandfather dying and
my mom crying in her bedroom.
Greg: Yeah, I think I have that too.
Garret: But that's not really uplifting.
Dan: When did John Lennon die, 1980?
Greg: Yeah, 1980.
Dan: I remember that. I was really,
really young. I'm not going to say how young, but
I was really young and I remember it being on TV.
I remember my parents mood changing and everything and
I didn't understand what it was about.
Greg: What year was the space shuttle,
was that '84?
Dan: Oh, the challenger? '85, I think.
Greg: I?d say '85. But that not my
earliest childhood memory, I got a bunch, but I
don't think that they should be shared with the
public, actually. (laugh)
HV: All right, so is there anything about
you guys that you don't usually tell people,
that they'd be surprised to find out about you?
Greg: That we're heterosexual. That
we're heterosexual. (laugh) That Mat's heterosexual. (laugh)
Dan: Not really, I'm pretty open.
Greg: Yeah.
Garret: If we tell you, then there's
no surprise.
Greg: Yeah, there's no surprise.
There's some things left... that should remain in
the closet, you know. (laugh)
Jonny: There you go.
Greg: Contradiction, man. You got to, you know...
HV: Do you have any guilty pleasures?
Garret: Fieldy's Dream.
Greg: Yeah, Fieldy's Dream.
Dan: Yeah, we like cheesy music. Some of
our favorites stuff --
Greg: Dan, you're out of control with
the Fieldy. Tell them.
Dan: Oh, I don't know.
Greg: Come on, that's a good guilty pleasure.
Dan: There's this guy, Fieldy, you know, the
bass player for KORN, has a solo record. Have you
heard it, his solo record? It's the worst music
that has ever been recorded.
Jonny: It's a rap record.
Dan: It's a rap record, but it's
so terrible and so idiotic... and I can't get enough
of it. I listen to it everyday. So there's that.
Jonny: Avril Lavigne.
Greg: Jonny and I like Avril Lavigne songs.
Jonny: Yeah, a couple of them.
Greg: All the ones I've heard. I like
them all. Only about four of them, but...
HV: That's all the questions.
Greg: That's all the questions? All right.
HV: Thank you guys. |
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