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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Quotes

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Quotes

Well, it was like six or seven years ago and it was just the shortest distance between two points, where you decide to start a band and then you're literally playing the next night. I mean, with the amount of bad original material that's out there, we didn't really see any reason to add to the cannon of bad original music, you gotta give some of these songs a
Spike Slawson

"A year or two ago we did a few local shows, But we've never done a national tour before. We're doing the whole warped tour this year, though. The complete line-up."
Chris

"At one point Mike thought it would be funny to put a replacement tour together with Spike, since he was just the Fat Wreck Chords shipping person at the time and didn't have any other bands he was committed to,"
Chris

Well, it's not really a question of choice, it's more what we're physically capable of doing, which is pretty limited. So, it's this sort of process of elimination, we'll try to play like 25 songs and then only one song will actually sound good, so we start from there. That was kinda where we got the idea of releasing 7"s. It's the only actual approach to being in a band that I've ever been involved in, like the approach we take when releasing songs and I'd never done anything like that before in other bands. We walk in and go 'here's the idea, we put out 500 copies of each 7". It's super limited and it's either going to be totally meaningless or elevate you to some weird mythical rarity.
Spike Slawson

They're just people without a care in the world, that somehow wind up being criminals by the time they're like 14 or 15 and stuff like that, so that's Santa Barbara, I grew up in Pittsburgh, so the violence and crime there was excusable cause the town was disintegrating around us, but anyway, here I am in California!
Spike Slawson

Yeah, of course. Alcohol gives you this gender tolerance and acceptance and then suddenly with alcohol Mike turns into Archie Bunker.
Spike Slawson



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