On the road with Canada's SNFU is like a shot of pure
adrenaline into your jugular vein. The band delivers a live
stage show with energy and a bag
of tricks that other punk
rock acts have been rip-
ping off for years. No
backstage passes needed
for this band... Come on in,
let's talk with
frontman/lyricist Mr
Chi Pig:
How do you feel
about being voted the
5th favorite skate
rock band of all-time?
It's cool. Devout
skaters over the years
have been formed by
pushing the limits of
what a human con or
cannot do, by attempt-
ing to do the impossi
ble. That's what draws
mortals to the sport the
quest for mastering a scom-
RISHL
A Rotten Time With
Have
CURROSION
OF CONFORMITY
Win a chance to hang out with talon Of Colors
backstage at one of their gigs withalice. Just fill
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Kingdom of the Rotten. Winners will receive...
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COC and Metallica
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"A limited-edition, die-cut vinyl 10" single
featuring music not found on "Wiseblood"
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A copy of the European import of the
"Wiseblood" album containing music not
found on the US release
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A limited-edition COC t-shirt from the cur
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A copy of the new COC album. "Wiseblood"
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SNFU
ingly unreachable goal, like getting
killer air, or taking a plank of wood,
throwing on some wheels, and liter
ally leaving the ground-that has an
appeal or a magnetic effect on mere
humans. SNFU was formed at a time
when record labels didn't want anything to do
with underground music, and we didn't want
anything to do with them, either, so we blazed
our own trail and have done what we wanted
to do all these years, which by some strange
coincidence attracted the skateboarding faction
who could relate to our approach to living.
Shopping around the US, what do you see?
In New York we were shopping, and
saw an Operation T-Shirt from the board.
game. I don't think I have on Operation
game, but I have all kinds of shit. The latest
cool new ones I've seen are the Spawn fig
ures. It's created by Todd McFarlane, who's
actually from Victoria, who used to draw
Spiderman. He's the guy that revamped
Spiderman Spiderman used to be the stan
dard, old-fashioned figure, and when Todd
McFarlane got it, he added a lot of style to it.
Spawn figures are just action figures, about
6-8 inches tall. There are all different types,
like a jet fighter and aliens, but they meta-
morphosis into monsters. He has an evil
clown, just tons of different ones. He puts out
about len new ones a year, and there's about -
sixty in total. It's hard to keep up.
Fyulaba, the title of your latest release, what
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does it mean?
It's Arabic for "skate or die." Give me
another shot of tequila. They drink tequila in
Saudi Arabia? What happens when you drink
tequila? Have you ever read that fuckin'
deadly book called Tequila Mockingbird?
Define a skate band.
A band that can skate to, or a band that
is into skating. I don't know what a skate band
is, you should ask the author, not me. It's
because the music is aggressive, ond skaters
like the aggressive thing.
Has anything interesting happened in the
last ten days on tour?
All sorts of crazy stuff. The most inter
esting thing that happened was when wel
were sitting in a diner in Ohio, and Wayne
Gretzky walked in, and he dropped his pants
and went straight for the salad bar and got a
whole plate full of mushrooms and can-
teloupe. He proceeded to eat them all while
sitting on the floor next to the hostess. With
his pants off, it was quite a sight. He had lit
the turtle patterns on his boxers and has a
really hairy chest, which was a big surprise,
because I always thought he didn't. We went
up to him and asked him for his autograph,
and he said something to us, which we
couldn't understand, because he had a
Interview and photo by Jon Stain
mouth full of conteloupe
What song on Fyulaba makes people react?
"Better Than Eddie Vedder" He seemed
shy and so confused/Now that he's alder, he's
last year's news/She is looking for somebody
fresh and young/She is looking for someone
less miserable/She's looking for somebody
better/Much better than Eddie Vedder... The
reason people like that song is because they
know what Eddie Vedder is about, and they
must find it equally humorous as we do. We
take the piss out of Pearl Jam!
This past election year, what was your opin-
ion of the presidential race?
Well, since we're from Canada, wa
have a different view of American politics.
Politics remind me of organized crime. It's like
two Mafia leaders fighting over turf. They
both have the same goals, they're just from
different gangs. The outcome will probably be
about the same either way, but it's like the
lesser of two evils.
Any advice to the readers?
Don't form a bad rock band and tour,
we already have enough of them around to
deal with already, thank you!
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