Band: Gaslight Anthem Member: Alex Rosamilia and Alex Levine Label: SideOneDummy Records Location: Starlite Room - Edmonton, Alberta Date: April 8th, 2009 Interviewer: Bobby Gorman

For four months I had been waiting for this day to come, to sit down with one of the fastest rising bands around: New Jersey's The Gaslight Anthem. When the day finally arrived, I go to speak with both Alex Rosamilia and Alex Levine in the basement of the Starlite Room to discuss everything from BMX movies, selling out shows, and being the inspiration for new generations to being robbed and the beauty of vinyl. The entire conversation seemed to show a different side of the band, something I had not seen in all the interviews I've read with them as they both joked around, laughed with one another and quickly poked fun at each other. It was a fun interview, and one any Gaslight fan should find intriguing.

Oh, and while I'm not 100% positive, after doing some research it looks as if the scene from Rad that Alex Levine was trying to find would have been filmed at the Castrol Raceway in Edmonton.

Bobby: I guess starting with the basics, you guys are three weeks into this North American tour. How’s that going so far?

Levine: Two weeks.

Rosamilia: Two weeks?

Levine: Two weeks.

Rosamilia: How many weeks? I don’t even know anymore.

Levine: Wow. We got out here pretty quick.

Rosamilia: I don’t even know anymore. *Laughs* Days just melt together, you know? It’s been a lot of fun. I honestly didn’t think – maybe I’m just pessimistic – but I really didn’t think we’d be doing as well as we’ve been doing. So it’s pretty humbling, I guess, for lack of anything else – if not for anything else. Especially the first couple shows, the home area shows like the Tocadero and Webster Hall. These are places I’ve been going to shows at.

Levine: For years.

Rosamilia: For years, and now I am the reason people are coming. Like there were bands that I’ve seen that I thought were way better than us that it wasn’t sold out when they played. Now it’s sold out when we play?

Levine: It’s like, what the hell is going on?

Rosamilia: What the hell is going on? Are you guys listening to the right band? It’s just a total surreal experience. Especially there more than anywhere else because it’s hitting home.

Levine: Yeah, yeah.

Rosamilia: Because when its somewhere else, like over here or Australia, it’s like “well, that makes sense because it’s a faraway place.” But the places we played, we’ve played there for ten people, one person, no people – you know?

Levine: Because at first overseas it’s like “how does everybody know about us? We’re so far away from home, how does everybody know about us?” But now that we’ve come back here and we’re playing at home and we’re playing halfway around the country… this is really crazy. *laughs*

Bobby: I was reading that you guys have sold out almost every date in Canada so far, including tonight, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal. It’s pretty impressive.

Levine: It’s pretty crazy, yeah.

Bobby: Has there been any really memorable moments from the tour? Have you woken up naked in any hotel hallways calling your girlfriend?

*Both Levine and Rosamilia burst out laughing, Rosamilia puts his arm around Levine and cheers over the fact that I bought it up*

Levine: Ahh shit, Nah, I just got off the phone with her actually. She likes making fun of me for that one.

Rosamilia: We all like making fun of you for that.

Levine: I know.

Rosamilia: So far nothing too funny. Nothing that sticks out in my head. We’ve got plenty more time and we’ve got friends of ours from Australia joining up on Monday. Death In The Family, and those dudes, we’ve hung out with them before and something will happen. There will be a story when they’re around for sure.

Levine: There will be a lot of nudity there, that’s for sure.

Bobby: Before this tour you guys were touring Europe with Frank Turner and Polar Bear Club. When you were in Gothenburg, Sweden, you guys got robbed – did you ever find out who robbed you?

Levine: No, no.

Rosamilia: Nope.

Levine: I don’t know, lately it’s been a little bit more glorified then what really happened.

Rosamilia: Somebody tried to break in.

Levine: They tried to break in and then the events that followed made us miss our ferry which made us cancel the show and there was only one ferry to go to Finland. It was more so the fact that we just missed the show because we had to go and report it and all that. Nothing was missing, it was fine.

Rosamilia: No, Frank lost a box.

Levine: Frank lost a box of merch but nobody cares about Frank. *laughs*

Rosamilia: Oh, I care about Frank.

Levine: *Jokingly into the recorder and pumping his fist* Fuck you Frank!

Rosamilia: And they took my jacket out, but they didn’t take it. They just left it on the ground.

Bobby: So they tried it, didn’t like it and just left it?

Rosamilia: I guess it didn’t fit them.

