Post by Heather on Jul 6, 2010 17:19:32 GMT -5
Chart Attack
Sum 41 will release their fifth album, Screaming Bloody Murder, on Aug. 31.
In support of their latest effort the Ajax, Ont. natives are spending the summer traveling across North America with the Vans Warped Tour, minus a brief jaunt to Japan.
Sum 41 played to some of the biggest crowds on the first two days of the tour. Before their Carson, Calif. set, drummer Stevo and bassist Cone took time to answer CHARTattack's fabulous-five Warped Tour questions.
CHARTattack: What's the best thing about the Warped Tour?
Stevo: It's this little gambling game we've got going on to see how many days it takes for our bus driver to kick us off the bus.
This fucking guy, I haven't met him yet, but he's got all these DVD booklets and they're alphabetized from A to Z. But also, within the letters, like Aa, Ab. This guy is not going to be able to handle Derek on a good day.**
Cone: They're a Canadian bus company who we were already banned from. But I think it's because we've changed management that they didn't recognize the name, so we slid in.
**This interview happened two days before THIS. Irony?
What's the worst thing about the Warped Tour?
Stevo: Losing your bus after a week. It's gonna fuckin' suck. We're gonna be riding around in an ice cream cart.
What band are you most excited to check out on this year's tour?
Stevo: Whatever band that guy's in. [Points to gentleman walking by] Let me describe him for you, he's wearing a white fedora, white pin-striped pants, his zipper is undone and his gut is hanging out. I want to know what kind of music that guy makes.
What's your favourite Warped Tour memory?
Cone: One of the first years we did it, in 2001, we got really drunk while hanging out with friends.
Stevo: It was the first time that all the older bands like NOFX, Pennywise and The Vandals accepted us, and like, we could hang out with them and stuff. We got fucking annihilated until six in the morning and then Kevin [Lyman, Warped Tour founder] took note of it.
Every day we'd been going on at 5 p.m. Every day. And then the one night that we were accepted by other bands and partied with them, the next day we were on at 11 a.m. I went to bed at 10 in the morning after partying with Fat Mike all night and then had to get up and play an hour later.
What's the biggest hygiene challenge that comes with the Warped Tour?
Cone: I brought some Febreze.
Stevo: I brought a lot of underwear and a lot of socks. But as far as exterior clothes, fuck it.
Sum 41 will release their fifth album, Screaming Bloody Murder, on Aug. 31.
In support of their latest effort the Ajax, Ont. natives are spending the summer traveling across North America with the Vans Warped Tour, minus a brief jaunt to Japan.
Sum 41 played to some of the biggest crowds on the first two days of the tour. Before their Carson, Calif. set, drummer Stevo and bassist Cone took time to answer CHARTattack's fabulous-five Warped Tour questions.
CHARTattack: What's the best thing about the Warped Tour?
Stevo: It's this little gambling game we've got going on to see how many days it takes for our bus driver to kick us off the bus.
This fucking guy, I haven't met him yet, but he's got all these DVD booklets and they're alphabetized from A to Z. But also, within the letters, like Aa, Ab. This guy is not going to be able to handle Derek on a good day.**
Cone: They're a Canadian bus company who we were already banned from. But I think it's because we've changed management that they didn't recognize the name, so we slid in.
**This interview happened two days before THIS. Irony?
What's the worst thing about the Warped Tour?
Stevo: Losing your bus after a week. It's gonna fuckin' suck. We're gonna be riding around in an ice cream cart.
What band are you most excited to check out on this year's tour?
Stevo: Whatever band that guy's in. [Points to gentleman walking by] Let me describe him for you, he's wearing a white fedora, white pin-striped pants, his zipper is undone and his gut is hanging out. I want to know what kind of music that guy makes.
What's your favourite Warped Tour memory?
Cone: One of the first years we did it, in 2001, we got really drunk while hanging out with friends.
Stevo: It was the first time that all the older bands like NOFX, Pennywise and The Vandals accepted us, and like, we could hang out with them and stuff. We got fucking annihilated until six in the morning and then Kevin [Lyman, Warped Tour founder] took note of it.
Every day we'd been going on at 5 p.m. Every day. And then the one night that we were accepted by other bands and partied with them, the next day we were on at 11 a.m. I went to bed at 10 in the morning after partying with Fat Mike all night and then had to get up and play an hour later.
What's the biggest hygiene challenge that comes with the Warped Tour?
Cone: I brought some Febreze.
Stevo: I brought a lot of underwear and a lot of socks. But as far as exterior clothes, fuck it.