GVSB M4A interview

Johnny: We've been recording a record, which is our first full length record in about two years, 
or maybe even a little longer.

Alexis: This new album is called "You Can't Fight What You Can't See."  It's on Jade Tree and 
we worked with Ted Nicely on it.  He's the same person we worked with on Venus Lux, Cruise Yourself 
and House of GVSB.  It has 11 songs on it.  Always have to have 11 songs on our albums.

Johnny: We're just getting back in the swing of things.  We haven't been that active in the 
past couple years so things are kinda looking up for us.  When we seperated our relationship 
with Geffen Records, we sent out a mailing to let everybody know and they were one of the first 
people that responded.  You know, they're big fans of the DC music scene, which is where we came 
from originally, even though we're a New York band now.  As soon as it was announced that we no 
longer had a label, they kind of jumped on it and then we took a few months to consider our options 
and ultimately they were the best choice, so we were happy to join up with them.

-Basstation

Alexis: There's a lot of stuff we write that sounds like Girls Against Boys stuff that we don't want 
to persue.  Because we've been a band for so long, we fall in to, as much as we try not to, we fall in 
to a way where the parameters of our songs are pretty limited in a way, even though we're trying to bust 
out of realm and everything I think in the end, we're sort of so used to writing songs the way we write 
them, we try to innovate, make new stuff, but I'm not sure how far out of that we can truely get just 
because we've been doing it for so long. 

Johnny: What becomes a Girls Against Boys song, it's really like we all have our input and it's a collaboration.  
It's not like someone shows up and presents the song.  People will bring probably riffs or ideas to whatever 
they're doing at that time.  I don't think it's like someone comes up with a riff and like "Oh, this has to 
be a..this is going to be a GVSB hit!"  It's not like one person writes the song, it's like the riff 
is only just the beginning of the song writing process.

-Get Down

Alexis: There's a movie called Series 7, we did the full soundtrack.  There were a couple songs by 
some other people on it, but we did overall the whole thing.  That was a great experience to actually 
write music for a particular..for moods and for scenes and stuff like that and not have to be 
concerned with first chorus, bridge, kind of like getting the construction down of a song to make it 
work, just having parts.  It was actually really fun just to throw out a bunch of parts and to not 
actually make them into songs.  It frees you up to be more spontaneous.

-Kill the Sexplayer

Johnny: The whole "do it yourself" mentality, but not even really in a punk rock sense as much as, 
just like, you look at what's happening in main stream culture, whether it's music or film or books 
or whatever, and to us, being people who have made music, it doesn't always look so exciting when 
you look at what's on MTV or you know, main stream culture can be so boring and bland.  We grew up 
in a community where it was like "you want to do something, just go ahead & do it" and I don't think
it's a political statement or anything.  I think it's just we were given the tools growing up to 
know you want to do something, just jump into it and figure out how to do it.  I think that's the 
main position we are, we're not "independent til you die"  We have a lot of respect for people who 
do things independently, but for us, it's not a political platform or anything.

Alexis: I think also, there's a real sense of satisfaction when you can do something on your own 
and have it succeed.  In a lot of ways, it's much more satisfying than to work for a company and 
do it through the company, it does'nt feel like you've done it so it's a little more satisfying.  

-Tweaker

Johnny: I think people should come to see us live, because it's a different thing for us than the record.  
Obviously, similar songs, but we're albe to do different things live and in the studio, we're albe to 
do different things.  As a band we try to maximize both levels to take advantage of those two different 
environments.  So I guess my thing is people should come see us live.