Bobby: Lately a lot of bands have been getting robbed. Streetlight Manifesto has been robbed four times in the UK, Strung Out was just robbed in Detroit, Iggy Pop was robbed in Montreal.

Levine: Oh, I heard about Iggy Pop.

Bobby: Even Beat Union was robbed here in Edmonton last September.

Levine: Really? Iggy Pop, it was his whole trailer right? They just took his whole fucking trailer.

Bobby: Why do you think so many bands are being robbed? Why is it becoming a trend right now?

Levine: A lot of money.

Rosamilia: I think what the deal is that there’s more bands now that are able to have those kinds of commodities, to be able to have a decent trailer and nice gear and stuff like that.

Levine: And people know it.

Rosamilia: I mean, I don’t want to stereotype and call them all idiots but…

Levine: Anybody with half a brain knows that there’s a lot.

Rosamilia: They know what’s going on. There’s something in there. I just think there’s more bands now touring so that’s why it seems like it’s happening more. I think the percentage is probably about the same.

Levine: You see a bus and a trailer or a van and a trailer…

Rosamilia: There’s something in there.

Levine: There’s something in there obviously that’s worth a lot of money. If you see a trailer regardless connected to something...

Rosamilia: Without windows, because if there’s windows that means there’s a horse and it’ll probably kick you.

Levine: Exactly.

Bobby: One of the big problems with all these bands getting robbed is that a lot of them don’t actually have insurance on the stuff. Do you think that should become a regular cost for touring bands now?

Levine: Yeah, yeah. We have it.

Rosamilia: We have insurance for our stuff.

Levine: It’s very important, for sure. Even down to dropping your guitar and breaking it in half.

Rosamilia: When does that ever happen? I’ve never done that…. Four times.

Bobby: Four times, really?

Rosamilia: Well, once was his fault.

Bobby: So really only three times.

Levine: Yeah, I broke it once.

Bobby: But these shows are in the past, right now I bet you guys are looking into the future. Like in June, you guys are going back to Europe and this time you’re playing with Social Distortion for at least three days. Are you excited?

Levine: Yeah.

Rosamilia: Totally man.

Levine: Very excited.

Rosamilia: That’s one of the bands that I saw in one of those venues. *laughs*

Levine: Of course. I did see Social Distortion at … was it the Troc? It might have been the Electric Factory.

Rosamilia: I saw them at Webster Hall.

Levine: You saw them at Webster Hall? I’ve never been to a show at Webster Hall. But yeah, Social Distortion is one of my favorite bands around. His favorite band, Brian’s favorite band…

Rosamilia: It’s one of the only bands that all four of us can agree on. It’s awesome. I mean, I remember sitting in my room trying to sound like Mike Ness when I was ten; and now it’s like we’re playing with them. They asked us too which I thought was really cool. It wasn’t like a pack deal, like our people called their people; they just straight up asked us if we wanted to.

Levine: Which is rad, it’s ridiculous.

Bobby: One June 28th, you guys are playing with Bruce Springsteen at the Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park. Are you excited to share the stage with him?

Levine: Of course. I mean, it’s gonna be by far the biggest show we’ve ever played.

Rosamilia: Playing to eighty thousand people I think. I don’t even know what that looks like.

Levine: Eighty thousand people for three bands. Well, more so for one. *laughs* There might be about a thousand people there for us. And then there’s Dave Matthews, I don’t know how Dave Matthews will do.

Rosamilia: Who cares about Dave Matthews?

Levine: I don’t know.

Rosamilia: I hate Dave Matthews.

Levine: I don’t care at all for Dave Matthews. But yeah, it’s definitely cool to play with Bruce Springsteen.

Bobby: You guys are definitely not ashamed to wear your influences on your sleeve. You can hear the Bruce Springsteen influence, you name drop bands like Tom Petty in Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, you guys have borrowed lyrics from Counting Crowes and Sam Cooke, you have the tribute to Joe Strummer with I Woulda Call Your Woody, Joe. Do you think it’s important to show your influences in your music by doing cover songs and stuff like that?

Rosamilia: Yeah.

Levine: Yeah, I mean more or less, it’s fun for us. *Laughs*

Rosamilia: Covers are fun and then when we add them to the songs, it’s kind of showing people where we came from. Some of the stuff, maybe some people haven’t heard and maybe they’ll get into them because of us; because we blatantly just rip stuff off. *Laughs*

Levine: I mean, when we cover the Replacement song I’m sure a lot of people that come out to these shows – I don’t want to believe it – but I’m sure a big percentage of people that come out to these shows really haven’t listened to the Replacements. Or State Of Love And Trust by Pearl Jam, they haven’t heard that song. I think it’s definitely important.

