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Interview with frontman Andy Seven
ANDY: It used to be Raji's but they won't book us there anymore because the last time we played this slam pit started going and people started getting beat up and stuff. Dobbs had a coronary so now he thinks that we're a violent band and that we encourage people to do violence to each other. It's kind of funny because he started out as a bartender at the Cathay DeGrande which was a very intense punk bar in the late seventies. So for him to flip out is pretty strange.
HIP: Okay, so besides Raji's? Your fave club is....
ANDY: The Shamrock. It's a fantastic club. We played there about a month ago and Inger Lorre from The Nymphs joined me onstage for the song "Horses", which is a Patti Smith song.
HIP: About one of your new releases, how did you guys manage to get on the Flipside Magazine compilation LP?
ANDY: I sent a demo to Kirk from Flipside about a year and a half ago. He started coming out to our shows and he liked us enough to do a track for the compilation. The record's done really well. Our "Silver Surfer" track has gotten a lot of airplay on K-XLU. Flipside is really supportive of bands on the scene.
HIP: Describe your music.
ANDY: Punk-jazz-psychedelic-intergalactic-noise.
HIP: How many releases does Trash Can School have out?
ANDY: We have two releases on Dionysus records and one on Sympathy for the Record Industry, which is "Horses". Next month we'll be releasing another on Sympathy.
HIP: What/who are your influences?
ANDY: I listen to a lot of old jazz. I like Tom Waits. Nick Cave, The Birthday Party. I like Nick Cave a lot.
HIP: Any local bands you admire right now?
ANDY: I like Distorted Pony, The Miracle Workers, etc. I like diverse things like Anus the Menace. I like L7, The Nymphs,....
HIP: Al's Bar kind of bands?
ANDY: Oh, we're banned from there too! We played there this summer and they shut the power off on us as soon as we started playing. The woman who books the place just had it determined in her head to never have us there ever again. She said that we were psychotic. Which we are but you know, it kind of makes the music better. If we weren't psychotics we'd be listening to John Denver. A little mental disease never hurt anyone. It's made a man out of me.
HIP: With that said, who then writes the lyrics?
ANDY: I do everything. The music and the lyrics.
Trash Can School is:
Guitar: Jay Francis
Guitar: Jack Gould
Guitar: Jim Miller
Bass: Paul Fox
Drums: Manny Pena
Vocals: Andy Seven
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