Fast forward to today and 7 albums later, the Bulletboys are still rockin'. Their 8th studio album, Elephante was released in 2015. No, it is not your fathers Bulletboys. They have gone through many line up changes over the years with Marq (the mastermind) being the only original member. This current group of guys have been playing together now more than 7 years and it shows on this new release. Marq still has as powerful a voice as he always has. His pitch, tone, and delivery are spot on. And with Nick Rozz on guitar, Chad MacDonald (the sharpest dressed man in rock) on bass, and Shawn Duncun on drums, this line up of talent rivals any that Marq has ever put forth. Edgy, infectious, bad boy rock n roll. Having the ability to write amazing songs, these guys aren't going away anytime soon.
After a canceled gig in St. George, Utah due to a shitty, shoddy promoter ( I won't get into that here)
I was given the opportunity, due to the kindness of the band members, to sit down with all four of them in the Hilton lobby to do an interview. Though an interview did take place, this was more like 5 friends sitting around a campfire bullshitting about life, sharing funny stories, history, and of course music. This totally made up for my not getting to see one of my favorite bands play live. It was an honor, a privilege, and a memory I will always treasure. I hope you will enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed my time with the Bulletboys.
Shane: You'll have to forgive me because this is actually my first
kind of real interview.
Marq: Can I tell you something too?
Shane:
Please.
Marq: Out of all due respect, you're very
lucky because actually you have the four of us here and we're usually-
Marq: Yeah, boom. You know every time we're
playing we all have friends and you know Chad
Shane: Well I ain't going to keep you guys very long. I got a couple questions written down.
Marq: No problem.
Shane: "Symphony" is my personal favorite on the Elephante record. I know from
other interviews I've read with you Marq, that it's a very personal song. I
have a personal story that I can relate to that song as well. After I found out
what the song was actually about, I even love it more.
Marq: Thank you bro.
Shane: I just want to tell you how much that song means to me.
Marq: Thank you. Thank you so much bro. We have a real positive attitude. We are a positive band. Us, as entertainers,
we all go through our things and we learn from things so that song was
basically spawned from my love of my two sons and for people that don't have
the ability to feel like super men sometimes and basically the wanting to step
up out of yourself and get out of your own way to let blessings and let the
good things happen and that's kind of what happened.
Shane: I appreciate you sharing that with us.
Marq:
Yes. We're not perfect, man. I was reading the stuff that Michael Sweet writes from Stryper and
its true, he goes you guys were all sinners out there and he's so right. We're
all jacked up out here and we just got to realize that we, each of us, has our
own faiths and our own religions and our own higher powers and I have a lot of
respect for all that, for all faiths, for all religions, and for all walks of
life and this band is totally about that. We always joke amongst ourselves,
when we're riding around we joke about everybody, we talk so much shit, but
it's all in good fun because we're artists. We love on everybody. That's how we
roll. This isn't an easy lifestyle. I wouldn't suggest it to the faint of heart,
or the not thick skinned people of the world because in this day and
age the hate media is all around us and social media and it's really hard
for people just to understand we're just a rock and roll band. We put on our
hard hats, lunch pails, cell phones, the families. We do this because we love
the art, we do it because we're not making oodles and oodles of cash, but we
see that the potential of doing other things, dropping our music in movies and
other things.
For example there's a lot of bands aren't in it for the music sake they're just
in it to okay, that's good. No that's cool no disrespect to that, but I've
always been in it for the music and performance and sounding great and having
that to motivate things and when you're a good band or when you try to live up
to those expectations, good things happen for you. Some really great things
happened the other night for us at the Las Vegas Rock Awards. I received an
award for the outstanding performer of 2016. I was really humble to get it but like
I said I don't share it with all my homies, I share
it with my band as brothers and friends and everything else and especially as
brothers because the three of us have been through almost seven years of being
together and it's a whole 'nother thing.
We have a lot of respect for each other
and we all keep each other in check too and I've never played in a band like
that. I never played where it was most of the time it's all business. At this
point in my career, I'd much rather enjoy the winds and the playing live and
the destroying of that musically and the friendship and the little other things
that we run into like Chad
Shane:
Well I think a lot of the fans and even our readers, fans of you guys don't
realize that this has been the longest that any ... I don't know what's the
words I'm looking for. You've gone through quite a few line ups over the years. You guys have been together longer and kind of formed something special I
believe.
