...And You Will Know Us By Our Orgies
It is a Friday afternoon. Outside someone is puking and being hauled away by paramedics because they drank too much jungle juice. Inside, I am on the phone chatting with one of the masterminds behind ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, playing a sold-out show at the First Unitarian Church on Friday. Who are you and why did you call us? My name is Jason Reece and I'm in this band called ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead and we are a band that is here to ruin your life. How are you going to that? By stealing all of your women... and by being this caustic resin in your face. We're going to eat your face too. Your live performances have been called "incendiary." When you play in Los Angeles have you ever worried that your audience will melt? They won't melt -- they will become stronger because they will become part of us. We will actually go up in flames together and it will be like a rising phoenix coming up from the ashes. Tell us a little bit about signing to Interscope. How did that change your band? It has made us stronger and wiser, sort of an invincible machine, ready to pillage every village, ready to appropriate and take every culture over and just make it Trail of Dead culture. There will be no other culture. Just our band and we will dictate what you do and what you think. What will the parties be like in this culture? Well, obviously they are going to be hedonistic -- a lot of sex orgies and drugs, but that would only go on at night. By day everyone would have to practice martial arts and become invincible fighters, proficient in the art of the crane and tiger styles. Would you force us to be on any sort of diet? Yeah, the diet at night would be PCP, crack and copious amounts of cocaine -- but during the day you would be a vegan... well I guess some people eat meat, so they could get their meat from either tofu or the cows that we slaughter. Do you consider labelmate Limp Bizkit a primary influence or simply a secondary influence? Well you know, Fred has penned all of our lyrics so I would have to say that they are definitely a primary influence. We've hung out with Fred quite a bit and he has a lot of good ideas. He has sold 10 million records. Could we live without such a spiritual character as Fred? He is just such a sexy man. He's got a big dick too. What kind of changes would have to occur in the world for you to sell 10 million records? I think selling 10 million records would just be fucking easy. The only reason we haven't done it is because we are trying to keep our cult status. We want to be like Sonic Youth. We want to be cool with kids. We don't want to sell out to the man. We're not going to write some pop hits. Goddamn it, fuck that man, I hate pop music.