Total Chaos

by Domi

Domi here to tell you that if you missed out on Total Chaos' headline tour to promote their new album, you missed out. They toured with Battalion of Saints (which is now basically a brand new band, considering their members keep dying on them. The only one left from the original band is the lead singer. We hope that this time around they're more successful in keeping their band intact. BS stands for the lead singer who made a comment) It was definitely a feast for punk-starved fans as both bands put on a fantastic show. And Gearbox the drummer for TC was drumming for Battalion because their drummer walked out on them. He is a STUD!!!!

I hung with Joe E. Bastard, bass, and Gearbox at the show, and they are fun and sexy! They kept me laughing with stories, innuendos, and outright propositions unprintable here. Look, I don't need the damn government trying to shut us down because they thought a fuck here and there was obscene. But no more small talk, on to the interview....

THE NEW ALBUM, PATRIOTIC SHOCK

RAD: So tell us about your latest album.
Joe: Well, we got an album, it's brand new and it's out.
RAD: So how long has it been out?
Joe: About a month and a half now...
Gearbox: ...yeah...
Joe: It's actually doing really good. We're really happy with the total outcome of the album, you know it just gets better as we go along in my personal opinion.
RAD: Who writes all the songs?
Joe: Well, Gearbox has his, Rob does his, and eveybody has their input.
RAD: I noticed you still deal with anti-racism themes, a lot of them actually, and things about non-conforming.
Joe: Well, that's our main theme, definitely racism. We've had a lot of confrontations this tour with Nazis.
Gearbox: We haven't had any racist or abusive parents chasing us...
Joe: ...yeah, no parents chasing us down the street...
Gearbox: ...anti-child abuse types.
RAD: If you're looking for some, I'm sure we can find quite a few around.
Joe: Yeah, get some wife-beaters, child abusers and gas them.
RAD: Why do you advocate violence against the Nazis?
Joe: They wouldn't know any other way. You treat somebody the way that they would treat anybody else. There's no way that you can turn anybody like that around. And they're so full of hate that it's no good to try and talk to them. You know what you got to do. Kick the shit out of them or whatever. Or it's ok to get the shit kicked out of you.
RAD: Do you want to explain that one more?
Joe: I got jumped in Fort Lauderdale. I got in a fight and I ended up getting jumped by 10 of 'em.
RAD: Nazis?
Joe: I don't know what the hell they were. Gangsters/skins is what they were trying to say. I don't know what they were. BS Cokesellers, pot sellers, tosspots.
RAD: Were they white or black?
Joe: Cubans, actually.
RAD: That's scary. You mess with one Cuban, you mess with his whole family.
Joe: Well, that's what happened.
RAD: How many did you hurt?
Joe: I only got a couple. I lost my new toy.
RAD: What's your new toy?
Joe: A baton. The last thing I remember I got socked in the face so this baton's like this big and whisks out to this long and I just remember hitting some fucker in the head. Sean, the guitar player, he saw it, it looked like a boomerang because I folded it over somebody's head.

THE NEW LINEUP MINUS RON MCMURDER

RAD: So who's in your band now?
Joe: Let's see, of course, Gearbox. Do you know he's drumming for Battalion now?
RAD: You are?
Joe: He's been drumming for a month now. Awesome. Cuz they had a mo for a drummer, walked out right after...
Gearbox: ...a really good gig...
Joe: ...in Connecticut, yeah. Just walked off. He's a stud for drumming both sets, it's just awesome. Let's see, you saw the other new guitar player, Germ, straight from Utah. Right after we got done recording, we picked up Sean and he's from Houston.
RAD: Where did you find him at?
Joe: He went to one of our shows out there and we kept talking to him. We called him out and had him come out and try out. At that time, Ron was just...we're having really hard problems with him. Communication, just a bunch of problems right then, Sean was actually down in Ontario when Gearbox told him [Ron].
RAD: You had to break the news to him?
Gearbox: Yeah, I decided to be the one to tell him.
RAD: Because you'd tell it to him nicer?
Gearbox: In a way.
RAD: How long have you been together?
Joe: Total, it's been five years now.

FUTURE PLANS FOR TC

RAD: Where else do you think you'll be touring?
Joe: We don't have set plans but we're going there [Japan].
RAD: You might scare everyone over there.
Joe: That's cool.
RAD: Because you're so much bigger than everyone else. They're all like my height. [everyone laughs]
RAD: What do you guys plan on doing after the tour?
Joe: Band speaking, acutally because we got Sean and we got some new material, we're going into the studio and be doing a 10 inch. We're actually going to be in a fucking movie: underground sex and violence thing.
RAD: Oh, are you going to be doing the sex?
Joe: Yeah, I always wanted to do the cool porno things where we go like this and do like that and the girl will answer "Oooh, oooh yeah" looking right at the camera.
RAD: So you're going to record a 10 inch?
Joe: Yeah, we'll be doing a 10 inch, we'll be doing an underground sex and violence film, I'll be the stud, JOE STUD...what else are we going to do?
Gearbox: We're going to Europe.
Joe: Oh yeah, then we're leaving for Europe August 2nd.
RAD: Where are you going in Europe?
Joe: Everywhere. We're going to be out there for six weeks. It will give us enough chance to go everywhere.
RAD: When do you think you might go to Japan?
Joe: Probably after we get back from Europe. Doll Magazine, we made the cover, then the next issue we made the spread. So somebody must like us there so we want to go.

MISCELLANEOUS

RAD: So how does it feel to be a dad?
Joe: I was only a dad for 4 weeks before I left.
RAD: Are you excited to go home soon and spend time with her (his baby, Misty)?
Joe: Oh yeah, definitely!
RAD: What about you, Gearbox?
Gearbox: I have a 3 year old son.
RAD: Really? Do you spend a lot of time with him?
Gearbox: Yeah, but I haven't been lately.
RAD: What's your favorite canned food?
Joe: Spaghettios and meatballs! Awesome, I love that shit! I'm going to die with a can of Spaghettios and meatballs in my hand.