Interview With Injected

by Renee Clark 

(Interview @ Snow Jam 7/20/02)

   I would like to say if you haven’t heard who Injected are, than you have obviously been living underneath the proverbial rock-- but that would be very immature.  Instead I am going give you the low down on who they are and why you should want to listen to their music! 

How I grew to know Injected:  Renee’s story behind the music(I love ripping on VH1)

I heard of these guys through the local KROCK station.  They seemed to have played their single “Faithless” every hour on the hour….no joke!  Anyway KROCK brought them to Syracuse for a show along with Greenwheel at the Lost Horizon.  So I went of course!  Ever since then I have been a die hard fan ever since!

INJECTED:  Far from being “classic underachievers.”

Whats the Story behind your name?

Danny:  Injected umm its just lack of a better name I dunno…. Chris’s basement is where we first started practicing is essentially a garage and so we just had some fuel injectors around and we figured we would call it Injected because we just wanted to get it over with.  Something easy to say!  You don’t want to something tough to say like you don’t want to name your band after some sweedish word with 24 letters. Its gotta be easy to say and roll off the toungue and nice!

What got you involved in music in the first place?  Did you always want to be a musician or did you want other things?

Steve:  Basically bands inspired us to get into music I would say.  Since I heard Stuff like Metallica you know and all kinds of stuff… they just inspired me to play.

Did you guys ever go to college or did you just jump right into your music career?

Danny:  yeah I went to college

Steve:  Yeah Danny went to college.  Me and Chris pretty much…

Danny(finishing his sentence):  Dropped outa school (laughing)

Steve:  Whatever man!  I graduated high school it just took me five years man….  I did it(laughing)

Danny:  No seriously Steve graduated from high school when I was a sophomore in college (laughing)  and he’s a year older than me!(laughing)

Steve:  That’s great man

Chris:  I got my GED!

Steve:  Thanks man!  You make me feel real good! (laughing) 

Danny:  Hey you were just like I was Steve an underacheiver!

Steve:  Yeah that’s what they said that’s what they called me.

Danny:  I am an underachiever!

Steve:  A classic underachiever!

Danny:  I am a complete underachiever!

I know I saw on your website that you all do sally struthers!

Danny:  Yeah we all do sally stuthers…..cuz the tests are so easy!

Chris:  Hey man peoples TV’s and VCRs need to be fixed right!  Somebody’s gotta do it!

Danny:  I think…Sally Struthers I think its aweseome!  Good to offer that kind of education ya know.  But you can cheat off of all the tests nobody’s looking over your shoulder while you’re taking them! (laughing) Steve took his hair dressing test and like he was supposed to give this guy a bob he gave the manican head like he completely shaved it off (lauging) it was awesome….he still passed!!  They didn’t know!

Steve:  yeah I had all the answers written down on my arms (laughing)….

Danny:  But yeah they send you the certificate and (laughing)

Steve:  and now I have been cutting my own hair ever since (he flips his hair back laughing).

Danny:  Now you’re a hair stylist….Steve cuts hair you guys need a hair cut??

No!!

Danny:  So how much you charge now?

Steve: I dunno I broke my flobie so I won’t be able to……

Danny:  I guess you charge as much as it costs to get that flobie repaired…

Steve:  Yeah exactly as soon as the flobie gets fixed the rates will drop back down to the normal price but right now its skyrockedted to 25 dollars.

Danny:  What would you call your own salon Steve?

Steve:  Well Steve’s of course. (laughing) What else would I call it?!

Danny:  I think I am going to take over your interview now I am going to interview Steve….Steve what kind of services would you offer at Steve’s?

Steve: Well ahh is this the police asking or a…..of course there’s gonna be some kind of cover….or something ya know

Chris:  there’s gonna be gambling in the back (laughing) Steve’s gonna have black jack tables in the back.  He’s gonna have the five dollar tables, the ten dollar tables and then the high rollers!

Danny:  Yeah exactly.  Steve will be in the gold lemay outfit

Chris: and he’ll be the dealer at the high roll tables.

Danny:  yeah exactly he’ll be the dealer at the high roller tables situated in the center of the gambling area.

Chris:  exactly

Danny:  with nothing but like metal playing

Chris:  Hey good luck on that ace! (lauging)

Steve: good luck on that ace! good luck on that ace!

Chris: ohh your busted give me all your money!

