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Interview: Boiled Eyesocket Disfunction
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Boiled Eyesocket Disfunction is:
Brad the Blastimic Butt Burgler - Drums, farting, fetus related
noises...
Kaptain Karl (supposedly with the Klap) - Demon bass, insane voices,
multiple personalities.
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The Mic: What got this band together and started in this business?
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B.E.D.: We all worked together at a busy restaurant, in fact, all of us
(this was when we were still a 4some), had been working in restaurants for 10
or more years apiece. We decided enough was enough, and took the negative
energies spawned by years of being overworked and underpaid, and put it into
learning music, and playing as a band. We lost 2 of our members to personal
issues, and decided after much discussion, to proceed as a 2 piece.
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The Mic: Who writes and produces all the material for the band?
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Band: We tag team things. We have both written lyrics, and continue to
do so. Kaptain Karl does most of the lyrical arrangements, and music, beings
that theres only 2 of us, is a collaboration.
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The Mic: Does the band play in front of or with any acts our readers would
know from the mainstream?
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Band: We have payed with The Roman Holiday, The Cast Pattern, Saint
Diablo, and most recently, The Tards! I dunno about mainstream, but Saint
Diablo just wrapped up their latest tour and are in the studio recording a
new CD (I think).
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The Mic: Where can people access your music on the web?
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The Mic: Any embarrassing moments on stage?
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Yeah, and its on YouTube. I actually called the wrong song name for one of our
songs, but I guess thats not bad since that's the "most embarrassing" thing
so far.
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The Mic: Any good stories you want to tell us?
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We think its kinda funny that after tormenting our neighbors in Hutchinson,
Kansas for 4 years, and not getting a single show, withing 2 months of moving
here to Kansas City we were booked for 2 dates, and we just played our first
show in Hutchinson, almost a year after moving out of there.
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The Mic: Who is the bands musical influence?
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Our influences are wide and varied, including, but not limited to, Overkill,
Carcass, the Dead Kennedys, Primus, Cannibal Corpse, GWAR... I'll stop there.
Kaptain takes influence from everything around him, not just "music", but
sounds in general.
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The Mic: How did the band get together?
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By working together. I had actually never played bass until BBBB approached me
and Ridiculous Bastard (original guitarist) with the idea. We picked up the
fourth on the bottom of my boot, and a short time later scraped him off with a
putty knife. I bought a Peavey Fury 5 string, and a 10 watt amp, and off we went!
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The Mic: What is your musical background like?
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I started playing music when I was a kid, harmonica for several years, then
alto sax all through high school ( I was even in the jazz band). I stopped
playing regularly after high school, but had wanted to play bass since I was
12, so I figured fuck it, I'll play the bass.
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Brad played drums for a bit when he was in high school, and had fiddled with
guitars for awhile as well. After we disposed of Lance (the dirty hippie first
drummer, I'll never tell you where...) BBBB decided to step up and take the
throne. He now blasts away at the leathers, and is continuing his education
in destruction with none other than Casey Miller, formerly of Cassiopia.
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The Mic: What is the TOP reason why you want to play music?
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Because music is life for both of us, and at this point, I've seen enough of
the same shit over and over and over, its time for a change. So we are doing
what we do, and people so far are loving it. We both use music as a positive
outlet to negative energies, of which there is generally plenty. Anger,
frustration, humor, its very raw, and we plan to keep it that way.
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The Mic: How do you get the word out about your music?
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We use the internet like a couple of diseases infested hookers whos goal in
life is to infect every of their customers with Gonnoreah. Seriously. I also
have a habit of running down random people in the street and giving them CDs
and stickers and shamelessly plugging Boiled Eyesocket Disfunction at any
given opportunity. You know what, quit reading this and go to
http://www.myspace.com/boiledeyesocketdisfunction
and listen to our songs NOW.
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The Mic: How is your local response to your music?
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So far so good... save for one person.... who will remain unnamed. All the
bands we've played with have really enjoyed it as well. Our CD doesn't do our
live show justice, the intensity is... well... riveting... so we've been told.
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The Mic: What is the furthest you have traveled for a gig?
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So far only a couple hundred miles, but thats going to change this summer.
We have plans, including tenatively Flagstaff, AZ, and Des Moines, IA. Have
van, will travel.
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The Mic: What tune on the CD are you most proud of?
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Well, everyone loves the f-word out of "Chainsaw Rape Victim", Brad's personal
fave is "Popcorn Fetus", and I love the way "A Perfect Murder, Complete" turned out.
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