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Interview: Glassjaw
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PRP: Firstly, how was the tour with
Deftones and how is the current Soulfly tour going?
Todd: Tour with Deftones was the best thing ever, they were the best guys ever and the response and audiences were more than we expected. It was awesome.
PRP: Did you hang out much?
Todd: Yeah all the time, the most
awesome guys, I'd go out with them in a second, tour with them forever.
PRP: It must have felt unreal to have your first major tour with the
Deftones.
Todd: If you were to ask us before that tour what the ideal band for us to start off doing our record with,
I would have said Deftones, but I probably wouldn't have said that because I'd be
like yeah right! It was just totally surreal, and still is. It doesn't feel like it even really happened. Soulfly has been awesome too, its a little different of a crowd like some places we go the kids
don't really understand it. Like in Germany the kids were giving us the finger the whole time.
It's mixed on the Soulfly tour, Spain was amazing, Italy was great, France was great and the U.K.
tonight I'm expecting to be one of the best shows I've ever played. And the guys in Soulfly are also great.
PRP: I heard Max is kind of anti social?
Todd: Max doesn't really hang out with his band too much,
he's been doing it for like 15 years so if I were him I'd want to just chill.
PRP: What has been the high point over the last year?
Todd: When the record came out and
I found out about the Deftones tour, that week I was like yes!
PRP: What venues or particular places have you enjoyed playing at. New
York, Roseland Ballroom must rate highly?
Todd: Roseland, that's
one of them. All of us have been going to see shows at the Roseland since we were little.
It's the biggest club before like an arena to play in New York. I never thought I'd
play in the Roseland, I'm used to playing bars for 20 people in my town. That was totally a personal victory. And Brixton Academy (London) I think we all say that might be the best show we ever played, it was just insanity.
PRP:
With many of your friends bands signed to smaller indie labels, did you have any doubts with signing to a larger label like
Roadrunner and are you happy with the way they've been handling the band?
Todd: I think if any of those bands had the chance to do what we are doing they would do the same thing. If a band is doing what they are doing and signed to a bigger label, so they can do it instead of having to work and do
it. How's that selling out? Your making music your life now. I think kids that say that are kind of ignorant, everyone wants to keep the band for themselves.
PRP: Were there any doubts as to whether or not you
should sign to Roadrunner?
Todd: Roadrunner approached us very little at first.
When they approached us two years before we went with this deal, they saw us at a show and you could tell they
didn't really like us and our friends in V.O.D. and Earth Crisis were on the label and it
didn't really work out with them. I don't know whether we would have gone with Roadrunner if it
wasn't for the Ross thing. The Ross thing is what kind of pushed it over the edge. It was
Roadrunner but it was
I AM.
PRP: So how do you feel about your treatment by roadrunner?
Todd: We are happy, I mean,
there's some stuff definitely. Their treatment of us over in Europe and especially in the
U.K. If we had the promotion that we had in the U.K over in the U.S. we would be really happy,
I definitely think they could do a lot more in the U.S. Its frustrating, we have the promotion here
(England) and the record does this well. England is a place the size of Maine
and we have sold almost half of what we have sold in the whole of the United States here. Its really frustrating but we are grateful to be where we are.
PRP: You recently released a single containing some previously unreleased
material in the U.K., do you guys have anymore recorded material laying
around that you haven't put out yet?
Todd: Nothing from this session, nothing from the
Ross session. The Don Fury sessions and "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", I don't
know if that's going to come out. We are actually going to re release "Kiss
Kiss Bang Bang".
PRP: Would that be through Roadrunner?
Todd: No. We are going to do it ourselves, maybe exclusively through the website. We are going to give it new artwork and stuff and re press it.
PRP: Any time frame?
Todd: Within the next few months
I think. We don't have an exact date. It's whenever we get our artwork together and our asses in gear.
PRP: Despite some large tours with the Deftones among others and a dedicated
grassroots fan base, the album hasn't really taken off yet sales wise, are you frustrated by this?
Todd: It's definitely frustrating but we
don't care that much, it was an experience to do the Deftones tour, it would have been cool if there was a single with the
Deftones tour, that would have
definitely of helped. If nothing happens, if this is it and I can just play small hardcore
shows I'd be happy. We never expected this to happen. We are not expecting to be rock stars or anything like that. we are here to rock.
PRP: Having toured with the Deftones and more recently with
Drowningman, do you have a preference for the smaller or larger shows?
Todd: I like them both, playing shows with like
Drowningman or Earth Crisis, it's really intimate, no barrier and its insane, kids are flipping over your head, its insane. Playing bigger places you
don't get that intimacy.....I don't know, its a different kind of thing, I really cant say. Some days
I'm like I want to play a sick small club but then I look at this (current venue) and its just like wow!
PRP: There's been talk that you guys have plans to hit the studio again early
next year to work on your next album, do you plan to work with Ross Robinson again this time around and has the band been writing any material for it as
of yet?
Todd: Yeah definitely going with him again.
Possibly we might use a different engineer with Ross and maybe not go to Indigo
Ranch but we are definitely using Ross without a doubt.
PRP: So have you worked on any new material?
Todd: A little bit, it's been really hard being on the road.
We've thrown around a few ideas, we are going to do some writing coming up I think.
PRP: It's said that you are one of the non straight edge members of the group, is
this true and if so do you have trouble with the other members of the band
who are?
Todd: Well first off that's not true, that's a popular rumor but not true.
Daryl and Beck are really the only straight edge members. Larry
smokes weed and Manny doesn't really do anything but doesn't call himself straight edge. It
doesn't matter. They do what they do, I do what I do.
PRP: With some of the group having outside projects including
Daryl's DJing and
such, do you have anything going on other than Glassjaw?
Todd: Nothing like a band or anything like that. I concentrate on
Glassjaw.
PRP :So when can we expect a solo album from the famed underground Long Island
rapper Todd One?
Todd: Hahah that's going to
come out, I'm working on that a little myself but I don't want to blow that shit up.
PRP: Have you ever had to wipe your ass with leaves?
Todd: Never
PRP: Your missing out.
PRP: If you accidentally dropped someone else's toothbrush down the toilet, would you tell them or would you fish it out and pretend like it never happened?
Todd: Depends if they were my friend or not. That reminds me of
something that happened to some girl that fucked me and my friend over and my friend stuck her toothbrush up his ass and put it back.
PRP: Well that's about it, any last words or shoutouts to other bands?
Todd: Shoutout to Wook, the
mega corps industries -that's top secret and Todd One and the crew.
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