TAD

by James Bonisteel

The day I met Tad it was on a very cold day in June it was strange, you could see your breath outside. A great day to get everyone inside a building and warm it up with bodies everywhere. We ended up outside by a picnic table freezing to death and talking at about that time he gave me these sunglasses and told me to put them on so that we would look cool. And wouldn't you know it, they were blue blockers!

RAD: What has been one of the strangest bands you have toured with?
Tad: Slash's Snake Pit, it was like watching a cartoon in 3-D.
RAD: What was it like touring with them?
Tad: Well it was pretty interesting. He's really funny, he's really caught into his own world--so detatched from reality and what is going on around him he had like eight A&R people around him, record label shmucks, kissing up to him all the time and making sure that he was okay.
RAD: How long as a band have you been around?
Tad: Since late 1987. Not as this configuration, but Kurt and I have been together that long. He plays bass and writes most of the lyrics with me. We both write 50/50 and the music is 100% band. I come up with most of the guitar parts, especially on this last album.
RAD: On the new album, "Infrared Riding Hood," where did you get all those strange pictures from which is on it?
Tad: It's an electron microscope photo of a microscopic bug of some sort, but yeah it's pretty interesting looking.
RAD: Well it's good because it makes it more interesting than having someone's face plastered on it.
Tad: Especially our faces which doesn't seem to do a thing for us lately, as good looking as we think we are. Well, some people don't think so. Hell, this ain't no fashion show people this is a ROCK CONCERT!!!
RAD: What do you think of parental advisory stickers being on your albums?
Tad: It's stupid, I think. I accidentally said, "Shit." Actually, we even changed the lyrics on the album to cover what I said. Like where I said, "chicken shit," it says, "chicken spit," just so they wouldn't put that on there but they still did anyway.
RAD: If there was anything you would like to say anybody out there trying to get into this business or even your fans what would you say to them?
Tad: Find a good person you can trust as your partner. It makes headaches a lot easier to take when there's two heads worrying about it than one, and also watch each others backs, because somebody will always sneak upon you all the time. It's a cut throat business. Music is so fucked, I mean the business end of it is pretty fucked and anybody that tells you that it isn't, they're lying and their people to be aware of. At least, with people like you, you can go home at night and sleep without killing people and ruining their lives.

Also VOTE, because if you don't you're not watching your back because nobody is going to watch your back anymore, with your rights in America. Rights are not passed down from generation to generation, they're earned every time and there's a lot of scary shit going on in politics right now, so WATCH YOUR BACK!! Get involved because no one else is going to do it for you!

And then he walked into the foggy night and disappeared. Well not really, but it sounded cool! It's better than saying we ran like hell to get inside to get warm. The band TAD are: Tad Doyle- vocals, guitar Kurt Danielson- bass and Josh sinder- drums