Marq:
Very, very special. We've been drawing a lot of people and we've been really blessed with a lot of good things that have been happening. You know we just got recently signed with Frontiers Universal for a couple of records so we're going to be starting that up at close to the latter part of the year get that in and we're going to put one out next year. Another new one we just got finished doing, Elefante, and we dropped it in the summer and that's still going and we're probably going to be doing a video for "Symphony" here really, really soon.
Shane:
You've released quite a few CD's over the years. Like after Freakshow I kind of
felt as a fan you kept things going which I admired.
Marq:
Thank you.
Shane:
Releasing Acid Monkey and a few CD's after that, but I really didn't know what
direction you were really striving for as a listener and as a fan, and I don't
mean that in any disrespect in any way.
Marq:
No, none taken.
Shane:
With this release of Elefante this took me right back to what I believe
BulletBoys were.
Marq:
Thank you.
Shane:
Could be, should be and are.
Marq:
Well, it's the spirit. It's the spirit.
Shane:
It's a powerful record.
Marq:
Thank you.
Shane:
You guys deserve all the accolades and everything that comes your way.
Marq:
We all were pretty proud of that record, you know.
Shane:
Was it a difficult record to write? Was it something that the four of you went
into the studio and just recorded it?
Marq:
The process was hard because some of the people that we were working with. Like, for instance, this next record we're hoping to all go in the studio
and cut it live and pick and choose
instead of where some of this
stuff is done already and Cmax has got to come in and go "I've never heard this
song, let me come in, let me come and feel this". Because I would write
stuff and they'd be like, "Wait a minute, no we're not going to use that, we're
going to use this." Then it's oh, okay shit all right but it worked out really
great because we had a great producer who really guided us in the right
direction and was able to really help us out, you know.
Shane:
I'm looking forward to the next release. If it's anything as good as Elefante,
we're in for a treat.
Marq:
We're going to go in a really cool, funky direction on this record.
Shane:
Out of all of your releases, would you say this is the one you're most proud
of? I'm sure as an artist you're proud of all of them, because they're like
your children. Is there any particular BulletBoys release that you're more fond
of or proud of?
Marq:
I would say out of all of our records that I'm most fond of our first and
Elefante. Those are the two that I think are our strongest material as a group
and how we're moving in this direction that I wish that we would have moved in
many years ago, but that we're moving into now. There's a lot of punk rock
influence, R&B, Soul, Hard Rock, Southern Rock, Jazz, all the things that
we encompass that is really strong now and Chad
Shane:
(Laughs).
Marq:
With guys that that's not their lives, that's not their heads, that's not what
they're focused on. It was always something else. I grew up with music. Like my
mother and father, my father played with Stan Kent orchestra, Sinatra and this
person in the background did all this stuff, Shawn's father also. We come from
these musical backgrounds and it's not something like you know my parents never
wanted me to get into this business, you know.
Shane:
I'm sure.
Marq:
The fact that I did out of all of my family you know I still look and go "Ahh,
my sister's an educator then my father has this doctorate, what am I doing?" I'm
fucking hanging out. I'm playing where are we playing tonight? You know here we
go again, but I'd rather be doing this than sitting in a cubicle somewhere on a
computer or doing something else. We get to see a lit of people, we get to see the
world. I mean next year we're playing our big we'll be going out to Europe in
February and we're going to be touring, we're playing the big frontiers music
festival, they're having us out there. I think Def Leppard, us, Night Ranger for a frontier's big music festival.
Shane:
Cool.
Marq:
We are anything I like to say thank you to everybody at Frontier's
Music/Universal for signing our band. We've been working really, really hard.
We've taken a lot of slack from a lot of people out there and we got thick
skins, you know but people don't understand what we're trying to just do
musically and you get it with Elefante, You understand it. We're like you know
the other night someone went on this tirade of how we can't stand the
hairy metal thing. I can't stand that moniker either, it just rubs me the wrong
way all the time.
Shane:
Do you miss your hair? Sorry I had to ask that.
MArq:
I don't really .... see, I cut my hair a long time before it was even cool to
cut your hair.
Shane:
I just remember the "Smooth Up In Ya" video. The first time I see that I was
like "That guy is cool!" Not only was that song tight, but that hair was cool.