Bobby: Brian recently joined a bunch of bands like Tom from Against Me! and Tegan and Sara, to do Hanging Out On E Street – an online tribute to Bruce Springtseen. He ended that with an interesting quote, he said – talking about showing people their influences - “I think that's all we can do, point them in the right direction and say you gotta look back. That's where it is." Do you think it’s important for people to look back at the history of the music and see where the sound you listened to originally came from?

Levine: Yeah, of course.

Rosamilia: Yeah, you have to. You can’t do anything without knowing where you’re coming from. I think you have to do your history. When you figure out why A became B became C, it makes it easier to figure out how to do it. You know what I mean?

Levine: Even down to shit. Why A became B became C became D and why is D shit? Because A probably was shit.*They both laugh* It’s so true.

Rosamilia: It works both ways.

Levine: It’s so true. You look at glam metal twenty five years ago, you look at glam metal now. It was shit then, it’s shit now. More or less, I mean, more so shit now. *laughs*

Rosamilia: There’s nothing wrong with saying that. *laughs*

Levine: My parents would not be happy if they heard me. They’re very, very big hair metal fans.

Bobby: What are some acts or performers that you think would be instrumental for people to look into and learn if they did want to find out where the punk or rock sound came from?

Rosamilia: Who do I think that people need to listen to more that they don’t listen to? Old? New? Anything?

Bobby: Anything.

Rosamilia: Um….

Levine: Just say The Cure.

Rosamilia: Well no, I wasn’t going to say the Cure but I think the Cure. Definitely The Cure. Definitely My Bloody Valentine, I think, they just opened up that whole shoegaze kind of thing.

Levine: I’m getting in to them now actually because of him. It’s awesome.

Rosamilia: As far as older stuff, any of that Stax stuff. Like Booker T and the MGs or Otis Redding or any of that soul stuff. The Motown stuff, the Philly stuff. That’s just cause because I think that’s when people did music for music. They weren’t going like “alright, to make this a hit single we need to do this and then do this and then do this.” They were just writing these songs. Little, just catchy, pop songs, it was awesome. The musicianship behind it…. I think people have gotten really lazy as far as musicianship goes.

Levine: It’s true, it’s true.

Rosamilia: They don’t try to do anything. Those dudes were so tight, especially that stuff. The Stax guys and the Motown guys, it was always the same. Like Stax, it was basically Booker T and the MGs all the time, for any artist and then Motown was the Funk Brothers. Those dudes all the Marvin Gayes songs and the Temptations songs, it was always the same but they were…

Levine/ Rosamilia: so tight.

Levine: It was live recordings.

Rosamilia: Yeah and I think people really need to listen to that stuff again because I think we’re kind of losing touch with it. It’s easier to just fix everything in editing and ProTools and stuff then to actually try and get the real performance out of it.

Bobby: It’s easier just to fix it in editing then to actually get it right in the first place.

Rosamilia: Right.

Bobby: What’s your reaction when you hear that now you guys are the influence that people talk about? Like I was doing research for this interview and I found a video from a band called The Burdizzos from New York. The name of the song was Love Song Of Brian Fallon. So I talked to him about it, he said that when he wrote the song he was thinking about how he [Fallon] and you guys would have written that song. He said that he couldn’t have written it himself, he had to look at it through the eyes of Gaslight Anthem.

Levine: Get the fuck out. Really?

Bobby: How do you feel when you hear that?

Levine: I haven’t heard that until now.

Rosamilia: I don’t know, I think I’m too self deprecating to ever appreciate that. I mean, I appreciate it. I really do appreciate it but I’m too self deprecating to ever accept it. It’s like “no, that’s not it. There’s something else going on there. Ulterior motives.”

Levine: I still get weirded out when I look at a CD booklet that has my name in it. Things like that, it’s just really weird.

Rosamilia: I can definitely speak for myself but I think all four of us are still pretty humble people. The scene that we came out of, where we were like “okay, this is the top. This is where we plateau.” *Holds his left hand up above the table* “ It’s like here.” And right now we’re probably about here *Holds his right hand twice as high above the table* We made it out….

Levine: Way beyond anything we thought.

Rosamilia: Like we made it past the number one of the circle we were trying to get big in. Now, it’s like “what? Shit no.”

Levine: I remember I was stoked when we had a music video.

