hey this is andrew from noisy and we are
here in beautiful Los Angeles as you can
see fountains people on paddle boats let
me up with retox today let's see what's
up with them playing a house show
tonight I'm gonna check out their
practice space just see what it's like
to be in retox the mystery the intrigue
hi Andrew nice to meet you I thought
there was a dog in the back way okay
it's your bass player
they're like 249 250 people coming
they've been like shedding a lot of like
warehouse bugs down one of my old man's
played the show at Santa Barbara at a
house that pop shut it down so these
kids stole a cop's car no it's but that
it was crazy he's too fat cops
he's running down the street after their
car they think they were gone eventually
selling the show continue to how
to retie mean is still a big question
but how to retox how to come about and I
think maybe 18 years ago I played a show
with the crimson curse mailman at dead
records awesome place in Long Beach it's
not that anymore with my cranes band the
festival dead deer and I remember seeing
the flyer and thinking like holy crap
that's one of the best bands I've ever
heard the vestal of dead deer it's got
to be really really good they they pull
up they're all up on heroin and
they date they all look like spa you
know and I'm like all right dude we
found it like this is gonna be the bet i
was already sold before i even heard one
note
and and essentially that was it I was
like you know I became with Mike and
then a series of really horrible things
happen between the two of us not not
necessarily directly but we went down
these paths and happened and we
both ended up growing up and becoming we
are and at one point we said like dude
let's let's uh start a band so you're
from you're from stuff I grew up out
here I moved out here with my parents
this area's definitely changed
what it used to be like just a wasteland
no just like an old burned-out
industrial wasteland with packs
of wild dogs running around no one
believes me but there used to be so many
packs of wild dogs down here I had a
girlfriend who lived in the studio over
here and I remember one night she was
like wait Reid beard like I dare you to
go to go walk to this bar and get it I
was like I was I was I was really
up
I was super high I was like I'll do it
and I remember I ran little literally
ran as fast as I could
and
and pretty much got attacked twice
to the store back I dudes coming after
me comin like coming out of the shadows
and coming after me
it was so that what I mean it the
other sellers wanna crash crash hats and
then people think I'm a genius
simply to praise them crazy man I
definitely can play a shout course to
the same thing with a pump it is a
little different guitar Matt whatever
these do with their stringed
instruments - I don't with notes
records on epitaph always have a good
relationship yes Brett Gurewitz aunt
always loved that dude it was a complete
trip when the locust put out lake sounds
gates on epitaph when the like when
locust first started you know we can
only put out on smaller labels and
then the world changed was like hey
there's this bigger label still an
independent label still fits into our
political agenda it was like we'll give
you more money to actually record a
record in a studio and into and it have
proper promotion why would we not why
would you not see the world is changing
and they're accepting that in so
yeah weird some lifers so yeah I'm a
lifer the only time you call yourself
alive is when you're 17 you're about to
die yeah Beatles is a perfect example
John Lennon lifer was that just
one of the ultimate badasses naked paul
mccartney initech okay i think he was a
lifer but then like all of a sudden he
like did that record with the bloody
beetroots I'm like
you know like I don't know man what are
you doing Tom Waits definitely electric
so I've been fishing be check on the
boardwalk playing his guitar
I actually day Matt they give us have
looked like a homeless man playing his
guitar no one knew who he was I actually
did they go
they just gotta be someone else
I don't know what other people's reasons
are for playing music for me it was also
escape like I wanted to I wanted to
escape all of this it's like I just hear
you're free and it's fun and you
can be loud and you can expel everything
that that is uh well for me you know
tormenting me does that answer your
question I think I don't think I
answered your question just cooking
cooking meth cooking meth here downtown
Skid Row making meth go into punk shows