#popperburn

We chatted with them in the alley outside of Beerland after their show where we definitely weren’t intoxicated and definitely didn’t proceed to get more intoxicated. ;)

Hangover Breakfast: How did you guys meet?

Patti Melt: It’s a long story but mainly Jake (Pink Lemonade) and I worked at Amy’s Ice Cream together.

Pink Lemonade: We met through cream.

PM: Not the band.

PL: But partly the band.

Dixie Lixx: Then Chase joined.

PM: Then chase joined. but he was part of the cream! And then this lovely lady…

DL: And then… he mentioned me. I had no idea what the fuck kind of music we we’re gonna play. I had already been to a practice-

PM: The first practice she was late-

DL: I had a meeting!

PM: She was an hour late because there was a miscommunication and I was like “who is this tramp?! She thinks she can like buy our time!!!” and then she showed up and she was like “Oh my god I thought I was like right on time!” and we were all “well we’re glad you’re here.”

DL: And we fuckin ruled together!

Sigourney Fever: She sat down and she heard the bare skeletons and she was like “alright here we go!”

PL: It was a match made in hell

PM: It just made sense. I don’t think any of us put any perpetual motion into place. It just like fuckin happened and it was beautiful when it did happen. I had worked so hard to make a good band and this was the one time I didn’t try that hard. But I was like “oh thank god you’re fuckin beautiful people. I love you.”

HB: You mean you didn’t have tryouts?

PM: Oh we absolutely had tryouts.

PL: Me and Louis would jam together and finally we got tired of sitting on our asses and we decided to play

PM: we started playing just the two of us and then we ran into Chase and he was like “why am I not in this band” and we were like “A-DOY!” and you can put “A-DOY” on the record because I was like this is stupid that you’re not part of this band.

HB: OK you guys OKAY! I’m just gonna get fucking right down to it. Dolly Parton or Whitney Houston’s version of “I Will Always Love You?” OK GO!

SF: The reason I choose Dolly Parton’s performance of “I Will Always Love You” is because I first saw it on “Howdy Doody” on PBS. It was like a re-airing of a “Howdy Doody” episode and she had the “Barbie” logo but it said “Dolly” and she was wearing a pink jumpsuit.

DL: And that sold you?!

HB: Why, what do you think Dixie Lixx?

DL: I say neither

SF: She had the coolest camel toe of all time Louis: OG Camel Toe

DL: Neither. I don’t care about either of them.

PM: I stand by Whitney. I think she lost her fuckin mind. I’m all about Whitney. She tore it up. I love Dolly-don’t get me wrong. But that’s like Whitney’s game. Don’t pee on my fuckin house. Like don’t come shit on my house. As far as Whitney’s concerned I’m just like Dolly keep it easy girl. That’s Whitney’s jam.

PL: I just wanna hear em do a duet. That’s my thing.

PM: We will re-animate that bitch

HB: Who or what are you influenced by?

PM: Oh man, that’s a good question. I think it’s mainly like existence that influences what we do.

HB: Existence?

PM: Yeah existence, haven’t you heard of them?

DL: Are they a “no wave” band?

PL: We grew up with rock n roll with the Ramones and then we turned to Sonic Youth for advice.

DL: I’m just gonna flat out say the Birthday Party. For me personally, the Birthday Party.

SF: We already said Sonic Youth… Patti Smith.

PM: Patti Smith is our mom. “Just Kids” is our bible.

SF: I wish I could live that book.

DL: And the book “This Band Could Be Your Life.”

PL: Next question.

PM: I like really believe in like interplanetary beings but like I also really don’t believe in that bullshit.

PL: Alright, here we go.

DL: That was like a non-statement

HB: What do you think about “hero worship?”

SF: OK, this is how I feel about her worship. Hero worship is ok until it gets creepy.

