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Suicidal Tendencies. Everybody’s on the same page.
(lower voice) Cut that out if that sounded ignorant.
(LAUGHTER)
How many times do you guys practice,
week, monthly, yearly?
Mark: Weekly.
Weekly.
Donnie: When I tell people what our weekly rehearsal
schedule is. It’s very, very unique, because we rehearse
on Sunday mornings at 10:00 am.
So, that is your church.
(Laughter)
Donnie: Pretty much and the reason that happened
for us is because Sunday seemed to be the day that
worked out for us. When we first started doing this
it would be at 3:30, 4 O’clock in the afternoon and I
noticed that I really didn’t know what they were into
anymore. I would show up for rehearsals looking at
the Texans game on my phone and they would be
like, “Oh, What’s the score?” Oh, you watch football
too. Some of the practices we’re watching the game
while rehearsing, so we thought it would be easier
to get in here at 10. Went for a couple of hours and
was still able to make the 12 O’clock game and pretty
much an accident but, we still had our whole day.
What’s really cool and unique for me, when we would
rehearse in the evenings, Jason and I would crack
a few beers, relax out and play. To be honest, there’s
been a couple of times that I’ve gotten a little sauced
and it’s been cool to play, but getting really tired
though. The advantage of playing at 10:00 am on a
Sunday is, you’re not bringing beer in. So everyone’s
on their game, on coffee and to me we have good
rehearsals. I leave here around noon, 12:30 and get
in my car and think man, that was a really good rehearsal,
really productive.
Mark: You need to setup a camera pointing at Jason
just for several minutes of him just sitting there not
saying anything. Hear us talking in the back ground
with him (Jason) just sitting there.
Where do you guys see yourself in the next
5 years?
Jason: Dead!
(Laughter)
Jeff: That’s interesting.
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