Easily Amused
Virus: Tell me about your upcoming CD.Ben: Well it's going to be called, "Defeeted" and will have like 14 tracks I think.
Tom: Ya it's 14.
Ben: Yeah, and it should be out in May.
Zack: We've worked our asses off for it!
Tom: Heh.
Ben: Yeah it's taken forever to get it out.
Tom: Ya countless setbacks.
Virus: What were some of the set backs?
Tom: Me being grounded.
Zack: Me being grounded.
Tom: Constantly.
Virus: That must have sucked.
Ben: Yeah, seems to happen a lot.
Tom: Very much so, but we snuck out to band practice a few times and improvised what we could. We just wanna get this damn thing out, and once again we are doing everything ourselves.
Zack: Cuz we're some cheap bastards.
Virus: How long did it take you to finish it?
Zack: 5 months?
Ben: It took like 6 months, yeah.
Tom: But the way we did it was record like song by song, over a long period of time.
Ben: Yeah we did 2 or 3 songs per recording session.
Zack: We wrote songs while we were recording the album.
Ben: That's why it took us so long.
Virus: Is it out?
Ben: No it should be out in May though.
Virus: Where was it recorded?
Tom: Mamma Studios.
Zack: Upstairs Momma recording studio.
Ben: Haha yup.
Virus: How where the songs on the new album written?
Ben: Well we all kinda write the songs together.
Tom: I usually write lyrics.
Zack: One of us writes a part, then another will write a part to go with it.
Ben: Like well have a practice and one of us will write one part, and then everyone will revise that part...and well continue till we have the song, and Tom writes the lyrics.
Tom: ...and they are usually about or are metaphors of shitty things that happened to us.
Virus: What do you think is the best thing to write songs about?
Zack: Food. That's just my opinion.
Tom: Haha.
Ben: Yeah food is a popular subject.
Zack: I wrote the food song if you've heard it.
Tom: We don't like to write songs about girls.
Virus: Good.
Tom: That's why we have none, that theme is played out.
Ben: Yeah.
Tom: And we hate it actually, right?
Zack: Hate is a strong word.
Ben: Correct.
Zack: I'd say dislike.
Tom: Heh dislike it*.
Virus: How do you feel about independent bands who hold the DIY ethic and sign to a major label?
Ben: Bands that are still DIY on major labels?
Virus: Do you think that's possible?
Tom: Not to many of those are there?
Ben: Well, I don't think being on a major means you've sold out. I mean for example, Less Than Jake. Now they are on Fat, but before they were on Capitol. But they weren't really exploited on radio or tv play or anything.
Virus: But are there exceptions to that?
Tom: I'm sure there are exceptions, there are exceptions to just about everything.
Virus: Are you personally looking for label support?
Tom: What do you guys think?
Ben: Haha yeah I guess so. We've talked about it and everything.
Zack: We're going to use this CD to try to get on a label I think.
Virus: I'm not condemning it, I'm just curious about your opinions on it.
Ben: Yeah, I don't think we would ever be on a major.
Tom: Ya.
Zack: We don't want to just jump into something though.
Ben: But I don't judge bands just cuz their on a major.
Tom: I second that.
Virus: Do you think it's possible to achieve success by DIY?
Zack: YES.
Ben: Ya.
Virus: (I think so too)
Tom: Definitely.
Virus: Do you consider yourselves a political band?
Tom: I'm not to sure on that one.
Ben: We have political beliefs, but I don't think they slip into our lyrics a lot. We have songs a few that graze the subject, but as of now not really.
Tom: Right Zack!!??
Zack: Si senor.
Virus: What do you hope to achieve with this band?
Ben: I think that we would like to make a career out of it.
Zack: Yea that would be nice.
Tom: Yes playing music and getting payed for it, thats just about the best thing I can think of for a living.
Ben: Yeeuh we ain't in it for the money though.
Tom: Anti sell out though.
Zack: Yea, but money is always nice to have.
Tom: Ya just doing it for the cause.
[I grab a coffee, and Kyler shows up]
Virus: Who are your favorite local bands to play shows with?
Zack: The Sandwich Mafia was, but they're dead now.
Kyler: Willknots and Tripwire.
Ben: Tripwire.
Tom: Yeah may they rest in peace, and they're guitar player burn in hell (mafia).
Kyler: Yep.
Ben: Isn't that a little harsh?
Zack: Yea get off it.
Tom: Cause he quit.
Virus: Your worst soundguy experience.
Zack: That was at battle of the bands at our school.
Kyler: Yeah that sucked.
Tom: Ya.
Ben: Yes.
Tom: Man just not rockin.
Virus: What happened?
Ben: My guitar was really out of tune.
Kyler: We completely sucked....like Tom every night.
Zack: One of the guys from another band untuned Ben's guitar or something.
Ben: And the levels were also off the vocals. Yeah, those damn emo bastards.
Tom: Because some bitch band untuned it before the show, some emo band.
Zack: Yea and it was our first impression in front of a bunch of people from school.
With their much anticipated and promising debut CD only a few weeks away, the guys of Easily Amused are even busier than usual, tied everything together. Check back, we'll let you know on the Noise page when it's out and how you can get it