Interviews

Suicide Machines

Interview with Dan on Nov 30, 1999 by Archive Bot

Punkbands.com would like to thank Dan of The Suicide Machines for doing the interview and acting like a rock star, by only giving us five minutes to talk to him. 

PB: So who are you and what do you do?
Dan: I'm Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit, actually I'm Dan and I'm in the Suicide Machines, what do you want to know, you've got 5 minutes!

PB: You've said that your new album sounds like the Suicide Machines, so what do the Suicide Machines sound like?
Dan: Well as far as the new record goes, I think we've refined the sound. It's kind of a mixture of all the records we've put out so far. So that's kind of what we were talking about when we said that.

PB: It's a mix?
Dan: Um, its not the mix of the record, its the way the songs are refined. You know what I mean? It's kinds hard for me to explain. 


PB: What's the difference between mainstream and selling out?
Dan: Uh, selling out, that term really doesn't carry any weight anymore. When I was young, I mean if a punk band wanted to get on a major label they'd have to change everything about what they were doing, which never happened. Basically selling out is changing what you do to, to be popular. Nowadays its hard to tell what's selling out and what's not. The guy that's walking around saying this guy sold out or that this band sold out, its just people don't understand. Just because a band gets popular doesn't mean they suck. That's something to think about. Don't walk around saying a band sucks cause they got popular. That's good for most punk bands. A lot of us have the bare minimals, sleeping on peoples floors. And some guy telling you you sold out, its like fuck you man. So that's what I think about that.

PB: So after so many years of putting out albums, you always manage to keep your sound fresh, how do you constantly inspire yourself to do that?
Dan: Um, well, its kind of like we do what we do and and don't worry about what we've always done. What we do and all our records sound different, right?

PB: Yeah.
Dan: If you listen to the first it's different from the second. We never do anything on purpose we just do it and we've had a lot of problems because of that. People are like you're ska so why the thrash punk on the second album and stuff. Or whatever. Everytime you change sounds you'll loose people, but at the same time you'll gain people. That's a constant with us, we change out sound so often we always lose people, but then we always gain people too.