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RKL Rich Kids on LSD (band) RKL Right Knee Lever (part of a pedal steel guitar, used to modify chords) has decided to go for what's rightfully theirs. This is no reunion show, this is for keeps. RKL is back with a vengeance, and lead singer Jason Sears Jason Sears (23 January 1968—31 January 2006) was an American punk rock vocalist best known for his work with Rich Kids on LSD. He was also an accomplished snowboarder who was part of the first Barfoot snowboarding team. tells all about the resurgence of one of the greatest punk bands of all time. Go ahead and take a dose... Schmitty Talk about hanging out in the vats when you first moved to SF. We were down in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. getting bored, so I went up and saw a show at the Mabuhay Gardens The Mabuhay Gardens (aka The Fab Mab) was a San Francisco nightclub located at 443 Broadway, on the Broadway strip of North Beach, an area best known for its strip clubs. . The show was killer. I went back home and said "We got to get up there and play. We just got to get in the van and go." So we went to the same club, and played a show, but we didn't have a place to stay. There was an abandoned squat next door to the Mab on Osgood, and a bunch of guys A Bunch of Guys (BOGs), or Group of Guys (GOGs) are terms used by counter-terrorism officials to refer to small, self-organizing terrorist cells.[1] BOGs typically have little to no contact with global terrorist groups like al Qaeda, so they independently plan and were over there partying and drinking. We told 'em we didn't have a place to stay, so they said "We got a perfect place, it's called the Vats." At 16-years-old, it's a dream come true to be some street skate People occasionally use In-line_skates, skateboards or other similar devices to tour around cities such as London and Paris. Such events are normally organized by a group of volunteers. For examples of such groups, see the web sites for the London Friday Night Skate and Pari Roller. punks cruising San Francisco and ending up at the Hamm's Brewery Vats. They didn't have a vat for us so they gave us a room at the bottom of the stairway that everyone used for the bathroom. It was gnarly (jargon) gnarly - /nar'lee/ Both obscure and hairy. "Yow! - the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang. getting down to where we stayed cause you. had to walk through this stairway that everyone pissed in. But once we got down there we had a room and we moved our equipment in and had a practice area with the guys from DRI See Digital Research. . You're working on a new album? It's a little tough, with both bands working. Lagwagon is writing a new album and RKL is writing a new album. It's a slow process, being that so many members are in both bands. What happened to Bomber? I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. , Bomber is a musical genius. He has so much to offer. We were playing and things were going good, but I think there were personal problems amongst members. Right now RKL is at a spot where the last thing we want is tension between band members because that is what we had for years. We want it to be fun now and if it's not fun then there's no point in doing it. Musically, I think our ideas were headed in different directions. Having Bomber was great, but having Lil' Joe back is fun for me. What happened with your snowboard career? The truth. Yeah. Drugs. You were pretty into it though, right? Sponsored and all that? Sponsored by Barfoot. I had a couple two-page spreads. I was doing the whole thing, going to contests. I was so true to Barfoot snowboards back then. Barfoot was such a small company that they got lost in the quality of production and the other companies started producing boards that were better. The new Barfoots are some of the best boards around, but back then they were still wood and inset edges. I was so stuck--I would rather buy a Barfoot than ride any other board. I was getting frustrated that I wasn't progressing as fast as Wanted because of my equipment. Between that and the drugs...I mean, cut through the crap, it was the drugs. What roll has skateboarding played in the band? All of it. We wouldn't have chosen this route if weren't involved in skating and the lifestyle, the fast and hard-edge lifestyle that goes with skateing. Music and skating were great outlets for the way we were feeling as kids. The first US tours we did, we had boxes of skate equipment and the only way we could survive was when we got, into town, go straight to the park, pass out a flyer that we were playing, and sell boards for gas money. Our U-Haul had more skate stuff than musical equipment. When we pulled info town, it was "Who cares where the club is. Where's the park?" What band member would win in a high ollie contest? I started skating a long time ago. I'm more of a halfpipe half·pipe or half pipe n. A smooth-surfaced structure shaped like a trough and used for stunts in sports such as in-line skating and snowboarding. skater. I had a big blue vert ramp in my backyard that was in the Powell Future Primitive video. Joe is just incredible. There are photos of him ollieing a trash can playing bass. I don't think I can ollie a trash can--I can barely ollie a beer can. How many times would you say that you've played live on doses? A lot. For the extended RKL interview, go to thrashermagazine.com |
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