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\n<\/a>\u201cI didn\u2019t know that it was just a rock and roll band with some clever, silly lyrics too, but just a rock and roll band and then I started playing with them and they\u2019re just so tight without ever really discussing being tight. It\u2019s not like we practise all the time, it\u2019s just that everybody\u2019s ears are open and you\u2019re just looking around and you don\u2019t want to mess up and you want to hold up your end of the stick\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

From Press Release: In 1995 Seattle outfit Presidents Of The United States of America launched their self-titled debut album and in the process took the world by storm with their unique take on guitar based pop rock. Armed with their uniquely modified electric guitars, an arsenal of perfect infectious pop hooks and super-smart song writing skills the band scored massive hits around the world with the singles Lump, Peaches and Kitty. Whilst there was no doubting the extreme catchiness of POTUSA\u2019s songs it was the undeniable sense of humour and fun with which they were delivered that really won the affection of music lovers of the decade.<\/p>\n

We spoke to Andrew McKeag of The Presidents Of The United States Of America before their Australian tour had begun, we had a great chat about the band and his time with them, about touring and all about a case of good timing\u2026<\/p>\n

Welcome back to Australia, here for the \u2018Australia 13 1st<\/sup> Record WOW!\u2019 tour, it\u2019s been a while since you\u2019ve been here! First thing\u2019s first\u2026 What\u2019s taken so long to get you guys back here?<\/strong>
\n*laughs* Well it partly is that the band while it maintains a heartbeat, it\u2019s not everybody\u2019s first priority thing, I\u2019m always available to play more, but Chris is really in to making kids records, he has an alter ego, when we last put out a record in 2008, he\u2019s made four kids records since then and he does it every year, just puts out a new one. What he does is he takes these public domain songs, stuff that the US library of Congress has deemed public domain and he goes in and he messes with the lyrics, he takes these old melodies, folk songs and stuff and turns them in to new material with a bend towards really young kids, like four year olds, he\u2019s done really well with it. So he\u2019s really busy doing that, but he\u2019s recently kind of gotten back into getting excited about doing Presidents stuff and Jason and I are ready to do it.<\/p>\n

The shows have been selling out, you must be happy that we still love you?<\/strong>
\nOh of all the places we visit this is our favourite. It\u2019s the best country, it\u2019s like America without all the Americans *laughs* and the weather is way better everywhere.<\/p>\n

So, for those that have never been to a Presidents show before, me included, how would you sum up one of your live shows?<\/strong>
\nNudity\u2026 yeah what we\u2019re doing right now, playing the whole first record is different to what we normally do, normally we put together a set of twenty four songs or something that pull from all the records, a lot from the first record obviously because that\u2019s everybody\u2019s favourite and the most popular but a smattering of stuff from other records. Now we\u2019re doing half a dozen songs from other records then we go into the first record and play that all the way through and then come back for more songs at the end.<\/p>\n

So you\u2019ll be playing your debut in full as well as some hits, what\u2019s the idea behind doing it this way?<\/strong>
\nLet\u2019s be honest, lots of bands are doing that and in our case it was just a thing to do, especially for us, as we don\u2019t have a new record out and everybody wants to hear that record, we love playing all those songs, Chris always says still to this day that he never gets bummed out playing \u2018Lump\u2019, he\u2019ll play those hits forever\u2026<\/p>\n

Well you have to\u2026.<\/strong>
\n*laughs* and I\u2019ve never understood that either, you\u2019ve got these bands that get upset that they have this one hit or two hits and they have to play them and they play them first and then you don\u2019t know anything they play for the rest of the night, or the play them last begrudgingly. To us, if people know the song and they get into it, and they\u2019re freaking out, awesome, we\u2019re excited that they\u2019re excited. We\u2019re a band that you pretty much leave your weird thing at the door and come and enjoy it, there\u2019s a place for fun in music, you know what I mean?<\/p>\n

Do you have a favourite track to play?<\/strong>
\nIt kinda changes all the time, right now we\u2019ve been doing a bunch of stuff off of the record they made while they were broken up called \u2018Freaked Out and Small\u2019 and there\u2019s one in particular on there called \u2018Tiny Explosions\u2019 it\u2019s just really fun and a ripping song and fun to play, a total rocker so I like playing that one. I like playing \u2018Body\u2019 off the first record. I don\u2019t know it\u2019s all fun, they\u2019re weird, it\u2019s three strings on the guitar, so it\u2019s a very, very unique band.<\/p>\n

Oh so you still play on the three string guitars?<\/strong>
\nOh yeah\u2026<\/p>\n

How hard was that to master?<\/strong>
\nHard *laughs* really hard. It was like relearning how to play guitar.<\/p>\n

