AGRESSION
So you guys are AGGRESSION
Tell me your names, age and...uh
what you like.
M.H.: m Mark Hickey, I sing, and
like Rock and roll
H.: My name's Henry, and I play
lead guitar
How old are you, Henry?
H: Age unknown
Mark, how old were you?
M.H.: I was thirteen, once
Next
B.C.: Tim Bob Clarke, I play bass,
love skateboarding, I love
THRASHER!!..
Rest of Band: Ahh, kiss-ass
come-on
M.: Tm Mark, Drums I'm 22, and i
Sxe Hanoi Rocks, that's all I can
say
MH: We started out about 3%
years ago. We just wanted to be a
fun band, then started to get a little
more serious. We went through a
few drummers, then we finally got
Mark about a year ago, right before
the album. It took us a long time to
finally do an album. We're getting
ready to go in and do our next
album, which will be a ten-inch EP.
and have about five or six songs on
I be on Mystic
Who's idea was the cover to your
last album
B.C.: Friedmans, ha-ha
M.H: As it was, we were nashed for
time, so anything sounded good. Do
you know who the picture is of?
Arthur Lake. What, do you think
I'm stupid?
H: Not that many people know that
M.I heard he'd died.
Again?
FEAR
stare
B.C.: Arthur, if you are alive out
there, why don't you write us and
we'll give you a free album. We've
got tons of free albums
How would you describe the
band's outlook?
M.H.: Speed Rock. That's what
we've always called it
Any derivative of any influence?
M.H.: Well, we've been listening to
Punk and heavy metal, that's al
we've really listened to all our lives.
H.: And Rock-a-billy from the early
days Frank Sinatra's a cool dude.
M.H: That's where our roots were.
Heavy Metal and Punk Rock
H.: I don't think we're what you call
a hard-core Punk band
B.C.: We're hard core sounding
sometimes, but we're more
ke...Speed Rock! Not chemical
speed though
What kind of audience do you
draw?
M.H.: It's great. 75% punk rock. We
played to a couple thousand people
at the Civic when we played with
GB.H. One of G.B.H. said to me
that he liked "Dear John Letter." He
hadn't even heard of the album
Shows what kind of distribution wo
got. But Mystic has said that they
were gonna do us right Give us a
good record
M.H.: What they want to do is get us
out there so a bigger label can pick
us up. Which is about, I think, what
we need right now.
Is that the direction you see
yourselves heading, is that what
you want?
M.H.: Right, exactly
H.: Well, I don't know..
(Somehow, everybody laughs)
H: I'm like, kinda part-time with the
band right now. I'm not really a full
member of the band anymore.
But still, you can sit around, drink
beers and smoke cigarettes,
while you say that in the band's
presence.
M: Yeah, Uh-huh.
That's good.
B.C.: We've been, kinda, "broke-up"
for the last four months, and just,
kinda put it back together real quick
M.H.: Resurrected, so we can get
this EP out, 'cause I'm sure alot of
people want it. I know we can do a
better job than what B.Y.O. is
forcing us to do.
B.C.: We want to go to New York,
we get a lot of letters from New
York. Alot of people there are just
getting our first album.
M.H.: If we can get it together right
now, play a few shows and make
enough money to go to New York,
then that's what we're gonna do.
But we're not gonna fuck around
with just sitting around and playing
this show, and going next week and
playing that show. We got to move
on, we can't stop
You guys haven't toured to any
extent then?
B.C. The furthest we've gone is to
Oklahoma, with Battalion of Saints
on the "Someone got their head
kicked in tour."
How was that tour?
B.C.: Pretty hectic, is-tated. I think
the schoolbus is still in New Mexico
somewhere. Since about three
years ago.
M.H.: With my boots, my four skulls,
all kinds of stuff,
You've got skulls?
M.H.: Well, not real human skulls,
but four replicas. I've got about
twenty-five at my house. I dig skulls,
they're bitchen
Maybe we can work out a deal.
M.H: You've got skulls?
No. But you want a board, right?
M.H.: Yeah
Well, I like skulls too. I want a
skull bad.
M.H.: Oh really? I'm a fucken skull
freak "to-the-bone."
To the Bone!!!!...Ha-Ha-Ha-Half
M.H.: I've got eight skull tattooes to
my body right now, and there's
more to come
Ahhh, so you want to be bone on
the outside?
M.H.: I'm a skull-head. I don't really
see that being into skulls and
skeletons is ke as if you were
worshipping death, or anything like
that. I just think they look bitchen.
B.C.: They're the armorature of the
human being. We're all that, on the
inside.
It's a natural decoration.
M: It's wicked looking, that's why
people freak out at it
God made that! I saw him.
M.H.: "We were once a little bitty
piece of clay."
All you women were ribs, from a
man.
So, what topical substance is
contained in your music?
M.H.: Our earlier songs were,
whatever we were pissed off about
Now we're trying to represent a
more positive type of attitude. You
know, aggression doesn't have to
be that bad. You can use aggression
in a good way
Positive Aggression?
M.H.: If you've got the energy, make
yourself some money, do something
cool for yourself. Don't sit there and
mope, being pissed off, looking
through a window. We want to be
known as a party and good-time
band. We're not trying to preach
anything
Not pointed in any, certain circle
of thought?
M.H.: Skateboarding was fun. The
music is probably too personal. So
only people who fall into that
category can ultimately understand.
Take "Intense Energy, for instance
Full skateboard. Full skateboard
thing. If you really want to peruse
the music, then you find out what it's
really about. We try not to be too
commercial, but we don't want to be
100 fucken bizarre either. We just
want to do what we feel is right,
Where does skating fall into this.
B.C.: It's what we did before we had
the band
Give me some personal skate-
history.
B.C.: All of us were on the Endless
Wave Skateboard team. Except for
Mark, the drummer.
H.: We used to be in the ASPO
League. I was the team captain
Before the bulldozers
Were you there when it hap
pened?
H.: No, we couldn 1 watch, We
skated it illegally for quite awhile.
The high point for us, was the
Northern Cal, vs. Southem Cal
ASPO comp
Up at Cambell Skatepark?
M.H.: And Winchester
I was there.
B.C: Yeah, I remember Steve
Caballero was stil an amateur, and
all that
M.: I used to hang out with a guy
named Brad Bowman a couple
years ago
M.H.: You mean Braddee? I haven't
seen Brad in a long time.
When was this Mark, when he
had the red Porsche?
M.: A sittle bit before that. We were
in high school, or Jr. High. The last
real board I ever rode, was a
BAHNE 27, with Excalibur trucks
and Sims comps
Talkin' Dinosaurs.
M.H.: Lonny Toft is still alive, I saw
him yesterday. He's windskating. All
he does now is windskate. He's a
carpenter now. He's really anti-
skateboarding cause the industry
wasn't good to him. But, that's all fl
say
8.C.: Just for the record, if I may
interrupt for a moment, Mark is over
in the comer wiping some dog shit
off the bottom of his foot.
H.: That pile sure had his name on it
Any final thoughts?
M.H.: Do what you want, and put all
your energy into it
H.: Be yourself at all costs
B.C: When in San Francisco, act
ke San Franciscans
H: I have a special message for lan
Mackaye, "We're gonna party our
brains out
M.H: And we'll still sound better
than you guys