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Four ragged chairs, a musty smelling room, and a dim lightbulb are all that accompany the chaotic rock-n-roll lifestyle for Amen villain Casey Chaos. A few
hours out from show time and just finishing up a photo shoot and a local
Baltimore bowling alley, Casey is attaching an ankle brace and mending his wounds
from the brutal live show of nights past and sits down with me to talk about
touring with the Brides, the new band, and musicians being held responsible.
Brides are cool, I mean Nikki Sixx, Traci, really a known band.
It’s nice to be able to play in front of an entirely different audience for
us. To play in front of different people, so its cool.
Yeah, it’s a different audience. It seems like some people get it. That’
s why everything is so great. I’m actually surprised.
Our guitar player has his wisdom teeth impacted. So we leave him in
England. He had six months of impacted wisdom teeth while we were working,
overdosed in Amsterdam, than fucking had blood poisoning when we were in the UK. So,
he had to get his teeth, had to get all these super antibiotics, and get his
teeth figured out. He just needs to get his life figured out. He needs to get
some tender loving care.
Yeah it’s the Amen lifestyle. [laughter]
We go to Japan, then we do Summer Sonic, the festival over there. Then
probably I’d imagine like. Might do the System [Of A Down] tour. The future
always seems to be weird we’ll see what happens. [laughter].
I have and lung disorder. But that’s how it is, and how its always going
to be.
Your looking at it! [laughter]
Yeah, its very very luxurious.
It’s been really weird to be honest with you, because its like any
relationship you have with a girl or whatever, whatever kind you have, its amplified
by half when your in a band. So a little weird. The hardest member to find
was someone to replace on drums because I’m so hard on drummers. It took me long
enough so. But yeah, its been really.
I think we are going to post the demos as free downloadable on the
website, put some of them as b-sides. Hopefully someone will figure out what to do
with them. They can do whatever with they want.
Yeah, yeah. Its always that way. For me at least. Play a more intimate
crowd.
Yeah, its good. You mean, you know, we’ve been lucky. We’ve been really
lucky you know, because people have believed in our band. Our parents and
stuff. And all the people that work at Columbia are cool.
Yes! It is still that corporate stuff to go through. We were able to do
what we want and make it exactly the way we want which made it cool.
Well Ross was one of my best friends of mine. He always said I didn’t
need it. He produced the first record, the second Parents record I did
everything. He basically came in and tracked the vocals. He helped me, because I
can’t judge when I sing. When I play guitar, play bass, whatever. I can tell what I
can do. He basically came in and taught vocals. He is more like another set of
ears. And doing it this way it was different because it was a year, years
worth of work really, and it was so unorthodox the way I did it. And it was a
totally different experience. Daron is cool to work with, he is definitely a
visionary type of dude. Really really integrity based. Doesn’t bullshit. If I
sound like shit, he’ll say it.
I think it has become more personal because I’ve been drawn to people who
were fans of the band before they were in the band. The experience with the
political climate and the people it is really the same experience for me. I
think the people that are in the band, it makes more sense. The political climate
and everything that happened, makes more sense, hence some of the artwork
that we are using. I think it worked out.
That was the thing Daron really wanted. He said, “You know you really
shoot yourself in the foot as a songwriter, you need to really make these songs
shine.” That was something we never did in the past. That was something we
would intentionally not to. The focus was to make it a really really hard listen.
To make it as anti-commercial, and as anti-everything as possible. I think
this one definitely has more songs on it, at times definitely more brutal, and
has more songs. The best of both words really...
[laughter] I think people will be digging it. If they like what we’ve
done as band I think they will be happy with it. The album came out overseas
first and the reaction has been positive.
[laughter] Yeah that’s true. I think that people will hopefully get a
chance to hear it and maybe judge it for themselves. I think there is a lot of
different shit out there going on, and politics and stuff, and the political
climate.
Yeah, and I think its been more in respect in the sense of music. There
is so many people creating music for the wrong reason. As far as listeners go,
I think people now are hearing it now more than they did a few years ago. I
think people now are looking for that something that is more real, I think music
and people that create it should be held responsible.
You never know, but I think it will be a bad year for anyone who creates
shit for the wrong reasons. As is the case with Michael Jackson. [laughter]
[laughter] It could be worse. [laughter]
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