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Featured Band
Each month there will be a new featured band on the band page.  Sometimes I will choose a band and sometimes I will pick one based on a suggestion from you.  So if you know of an unknown band that needs some recognition, let me know and I will consider them for the following month.

Go Ahead, make my day...
The featured band for the month of November is Go Ahead.  This four-piece punk band made its way onto the local radio station, KGRG and are continuing to build up their fan base every day.  At the Battle of the Bands this year at Club I.M.P.A.C.T. they strutted their stuff the best they knew how and made it to the finals.  Good job guys!  They will be playing a free show on Wednesday, November 13th at Romio's Pizza in Federal Way.  They will also be contestants in the Seattle version of the Battle of the Bands at the I-Spy on November 24th, so make sure to check them out!  Visit their website for more information.  Check out some samples of their music on mp3.com!

A "Conversation" with Jawbreaker
Here is an excerpt from an interview with Jawbreaker that took place in 1994 in Chapel Hill, NC, and very quickly turned into a conversation with very few questions, and lots of crazy stories.  These guys are pretty funny and I happen to really like their opinions on the music industry.  Good stuff...

Sarah Wooten- So how has the tour been so far?

Blake- It's been really good.

Chris- Aside from getting searched by the cops in Georgia.

Blake- Things took an ugly turn yesterday in Gainesville, we missed our shirts and then had a run in with the fuzz. Up till then though we were batting six grand.

Chris- Yep.

-----silence------

Blake- Did you prepare questions for this?

Sarah- No, I have no questions at all.

Chris- No, she had no questions prepared, that's why I am trying to fill the silence. She told me this. I'm sitting here trying to think of something to say.

Chris- You at least have a tape recorder, there was this one person...

Blake- There have been interviews where people go, "Hey, hey wait. Hey, hey Jawbreaker, can we do an interview?" and we're like, alright. And you sit down and they go..... (----extended silence-----)

---laughter---

Adam- Band interviews are fucking lame anyway.

Blake- They are. We hate band interviews.

Adam- You know, it's been a long time since I climbed a tree. I was just looking at that tree over there.

Blake- Whoa! Is that lightning? It might be good if there's an electrical storm.

Chris- No, like that second crook there, I don't think you'll make it past that. It's gonna be hard enough getting to the first branch. You see, like, the first major split off? There's a huge gap there, no handles.

Blake- You know what happens when you don't have any questions? People babble about trees.

John- Tell the tale of the bar room brawl.

Chris- Bar room brawl, god that's scary. I lost all my copies of the Allied comp at that show. I lost a bag full of mail, three videos, because I lost all track of what was going on after chaos erupted. We did this benefit for the Shoshone Indians in San Francisco, shortly after coming back from our last American tour. And at the time, I had returned to be promptly dumped, and who should show up at the show but my dumpee, or dumper. No, I was the dumpee, they were the dumper. I had had too much to drink.

Blake- Like 36 beers.

Chris- Yeah, way too much to drink. And we went on stage and they decided to stand right in front stage center, which was really dumb. They had a lot to drink too. So I started freaking out and hid behind my amp bawling, and I couldn't remember any of the songs and this led to a certain degree of consternation among the other members of the band. And my inability to start songs on time led some goon from New York, who had been causing various other discrepancies, to start yelling something about in New York we would've finished by now, or something.

Blake- We wouldn't tolerate this shit in New York, referring to our dallying between songs trying to get Chris back on track.

Chris- To which Blake responded very [angrily] and said goon proceeded to move toward the stage. Didn't you challenge him to a fight? Didn't you say something like, c'mon, I'll take you?

--laughter--

Adam- I would say, "I lived in New York for six years and I'll beat the shit out of you", that's a challenge. So the goon starts toward the stage and is calling us out and before we know it, Bill, our friend and roadie, is punched in the face by the guy.

Chris- Then a friend, who shall remain nameless, breaks a bottle over this guys head.

Adam- And then everyone jumped on the stage and there was this huge fight.

Chris- I had my back to the audience at this time.

Adam- It was a three song set and probably the best show...

Thank you to  for the interview.