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Laurel from Dogfight Entertainment outta Asheville posted a BIG Attack! interview. The transcript is still a bit raw -I'm gonna help her out with some of the spelling and stuff, and also try to get the actual sound file!
BIG Attack! Interview: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=6111544&blogID=299949999
EXCERPT FROM INTERVIEW:
LJ: What are the main things you write about in your music?
Russ: If you look at it literally, the number one thing we write about is consumer fetishism. I think it came from working at a mall and being surrounded by people who buy a lot of shit and feel like it fills a void. Like our song "Do The Things You Want Come In Boxes"? It's literally "Can't Buy Me Love" but we aren't talking about the love aspect. We're talking about the fact that you can't buy love, happiness, trust, those kinds of things. We're trying to ask if that's what you really want to be doing with your life. I sacrificed, well, not sacrificed because it's what I want to be doing, but four years of my life to get where we are today. I don't need a Sony Playstation, or a nice fancy car, or a nice shirt. Anyways, consumer fetishes is probably the number one topic. We covered so much ground with Dread Fabric. We were very topical. Like, with the Columbine shooting, we had a song in a couple of days. We tried to hit the topics. So, Big Attack! is kind of coming from a kind of been-there-done-that angle as far as the punk rock scene. Where there's so many people and you grew up as a kid and you were an outsiders. Then you find the punk scene and you hear bands like the Sex Pistols and X-Ray Specs and Bad Brains and you're like, "Maybe this is where I belong". And then you get up in these scenes where you think you're being all fancy and you've got on slick pants and a nice shirt with tassels on it and these kids are really no better than the kids beating you up in school. You've got to have your mohawks and your bondage pants. We learned real fast with our old band that it was like we thought we belonged there and realized all of this, and there was kind of a backlash. Then we got into a lot of activism where we found that in these so-called anarchist organizations you get the same kind of people who want to control other people. We don't want to be controlled, we want to help. We're not trying to tell you how it is, we're trying to understand. We want you to tell us how it is.
3:00 PM
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