Marq:
Do you know why I had long hair? I was lazy as hell and we were surfing a lot and me and Lonnie started dumping
lemon and... what's that shit? Sun In? We started spraying our hair. Dude I want to dye my hair blond. I was like fuck
you and then all of a sudden you know I just started going hey dude you know we
should leave it like that, and I go yeah I think I should, so my sister is a
hair stylist and she started doing a bunch of stuff. It's really funny because
I would say if I didn't dye my hair I don't think people would have really
recognized what we do or what I sing like. I don't know just sometime but
then again I think it was just really weird times back then.
Shane:
I kind of wanted to get everyone's ... well each of you probably have your own
favorite song to play live I would think. Can I ask you Chad
Marq:
I like those ideas by the way.
Shane:
Right. Nick, how about you?
Nick:
If we did "Kinfolks" the favorite song in the set that I would play?
Shane
Just the favorite BulletBoy song. I mean my personal ... I've always wanted to learn
the lick to "Smooth Up In Ya". I mean, it's there's something so
different about it to me and it just seems like there's a... it's
bluesy, but it just seems like it's a constant lead but it's different. I don't
know how to explain it.
Nick:
Like (makes guitar gesture)?
Shane:
Yeah.
Nick:
I'll show it to you if you want.
Shane:
Right on.
Nick:
I got all night. If you want I'll show it to you.
Shane:
Oh, I would love that.
Nick:
Yeah, that's fine. It's not mine so on the new record we do do "Saving You From
Me", which I think is a great song. The most constant songs we play are "Rollover" and "Symphony" is a highlight in a set every night for me. As far as like the
older stuff in the set I think "THC Groove" really started to take it's own life
on in our current set and it's not...we mix it up, we revamp it's a very
long version. We go into Allman Brothers territory.
Shane:
(Laughs).
Nick:
We do but the people don't expect us to do it so that's what I like about that. There was a time six years we were putting that song together and it would just
be a few minutes version whatever we would just do it, but now it's become this
whole moment in the
set and I guess like I said an Allman Brothers-esque jam in there and people
relate to that for some reason they pick up on it.
Shane:
It probably keeps things refreshing for you too, doesn't it?
Nick:
Yeah, I like amping it up a little bit, extending songs.
Shane:
Okay, we're back to you Chad
Nick:
Also too it's like people are relating to it and when people relate to it and
in a different way and people relate to when we play "Smooth Up In Ya" because
they say, "Ooooh, okay. I get it. It's a different kind of relationship".
Shane:
Well, I hated to bring it up because a lot of the bands they have that one song
that was the popular song and they get kind of... they're just like, "Aww do we
have to play that again?"
Nick:
It's always fun to play stuff to get people excited. It's like with "Symphony".
There are nights when there's somebody in the audience that's singing it emotionally or when people come up and say. "I hope you're playing "Symphony" tonight." You know?
Nick:
Yeah, and if you can connect with people like that I think that's the whole
point. I mean it's not just this girl on car shit. I get that. I understand there's a place in the world for it if you're looking
for it, but there was a time and a place for it and this isn't girl on car
bullshit and people realize we're not some girl on car band and there's some
songs they can connect to and they come up and say I hope you're playing that
tonight and you see them and it's on the new record it obviously connected with
them and it meant something to them. That's important if you're doing this and
you're know you're connecting with somebody somehow and you see that, especially
live too it helps with what you're doing too in a lot of
ways.
Shane:
That's one thing I really enjoyed about the BulletBoys. There was substance to
the band. There always has been substance to the BulletBoys. Everything that
you've ever put out, there was something there. It wasn't just the cheese ball
girl on the car, sort of thing. "Smooth Up In Ya" like I said I love that song but
bands do have that song they're just tired of playing.
Marq:
We play it different every night though. There's always something magical about
they way we pull it off.
Marq:
Yeah, it is fun to play.
Marq:
I'd like to do it more actually.
Marq:
I'd like those journeys where we do that, it's just very you know-
Nick:
Every once in a while we go there with "Hell on High Heels".
Nick:
Yeah. We can do it. I mean, honestly that's an earned right.
Marq:
If we doing it a little bit with even with "Rollover" right before that
breakdown it goes ...it could go...it could do some things.
