| This interview has been done in Glassjaw's tourbus before their show where they opened for Soulfly in Munich. |
| Could you please introduce yourself to our readers? |
| My name is Beck and I play guitar in a band called Glassjaw. |
| You've been to Europe some months ago opening for the Deftones. You also played those huge festivals like Rock Im Park or Rock Am Ring.... |
| It was a little weird, there was a different crowd. We didn't know anyone, no one knew us and we were like the opening act on the smallest stage of this huge festival...so it was kinda like "hey get the fuck of the stage"...but we had fun, we made the best of it. |
| And how was the rest of the Deftones tour? |
| It was awesome, it was like the coolest thing I've ever done. Like every other country was given thumbs up and it was really fun. |
| How do you feel like sometimes being pushed into this whole New Metal thing? |
| New Metal sucks. You know, we listen to all types of music, but no New Metal. Nor are we a new metal band,I think if you listen to the record you could see that, we're more of a Hardcore ... Post Hardcore band. Like our influences are more abstrackt. Our influences aren't Korn or Limp Bizkit, our influences are anything from like Earth Crisis to Elvis. It's not so obvious and cheesy as New Metal. I think there is a lot more to it than that. |
| How do you feel about Ross Robinson's statement that you are "The destroyers of the Post Millennium Adidas Rock"? |
| I think it's kind of funny, is it true? I don't think so, or that.....sure... *laughs* I think it's just a big fucking statement on a label to put on a band. I don't think that we are that popular yet. |
| Did you bring out any other recordings before your CD on Roadrunner? |
| We did an EP back in the days called "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" propably we'll gonna release it ourselves if we can, becaus I know like a lot of kids in America buying it for a lot of money, something like 70 Dollars on ebay and shit.So we try to repress it and sell it for like 10 Bucks on our website. Roadrunner doesn't do vinyl but I wanna put out vinyl of our record, because we all collect vinyl so it's kinda cool to have. |
| How would you explain your band to somebody who never heard about you? |
| Rock 'N Roll |
| How do you feel about Darryls illness being a topic in nearly every interview? |
| You know it's something that partially drives the band. It's about his life so that's his piece in the pie that's what he can bring into the band. So I mean it's ok. |
| I read an interview where Darryl said that he is also the keyboarder in Glassjaw...I didn't hear any in the CD? |
| He plays piano on one track, it's like a hidden track on our record. |
| You guys have reached a lot during the last year, like getting a deal with Roadrunner, touring with the Deftones but what would be the band you'd mostly like to tour with? |
| The Bad Brains. |
| How did you get to the name Glassjaw? |
| I was 14 and Darryl was 13 and that was just a name we picked when we were young and it sounded like a lot of the New York Hardcore bands at that time with all those two syllable names like Mouthpice, Bulldoze so it just made sense being young and stupid but we stuck with the name over the years now. So Glassjaw just stands for the band and has grown with it......but there is no further meaning. |
| Are you into politics? |
| No, I personally don't give two shits about it. |
| So how do you feel about the recount in Florida? |
| Well, I didn't vote or anything and I didn't pay too much attention on it. So I mean it's quite a coincidence that Bush's brother is the governor of Florida and that's where the votes are fucked up. So I say just do a recount. |
| Looking at your gig at Rock Im Park I saw three X es on your amps...are you guys Straight Edge? |
| I am and Darryls is but he doesn't like to say. But not everyone in the band is Straight Edge. |
| What does it mean to you personally? |
| To me it means self discipline and respecting myself and respecting others. |
| And how do you feel about bands that try to educate people to it or preach about it? |
| It got really popular and then people got sick of it! I think there is nothing wrong with it. It might get annoying but mentioning that it is a positive thing if you look at it is fine. I have no problems with bands talking about Straight Edge. I think it's kinda like cool as it is a positive thing. |
| How do feel about this whole do it yourself (DIY) thing? Have you been involved? |
| I've written in Fanzines when I was younger, we've all partaken booking shows here and there, we booked our own tours. But we couldn't tour much when we were young because Darryl was always sick. |
| How did you get to the cover? To me it's pretty much like a strong contrast to the music... |
| Like whenever we'd go visit Darryl in the hospital. Things were clean, there is no feeling around, so Darryl put alot of it into the record. So I thought it would make sense to have the record represent what he was going through and his very steril feeling. Like you look at the record and you see like that pillbox like that's what he uses everyday and if you go looking at these things you see that staying in an hospital sucks. |
| Do you already have songs for a new record? |
| Not really, we've been touring all time. |
| So what's up in the future? |
| We wanna do a lot more touring I think our label want's us to record a record but they can fuck off, fuck them....we wanna do more touring. I don't know what's going to happen and when we're ready we'll go and write a new record. |
| Any final words? |
| Everything I said was a complete lie, I'm a liar......No....I don't know, just thank you very much, we appreciate everyone enjoying the album. And if you never heard of us, go out and spend the 12 bucks..... |
