Interview: Dangerous Dave of The Queers

Asian Man Records have posted an interview with The Queers’ bassist Dangerous Dave on Verbicide Magazine’s website. In the interview, Dave talks about touring and the state of music today.

All the great albums were recorded before all this new technology — we don’t have to use it just because it’s available. I never understood punk rock to be so robotic and sterile and lame — I always thought it was raw and fun. That’s the way it was done, and that’s what we do. You don’t read reviews that say, “The fourth word of the third verse of track seven, one minute and 20 seconds in, well, that’s a little off.” Hopefully, more bands will take the approach that they don’t have to follow the trend of using auto-tune on every single vocal line and matching up the bass line with the kick drum on every single note. It’s okay to be a little bit off; makes it more fun. Listen to the old albums — there are bad punches on Ramones albums. No one gives a fuck!

The interview can be read in its entirety here.