We’ve been received well and we’ve been selling tons of merch which is always a good sign, tee shirts, CD’s and all that. KCM: The variety of your merchandise and the packaging of your CD are absolutely amazing. Mickey: For the merch store I have to give a shout out to our bass player Danny Dangerous because he really put a lot of time into making sure that we have a lot of variety on the road and we learned early on that’s what works and you need patches and buttons and stickers and all kinds of stuff because you know a lot of kids if they don’t have money for a tee shirt they can get a patch or sticker and it all helps to advertise the band. The other thing is to try to keep it affordable to everyone. KCM: How did you come up with the band name? Mickey: Danny and I got together and we decided to start the band and before we had the drummer and the guitar player we started tossing some names around and some of the song title’s for the first record and the band name came out of just a list of stuff that we compiled and that one just jumped off right off the page and I just did a Google search to make sure no one else had it and it didn’t take long for that one to click with us. KCM: The name kind of goes with the whole concept and the imagery. Mickey: Yeah exactly but it’s not too typical and not too specific. It’s just a good sounding name. KCM: It sounds like everything clicked for you guys just at the right time. Mickey: Yeah that’s exactly true. Really we wrote six songs and then we booked a gig and then the
phone just started ringing off the hook and really for the next few months we played shows with only six songs and there were many night’s where people wanted more and we were like; we don’t have any more songs. Then we took a break and wrote the second half of the record and got in a studio and it’s been really, really busy two and a half years. KCM: So where did you play your very first show, L.A. right? Mickey: The first gig we played was at a club called “Bordello” which is right off the First street Bridge down town and it’s a great venue. A lot of people do photo shoots there and it’s decorated like oh I don’t know L.A. KCM: How was the reception? Mickey: : It was great! Actually a woman named Shane from Libertalia our booking agency that we just signed with in the last couple of months she came to our first show and she remembered us from our former bands in the 80’s and 90’s and she was impressed enough to give me her card and say; Give me a call when you’re not too busy and that’s what we did because we just couldn’t handle all the bookings and offers coming at us so we contacted her and it was like another year of her fighting to get us signed to the agency convincing the owner and everybody and also them making some room on their roster. So now we have Libertalia, we’re getting better shows and better money and we’re gonna just keep on plugging away. KCM: A lot of people wish they were in your place. Mickey: Well it’s a lot of hard work. KCM: Exactly but there you go. You came up with an original idea and I have to say