- kaleb gay [read more with Chris at sctas.com/llb]

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+ "Please play a soul song on the jukebox at Applebee's", "Superbowl party -
trophy construction bosses wife", "I don't like college kids out at the bar"
- all lyrics from the new album. Tell me how you REALLY feel! Are the
aforementioned lyrics a direct stab at where you currently reside?

Chris: That song is less about individuals and more about culture. I saw all these
college types at the bar at one such restaurant drinking Presidente®
Margaritas while soul songs played on the satellite radio. The juxtaposition
between the great old music and the chain restaurant surroundings were funny
to me. But I have nothing against college types. Nothing against anyone.

+ You have been historically archived expressing the following truth: "A lot
of times you go to an indie-rock show, and it's packed, but no one's really
there to see a show. They're there to be seen, instead. I'd rather play in a
closet with four people who are into it." Have you ever had to come to a
halt during a performance to the "indie-rock" kids and clue them into this
fact?

I think sometimes the "indie scene", is more about being cool than actually
supporting independent music. But I can't blame people for wanting to fit
in. In Denver most venues are bars. You'll play to a packed house but it's
only packed because people are there to drink and hook up. I was younger
when I said those things that you quoted in that last question. I get more
attention now. I once stopped to tell a crowd to shut up. Ian MacKaye
can pull that shit off, but most people just sound whiney.

+ Prior to the LLB, there was said to have been "a shitty, Southern
California-style punk band" that was happening amongst your circle - tell me
more!

On our last tour Jason Anderson and I purchased a NOFX cd from a Best Buy.
It was fun to blast it when we pulled up to a crowd of K records' fans. I
think that people would expect us to just be listening to things like the
lucky dragons or the microphones constantly. Growing up in a small town you
can't pick and choose who you play music with. I have played in a KISS cover
band, a surf rock band, metal bands, a pop punk band, a ton of sonic youth
wannabes. I was in a band and this kid wore latex ram horns and read
poetry. Did you ever hear about that woman stalking David Letterman? That
was the poetry kid's mom! It's a weird cracked out place that I'm from.

+ In further prying of the current LLB moniker, what separates Love Letter
Band and Bad Weather California.. .?

Nothing.

+ about these Iron Maiden posters ("Iron Maiden Posters" from the latest
album) on your "cousin's bedroom walls"... you say they scared you
"shitless", did they have a pretty big affect on the music you make today??
( as in anti-Iron Maiden!? ).

Maiden is one of the greatest rock bands to ever walk this planet. My older
cousin Joe introduced me to them at a young age. People now-a-days wear
heavy metal T-shirts and walk around listening to that stuff trying to be
clever and ironic or something. It bums me out because I still take music
like that very seriously.

+ you a big Tim Burton fan? (You named a song after him...) I think he
terrorized Wonka - even more-so than if he had cast George W as Charlie, or
Grandpa Joe.

Hey! What about casting the late Ronald Regan as Charlie? That might be
good. He has acting experience. But George W. Might be good as Charlie too.
I could see that working out!