If you aren't rocking Way To Go, Einstein on your ipod there is defiently somethig wrong with you! This band is talented, funny, and unbelievably epic! After listening to this infectious group on their myspace I just had to get in contact with them. This is what member Kevin Jack had to say about the band:
QUESTIONS:
Acid City: State a little about yourselves
- we are way to go, einstein. we play music. there are five of us. we like loud guitars, piano, synths, a personal vocal, and we use them to describe a specific feeling. we don't always take the easy road to resolve said feeling, but in the end, we get there. it isn't always a happy ending, but it is always honest. we have a light, and a map, and we hope you trust us enough to follow us to the end of the road. we'll get you there. safety first. also, we are shit hot dancers.
Acid City: Describe your sound
- we used to describe it as mom-rock. our first record, hide and seek champion, was very mother friendly. but with this new record, pseudonym, while we haven't neglected our core mom base, we delved a lot deeper into sounds and textures that are a little more, beautifully uncomfortable? like a howler monkey giving birth? we're all competent and confident enough to kick a little dirt over the line of what is commercially viable and what could take some getting used to. i think the most interesting music has that dichotomy of standard and strange.
Acid City: How did you come up with the name?
- it orginally stemmed from an idea i had of forming a black metal band with my wife and i, using only pots and pans. but since that didn't.....wait for it....pan out, the name was wide open for use. and when i met up with andrew, vocalist and main song writer, and we started piecing together this difficult puzzle of a band, i threw the name out there, thinking full well he would hate it. and he did. but then he started to like it. and i think that is a sign of a good moniker. band names are pretty silly when you really start to dissect them, but once and if you sort of establish your footing in front of people, they get used to it, eventually like it, and completely bypass the silliness of it all.
Acid City: What message are you trying to send with your music?
- as musicians, and as a collective, we are dead serious. we take pride in what we do and/or what we are trying to do. but really, it is supposed to be fun, and if you want to stick to the stringent rules of the art fuck play book and take yourself so fucking seriously and think what you do surpasses the work of everyone else and forget that your ass smells just like everyone elses, then have at it. but we can sing a song about the impending apocalypse, all while having stuffed animal unicorns draped all over the stage. fuck you. that's punk rock.
Acid City: Describe the best gig you have every played
- as this incarnation of five strikingly handsome, yet overwhelmingly modest gentlemen, we have only played a handful of shows. recently we just celebrated our cd release with a rawkus show, in which i, myself, peed.....umm..myself. for real. thank god for low guitar straps. we played quite well and i think we finally figured each other out and can all absorb each other's energy properly and distribute it accordingly, to the audience....except no one wanted to come near me, what with all the pee.....and we played a tears for fears song, which put a huge smile on my johnson, because i love them.
Acid City: Where do you see yourselves in 10 years?
- if i were to be a realist, i would say, overweight, underpaid, and having a day job that i wish i could abandon for a full time career playing music. maybe a crippling addiction to very very crude and borderline illegal pornography. but i think i can speak for everyone when i say if we are all still playing music, we will be fine. we are all in this for the right reasons i think. we all just love music and want to play it and contribute as best we can. we aren't above getting paid for it or playing an arena or two, because you would have to be a fucking liar to say you don't have any interest in that. but if that doesn't happen, we will all still hoist a beer to each other, slap our fat asses, and get out on that dive bar stage and play to our friends. playing music is just a fun thing to do.
THINK QUICK:
1) Blondes or brunettes?
- neither. gingers. with freckles. and so pale it could be mistaken for a positively savage case of jaundice. we keeps it sickly.
2) Night or Day?
- dusk is a lot more fun to say. we'll go with dusk.
3) Coke or Pepsi?
- oh, soda pop is terrible for you. i don't really enjoy drinking either. having said that, i really love ice cream and cigarettes. not together though....well, maybe. i haven't tried that yet....
4) Vampires or Zombies?
- i'm going to say vampires, only to be a monster dick, because i swear i don't quite understand this fascination of zombies people my age have, these days.
5) Batman or Spiderman?
- i dressed up as the joker for halloween when jack nicholson played him. ever since i have a sick joker fetish. nothing sexual, but there is something about the psyche of that character i am mentally attracted to. that of course, was re-ignited after heath ledger took that character to somewhere i could have only dreamed of it going. so i am going to say, neither. the joker. heroes get boring.
6) Whose the hottest member of the band and why?
- check this out. i'm going to score some huge points here. we are all either married and or in relationships, so, the band wives and girlfriends are the hottest members......
7) Any comments or advice to listener and stuff.
- the obligatory sales pitch. both records, hide and seek champion, and our new record, pseudonym are available both digitally and in hard copy. if you hit itunes and type in way to go, einstein, you should have smooth sailings ahead, and if you are like me and still buy, what we used to call, compact discs, head over towww.cdbaby.com, punch in way to go, einstein, and you too can be a winner. we may also be heading to your town later on in the year, so catch us at myspace.com/waytogoeinstein, orfacebook.com/waytogoeinstein for details, or if you just want to talk about how a baby is born, because i really have no idea. enjoy your meal.
love, kevin william jack, of way to go, einstein
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