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JUNE Issue of FLIPRAG features the following interview with Wolfgang Parker:

Fliprag: Where does the name Wolfgang Parker come from?
WP: In 1993, I graduated high school and did a lot of traveling around the country. I went down to Graceland to see all of Elvis' tacky shit and came back with one souvenir, which was a 45 of Jailhouse Rock. The day I came home, no one was home and I put that on and I literally had the epiphany of my life to pursue music. That summer I stayed in Maine, Austin, New York and all different places. I knew I wanted to do a jazz punk thing and I only knew anything about one jazz musician, which was Charlie Parker. Wolfgang came from when I was traveling to all these places. For some reason, every time I turned on the TV, the movie Amadeus was on. It was a stupid coincidence that I ended up merging those two names. But literally it's from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Charlie Parker.

Fliprag: When was the band formed?
WP: I started writing the music in 1993 and 1994. We started seriously going after it in 1995 so it's been…fuck, fourteen years.

Fliprag: Since starting the band, have your goals changed?

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