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Vicky - First off you guys just released a new record which is amazing!, I bought it when it came out how did everything go with that? Like how was all the feedback and stuff?

Dustin - Than You! The feedback has been amazing so far, you know we were really unsure of how people would take the record because it's very different from the last one and i feel like theres a lot more variety on it you know we put a lot more emotion and time into it so it came out exactly how we wanted it to

Vicky - How long did it take you guys to write and record it?

Matt - Well I guess for the songs maybe the course of about 6 months and then we pretty much took a month and a half or two months to just put it all together

Dustin - Yeah just get down to the grind, everyday for two months we were just peicing them all together

Matt - Yeah it was like a full time job to just get all the songs together and then we went to florida and recorded for 6 weeks with James Paul Wisner

Vicky - Yeah I was going to ask you about him, How did you like working with him?

Matt - Oh he's amazing he's a really creative guy he's worked with a lot of bands

Vicky - Yeah he did The Academy Is... I think

Matt - He's done The Academy Is..., he's done UnderOath, he's done Dashboard Confessional so we were excited to work with someone that had such wide variety of bands you know, and we knew we wanted to have a lot of variety on our record so it worked out great

Vicky - Yeah it came out really good

Matt - Thank you

Vicky - So you're on all of Warped Tour right?

Matt & Dustin - Yes

Vicky - How has it been so far?

Dustin - It's exaughsting but it's paid off well so far kids have really been reacting great to our new songs and new live show so it's been great it's going to be sad when it's over but you know it was definitely a great experience this year

Vicky - Would you do it again next year?

Dustin - Sure, it's actually our 3rd year so why not keep going with it

Vicky - Do you have a favorite city that you've played on Warped?

Dustin - Yeah Chicago was actually I think one of my favorites just because the kids there are so incredible for some reason it's like a second hometown to us even though most of the band is from SanDiego it's also amazing playing at The Gorge in Seattle because it's like a famous venue and it's the best looking place in the world and it's just amazing

Vicky - Do you guys get to shower often?

Matt - hahaha uh sometimes

Dustin - haha it's kind of a choice thing some people chose to shower daily some people chose to hold off a little bit including myself

Vicky - so they do have them?

Dustin - Yeah if you want to shower everyday it's possible but sometimes i'd rather rest and i'll just take a rest and get a little sleep

Vicky - Yeah, what are your touring plans after warped?

Matt - After Warped Tour for about a week we are going to tour with a band called The Higher mostly west coast just a few shows and then we're going directly from that to Europe for about 2 weeks and then from Europe to the UK for 2 weeks so we're going to get some over seas action going on in september in october, which we can't wait for

Vicky - So you guys are from SanDiego right?

Matt - Me and him are actually the only two that are not

Stacey - Where are you guys from?

Dustin - I'm from Pittsburg and Matt's from DC

Stacey - Oh I'm from Lancaster

Dustin - Lancaster, PA?

Stacey - Yeah

Dustin - Nice, east coast what what

Vicky - Did you guys start out playing shows around you guys or in SanDiego?

Matt - We were both in local bands from our areas

Dustin - It's kind of like the same story for both of us we both were in bands that knew My American Heart and we were friends with them but both of our bands they decided to i don't know things just didn't work out

Vicky - So when you guys got together did you like go to them or did they come to you or did you just go on a tour immedately and start somewhere else?

Dustin - Oh it's completely different for both of us Matt's band broke up and then we were looking to find a new guitar player once Jeremy left about a year ago and that's when we got in touch with Matt and then I was still in my band when they got in touch with me but they weren't sure if I wanted to continue on with my band and neither was I so thats when I decided to leave the band I was in that's how it was really

Vicky - How old were you guys when you got into music and stuff?

Matt - Into music? I have been in bands and have been playing since I was like 13 or 14 and when I started playing guitar I was about 10 years old

Dustin - I started playing bass in like 5th grade so like 11 or 12 years old and then I started taking it seriously and started joining bands when I was like 13, 14, middle school

Vicky - Was it...hard to start off that young?

Dustin - No, because it always starts off as fun you know? And then your life takes you in certian directions and  for us it led us into a direction where we realized we could actually take it seriously so that's it

Vicky - You guys have been getting pretty big since the tour with TheAudition like last year how do you feel about that?

Dustin - I wouldn't say we are big I mean we still have a lot of work to do

Vicky - I mean you guys have done a lot already

Dustin - Yeah it's good to have our name our a lot more and being on Warped Tour 3 years in a row it's great to see that the response every year is just growing and growing especially the east coast it's sad that we haven't even been here in over a year and so far all the east coast shows have been incredible fans are still coming back you know we were afraid that people forgot about us but insted they just got more hyped to come see us and it's been so long so it's just great

Vicky - What bands have you guys been watching?

Matt - We watch Hot Rod Circut today we were just on the bus with them, i've been watching Gallows, hmm some Circa

Dustin - I love watching Bayside, a band called Evaline they're really cool, but every band on this tour is really cool in their own way

Vicky - If you weren't in a band what do you think would you would probably want to do?

Matt - I'd probably be selling flowers and Dustin would be waiting tables

Stacey - Selling flowers?

Matt -Yep

Stacey - Why?

Matt - I don't know just because

Dustin - And I would wait tables because I like to

Stacey - Really?

Dustin - Yeah at benagins

Stacey - I was there like two days ago I was at the apple store trying to find a mac computer

Dustin - Well keep an eye out for me there I might be there

Matt - I used to work at a benagins

Stacey - I work at Journeys now

Matt - Jorneys? Journeys is fun good shoes get me a pair

Stacey - I can get you shoes 40%

Matt - Really?

Stacey - Yeah come to my store

Dustin - Let's go.

Vicky - Annie from Rhode Island wants to know what was your inspiration for "Shake"?

Dustin - The inspiration for Shake? Most of the new record is all based on different experiences that we've gone through in the past few years as a band personal things and band related things there's a little bit of both in that song I wouldn't say thats a specific song that has to do with one little thing but we've had a lot of issues involving a few certian people like friends, family, and just random people in the industry or whatever and that's song's kind of a gerneral expression for that i guess it's kind of all about how we can just keep going through all of it

Vicky - Alright and she also wants to know...What's the wiredest thing that's happend to you at a show?

Matt - The show got rained out the other day like a few days ago and they called off the entire show and then like 10 mintues later they were like oh the shows still going to go on and it was literally like a tornado and it was hailing and everybodys tents got destroyed, merchandise got destroyed and the show kept going so we had to play like a 20 mintue set after everything got ruined

Dustin - yeah our speakers got rained on so they were all pretty much ruined we had to get a whole new set of them it was kind of dumb if we had a mintue to think about that a lot more crazy stuff could've happend, we've all hurt eachother onstage a few times I gave Matt a little scar yesterday *points to a horrible scratch on Matts face* And like a year ago I went to stage dive and I hit my head on an over head monitor it caused a little damage there haha that's why I don't remember much of my life anymore, my brain doesn't work

Vicky - Well we have to cut it short so is there anything you'd like to add or say to your fans?

Dustin - Well I don't know, we love everybody and we'd rather have friends than fans so always come say hello at shows and everyone keep it real and take care

Vicky - Alright thank you guys!