Bobby: Now you have four.

Levine: You never get used to anything. Your first TV appearance…

Rosamilia: Is just as weird as your fourteenth TV appearance and it’s just as weird as your fourteenth TV appearance in another frigging language.

Levine: It’s something I don’t think any of us will ever get used to.

Rosamilia: It’ll always be like a really surreal thing. Like I’m gonna wake up eventually and still be working at the mall. I’ve been asleep for three years now and waiting to wake up.

Bobby: What do you think when you hear about people tracking down your old bands like This Charming Man, Brian Fallon And The Cincinnati Rail Ties, Killing Gift or Low End Theory? Like when people go out of their ways to track down old material.

Levine: Oh God.

Rosamilia: Don’t! *laughs* That’s ridiculous. I don’t know. The friends that I was in the band The Killing Gift with would be upset because I’ve already kind of trashed talked the Killing Gift once. But it’s just weird. I mean, it’s cool to think that they’re that interested in us that they want to go back further but I don’t think anyone’s gonna really – at least the Killing Gift stuff – nobody’s gonna like. It’s a totally different sound. Low End Theory I can see people liking, This Charming Man stuff I can see people liking. That’s probably the easiest.

Levine: Oh yeah, at least the closest.

Rosamilia: I don’t know, it’s weird. Nobody liked us when we were around, now people like us because we’re in another band. That doesn’t make sense.

Bobby: Well, like you said, you gotta see where you came from.

Rosamilia: Yeah, I guess, yeah. I did say that didn’t I?

Levine: Evanescence rip-off. *Laughs*

Rosamilia: *laughing* It was supposed to be Hub with female vocals, that’s what it was supposed to be. Not what it turned into. But it turned into Spiro Agnew, so I can’t complain.

Bobby: In an interview with Alternative Press a few months ago, you guys were saying something along the lines of “I can’t promise that all our releases will be out on CD, but I can guarantee that every single one will be out on vinyl.” Why do you have such a strong commitment to vinyl?

Rosamilia: Because it’s awesome.

Levine: End of story.

Rosamilia: I was talking about this with Benny yesterday. Like vinyl was the first way to record music, you know? Just think after that about all the different mediums that have been used. You had vinyl, then you had the eight track – that’s gone. Cassette – that’s gone. CDs – on their way out. MiniDisc - gone.

Levine: As if they were ever here.

Rosamilia: That’s my point though.

Levine: They were like nine hundred dollars and gone in two years.

Rosamilia: Digital stuff will stay just because of how easy and convenient it is. I think if you want something, then vinyl is definitely the way. It’s awesome. I’m a total vinyl junkie. I have crates and crates and creates of them. At my mom’s house, but I do have crates and crates.

Bobby: Do you think it’s kind of sad that now people are moving away from the physical thing? From the big booklet with the lyrics to just a digital file?

Levine: Yeah, yeah. I mean, that’s why it’s important to have vinyl and a digital download together. I think that’s how all music should be sold.

Rosamilia: I personally, this might hurt our sales, but I personally think you shouldn’t have to pay money for stuff that’s online. It’s not really there. So yeah, I think the vinyl with the digital download is the best way to go.

Levine: They should get rid of CDs stores, or turn them back into record stores.

Rosamilia: That’s the art. It’s bigger. Even the CD was only like that big. *Makes the size of a CD with his hands* When you have vinyl, you can actually pull it out into a giant poster. I have a David Bowie record that pulls out, the inside pulls out into a giant poster. You can hang it up.

Levine: I have a David Bowie record that does that too.

Rosamilia: Or like Led Zeppelin III where it has the dial in it, you can spin it and the pictures on the cover move around.

Bobby: There has been a huge resurgence in the vinyl market. The major labels are getting back into it. I think Nielsen Soundscan reported that vinyl sales went up 89% last year. Why do you think that now there has been that resurgence?

Levine: I think a lot of punk rock bands have brought it back.

Rosamilia: They never stopped. Even when CDs were really big, the punk scene never stopped doing the vinyl.

Levine: The bigger the punk rock bands are getting, kids are like “what? What is this?”

Rosamilia: It’s the whole trickle down thing too. Where somebody cool did it so then other people are like “well, she’s cool and she did it so I should do it and I can be cool!” Then it just turned into everybody does it.

Levine: Then it’s just like any other thing that humans like, they just like collecting. *laughs* So if you have a band that has a hundred different colors in one pressing.

Rosamilia: Who would do something like that?

Bobby: What kind of vinyl do you collect?

