{"id":29821,"date":"1999-12-01T11:01:35","date_gmt":"1999-12-01T16:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=29821"},"modified":"2014-11-08T18:17:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T02:17:03","slug":"the-pilfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/the-pilfers\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PILFERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE PILFERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Anyway, it\u2019s all rock \u2018n roll\u2019<\/strong>
\n photo and words by Crash<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, that pretty much was the case. Also the irony of meeting people in some tight ass restaurant in Venice when you used to bomb the same falafel stand 3000 thousand miles away on Houston after leaving Max Fish. Not all ska is shiny happy and NYC two tone does not suck.<\/p>\n

Nick- \u2018Anyway it\u2019s all rock n\u2019 roll\u2019. Roddy from the Specials said that to me.
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you serious?<\/strong>
\nYeah, that\u2019s where that came from. He was walking by and I said, \u2018Hey you\u2019ve been doing a lot of drinking before the show, are you going to soundcheck?\u2019 he says something great in cockney that you can\u2019t understand \u201carrr-ahhrg, anyway, it\u2019s all rock n roll\u201d. He had some chicks that were all over him and he jut got so drunk.
\nCoolie-They broke out on him, it looked like he had them and then they just broke out. \u2018anyway it\u2019s all rock n roll\u2019. It was funny.<\/p>\n

-Name, what you play and favorite song from the \u2018The Harder They Come\u2019<\/strong>
\nVinny, I play trombone, and um…what\u2019s the one…\u2019one more slice of Johnson\u2019s wedding cake, another bottle of kola wine\u2019… Fine and Dandy.
\nA-I\u2019m Anna, I play bass, same song.
\nJ-James, I play drums, and Johnny Too Bad.
\nR-This is Rick, guitar and Many Rivers Too Cross.
\nCoolie-Country Boy.<\/p>\n

-Exactly what are you pilfering?<\/strong>
\nA-Anything, I pilfered some Sharpies from the record label today
\nV-(gestures at food) Anything we get gratis,
\nwe\u2019re very cool about it, you won\u2019t even know.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

-Why do you play two tone style?<\/strong>
\nV-Just our backgrounds, it\u2019s the music I think we\u2019re most interested in as a whole.<\/p>\n

-You guys are from all pretty big bands. What are you doing now that you hadn\u2019t before?<\/strong>
\nV-Taking the music in a different direction. I was in Bim (Skala Bim) for ten years and after that it kind of burnt out for me, or I burnt out on it and wanted to go in a more punk, heavier kind of direction and they weren\u2019t into that so I jumped ship. Coolie called me one night and he said he quit the Toasters, and I realized at that point I had to quit Bim. Then we started exchanging songs and then we went through a bunch of players, we got James, and James got Anna. Then we got Nick from the Village Voice. From the personals section. I said \u2018looking for guitar player, get your ass down here, we\u2019ve got a gig in two weeks.\u2019<\/p>\n

Where did you play your first gig?<\/strong>
\nC-The Cooler! (NYC)
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that they closed Coney and Tramps what should you do to fight Guliani’s regime?<\/strong>
\nC-Storm the building, grab him by his ankles throw rope around \u2018em and drag him through the streets of New York.
\nA-Blast him with mosquito spray.
\nN-He\u2019s evil.
\nC-Keep talking, keep it out there. start an anti-Guliani league.<\/p>\n

How has New York changed for you personally?<\/strong>
\nN-Can\u2019t buy weed anymore, it\u2019s gotten too expensive.
\nV-It\u2019s not like the olden days in New York.
\nJ-They\u2019re running you out.
\nV-Used to be able to smoke joints walking down the street, can\u2019t do that anymore. You\u2019ll go to jail for that now.
\nN-The Lower East Side has become like Soho, art yuppie land. Right near where I live used to be a no mans land. You know what was there was the Gas Station 2nd and Ave B where GG Allin used to stick microphones up his ass.
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n

Played his last show there.<\/strong>
\nN-Yeah, and now there\u2019s this co-op that\u2019s twenty six hundred.
\nV-It\u2019s nice to walk around and not get mugged though.
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s a safer city, but…<\/strong>
\nV-There\u2019s a drawback.
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n

Disney took over Times Square.<\/strong>
\nC-Used to see Kung Fu movies there, now all those places are gone.
\nV-Guliani\u2019s out, now Hillary\u2019s gonna kick his butt.
\nN-He\u2019s gonna have to commit suicide like Hitler!
\nJ-There\u2019s this track, it\u2019s all of us but it\u2019s really just Vinnie singing with Hasidic New Wave, a cover of the Dead Kennedys \u201cCalifornia Uber Alles\u201d except it\u2019s \u201cGuliani Uber Alles,\u201d it\u2019s great.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019re touring with the Pietasters who are sharp dressers. Are you wearing suits more often now?<\/strong>
\nC-Man, I told them I would never wear a suit, it used to be predominately skinhead, rude boy and a certain dress code of jacket, now the skaters, the punk rockers bunch of different people are checking us out.
\n-Sometimes when you\u2019re playing and look out into the crowd, do they ever skank in unison?
\nN-We have sections in the set where I\u2019m just playing solo and we get people to clap in time, and you can kind of gauge how rhythmic a town is, whether it sounds like rainfall, or if they speed up or slow down.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the most rhythmic town?<\/strong>
\nJ-I can remember the worst, Humboldt County when we played with Mustard Plug.
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n

They were probably just stoned.<\/strong>
\nJ-The bigger towns generally have better rhythm. (everybody laughs) I don\u2019t know what it is, they just can clap better.
\nV-Let us ask you questions, what are your influences?
\nN-Yeah, where did your parents get your name?
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n

They were going to call me this but there was a kid down the street with the same name so they named me something else (everybody laughs).<\/strong>
\nJ-What do you have to say about this-here is the only man in the business that gets away with wearing his own gear and looks fly in it.
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is your own clothing?<\/strong>
\nC- Yeah. (shows the Pilfers logo of robber guy with a sack of loot)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know, looks like he\u2019s got a lot in that sack, that\u2019s not a small amount.<\/strong>
\nC-He got that a lot of different places, that\u2019s like a week of work!<\/p>\n

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