Most
of the things we do are never spoken about.
Shane:
Doesn't that make your jobs easier too when you get to that point where you
just know what the other guy's going to do and you just like you guys say you
can turn something into another jam and that might turn into a future song, you
know. You never know.
Nick:
Yeah, it's speaking musically. The thing is that a lot of other people can't
speak musically so if you can speak musically that's great but that's why a lot
of our contemporaries can't do that, pull that on the side. I'm not knocking
anybody.
Marq:
They won't do it either.
Nick:
Exactly. The thing is being lazy and it's not being able to think to go there
because it just a good song and lets get it over with. It's not seaworthy.
Marq:
So true.
Nick:
When we do that, we don't even know what set we're going to play 90% of the
time when we go on.
Shane:
Really?
Marq:
We fill the rest of the set
Nick:
The rest of the set just kind of fucking falls.
Marq:
Yep.
Shane:
You're not one of those bands that has to have it spelled out on the floor for
you?
Nick:
Actually you know..I like to have that.
Marq:
Yeah, Nicky does.
Marq:
Well you never know because all of a sudden we'll be there and Chad
Marq:
Yeah, I'm feeling this right now and we'd be like okay let's do it, that sounds
good. It's like sometimes, no not tonight, they kind of look at the
audience-...yeah, no. Not tonight...you know?
Shane:
Shawn, what's your favorite song to play in your set?
Shawn:
My favorite song to play?
Shane:
Yeah what's your favorite song?
Shawn:
I actually, really enjoy playing "THC Groove" for the same reason Chad does.
Nick:
You get to make music a little different and see where it goes.
Shawn:
Because of where it goes, because I don't know where it's going to go. Where it goes that's the funnest part about playing live, is that it is not
knowing where it's going to go. You know, and I really love playing that song. I do. There's another song like
I love playing "Tsunami". I like playing "Born to Breed". There's some songs that I
just like for the aggression of it, because I'm kind of like an attack drummer,
so there's certain things that I like. I like "Money" is fun and "Smooth Up In Ya" is
always fun. Because you get a good crowd response, but really like for me
personally, I really enjoy playing "THC Groove". That's probably why we play it all the time because we all actually really
enjoy playing that song.
Shane:
It's a great song.
Shawn:
Literally I been in the band three years and I don't think there's been a set
that we've done live that we haven't done that song.
Nick:
Yes, there has.
Shawn:
Where?
Nick: New
Orleans
Marq:
Oh.
Nick:
In November or December whenever it was. We didn't do "Money" either.
Marq:
Oh, that's right.
Nick:
We didn't drop tune at all. We didn't literally drop D or
anything that night
Marq:
Oh, yeah you're right. Here's another thing too. We don't have the huge
selection, we don't have the big, giant productions. We don't have-
Nick:
No tapes.
Marq:
No tapes at all or ever. We don't have even the greatest equipment in the
world. We play on punk rock equipment that people-
Nick:
We grow and go.
Marq:
I don't know how you Nicky go the sounds out of those amps or how Chad
Marq:
That is a lot
Marq:
I know all the time because my amp never sounded that good and it's what we've
learned, trial and error.
Nick:
We learned to adapt.
Marq:
Dude we can put out some really bad equipment sometimes.
Shane:
Well you guys had your own equipment tonight, right?
Nick:
We rented it.
Marq:
No that was rented.
Shane:
The guitars and everything? -
Marq:
No, no.
Nick:
We bring our own guitars. We fly in the big stuff. We come out and they say its
rented amplifiers and rented bass gear
Nick:
We just travel and fly with our guitars and pedal boards and then if we do a
bus tour we'll bring back but there's no sense in worrying about that.
Marq:
We have an equipment rider, so we send it to them.
Shane:
Oh, okay.
Nick:
Sometimes you're going somewhere and there is no rental place within a 100 mile
radius and you're walking in and you're left to do with what these guys have which might be great for
whatever the hell it is they might want to do.
Nick: Drummers
have it bad.
Shane:
Oh, I imagine.
Nick:
We got 250 combo amps up there. We can't do what we do.
Nick:
They don't know, well it has an amp, it has a speaker and electricity runs
through it.
Shawn:
We showed up at a place one time it was in Kansas City
Marq:
I remember that.