Rosamilia: I collect a lot of stuff. I collect more older stuff, it’s pretty vast. I’m not one of the color guys where I’ll buy like five different pressings. If it is though, it’s usually with something like Isis or Pelican.

Levine: I’m into picture discs.

Rosamilia: They’re fun. But I spin stuff too when I’m at home, which is never now. So I have a lot of cheesy eighties stuff.

Bobby: Talking about picture discs, I was at this store the other day and I saw Buck-o-Nine’s Libido picture disc. It’s just a giant picture of Jon [singer for Buck-O-Nine and publicity guru for SideOneDummy] right on the front in a big Tarzan outfit.

*Both Rosamilia and Levine start laughing.*

Levine: Ooo Pebs, what a funny guy. I need to see that.

Bobby: Ten days from now is Record Store Day where the whole point is to get people to go out and support their local stores and buy records. You guys are releasing a live 10 inch record called Live at Park Ave which is pretty cool but I gotta say, when I read the description it kind of annoyed me. It said “featuring six songs that Gaslight Anthem rarely play live” and then listed six songs including Here’s Looking You, Kid and Blue Jeans and White T-shirts. Those are two of my favorite songs, does that mean you’re not going to be playing them tonight?

Rosamilia: No, we actually play them live all the time now.

Levine: We play them live all the time.

Rosamilia: We weren’t at that time but now we play longer sets so we’ve thrown in the cool down numbers as well. You’ll actually hear both.

Levine: You’ll hear both of them tonight. At that point we were playing about half hour sets, so we were playing about seven songs and we never had the chance to ever play any of those songs. You can never really bring it down …

Rosamilia: You don’t have time to bring it back up.

Levine: When you’re opening up for a band like Rise Against, you can’t pull out Blue Jeans.

Bobby: Well that’s better because when I read that I was already excited for this show and when I read that you never played them live, I was like “damn, I wanted to hear those.”

Levine: Nah, I think we’re gonna play everything live on that except for Once Upon A Time. I think we play everything live now.

Bobby: I was reading an interview with MTV and Brian was saying that this is his job, he’s trying to do the best he can do and is trying to go out and write a CD that is worth the $15.99 or however much it costs to buy the CD. Make sure it’s worth that value. Do you think that there are some bands who aren’t trying to make an album that is worth the but instead just focusing on the hit single or the hit ringtone now?

Levine: Of course.

Rosamilia: Of course, I think that’s what most music is these days. I think there’s very few genuine artists left.

Levine: Oh, it’s true.

Rosamilia: Nowadays, it’s like the label people reach down and pick this random group of mildly attractive young man and throw them at a stylist and they make them look like something else.

Levine: Or they make them look like everybody else.

Rosamilia: Well, I meant other than what they actually looked like when the guy pulled them out of the thing. And then you know, they have this almost like factory conveyor belt thing. You have intro –verse – chorus – verse. The way they set it up, you’re gonna do this, you’re gonna do this, you’re gonna do this kind of breakdown.

Levine: You’re gonna act like this on stage. You’re gonna do this.

Rosamilia: You gotta use this guitar with this amp because that’s what everyone else is selling. And then when something else new comes out, all those bands just get thrown out and then they just start picking new groups and make them sound like whatever’s popular. They’re only worried about the one song, they don’t care about [the rest]. I don’t think anybody writes albums anymore.

Levine: No. And then whoever has the biggest single will be the headliner on that tour and there will be five hundred of those bands on tour together for about a year and you’ll never hear about them again. Bands that have longevity nowadays rarely make any money first of all. Bands that try to be honest and try to do the right thing usually get fucked in the ass. *laughs* Look at bands like Against Me!. They’ve been around for ten years now, they’re just a working class band still. Certain bands just don’t hit levels because they’re that legit I feel.

Bobby: They’re not there to play the marketing game, to just be told what to do.

Levine: That’s the hard part.

Rosamilia: You have to do it in order to get anywhere but you have to decide when it’s okay to do it and when you have to put your foot down.

Bobby: You have to set your values and not overstep them. Just a few more questions. I love going to concerts and try to go to as many as I can, but of course some are much more memorable than others. So thinking back, what are some concerts that you went to or played at that were really memorable for you?

Rosamilia: Played at that was playing with…

Rosamilia/Levine: Hot Water Music.

Levine: At South by South West last year.