It seems that you don\u2019t take yourselves too seriously, in a good way of course, when the guys were creating music back in 95 for the Presidents, in the midst of the angry grunge era have they ever talked about being worried at all that people wouldn\u2019t get the humour?<\/strong>
\nYou know, that\u2019s a good question, I don\u2019t know if Chris gives a shit to be honest. He\u2019s kind of unique and kind of the most punk rock non punk rock guy I know because he really doesn\u2019t care what anybody thinks, he is a weird guy, but he\u2019s a smart dude and he\u2019s funny and clever and just sort of coming from a different place and that place doesn\u2019t require sanctioning, it doesn\u2019t require anybody to approve of his choices. *laughs* So it was just a naturally goofy band that happened to gain popularity and it happened rapidly and it happened just as Kurt Cobain was about to blow his head off, it just happened at that time, so when they got popular it was just after that and everybody was just letting out a sigh of \u2018wow that was a bummer\u2019 awesome music and still a total drag and then there\u2019s this goofy little band that\u2019s also from Seattle and has a history in that scene, Jason was in Love Battery which were on Sub Pop and lots of other bands, and it was a tight knit scene. It was just happenstance really\u2026 I mean I\u2019ve talked to Chris and Jason about the height of popularity feelings they\u2019ve had, where they\u2019d be at some Hollywood event and they just felt like somebody was going to kick them out, like \u2018You don\u2019t belong here\u2026\u2019 and grab them by the neck and chuck them.<\/p>\n

So they don\u2019t feel like stars?<\/strong>
\nNo, and you know what, they don\u2019t act like it, they\u2019re really down to Earth dudes, I mean, we travel simple we travel on the cheap, we bring two guitars each and we hire backline and that\u2019s really cheap and simple.<\/p>\n

What do you think it is about Australians specifically that \u2018get\u2019 your music?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know, maybe after the first show I\u2019ll be able to answer the question because it\u2019s been so long since we\u2019ve been here, but I think that in my opinion as a fan of so much Aussie rock and roll, I think there\u2019s just a level of fun and being a kick ass band that translates to people here. There\u2019s a work ethic of bands here that doesn\u2019t exist in other places, to me in my opinion the reason that bands here are so good is that they have to work for it and the audience they like to party and like to have fun. They see us having fun and it\u2019s like a two way mirror you know. That was one of the things that joining the band I didn\u2019t expect and that\u2019s what turned me on to them eventually before I was in the band was sort of seeing them and I went out on the road as a tech for the opening band when they were a pretty popular band and so I was around them every day, and I knew them from Seattle and everything. Until I went out on that tour, I didn\u2019t know that it was just a rock and roll band with some clever, silly lyrics too, but just a rock and roll band and then I started playing with them and they\u2019re just so tight without ever really discussing being tight. It\u2019s not like we practise all the time, it\u2019s just that everybody\u2019s ears are open and you\u2019re just looking around and you don\u2019t want to mess up and you want to hold up your end of the stick, but it\u2019s not like anyone\u2019s cracking the whip over you or fining you $5 for making a mistake. *laughs*<\/p>\n

So when you got asked to be involved were you surprised?<\/strong>
\nWell I knew they\u2019d gotten back together and I knew they had recorded a record and Jason and I were doing a gig with this band we were in called \u2018The Black Panties\u2019 and I\u2019d finished the gig and we were at the bar, must\u2019ve been Spring of 2004 and he said \u2018Would it turn your stomach to play some Presidents shows?\u2019 and I was like \u2018No, do you need another guitar as you\u2019ve made this record and it has overdubs on it or something?\u2019 and he said \u2018No, you\u2019d be Dave\u2019 and I just couldn\u2019t even conceive of it, because to me that band was always those three guys and nothing else computed *laughs*. Oh I did ask about the three string thing, I asked if I had to do it and he said \u2018Well we\u2019d like you to try it but if you\u2019re not into it we can figure out another way\u2019 because Chris is that kind of musician, he can play any instrument, any tuning, any time, he\u2019s just really, really talented. So I just went home and listened and thought ahh shit I\u2019ve got to learn three string, there\u2019s no other way I can do this and then I went over to Dave Dederer\u2019s house and he showed me how to play all the songs.<\/p>\n

So it was a mutual kind of parting?<\/strong>
\nYeah, he didn\u2019t want to tour, so the original idea was that I would be the touring guy and he would be the guy that did the big hometown shows or went on Letterman and played and stuff like that, but then over the next six months as we toured that record, it became painfully obvious that having two versions of the band rehearsed was impossible, it just didn\u2019t make sense for Chris and Jason and then I think Dave did a little bit more than he did and he was like \u2018I\u2019m over it, cheers Andrew, here you go.\u2019<\/p>\n

So they\u2019re all still friends and all is cool?<\/strong>
\nYeah, he\u2019s still a partner in the band because he has a piece of the records he plays on and they own that first record so they license it and in the business version of the first version of the band, he\u2019s a part of it. Often at my sort of suggestion we\u2019ve had him up to play, and we\u2019ve done two guitar versions of the band and stuff once and a while.<\/p>\n

