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Blistering.com: You’ve had the revolving door of members, where everyone’s left at one point or another. Do you feel you have a bit more stability on that end?
JR: For touring, yes. We have a unit that we could go out and do a tour. As far as the revolving door of members, you never know. Personalities and life…life’s changing so fast and everyone’s getting older. Our bass player’s [Cristian Hernandez] not here today because he’s dealing with stuff. It changes so fast. As far as being on the road, we finally have a unit that needs to go on the road, or is willing to be on the road.
It’s a hard question because you have to give up a lot to be on the road and be willing to do this. The three people that I would say have been here all along – Rob, Cristian and I – we really got tight and it’s a friendship that the three of us have never really experienced until going through this. As far as that, we found it. The fact that Bret came back, all of the pieces that made sense, fell into place, and finding a stand in to come in and join the band. I think we finally found what it was that needed us to be able to the job that we were supposed to do all along that we weren’t able to do all along. It’s hard to say. Who knows what tomorrow holds for anybody.
I’ll put it this way…or bass player left [on tour] the day of his anniversary. That’s a big fucking thing. His first year anniversary…that shows where it holds and stands for us.
Blistering.com: By getting back on the road, you’ve been off of touring for a while. Do you find fans that are reconnecting with Onesidezero where they were fans a while ago? What kinds of reactions do you get?
RB: The funny ones you get are “whoa! I thought you guys were dead.” There were people that were really surprised and didn’t know. We just played Colorado Springs a few months ago. The day after we played there, we got a Myspace from some girl who’s like “I’m so bummed. I didn’t even know you were together, and I see you on the marquee the day after you play.” So there’s a mixture. Some people have remained true and always stuck around. There are the people we’re picking up that are brand new. I’m sure there are some that have gone away. That’s the other thing about being on an indie. We’re not gang blasted over MTV. We don’t have all sorts of press going on. Stuff like this, and being out on the road is the only way to reach out again.
Brett Kane: And keep making good music. Good music will keep people coming. It happens with a lot of bands too. They make different albums and try different kinds of things. Sometimes it’s a revolving door.
Blistering.com: Something you didn’t get to do last time around is tour Europe. What’s happening with that?
RB: We had a tour all lined up. It was being booked. Some of it was confirmed. Our headliner, who we will leave anonymous, ran into some things and we were unable to do that. But that being said, our German label, Tieff-Druck Musik, was working really hard at it, and seeming getting cool responses. So they’re working right now on another one for us to get us out there before summer.
JM: I want to play Lennon Live. It’s on the HD Channel. All of the bands that are coming through Europe…it’s like Reverb, except for London. It’s awesome. I’d love to get out there. If we get out there, we have to work that out. It’s the victim of the industry right now. It’s not anybody’s fault. The headlining band, I’m sure is just as bummed, or more bummed than we are. We’re bummed we’ve never been [to Europe]. We’ve had the opportunity once before to go to Europe and our label said no. We hope our day will come. It’s nobody’s fault. It’s the circumstances of the industry is right now. It’s hard for everybody. We happened to be the victims of it, because we’re the low man on the totem pole. But we’ll keep going. For us, we’re not going to Europe. Let’s start doing the States.
Blistering.com: Have you just toured the entire US or just the West Coast?
RB: Probably five times over.
JR: There are very few states we haven’t been, like Montana, South Dakota, and Alaska.
RB: We’ve done it several times.
JR: To go back to the question you asked earlier, you asked about meeting people that either remember or forget…it definitely sets your mind. The perfect example is Burger King taking the Whopper off in the commercials they’re running about the Whopper. That would be this - out of sight, out of mind. You take it off, and they’re freaked out. But next week, if the Whopper’s gone, then it’s gone. So we never sold platinum records and shit like that. But we do have a core group of fans that keep us going and what keeps us going with hopes that maybe we’re reaching new people. Sometimes you get it. You play a show and all of a sudden, 16 year olds are hitting you up on your Myspace. They’re the ones who’re willing to go into Best Buy and hang out at the mall and buy your record. Still there’s a little bit of that. It’s back and forth. It really is. Yes, people forgot.
Blistering.com: You got more airplay on KROQ (LA radio station) this time around than the debut?
JR:We were the “Catch of the Day” a lot on the first record. We made number three for a few weeks. “New World,” the single that supposed to start the record and “Instead Laugh” was going to be the big push over. With the label not pushing it and the things that went down with Maverick, but Kat from KROQ got our back on this record 100 percent. Fell in love with the band and really pushed us. A lot of it is relationships. It’s people believing in us. We did get more airplay and we’re appreciative because it’s Kat…and Stryker. Stryker gave her the CD, because he knew it would fit for the Locals Only kind of thing. We weren’t coming straight out of the box. There was no money to be put in. There’s no push this single. There’s no major label to push it.
RB: And then we fell in love with Kat. Then she added us to KROQ LA Invasion, which was cool. We ended up headlining the second stage, which was awesome.
Blistering.com: That exposure must have helped a lot.
JR: You know what? Rebuilding is rebuilding. We got a taste of it and we’re grateful for it. So there’s no animosity. The fact that we go on tour and there are people at our shows on tour. I’m reading emails from bands that are like ‘how are you touring? Could you give me some insight?’ We’re able to do it naturally. It becomes something that’s easy for us to go on tour. There’s nothing that’s stopping us. That’s a beautiful thing.
RB: The funny thing, along with that is that our whole touring experience has been 100% backwards. We started in phat ass buses and now we’re doing vans and RVs. But the cool thing is that there are no attitudes. It’s cool. We make our van into our bus. We get along good now. Obviously, any one of us would give anybody a part to be lying down in a nice, giant bus. But we’re still out there doing it.
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