Shawn:
All right because its fucking nailed down, well he was a left-handed drummer so I got everything set up like this and I can't move it and I'm like no, no.
Marq:
Yeah, it was just insane.
Shawn:
It was in Kansas
Marq:
Remember we took apart the whole thing?
Shawn:
Yeah, I had to take apart everything.
Shane:
That's got to be terrible.
Shawn:
Bastardization of what a drum set should look like, so I'm sitting there, I'm
tearing it apart and I'm like and then we got 15 minutes to do it. Fucking left-handed, and in the rider it specifically
says no racks.
Marq:
These poor guys and Chad
Shawn:
I had to rebuild this fucking thing..put it together. and then do the show. I've had drummers we have it the worst when it comes to
that part. They break shit all the time. they break symbols, their fucking heads. I bring
a single ply head and we go through it in the third song, I know what's going
to happen. I'm going to break your fucking foot pedal.
Nick: It's a piece of shit...[laughs}
Marq:
Oh, well [laughter]
Marq:
Gorgeous.
Nick:
Everybody and their mama played there.
Shawn:
Elvis played there, Sinatra.
Nick:
Black Sabbath, Alice In Chains, it goes on and on.
Shawn:
Such a great place.
Shane:
so its an honor to play there...
Marq:
Great people.
Shawn:
Yeah, it was that quick.
Shawn:
It was the foot pedal.
Marq:
From Faster Pussycat.
Shawn:
We got a good crowd.
Marq:
Saying "We got this."
Marq:
Yeah, we all back up.
everything's
fine.
Shane:
Put it in the back of your mind.
Marq:
It's Awesome!
Shane:
What a trooper.
Shawn:
He heard it.
Marq:
Such an angel.
Shawn:
He said "Oh there's a problem" and he looks at me and I'm like-
Shane:
He's underneath your kit?
Shawn:
He's fucking dead.
Nick:
Oh, yeah he was. He was trying to fix the pedal.
Nick:
I kept looking at him saying "It's broke. You fucking broke it."
Marq:
It was hilarious.
Shane:
He just knew.
Shawn:
He goes "Where's the kick? Right backstage? Where's the bass drum?" Then he comes
out and then he looks at me and he goes...
Shawn:
Yeah. The backup vocals is gone...and that was so many times.
Shane:
Really?
Marq:
We're sitting there going, "Well maybe if you guys sang for real."
Shane:
Yeah, Motley Crue even went ... they have so much baggage now it depresses me
as a fan.
Marq:
You know they try to do what they need to do. One of the things about us we're
not here to slack anybody. We're very fortunate to do what we do and for people
to come out to see us, except for the present night excluded from all these sort of
things, but we're really fortunate if anybody comes to see us and want to be
part of the BulletBoys family you know our fans are our family too and our
close friends and even if it's your first time seeing a BulletBoys show, you're
already our friend, because you're coming to see us and you're coming to see
live music, and you're coming to see a band from the very end of the days that
literally is from the 90's that did all their touring in the 90's we were one of
those bands.
Grunge
was around and we were still touring and packing every place, even when Jimmy
and Mick left the band. When they decided they needed to leave and do something
else, me and Lonnie continued on and we were
still playing places that were packed out. Sold out to the gills. We were
playing this one bowling alley some place, a bowling alley where this guy set
up this thing. There were 4,000 people stuffed in this place.
During the hardcore Nirvana days. I
mean we had a lot of people come out to see us play. When we played Seattle
Shane:
Do you guys still play "Hang On Saint Christopher"? Do you guys throw that in
your set?
Marq:
You know, we were going to.
Marq:
Yeah, but I got to get out the congos
Shane:
I think I seen that show I think it was in '91, it was you guys and Poison and I
think Slaughter and I think-
Marq:
It's on YouTube.
Shane:
Man, I still love that.
Marq:
It's awesome. It was a great show.
Shane:
You guys do a killer version of that.
Marq:
Oh, yes. I love that song. I love
Tom Waits.
Shane:
I would love to see you guys put that in your set, but you guys got so much
great material.
Marq:
We'll do it our way once we're able to we have a three piece horn section and a
two piece vocal section with two gals called the Pistolettes, and our horn
section is called the Bullhorns and I'd like to actually implement them more
shows coming up. Definitely at the Whiskey they're going to be there. We cut a
song called the "Bitch is Back" by Elton John in Elefante, so I love that song.