Steve: hey its funny you can laugh because all the money is coming to me so it makes me laugh even more deviously (laughs deviously) hahaha

Danny:  so in short Steve Slovisky of Injected is a gambling attic

Steve: That’s right! That’s what were trying to get out of it

Danny:  so that’s basically what our next record is gonna be about

Steve: Me talking about it helps me really it does so I appreciate you
listening! (laughing)

Danny: that’s part of his twelve steps….actually Steve is in three different twelve step gambling programs

Chris: he’s got 15 steps it takes a few more for us pollaks

Danny:  he’s got a 36 step program (laughing)

Chris:  I have to do it like three times for it to sink in (laughing)
Becky:  Hey it took me three years to get a two year degree!
Steve:  Yeah!
Chris:  There ya go! Pollish it on up!
Danny:  Hey it took me three years to not even finish college (laughs)
Chris:  Exactly! Hey!
Danny:  So Steve whats the biggest myth you’ve ever been told?
Steve:  Myth?
Danny:  Whats the piece of advice you don’t regret…..not taking?
Steve:  I dunno it’s a tough question…youre getting too in depth…..
Chris:  Stay in school!
Steve:  There ya go!
Chris:  That one never worked …..its pointless kids
Steve:  I go to school
Chris:  You go to school?
Steve:  you have to go to college!
Chris:  Exactly!  You have to!  You have to have something to fall back on!
Actually we havn’t fallen yet so I dunno!
Danny:  I think that’s kinda funny guys.  That parents are more interested in
maybe popularizing a back up plan instead of giving you a primary plan
Chris:  Right!
Danny: (impersonating a parent)  Cuz listen we both know your gonna be a fuck
up
Steve: Exactly!
Danny:  So go to college and you’ll have something to fall back on
Steve:  Yeah your dreams are never gonna come true!  Don’t believe any of
that…. I am telling you!  Your like your father!  
Danny:  Look at me married to your father!
Steve:  Exactly!  Come on! Did I dream this?!
Danny:  Listen son when you turn 35 and you have eight children…..your soul
dies!
Steve:  Your soul dies!
Danny:  you don’t feel like doing anything really.  So get yourself a college
degree and you can live a nice lazy middle-class life!
Steve:  Lazy middle-class life (laughing)
Danny: that will allow you some sentiments of sanity….So yeah in short we
don’t regret not going to college.  We regret not chasing the “back up plan”  
So Chris.
Chris:  Hey!
Danny:  ummm(laughing)
Chris:  How’s that back up plan?  I dunno I never had one!
Danny: so chris if you had to go to college to study something what would it
be?
Chris:  How to make the ultimate porno flick.
Danny:  Cinematographer.  A noble profession.

You can work for Skinomax!!!

Chris:  See
Steve:  Yes!
Chris:  I have already written the soundtracks to some of this
Steve:  See I love cinomax  man cuz girls they don’t like that hard core porn
ya know that’s never gonna turn them on!
Danny:  They need something with more stories and costumes…..fast forward to
another time!
Chris:  Another era!
Danny:  Another era!
Steve:  O Sorry!
Chris:  ALRIGHT! next question!!
Me:  Ok how long did it take to write and record “Burn it Black”
Danny:  Three weeks
Chris:  Yeah that’s right it took three weeks to record.  It took ahhhh
Steve:  It took a while to write…
Danny:  Well we weren’t really on a time table when we wrote that record.  
Chris:  yeah its different
Danny: The label was really cool they didn’t really interfere with our studio
times or any of our songs too much they pretty much let us do what we wanted
to do which I have to respect them for because its hard for a label to do
that.  Cuz you know they have a lot invested in a band.  They want some
control you know its only natural to expect….they cut the checks but ya know
they left us alone.

So what do you think of the parental advisory sticker they slapped on it?
Chris:  I think it sells more records.
Danny:  I think its fuckin’ awesome!   (laughing)  I think its fuckedy fuck
fuck fuckin’ awesoeme!
Chris:  Exactly…Good marketing tool!
Danny:  I personally didn’t want it on there.  Ya know because it just ruins
the artwork that Jason Noto our director did for us…he hated it as well ummm
but if its on there ya know what are you gonna do?   I liked how Queens of the
Stone Age got around it by just putting a big R on their fucking album.

 Still More to come Very Soon!!!!!!