Rosamilia: Most memorable show that I’ve ever been to would be the first time I ever saw The Cure. Well not only was it the first time I saw my favorite band, but ninety percent of what they played was off Disintegration which is my favorite record. I was talking to somebody else who went to the show not knowing that I went there, he was saying “that was one of the worst shows I ever went to. I was waiting for the hits. They didn’t play any of the hits, they just played Disintegration.” “That’s why it was the greatest show ever!!” *laughs*

Levine: I think one of my favorite shows was Small Brown Bike, Avail, Hot Water Music at the Birch Hill in New Jersey.

Rosamilia: Thats a cool one.

Levine: I was like fourteen years old, it was pretty fucking awesome.

Bobby: You guys have a lot of movie references in your song. You have Here’s Looking At You, Kids from Casablanca, I Could’ve Been A Contender from On The Waterfront which has references to Wizard of Oz in it. So I’m wondering, what are some movies now that you guys are interested in?

Rosamilia: Current movies?

Levine: Actually, I’m gonna ask you this question. Rad. Have you ever seen the movie Rad?

Bobby: No, I don’t think so.

Levine: Ah man, it’s one of the best BMX movies ever made.

Rosamilia: Because it’s the only BMX movie ever made. *laughs*

Levine: Whatever, whatever. It came out in 1986. It was filmed in Cochrane which is right outside Calgary and then the Helltrack was filmed in east Edmonton. I’ve been trying to figure out where exactly that is because I want to go. Me and my merch guy have been watching it for the past couple weeks.

Rosamilia: He’s my merch guy too.

Levine: His merch guy too.

Rosamilia: Current movies that I’m into… I don’t go to frigging movies anymore. The last movie I went to that I absolutely loved was Sukiyaki Western Django which I could try to explain but you’d probably run out of tape. It’s a Japanese spaghetti western directed by a Japanese horror director and cameos by Quentin Tarantino and it’s awesome. But other than that, I don’t know. I’m stuck in the eighties, I really am. Eighties and nineties.

Levine: A lot of Karate Kid.

Bobby: They’re re-making Karate Kid.

Levine: I know!

Rosamilia: Yeah, I know!

Levine: Will Smith’s kid right?

Rosamilia: Will Smith’s son and Jackie Chan I think are slated.

Levine: It’s gonna be terrible, nothing compared to the original.

Rosamilia: We were just in Europe, I found all three because you know the Next Karate Kid is horse shit. So I found the first three in one package for like seven pounds and we literally watched them every day the entire tour.

Bobby: One last question, when you guys were growing up, who’s poster did you have on your wall?

Levine: Growing up?

Rosamilia: What posters did I have on my wall?

Levine: I had a poster of Joe Strummer. I had one with him and the typewriter, I don’t know if you remember that.

Rosamilia: I know what you’re talking about.

Levine: He’s like this *sits like Strummer does in the poster* with a typewriter. I had a poster of Sid Vicious, a drug kills poster. He’s smoking heroin. I had my mom’s old Zeppelin black light poster that she gave me. I had that. That’s about it. I had a small room. And then I just had random stickers and shit.

Rosamilia: I had Trent Reznor. *Levine starts to laugh* I did, I did.

Levine: Yeah, I know you probably did.

Rosamilia: It was a picture from the Wish video, a giant fucking poster.

Levine: And Marilyn Manson.

Rosamilia: No, I didn’t have any Marilyn Manson on my wall. It was literally just that and pin-up girls. It was the only things I had hanging up. It was like Trent Reznor and Laetitia Casta.

Levine: I had a lot of baseball pennants as well.

Rosamilia: And then I had one wall, I don’t know why, but I duct tapped an entire wall in my room.

Bobby: Duct tape fixes everything, why not?

Rosamilia: Well it wasn’t broken! It was kind of like wallpaper. I went through four rolls of duct tape and I duct tapped the entire wall.

Levine: Let me tell you one time my parents thought I was crazy. I painted my room red and black. It was like speckles of black and red paint everywhere. Yeah, I painted the ceiling black, completely black. Ask them dude. Everybody just walked in, me and my girlfriend – my ex-girlfriend sorry – everybody walked in. We did it in one day. My mom walks in, she’s like “what the fuck happened here?” *laughs* I’m like “I don’t know, I got bored!”

Bobby: I guess that’s about it, thanks a lot. Do you have any final thoughts you’d like to add?

Levine: Canada – woo! Rad!

Rosamilia: Rad, watch it.

Levine: Everybody out there, watch it.

Rosamilia: Rad! Rad is…

Levine: Rad.

Rosamilia: Well it’s rad for lack of a better word.