We love that song a lot and bring them out to play that and so it's-
Shane:
Is that something you would put on your next release?
Marq: Oh,
there's going to be horns in this next record, absolutely.
Shane:
Nice, looking forward to that.
Marq:
It's going to be a lot of different stuff on this record. Probably Nicky
singing the song like
in the accent of a middle easterner from Glendale , California
[group laughter}
Marq: yes, thank God. Yeah, incredible impressions. Lately President Obama has been coming out a lot. {laughter}
Nick: A lot...
Nick: {doing Obama impression} Yeah I heard Motorheads no longer. Very disappointing about this. but I got one word for you, Scorpions.
{group laughter}
Shane: That's awesome
Marq: That's a real nice version of it..it gets really
hard...brilliant though. Nicky's got like 30 different, 40 different impressions. I told him he should
use Obama. He says, "I'm not going to do that". He has us laughing so hard
in the car sometimes that we can't drive.
Shane:
That's got to keep the touring a little bit fresh though, I mean traveling's
got to get old.
Marq:
It's brutal. It's so good. One little thing that somebody will do something
that we'll see at a gig and it could be the slightest thing and all of a sudden
it's the thing for the rest of the trip.
Nick:
Yeah, that happens a lot. Yeah.
Marq:
There was this poor guy, we were just talking about the story and we're not
making fun of him at all but we had no idea that had Tourette's and he showed
up.
Nick:
He was our sound man. He was the house sound man
Marq:
Yeah, he was a sound man. Sweetheart of a guy and he for some reason got
fixated on my name so all day long it was that. All he was doing and Nicky's
got it down.
Nick:
We'd be backstage and we'd order dinner or something and all of a sudden, Marq,
Marq, Marq. Marq MARQ MARQ!!!
Marq:
And we didn't know we thought he was doing it like and we're going what's this
guy doing? We had no idea and then somebody came up and said Marq, so and so
he's had Tourette's for years.
Marq:
Did he tell us?
Marq:
Oh, see I didn't hear that.
Marq:
Oh, okay.
Nick:
Well we got there and he was in his car trying to hide a fit for a minute
and
I'm like is this guy was sleeping in his car.
Marq:
Yeah. That's what it was.
Nick:
Then I thought, his dog peed in his car or something. He was furious or really
mad about something and he's yelling in his car but I don't see anything in
there.
Marq:
We're going like what's going on?
Nick:
All of a sudden after sound track I was in the men's room and the guy walks in.
I was standing at the
urinal and the guy just walked in Marq, Marq, Marq, Marq.
Nick: Marq, Marq, Marq, Marq....It was amazing!
Shane:
Like the Hump Day commercial.
Marq:
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shane: Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike...
Marq:
That dude. We'll run into things sometimes an then we'll just be like what's great about
us is that some days we're playing some place that's just shit, let's just say
it. The place is shit and the people there and stuff but we're just not in that
mood and we're thinking about going to see a movie or we were talking about
something else or there's food that we were talking about we want to go have
dinner somewhere and we got to play this gig and Nick will always make it fun
somehow even when we're exhausted. We'll go out there and play 10, 13 shows in
a row and there's not too many bands that do that still and it's a lot of
things people don't know really about us too much it's all about the music but
yet it's not all about the music with us, which is great. I don't want it to be all about the music. I want it to be about life and
talking about current events and talking shit and you know.
Shane:
Well you guys seems like you guys have really great attitude towards life, and
that's refreshing too because it's such a negative world we live in.
Marq:
I don't think there's any divas in this band at all. I've been in bands with
divas. There's no divas in this band at all.
Shane:
I can tell. You guys get along really well.
Marq:
We always go let's look at this like we're doing a rehearsal and we're going to
fuck around with some new stuff. I always say that.
Yeah,
we were going to do a little Jubilee, some blues, covers or whatever. I was up for anything, and sometimes when you're loose when you play music you
don't want to be you want to be playing you want to be flowing.
Shane:
While you're there.
Marq:
Yeah, tonight was going to be a little loosey goosey. It was going to be fun.
Marq:
No, trust me. We walk in sometime and sound check and we go into that and the
staff is in tears.
