RC: How'd you guys all come together as the Vincent Black Shadow?
Chris: Three boys met in our mom's vagina.
Rob: Yeah, we're three brothers, right? And so we've played in another band together that's still going called Nim Vind. We were playing together for six years almost, then after that I started this with Cassandra. She had gone to the Phillipines to be an Asian pop princess. I always tease her about this...
At this point, a bee flew into the press area, causing a small amount of chaos.
Rob: It's just a bee. Leave me bee... get it? Leave me bee.
Just for the readers right now, we are being attacked by one bee, and 14 large humans are frightened away by one bee. This is how we should fight the war in Iraq. Just unleash bees to chase everyone away.
What was the question again?
RC: Cassandra, Asian pop star...
Rob: Oh yeah, so she went to the Philippines to do like, it was like pop pop music. Over there, their kind of pop music is almost like karaoke, so it was really like polished pop, and she really didn't like it. So she was with Universal there in Asia for almost a year, and then she got sick of it. She came back, and I said "I have some songs that would be great for a female. Why don't you sing them?"
So we tried it out, put some demos together, and sent it out to our label - well, they weren't our label at the time - they liked it, were interested so I put the band together, and got my brothers, and it's worked out great.
RC: Whats next for you guys?
Rob: Going fishing.
Chris: What's next is we're doing the Bodog Battle of the Bands thing. We're going to be the special guests, at some of the shows. We're going to Germany, and possibly tour some around there, and by then we'll have exploded into the stratosphere. We're buying parts of space right now so that when you walk out your door every night it will say "Vincent Black Shadow" in space.
Rob: We're doing 18 shows starting the 28th of August going right up until the 19th in New York, Detroit, Boston Philadelphia, Washington DC, playing multiple dates in each place. That's when we're heading off to Germany. And we're trying to do a tour with Nim Vind and the Vincent Black Shadow.
Chris: That's how the Doors started. They'd go play eight shows in one place, and then move on. They were a house band in New York for a while, a house band in LA for a while, so when they told us we'd have four-show stints in each place...
Rob: It'll be fun. It's less travelling, we get to sit in the hotel, play the show, party, and then it's only one day of driving. On this tour, it's like play, then you have bus call at like 10 or 11, then you've got to drive for eight hours. Not that we're driving, but it's bumpy at night.
Chris: It's hard to meet chicks on this tour because you have to leave all the time.
Rob: And we rarely get to shower. That's not as attractive as you might think.
Chris: That what really makes it hard, actually.
Rob: It's like "wow, you have such a glossy sheen." No, that's just the eight days of sweat I've compiled.
Chris: It's like "you have an awesome tan." Actually it's not a tan, it's dirt. It's a layer of filth.
Rob: You don't realize it until you get in the shower, and your tan comes off.
Chris: I do have a tattoo there. That's awesome.
RC: Any closing thoughts?
Chris: I haven't thought too much today, so I'll leave that to Roberto.
Rob: Some closing thoughts from me would be, "Take a look, it's in a book, a reading rainbow." Read a book. Find out something new and interesting.
It's kind of like what we try to tell people when they're at the Warped Tour and we're trying to get them to come over to listen to us and find out about a new band. Take a trip down a new path. Don't just keep trotting the same one. You'll be the cooler one for it... if that made any sense.
The Vincent Black Shadow's debut album, Fears In The Water is out now on Bodog Records.
