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Interview. Corttimred from paga 11 BJ: The ideas and energy. I don't know about the same music. We're not really the same music people. We (the band) have the same ideas and attitudes and energy. SB: Another fact is we don't listen to just one style of music. Say a punk band would just listen to punk music. We listen to everything, and it influences us. n I my plflssipfll' BJ: Right, jazz and even classical. G: How did you get involved with Miles Copeland (manager of Lords of the New Church and The Police, head of I.R.S. Records)? BJ: I met Miles about three years ago. He started to manage me when I was doing a solo thing. We carried on for a while. Then Miles saw Stiv perform, and I'd been telling him about Stiv for three years. Miles doesn't listen to nothing unless he sees them perform himself. When he came back from America Miles told mp ho hari sppn thi?! fantacHp hor?H mifh Stiv singing. He asked about us working together, stayed with it, and here we are. G: If you hadn't hooked up with Copeland, do you think you would be as widely known as you are now? BJ: Who can tell? G: Because I.R.S. has gotten a lot of bands well known. BJ: Yeah, they're doing a good job. If it wasn't for them, il .1- 1 J _ A 11 1 1 ? inougn, we wouiu sun ue a good group. SB: We might not be as well known. Maybe we would. BJ: Who can say. You can't speculate about something like that. G: Chris was telling us about Miles' strategy to Di your first album. Could you fill us in on it? BJ: Don't listen to him. He knows absolutely nothing. DT: He's just some preppie we picked up hitchhikin' Ground UCLA. G: Well, he spelled almost all your names right. NT: About the strategy, we put just our last names on the album cover. We didn't want people saying "Oh, a Dead Boy, a Sham 69 or the Damned. We wanted to be a new group and not play any old numbers. SB: The trouble is poop punk supergroup. We don't want to go on our past history. We want the music to stand for itself. If Altera real I beat the IPabst Blue Ri ? the music wasn't going to make it we didn't waia to exploit our past. G: Who writes the music? pj BJ: Stiv and I do. Stiv writes most of the lyrics and I write R most of the music. te G: Stiv, how did you like working in Polyester (John Waters' I movie showing at Russell House tonight and tomorrow) ? pE SB: It was alot of fun. John Waters is great to work with. We H just saw Divine's stage show while we were in New Orleans. ^ y-i _i a a > nn i ^^...1^1 U/l/\ u: uivine is supposed co De in town soon, wnat cuuiu ire uu for a stage act? ? SB: He uses a chain saw and chops up unborn babies. j G: Do you get much satisfaction out of playing this music? |:DT: That's why we do it. |g G: Do you have a time limit on how long you will stay j= together? Is BJ: As long as we feel good together, we'll stay together !> G: What do you call your music? [j| DT, SB, NT, BJ: Church music. ju G: Have you gotten any negative feedback from religious rg groups in the South? j= NT'l1 \7aoK aat/v rtl D mma 2a ma A 1 . J ? IfC a-* a . ican, wc wcic piaying m dm imugutiui, /\i?. auu uiey c were giving leaflets outside the doors saying we were devils [| and so on. r= SB: It was great. p G: Any feedback in Columbia? Is SB: Not much. We had a burning cross outside our hotel room [| last night but that was it. p G: The KKK is just outside Columbia. [j| SB: Great. Maybe we can play a concert for them. All four of r= us on a burning cross. j= G: What do you think about playing in Columbia? l!= BJ: This is my first visit to Columbia. Its a new area for me. H It's great, I look at it as a challenge. [| SB: We've been here one night, and it's the nicest week we've [ji snent anvwhere. J= NT: We feel we're the first big punk rock to play Columbia, p and we like bringing our music here. m ' k tough exam... ^ ith the realtaste of beer. | -?s?rt Gamecock Pendants - _ Gamecock $12.00 Pendanls $15.00? THE JEWELRY WAREHOUSE ^ 2909 Piatt Springs Rd., W. Cola. B n (oi 1 SAMBINO'S fl | SUB WORLD I VI m m frail i Invites You jjj ! To Watch 1 i Football On Their I I New Wide Screen I H T\/l g ^ii|601||$. Main ^ ^ ^ ^54-4441 jj j| Coupon I | Mauro's | I $1.00 OFF any size Pizza! g 2 Free Cokes with a small I j 4 Free Cokes with a large 5 Main Street Store Only Expires 9-19-82 631 Main 799-4432 I Coupon j| Mauro's ! 2 Calzones and | 2 Cokes | $5.20 J | Main Street Store Only Expires 9-19-82 J | 631 Main 799-4432 I RIVER RIDGE | I Come see us . . . I I We're just... I I \ ...^SvtR "klvt:R AMT> ) i \ through Tin woods/ 1 I River Rldp* -? Relented I Aitomatlve To Adult student Living Offering I Wood-Burning Fireplaces * Waterfront Flats and Townhouses * Tennis Courts j and Pool * Balcony ? Cable TV ? Clubhouse Available for Private Use Jf