Interview by Aaron North. Photos by Travis Keller.
Buddyhead encountered Piebald one lovely autumn night at Koo’s Cafe in Santa Ana, California. They played to a packed house of excited sweaty wuss-rock kids, and from the smiles on the kids faces, gave them a show to remember. On the interview tip, Aaron and Travis did the questioning and coincidentally, the 2 piebald members we cornered and harassed were Aaron and Travis as well. Afterward, Travis photographically captured Piebald letting out their homosexual tendencies, remembering their dead homies, and Aaron getting his pants taken off. The kids dig these guys, naked or not.
buddyhead – so aaron, what do you do in piebald?
aaron – i play guitar and sing a little.
buddyhead – tell us what piebald likes to do.
aaron – piebald likes to go to strip clubs. piebald likes to have sex. piebald likes to smoke weed. piebald likes to drink beer.
buddyhead – can you say motley crue?
aaron – our drummer is actually very motley crue, he’s slept with like 8 girls on this tour so far.
buddyhead – what towns can you get laid easiest in?
aaron – to be honest, i don’t do that shit. i actually just flew in my girlfriend to l.a. today. travis, help me out here, i’m fuckin this up real bad.
buddyhead – how long have you been a band?
travis – 6 years.
aaron – hey travis, this guys name is aaron, and that guys name is travis isn’t that weird?
buddyhead – what do you do in the band travis?
travis – i sing.
buddyhead – to be flying in girlfriends and whatnot, you guys must be makin bank. what label is givin you all this cash?
travis – big wheel recreation.
buddyhead – are you happy with your deal with big wheel?
travis – we don’t even have a deal with them.
aaron – all we do is write music, record it and get lots of money.
buddyhead – what are some other boston bands you guys feel are good?
travis – 6 going on 7, in my eyes, garrison, fastbreak.
buddyhead – is there a “scene” or whatever in boston?
travis – there’s an awesome scene in boston cuz everybody for the most part is friends.
buddyhead – i don’t like boston.
aaron – dude, i don’t like you. motherfucker.
travis – you guys have the same name. be nice.
buddyhead – if you could play with any band, who would it be?
aaron – i don’t care. i think every band sucks. including us. but tonight was the best show. everybody went nuts.
travis – i’d play with the beatles.
buddyhead – good answer. what about you aaron?
aaron – probably third eye blind…
buddyhead – third eye blind is a good fuckin band.
aaron – no shit! them and marilyn manson.
buddyhead – well they suck.
travis – he forces us to listen to that everyday.
buddyhead – how old are you guys?
aaron – how old are you? you can’t have my name cuz i’m older. i’m 20.
buddyhead – when is your birthday?
aaron – december 19.
buddyhead – see, i’m older than you fucker. i’m 20 and my birthday was in march.
aaron – ok, i’m done with this shit. this interview is over. [pulls out his brass knuckles and punches the wall]
travis – hahaha, as aaron pulls out his brass knuckles. i’m 22.
buddyhead – wow and our travis is 22 as well. weird. where’s your favorite place to play?
aaron – where are we?
buddyhead – santa ana.
aaron – yeah, santa ana is my favorite place to play.
buddyhead – you guys on tour by yourself?
aaron – we’re on tour with lazy cain. they’re the best band.
buddyhead – oh, we were busy seeing the foo fighters, so we missed them.
aaron – oh, the foo fighters are better than us.
buddyhead – they had a new guitar player, the guy from no use for a name. he had a sick of it all shirt on. norm from texas is the reason and shaun from far and the guy from white zombie auditioned for it and they gave it to that guy.
travis – haha, how embarrassing. yeah, the foo fighters rule.
buddyhead – so what bands don’t you like? who sucks?
travis – oh, we can’t say that kind of stuff. people will get bummed out.
buddyhead – what are you talking about! you just said you do drugs and fuck chicks, what could be worse?
aaron – we have a lot of enemies already.
buddyhead – like who?
aaron – the enkindels. they are definitely enemies.
buddyhead – yeah! fuck the enkindels! those guys are awful.
aaron – dude, they fucking unplugged our p.a. while we were playing.
travis – if people are shitheads to us, we’re shitheads to them.
buddyhead – so what do you want to do next with piebald?
aaron – we want to go on tour on motorcycles. we’ll get chicks to drive the van with the equipment, then we’ll show up to the clubs on motorcycles.
buddyhead – ehhhh chicks on tour. you gotta girlfriend travis?
travis – yeah. tour is about being on tour though. if i didn’t have a girlfriend, i’d probably try to have sex with girls. people have sex ya know? you try to have sex when you’re at home, so you try to have sex when you’re on tour. it’s the way it works. but, i don’t cheat on my girlfriend.
buddyhead – you’re pretty drunk travis.
travis – lets take some photos!
