New Found
Glory has definitely come a long way since their early days
of playing small shows to a hand full of kids in their home
state of Florida. They are still the same kids though having
just as much fun as ever. Only one small thing has changed
since then; that being everybody and their mother listens
to them now. You know a band is doing well if you are walking
around Target looking for the dental floss when you look up
to see the video for “Hit or Miss.” Regardless of
how popular NFG becomes you will never hear any of them talk
about how it’s not enough. They are too busy talking
about how unbelievable it is that they have gotten as far
as they have.
Have
you guys made it?
Ian: We’ve made it a lot farther then I thought we were
going to go. In the beginning we never thought that we were
going to play out side of Florida.
Steve: We’ve done everything we have ever wanted to do,
just having a CD out.
Chad: Everything now is just icing on the cake.
What’s
up with “Hit or Miss” on the new album, was that
you guys or the label?
Chad: It was both. We felt that when we recorded “Hit
or Miss” on “Nothing Gold Can Stay” it didn’t
really do justice to the song. Plus the crowds would always
go crazy for that song, so we wanted to get that song out
to more people.
What Type of feedback have you gotten from putting “Hit
or Miss” on the new album?
Chad: It’s been good and bad, kids always like the original.
Steve:
I think a lot of our new fans don’t even know that it’s
on our other CD. Which is cool ‘cause that’s the
song that everyone likes from the last CD and a lot more kids
are hearing the new CD so a lot more people are going to hear
the song.
What’s
the weirdest thing a fan has ever done to you guys?
Cyrus: In April we were playing a show in New Jersey. This
girl who had just gotten off work at Dominos Pizza wanted
to meet us so she had her friend drive her to the show as
if she was delivering a pizza. She got back stage and was
like “I don’t have a pizza, I just want you to sign
the pizza box.” That was pretty crazy.
What’s
up with the recent surge of tattoos on everybody?
Ian: More then anything it was the fact that we didn’t
have to worry about working real jobs.\
Funniest
tattoo you have ever seen.
Ian: This guy Steve Looker from Gainesville has chicken Mc
nuggets tattooed on his arms (Laughing)
Jordan: There is this kid from Arizona that has his arm sleeved
and it’s a chicken with boxing gloves ripping apart the
Colonel Sanders from KFC, and there is blood everywhere.
What’s
your comments on Buddyhead.com?
Ian: FUCK BUDDYHEAD.COM!!! Travis Keller, the kid who runs
Buddyhead took our promo pictures when we put out our record.
He was our friend we used to hang out with him. Then one day
he thought it would be cool to start a web site and start
to talk shit, but whatever, those guys are just douche bags
and they just do it for attention.
Chad: It’s like this, if they want to just talk shit
and stuff, that’s fine. We don’t care, they can
say whatever they want about us, we don’t give a shit.
When they put personal phone numbers and information on there
that’s when it starts to get fucked up, I know a lot
of people that want to beat the shit out of those guys…
Steve: If I ever see anyone from Buddyhead I am going to kick
their ass I will fight them, I don’t care.
Ian: I don’t really care what they say at all, I’m
just looking for an excuse to get into a fight.(Laughs)
How
long until Brittany is doing softcore porn?
Ian: After the next album comes out, she will most definitely
do something. The first thing she’ll do will probably
just be topless, then after that she’ll go all the way.
Everyone’s jerkin off to her anyway she might as well
be naked.(Laughs)
What’s
the weirdest thing you have ever been interviewed for?
Ian: The weirdest thing we ever did an interview for was probably
Cosmo-girl…
Cyrus: Ian just showed up in Twist magazine, that’s like
a fuckin Teeny-bop magazine. He’s next to pictures of
Eve, Pink, and Sisqo and shit its funny.
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Found Glory