THE BAD VIBES COME FROM PHILADELPHIA AND HAVE A CD OUT NOW ON STEEL CAGE RECORDS, A BLISTERING PUNK ROCK ATTACK THAT WILL LET YOU DEAD ON THE FLOOR IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES OF TOTAL LENGHT. MY QUESTIONS WERE KINDLY ANSWERED BY GAVIN, SINGER FOR THE BAND, AND NOW HERE WE GO WITH THIS INTERVIEW AS FAST AS THEY GO ON THEIR RECORD, 1..2..3..4. FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS!!!

GD- A brief band history for the unaware readers..
we have been playing for a little over 2 years now. the line up is jesse cole on guitar, mark doyle on bass, and pat dirkin on drums. pat is our 3rd drummer and the best so far. he played with limecell for many years. he has fit right in with us and it feels like he has been playing with us for years. we had 2 drummers before pat who didnt work out. mark, jesse and me are all original members.

GD- Your music is very fast and take no prisoners, what are your main influences?
A a lot of early 80's hardcore/punk like Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Negative Approach, stuff like that. we loved that shit growing up and never got out of it. i think so many bands are trying to be something that they are not. we just try to be a band that we would like to go see play. we know what we are and dont try to be anything else.

GD- You come from Philadelphia, named Hostile City USA, can you tell me something about this? Is it really so dangerous as it seems to be?
well, i guess there is an element of danger to it, as there is with any major city in the u.s. it seems to be better now then it was years ago, but there are still many neighborhoods that i would not go into.

GD- What do you think about the Confederacy of Scum? Have you got relations with it?
im a big fan of the c.o.s. i think that they are some of the only real punk rock bands left on the planet, at least punk rock the way i like it played. besides being friends with some of the people involved and playing some shows with some of the bands, we dont have a relationship with them. we are just fans really.

GD- Since you told me you grew up listening to some of the best american hardcore, what do you think of its modern evolution?
honestly, I know very little about bands that claim to be "hardcore" now. I am aware of some of these bands because I work in a punk rock type record store, but I know next to nothing else about them. any that i have heard sounds like bad metal to me and i dont like metal, except for w.a.s.p.

GD- Are you into movies? If so, what are your faves?
yeah, i like movies. i'm a big mafia movie fan. i liked snatch alot. glen gary glen ross is one of my favorites. i dont know, im blanking out right now.

GD- How did you hooked up with Steel Cage and got the album released? Are you guys pleased with it?
I i've known larry and leslie for a few years now. we had a few mutual friends. they saw us play a little over a year ago and apparently they liked us and decided that they wanted to put out a cd. weird thing is, we kinda blew the night they saw us, but what do i know...... we are more than pleased with the way the cd came out and with everything larry and leslie have done for us. they are good people and youzz should buy some of their stuff.

GD- Some friends of mine was ranting about the BAD VIBES and wanted you guys to play Europe, do you think this can happen anyday?
Probably not. Europe is too far from my satellite t.v. although i do have relatives in italy so you never know. i like pasta quite a bit so.....

GD- Tell us something funny or strange happened during one of your sets....
nothing too out of the ordinary i guess. some fights here and there, mark threw his bass through the front window of a club once. we had a heckler who was pretty funny. it was even funnier when jesse kicked his ass. we played with that fucking bad joke of a band called earth crisis . i would say that was funny, but we left before they played. we had a fight during a ramones tribute night and were told by a number of people that we "ruined" the night by doing that. and that "joey wouldnt have liked that" i laughed out loud at that....really i did....

GD- I read your liners for the last Rancid Vat CD regarding their Philly chapter, what about their recent Texan relocation? Is the Philly punk rock scene feeling their loss?
Honestly, there isn't much of a punk rock scene here in philly.besides Limecell and the Woodsmen, there isn't many bands worth a shit here either. That's the main reason we started this band, because all the "punk rock" bands in the philly area BLOW. We wanted to play in a band that we would go out of our way to see. Rancid Vat wasn't allowed to play in any of the clubs here by the time Phil and Marla moved. Philadelphia never appreciated Rancid Vat in my opinion. Iwas sorry to see the Irwins move from a friend point of view, but as far as Rancid Vat goes, they weren't allowed to do shit here anyway, so fuck it. Cosmo is still here and is working on some new shit so........

GD- What about drugs?
Never messed with them. never wanted to and never will. if its your thing, more power to ya, im just not having it or having any of someone who does.

GD- Your lyrics seem to deal against a lot of things, what the Bad Vibes attitude towards enemies and people in general?
well, i guess we arent the happiest band in the world and i suppose our songs reflect that. i don't think we could write any other way if we tried.

GD- Any new recording plans or tours in the near future?
We are writing new songs now. We haven't had a whole lot of opportunity to do so with the drummer situation. but now that pat has joined we are able to put some ideas we have had for a while together and write some new crap.

GD- Ok, that's it, if you want to add something here's your opportunity...
Nah, i'm good.