Shawn:
It's the truth what Marq said earlier to have all four of us together.
Marq:
Yeah, I know this is the first time.
Shawn:
Yeah, this is the first time it's happened as long as I've been there.
Marq:
Yeah, that the 4 of us are together
and are actually doing the
interview.
Marq:
We've gotten together and done a couple of shorties on the road or something.
Shawn:
Like shout outs or whatever.
Marq:
Yeah, yeah.
Shawn:
Not like sat and talked.
Shane:
I'm very honored. Very, very, honored. I told Nick I wouldn't keep you guys very long so I
should probably wrap it up.
Marq:
No, let me tell you something. I feel a lot more comfortable when the fellows
are here because I don't like really doing interviews on my own. I'm kind of
... I don't like it to come from my perspective all the time and it should come
from the perspective of my mates, not necessarily from me. It's much more
genuine that way.
Shane:
It's a brotherhood.
Marq:
Yeah, man, fuck it's a marriage. You got to know people and they got to know
and we got to know with each other, which we know that we got each other's backs
no matter what, especially when it comes to monetary things. We got to take
care of our families, we have to make money and I want to make sure that we all
want to make sure that we're all taken care of. That's why we're all helping
each other and hey if this isn't working let's go over here and let's talk to
this person or let's go over here hey man, I was talking to so and so and they
gave us advice. We do that all the time.
Shane:
That's cool. 2015 was big and it looks like 2016 you guys are just on a roll.
Marq:
I think 2017 is going to be very large for us. I see us doing a lot of
festivals and we're kind
of in that, you know, we pushed the record last year and we're
still doing that with new songs and stuff but I'm really looking forward to
getting in and recording and working out some of this new stuff and I know
Nicky's got a bunch of ideas for tunes and we just recorded a couple months
back at 606 the Foo Fighter's studio, we were privileged to be a part of a
vinyl release for Rock Against MS and some of the cooler punk rock bands of the
valley were asked to come in and do some songs and we had to do a song like in
two days or one day, so I had this tune, we went in and we worked on it one
night and the next day we were cutting it.
Shane:
That's cool.
Marq:
That was cool, then I believe Mr. Grohl picked up the lineup and we were first
on the album.
Shane:
You guys worked with Dave in the-
Marq:
No, he was was picking the running order for the record.
Shane:
Oh, okay.
Marq:
While we worked at their studio which was 606. We were really happy to work there, it was great.
Shane:
What do you guys have plans for for the rest of 2016?
Nick:
For the rest of 2016 I think we're going to be recording the record and then
playing some gigs and preparing basically for 2017.
Shane:
For the release in 2017?
Marq:
That's right. That's the way I see it. Pretty simple.
Shane:
Nice.
Nick:
Yeah, that one is due.
Marq:
Yeah, we got an album to do.
Shane:
Do they put you on a time limit to get-
Marq:
Oh, yeah.
Nick:
Yeah, it's actually due
Wednesday.
(group laughter)
Marq: and we don't have a single thing written...
Shane:
It's supposed to be on Obama's desk.
Marq:
Oh, man.
Nick:
(Obama impersonation) Fellows, I'm not impressed with progress. What the hell
are you doing?
Shane:
Well, I'll let you guys go. If there's anything else you want to tell our
readers, anything you want to promote, anything you want to say?
Marq:
Just want to tell them thank you for being there for us and thank you for still
listening to a little band from southern Cal called BulletBoys, but we got some
things in store for all y'all and we're just going to keep coming out with new
music and as long as people are listening, we'll be putting out new stuff. We're a band of the now. We're not trying to relive the future, the past excuse
me, we're trying to find our way to the future but we really believe in music
and writing and recording new music and not just living on past laurels.
Shane:
Nice. Well thanks again you guys.
Nick:
Thank you.
Shane:
We'll let you guys get some sleep.
Shawn:
The three year I been in the band. This is
the first time we've done an interview which
I kind of enjoyed actually. With the
four of us sitting by the
fireplace, it was something cool about it. First time this ever happened.
Nick:
We have tried. If you go into a radio station whenever you got to have clothes on, but this
real cool, casual thing, this
never happened. Never happened.
Shane:
Well, I'll never forget it. Thank you all so much for this night. You are a great band A great bunch of guys. And even better
human beings. I hope to see you down the road.
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