BOUNCING SOULS
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It's almost impossible to pull solid quotes from an interview
with the Bouncing Souls-Bryan "Papillon" Kienlen (bass),
Shal Khichi (drums), Greg Attonito (vocals) and Peter Stein-
kopf (geetar). These rambunctious, rambling Jersey boys all
speak at once and continually interrupt each other, and then
they break into hearty giggles at inside witticisms only they
understand. That is why we're doing it in question & answer
form. No other discipline of writing could better capture the
true nature of these four playful pop-punks. -Sara Tassione
My only request is that you say
your name before you answer.
Bryan: (Ignoring me) Greg has a
new nickname: Peaches.
The boys immediately start to get
out-of-hand and begin saying their
names after every little sound they
make. Shal coughs and then says
his name, followed by Pete laugh.
ing and then saying who he is; it
slowly becomes amusing.
Describe your visit to the East
Bay on your last tour.
Greg: We drank a lot of beers, we
played at the Berkeley Square.
Bryan: I'll tell you about the East
Bay. Those West Coast chumps...
84 THRASHER
Bryan here... For starters, they
can't play pool.
Shal: They can't play pool worth a
pile a' beans.
Greg: We try not to discriminate,
but I think it's just a fact. Like Sick
Of It All, now they can play pool...
Pete: But Rancid can't play pool
(laughter all around). The last few
times we played with Rancid, we
found out they couldn't play pool.
The Bouncing Souls seem tagged
with the slogan "Born to Lose."
Greg: Yeah, that's something that
maybe we can't escape.
Tell us about the tour van.
Bryan: It's been there every time.
Greg: It's the hovel pod. It's our
hovel and it's our pod, this is Greg.
We somehow start talking about
the Hailand Tunnel, an underwater
highway that connects New York
and New Jersey.
Greg: Pete once bugged out in
the Holland Tunnel, right Peter?
He's claustrophobic, and it was
summer-time, and we were stuck
in traffic with all the carbon mon
oxide and humidity, and it was
hard to breathe.
Pate: Yeah, I guess I did bug-
Greg: He got out of the car and
started running through the tunnel
(laughter). We had to chase him
down and knock him over the
head with a skateboard.
What's the latest inside joke with
you guys?
Greg: One recent trend is cracking
on each other's tattoos (laughter
all around).
Bryan: We have a lot of tattoos
that date back to the early eighties
and they're easy fodder for us to
crack on.
If you were a superhero, who
would you be?
Greg: I'd be Lose-It Man.
Bryan: I'm Forget-It Man.
Pete: I'm '-Take-Care-Of-It Man.
Shal: Everything's-Fine Man.
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