Tuk: You are exactly right because everything now in the music world is being thrown away and it’s just made for the moment and people put out an mp3 or throw it up on sound cloud and it’s like real disposable but when you get the vinyl it’s just more of a classic way of doing it. KCM: Also you can easily just forget about a band from an mp3. You know, you can never forget a band by their visual stuff. Tuk: Exactly which I think it’s missing in rock n roll along with cool imagery. It’s like no one wants to be a band anymore or have that. KCM: I agree and now speaking of that your band has a very different look you know musical and visually so let’s talk about that whole style that you guys have. Tuk: Well I guess to me when I was a kid I was really into punk rock and ever since I was like 6 years old I was raised on ACDC and CCR basically classic rock and it was always audio visual to me. The music is what it’s about but it was always
the visual too and my favorite bands are all audio visual bands. I’m not saying I am gonna like a band because they don’t have a look but I do like that and that’s what I am drawn too. Like I said I think we are missing this in today’s music. I don’t know how the Ramones would have been if they didn’t look the way they did or The Clash, Kiss, and Alice Cooper. To me that was part of the allure the excitement of rock n roll. Right now the whole aesthetic in any scene is that it’s not cool to care and everyone wants to look like they don’t care and I just want to have a rock n roll band. I want it to look like a gang; I want it to like a gang as if we were in “The Warriors” or something like that. The Ramones looked like a gang you know, so I kind of want to bring that back and have it fit in with the music if I’m explaining it right. KCM: No I get what you’re saying because when I first saw you opening for Ace on the last night of the B.B Kings shows and I had looked you up before and I thought oh my God this band is so punk and they look like a bunch of brothers like the Ramones did. That’s the first thing I thought of and it’s great because no one is really doing that anymore and I think it’s important to keep punk alive specially being such a big punk fan. I just have to throw something at you here do you know Johnny Thunders? Tuk: Of course I love Johnny Thunders. KCM: Wow not that many young people know or like him. Tuk: Are you serious? KCM: I am very serious. Tuk: I am a music person and my religion is rock n roll. I love it so I try to know as much as I can. KCM: I am the same way. Other people that I associate with are not into rock n roll and are clueless about it and other people that are into rock n roll still don’t know everything and Johnny Thunders is one of them. Tuk: Really? I mean he’s like one of the classics how can you not know him. Every person doing the head movement and every 80s guitar player ripped off Johnny Thunders moves. KCM: Oh totally. Tuk: He had the hair first and there wouldn’t be Nikki Sixx if there was no Johnny Thunders. KCM: Of course and people don’t understand that. Of course people from the 80s would but people from our time just take everything for granted.