Artie: ...Andy was like one of the few...Him and this guy Russ they used to wear these FAT X's on their hands, and they were the only kids. There would be like 10 kids at shows and they'd be there with fat X's on their hands and they'd get all psyched..and Andy's like, he had to be about 25 at the time and I was probably like 17-18 and like he...He's SO OLD now dude! (everyone cracks up) And he disappeared! All of a sudden it's like Andy Straight Edge is like gone, dropped off the face of the Earth, and then a couple of years ago he just comes back and he's the singer of this band, and everyone's like "What the hell is Andy doing here?" It was the weirdest fuckin thing. I mean the dude's like 35. He's GOTTA be. I mean I don't know for sure, but he's fuckin' OLD man. He's like as old as my sister he's so fuckin' old. The dude's OLD. (Laughter) You know our drummer's fuckin' 30 man, he's 30 in 2 days. He's so bummed out.

Paul: Yeah, that'll put a downer on it for a while.

Artie: Bummed me out dude! I walked in that fuckin' place tonight, I was like Oh God, I wanna go home. It's my Birthday, I want some Beers. (He managed a few during this interview, as I am while transcribing it. This thing is getting fucking LONG. -G-) You said you're from Jacksonville? Because I have a good Jacksonville story.

Gerrett: Now, I'm in Tallahassee. I just drove out to Jacksonville with my friend for the Sick Of It All/AFI/Hot Water/Indecision Tour.

Paul: Which got cancelled up here.Which pisses me the fuck off because I had tickets.

Artie: We were supposed to play too. We were gonna open it.

Paul: That's right! Yeah and Hatebreed filled in for AFI.

Artie: Yeah, some shit like that. They called us a couple of weeks before the show and were like 'Can you play?' I was just like I guess, I mean we're kind of retarded on that show, but whatever. I guess we'll be the fuckin' people walking in band. But like I was gonna say, to end the interview I had a good story about Jacksonville. We were playing there with this band called GOB? From Canada.

Gerrett: I think I actually saw their video...

Artie: Yeah I saw it too. On Much Music I saw it. That's because they have to play it. You know that they give grants in Canada? For videos, because they have to have 60% Canadian videos on that station.

Gerrett: I hear Grade's got a video coming out.

Artie: I'm sure they got a grant dude. The Canadian Government gives them fuckin' money to do videos.

Paul: Haha from the fuckin' government.
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Artie: How fuckin' sweet is that? I was talkin to Grade I was like what are you high? Fuckin do it! "Well we gotta fill out the forms.." Fill out the fuckin' forms! but anyway, we were playing in Jacksonville playing with GOB, and we got to the show and they're like you guys arent on the show, and I'm like alright, we just drove like 10 hours and I was really pissed off so they're like alright, you can play first. And I'm really pissed off and it was right after those fires. So I'm like yeah, uhh 'Hey what's up Jacksonville?...I thought you guys were burned down!' and all the kids are like Nooo it didn't get here. 'Too bad!' (Laughter) And it was like all these little punk rock kids. Like a million punk rock kids, so we started rocking and whatever, and I go, 'Hey you ever been to New York?' "No" 'Well you should really come to New York because Jacksonville SUCKS. If you wanna be someplace real, you should come to New York because it's the center of the Universe. Nothing happens here.' and so the roadie from GOB, he starts shining one of those laser pointers in my eye...

Gerrett: That's fucked up.

Paul: What the fuck does he care? He's from Canada!?

Artie: Dude. I don't know. So the guys from Six Going On Seven - we were on tour with them - So they go up to him and they're like Yo man, what the fuck's wrong with you? and the guy's like.."well that guy's a dick" and he's saying all this shit. So we're coming off stage, and I go to the back and I say to the guy, Hey man what's up...and the guy's name is...Happy. The guy's name is fuckin' Happy. And he's like I don't know man you were kind of a dick up there, you were talking so much shit...and I'm like you don't fuckin' know you're from CANADA! What the Fuck?! and he's like..Well I think Vancouver is the best place in the World. I'm like ohhhkay, I've never been to Vancouver! That's great. I mean what the fuck opinion do you have about what I'm saying about Jacksonville?? Anyway, other things went on that involved keying, and urine being distributed in... maybe their van but ANYWAY... (Everyone cracks up)

Paul: Haha in MAYBE their van. Like their van or quite possibly someone else's van that looked exactly like their van.

Artie: And we were playing with them the next day, but we got out to our car and the hood of our van was fuckin' keyed, and it was a rent-a-van and we were REALLY pissed off. So the other guys got kinda pissed off and blah blah blah. and so Maybe some things went down, Maybe they didn't. I don't know.

Paul: Yeah its uh been a while right? Can't really remember?

Artie: Yeah I cant remember because I really don't wanna go to Vancouver and get beat up by GOB. Alright, We're done.
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