DL: Until you murder the person you’re really into

SF: I use hero worship as a way to get through my day. You know like I respect this person and they’ve made their artwork-

HB: I feel like celebrities when they’re accessible is-

PM: When people are accessible it’s charming because they’re giving you that access. They transcend a certain existence. They’re not somebody you can relate to but generally you think you can which is really funny to me because if you go up and talk to that person you’ll be shakin in your boots. You think they’re badass and then when you see them it’s either flat soda or it’s like someone that’s really charming.

DL: I think that’s the charm in meeting someone famous that’s normal. It makes being amazing more accessible. It seems like it’s human. Heroes always seem like they’re something bigger than you so there’s a joy in the fact that they’re not. They take a shit just like you.

HB: 2 questions from that then-what are your goals as a band and what is the worst shit that you’ve ever taken?

PM: I’ll start it off. I think our main goal is spreading a message of love and self respect. That’s really all I’m concerned with. I don’t care what other people mark you as or identify you as or understand you as. That’s not important. We’re gonna make the music we make regardless of who we are or what we do. We try to be people and we have the right to be people in different shapes. If we’re gonna try to explain ourselves… I’m not gonna answer your question.

PL: I’ll do it! Our goal as a band is to express a lot of things, darkness being one of them. Love is good, love is great but being a person and being an individual is also great. There’s a darkness that comes along with being who you really are and our band is a lot about trying to express that. We’re trying to do something that’s pure but it’s just disgusting. Pure disgust.

DL: Also there’s a solitude in creation that people don’t really perceive for the most part because they only see you when you’re onstage and what you do when you’re alone and you’re creating… I mean with us it’s a collective thing. We’ll make things in the studio and we’re like “Holy fuck! Yes!” This stuff makes us really excited about making stuff and that’s something that people don’t really get to see until we’re onstage performing.  And people having a fucking blast watching us because we’re having a fucking blast playing.

HB: Do you think your shows are organic?

DL: I can’t see the setlist so yeah.

PL: I only eat organic so of course.

HB: Well that brings me back to your shits. What is the worst shit you’ve ever taken?

PL: Alright, alright. I’ll start off. I was 5. I had a bad shit. It wasn’t comin out and I was like “mooom! mooom! It’s not comin out!” and she was like “well just try harder!” and what I learned is that when you do try really hard you can accomplish a lot of shit.

DL: That’s a great statement.

HB: “Everybody Poops” is the message of Pooper Burns?

SF: Everybody Poops.

HB: Who has the biggest dildo?

PM: It’s definitely me but it’s been in a box for 2 years.

DL: I have a vibrator, I don’t have a dildo. What good is a dildo?

PL: I have a sharpie and I have my finger. That’s pretty much it.

DL: it’s all about clitoral stimulation. It’s not about the vibrator.

HB: What do you think about the clit?

SF: What do I think about the clit? It’s a mystery to me but I love her. The clit is a beautiful thing. I would not be who I am without it.

HB: What exciting things do we have to look forward to from you guys?

PL: A Record in the Summer 2015. You’re gonna be sweating bullets and your’e gonna wanna jam something that’s gonna make you cold and dead.

PM: And by the time you wipe the sweat off your asscrack we’re gonna have another record ready for you.

PL: and we will wipe it.

PM: If you call us and request it.

DL: We made the recordings at Resonate Studios. They fuckin rule.

PL: Louie Leno!

PM: Such a cool guy. I can’t imagine anybody else we could’ve recorded with doing better.

HB: How did you guys hook up with him?

SF: Through John Wesley Coleman.

DL: Through Tinder.

PM: JWC hooked us up with him but he had like mad strep throat at the time so we were like “cool just stay home.”

PL: I was kind of scared of him. I mean I’m normally scared of him but then especially.

HB: IF you guys could describe your band in one word, what would it be?

PM: Magic.

SF: Explosive.

PL: Nerve.

DL: I don’t know, these guys got it. I’m terrible with words.

PL: Her word is “nothingness.”

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