Ryan: hey I'm Ryan, I play guitar and I sing
Dan: I'm Dan, I play drums
John: I'm John, I'm bass
Stever: I'm Stever, I play guitar
Now u guys are fairly young. How old are u?
Ryan: I'm 14
Dan: 13
John: 14
Stever:14
And you're handling the band thing pretty well?
Ryan: yeah... It's going good for us
And u released a c.d. called "kicked"? *hold cd up to camera* Available where?
Ryan: ah... everywhere
Everywhere! If u want your hot little hands on one of these go to the record store!
-30 minute break-
*Pointing to c.d. cover* Who's foot is that?
Ryan: My guitar teacher, well was my guitar teacher
Now, your guitar teacher... how did he teach? Were u like : "I wanna learn power cords" and he was like "no, here's green sleeves"
Ryan: no, actually I kind of just learned from songs and stuff like that
Yeah that's the best way to learn
Ryan: Sometimes
-Plays a clip from Skidrow-
Let's talk about the video. I heard that something kind of funny happened?
Ryan: yeah
Dan: oh yeah...
First, where was the video shot?
Ryan: Shot at Ramsterdam skate park, um ... Toronto
Dan: And we had these smoke machines and the fire alarms went off and all the firemen came. There was a whole bunch of them... it was weird
Ryan: yeah and we had to keep working and it was ringing in our ears
Dan: yeah for like 15 minutes
Ryan: we were like "ahhhh!!" and it wouldn't stop
U should have used them in the video : "hey you, yeah you, yeah get the hose!"
*laughs*
Dan: they had axes and everything
Ryan: yeah the fireman came and they had axes and stuff. We were like woah
Also, u guys have an e-mail address?
Ryan: yep
So your fans can write in... Cuz there are fans... I've seen the video... where I can't say cuz this is YTV! SO do people send u lots of e-mails?
Ryan: Oh yeah, we get lots of e-mails
From fans...
Ryan: yeah
Girl fans!!! *claps* "woohoohoo!!"
Ryan: we get a lot of e-mails. We get stacks of them. It's hard to answer all of them sometime.
Are they dumb sometimes like "what's your fave color?" or "what's your fave food?"
Ryan: oh we get a lot of those kinds of things
- 30 minute break -
U were in the OPL video?
- Shows OLP clip -
Alright, so how did that come about?
Ryan: Well I've done commercials and stuff
Like one of these : "Tudy fruity, Tudy fruity licious!!"
Ryan: *laughs* yeah I guess so ... I've done cereal commercials and that. So yeah my agent got me hooked up with that. It was kind of weird at first cuz she didn't know who the band was. She was like : "I think it's a church group!!"
I got an idea... u do a video and u put Raine Maida in a dress *laughs* I don't think he would do it!!
- 30 minute break -
What c.d. is constantly in your c.d. player?
Ryan: Beastie boys, constantly in.
Dan: Deftones
John: Deftones
Stever: Deftones
Ok so who saw the warped tour?
Dan: oh I didn't get to
Ryan: I was there, but I had to split early
Are u guys doing school too?
Ryan: Oh yeah, um we just do all our work at school, do our homework. We don't fall behind or whatever.
Dan: If we did, we'd just slow down the music for a bit... catch up.
Who's the most famous band to have come up to u to say : "hey, u guys are great!!" ?
Ryan: um we did a song with Ken MacNeil from Rusty, which was pretty cool.
- 30 minute break -
*pointing to c.d. cover* now, do u look at this pic and go : "Oh man" cuz everyone's hair is different?
Dan: well I do!
*Pointing to Dan's pic* Woah what happened bro?
*Ryan sings: "hey, hey we're the monkeys"*
*Now pointing to Stever's pic*
Stever: I dunno what happened there, my hair is really blond anyway...
*Pointing to John's pic*... Your hair is pretty much the same, just turn the hat around...
John: yeah
So tell me, any advice for young guys or GIRLS starting bands?
Ryan: Practice, lots of practice... even though it gets boring sometimes... try and get a demo tape cuz those are very important
Do u ever have problems getting going on the same vibe?
Ryan: um, I don't think so, we kind of um...
Does anyone tune too much?
Ryan: * cute smile :-) * I know I tune a lot... I like the sound of a tuned guitar... I dunno what it is
Now being in studio, how was that like?
Ryan: It was definitely different for us. It's though to get right on and they're really demanding but the finished product is worth it
Are u happy with it?
Ryan: We have so many new songs that it doesn't completely sell us as a band
So when's the next one? Cuz this one has only 6 tracks??
Ryan: The next one... we're still wanting for the record deal!
OH everybody sign these boys up! Serial Joe big big big time... Do u want to eventually make it in the states?
Ryan: Oh yeah...
U wanna say: "Hello Indiana!"
Ryan: "Cleveland!!"
Totally, that would be wicked-