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Wednesday, May 31, 2006I just did an e-interview with a magazine in Ft. Wayne, Indiana called WhatzUp.1. How did you first arrive at your trademark no-amp sound when playing live? Somebody forgot to bring a PA to the first gig. We played anyway with no mikes and found out that if we got the audience to be quiet, they could hear us perfectly. It dawned on us that people had been playing that way from the creation of the first instrument till the day somebody assembled the first PA system. Why couldn't we? We did it for ten years. Of course it's a moot point now because for the past three years almost all of our gigs have been amplified. 2. (I had already answered question 2 in question 1.) 3. How large of a role does improv (either lyrically or musically) play in a typical live show? It depends on the show. I used to improv an encore at every gig. Most of the banter between songs is improv. There's a couple of prepared speeches. There's a space in the song, My Favorite Record, where I get to sing whatever song pops into my head. I've sung everything from Dio to Bee Gees to Butthole Surfers to Spinal Tap to show tunes in that spot. It's one of my favorite moments of the night. 4. Do you ever have anyone showing up at your shows expecting, I don't know, something sort of pleasantly old-timey and kind of tame, and then complain later because of some of the show's racier content? How would you respond to that? Besides smacking them upside the head? Anyone who walks into any situation with expectations is setting themselves up for disappointment. If you come to one of our shows expecting to get laid and it doesn't happen, how you gonna feel? 5. The band has a great website. I see from your blog that rock music plays an important role in your development as a musician. I was wondering how you think that has affected your songwriting or your performance in the context of the Asylum Street Spankers, since, on a superficial level, the influence isn't obvious. No one can stop the rock, dude. I hope nothing about the band is obvious at a superficial level. As a matter of fact, I hope we have no superficial levels. 6. This probably changes for you all the time, but what song do you particularly look forward to playing live these days, and why? I really look forward to playing Whipping Post, which is a shame because we don't know it. 7. What would someone who only knows about the Asylum Street Spankers from listening to "The Bob and Tom Show" be most surprised about if they came to see you guys live? That we play naked. No seriously, the Bob and Tom fans are usually surprised that we have more songs than Scrotum and Pussy Cat. 8. What's your feeling about the unlicensed downloading of your music online? Is it a problem? I say go for it. If you dig it, buy the CD or a T-shirt or something. At least by the band a round of shots (that's six Jameson and a Patron. The Patron's for me, the sixth Jameson is for Pat, our sound guy.) 9. I would imagine you have a pretty loyal and devoted fanbase. What's the craziest/most surprising thing a fan has ever done for/to you guys? One guy took the entire band skydiving for free. Another time we drank all of the Pabst Blue Ribbon in a bar in Neena, Wi. The next time we played there a guy gave us a bowling ball on which he had painted the PBR logo - except the words said, ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS. A guy in Florida made us giant magnets of the Spanky Logo to put on our vans. There have been paintings, dinners, weed, baked goods, dentistry, etc... Our fans have given us a lot of great things and I'm not even counting the blow jobs. 10. If the Asylum Street Spankers had to formulate a mission statement in a single sentence, what would it be? No war, legal pot, free beer and great tunes. (If that doesn't work we'll have to go back to dope, guns and fucking in the streets.) See, now if they edit me, there'll be a record of what I really said. Nyaa nyaa nyaa. posted by Wammo at 4:46 PM
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God, I wish you guys played 'Whipping Post'
in the meantime....Tag, you're it! http://kevinswoodshed.blogspot.com/2006/06/eight-random-things-about-me-having.html
If you played a gig in Buffalo I could give any of the crew free criminal law representation arising from said visit.
Hell, I'd even facilitate some of the abovementioned activity! I'm like that. greetings
Absolutely LOVED "Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Yours SUV"!!!!!! This phenomena has been driving my absolutely batty from the get-go! Gorgeous harmonies, too. Couldn't get the song out of my head last night. Posted the video on my blog, too. Keep it up!
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