Songs like \u2018Peaches\u2019 and \u2018Kitty\u2019 are lyrically in my opinion perfect, when they found the formula for the songs, how easy was it to keep running with it?<\/strong>
\nWell in my experience of watching how songs are created in this band, I recorded one record with them, and Chris has an archive of demos that goes back to the 80\u2019s, really\u2026 and he\u2019s digitizing it all now, so he sits there with his lap top and digs through stuff looking through one little bit or another little bit and when he finds something he likes, he comes to us. I think with the last record, the two of us sat down a lot at his apartment and just sort of culled through this material and he would say \u2018What about this little thing?\u2019 and then I would add something to it, or if I was just playing the guitar while he was messing around, he would say \u2018Oh what about this?\u2019 and he would grab lyrics from this and take the middle section from that\u2026 so it\u2019s sort of a mosaic of random stuff but mostly it\u2019s from Chris\u2019 brain.<\/p>\n

What for you has been the biggest stand out in terms of growth or evolution of the band in your time with them?<\/strong>
\nI think one of the things about me being in the band vs Dave, is that when Dave was in the band it was much more like there were two front men and to me that Chris is such a dynamo, and I front my own bands and I do other stuff at home where I\u2019m the leader of the band so it\u2019s not like I\u2019m the side guy in the band in my brain. I walked into this thing and went, huh\u2026 that\u2019s the singer, and I\u2019m going to support what he does and try to keep this thing as tight as possible and just focus on making the tunes work from my end of things. So really is anything it became more obvious who the leader of the band was or who the front man was. Also, my life is set up and I have a wife and kids just like Dave does and my wife signed off on the rock and roll thing a long time ago and I think for his family it was much more challenging to get away, so I\u2019m the guy that says yes.<\/p>\n

So are you currently working on new songs for a new album?<\/strong>
\nYeah Chris brought a new tune in that we arranged a couple of weeks ago before we did some Seattle shows and we played that live, and that\u2019s just continuing, he\u2019s given us a CDR a couple of weeks ago of some ideas that he had and to listen to and the thing I like is that he\u2019s positive about getting together to rehearse and he\u2019s excited about doing new stuff and we\u2019ll just see what happens.<\/p>\n

No idea on when can we expect something?<\/strong>
\nNo, we\u2019re just going to keep knocking stuff around and we have a lot of sound checks ahead of us, because we\u2019re going to do these shows here and then we go back to The States and do the east coast and west coast and we\u2019ll just fart around with it and see what happens. There\u2019s no rush *laughs* clearly there\u2019s no rush.<\/p>\n

The band has been together for 20 years this year, that\u2019s 5 terms as Presidents, so what can we expect in \u20184 more years?\u2019<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s right, sure. Well I should hope some sort of new record of new material, as well as potentially lots of, we\u2019re trying to get our heads around mixing and mastering and putting together in the digital realm, all of the shows we\u2019ve recorded. We\u2019ve recorded so many live shows and the band has never released a live record, so maybe something like that, maybe a live DVD, the ideas are just kind of floating around there. It\u2019s all about availability time wise, what we actually get done vs what we talk about *laughs*<\/p>\n

So, when does the touring cycle end on this run?<\/strong>
\nWell I hope never, but I think we do April, East Coast, May, West Coast and then we\u2019ve got a smattering of things in the Summer, and English festival, a couple of Dutch dates and then we\u2019ll see what materialises.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not make it so long before you\u2019re back here though, ok?<\/strong>
\nI know right! We were here in 2005 and then in 2007 I think, and just did sort of five shows. I think when we first came back on the \u2018Love Everybody\u2019 record, we were going to return, these were going to be underplays but then when we were going to come back, the venues they booked were way too big and then there was a money problem with the promoter and it just kind of ended up not working out. So then we came back and we played small venues again, but, anyway\u2026<\/p>\n

Well the good thing is the 90\u2019s resurgence is well in effect\u2026<\/strong>
\nI think it\u2019s starting to kick in, right, they\u2019re tired of digging around in the 80\u2019s *laughs* so it\u2019s what you\u2019ve gotta do.<\/p>\n

Essential Information<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Seattle, USA<\/p>\n

Band members: <\/strong>\u00a0Chris Ballew – Vocals, Bassitar, Jason Finn – Drums, Vocals, Andrew McKeag – Guitbass, Vocals<\/p>\n

Website: <\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.presidentsrock.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Catch the POTUSA on their remaining Australian tour dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday 14 March Adelaide @ HQ<\/strong>
\nwww.oztix.com.au<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

March 15 Sydney @ Roundhouse<\/strong>
\nwww.ticketek.com.au<\/a> \/ www.oztix.com.au<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

March 16 Fremantle @ Metropolis<\/strong>
\nwww.oztix.com.au<\/a> \/ www.heatseeker.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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