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We are her with Khobretti at their recording
studio and will start with introductions?
Mark: I am Mark, I play bass and I have been playing
bass… I don’t really know how long, a long time, since
I was a teenager. I like so many different bands, and
artist, I couldn’t just pick one. I like punk to hard
core, the old stuff in particular is what really speaks
to me.
Jeff: My name is Jeff, I do vocals. As far as playing
in bands, been doing it for twenty plus years. Everything
from black metal bands to punk. What bands
I’m into, everything from Napalm Death to the
Damned, the Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees…
to DMX
Donnie: Hi, my name is Donnie, I play drums and
have played for about 28 years.
Jeff: 28 years…God damn!!
Donnie: My favorite bands span from hard core metal,
pop, especially new wave. I love a lot of new wave
music, 80’s new wave, but if I had to say a band that I
listen to a lot and has been one of my favorites since I
was a kid, is the Smith’s. Yeah, big Morrissey fan, and
yup here come the jokes.
Jeff: What’s wrong with that, Morrissey’s good!
Donnie: I would say Smith’s then.
Jason: I’m Jason, I play guitar in the band and I’ve
been playing since I was like 17. Which has been
about 17 or 18 years now and my influences range
from grind core, to sludge, shoe gazing, to new wave,
I’m all over the place, to no wave.
The name Khobretti and when I first tried
to spell it was difficult, but what does the
name mean?
Jeff: I can definitely answer that and how that story
even came about. It basically stems from the movie
Cobra, a Sylvester Stallone movie. His character
name is Marion Cobretti, but really we just kept
trying to think of a name and for a band that you
would google and that’s the only thing that comes up.
We didn’t want to use a generic word of something
like that. We kept trying to brain storm, brain storm
different things and then one day we were in Austin
driving around, my wife goes, “why don’t you name
it Cobretti?” I was like, that’s a good idea, but then we
would change the spelling a little bit so it’s not like
the character. In the movie it’s C-O, but we used K-H.
Cobra was one of those movies I watched since I was
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