METAL ONSLAUGHT MAGAZINE AUGUST 2014 | Page 17

Timmy: Sometimes it's the newer music. I mean we have written, played and recorded it, but we will go and play a show with our regular set and come back and have to practice it a few times to get back in the groove with the new stuff. (laughs) We will probably do that on our down time and run through the new record again. Big Dad Ritch: Imprinted memory, you know you can go through the regular sets all pissed off about something without thinking about it. It's when you do new songs and it's like, “Am I supposed to be singing here?” (laughs) DDR: So what are your tour plans for the rest of the year? Bid Dad Ritch: This is it for us for right now. We are all going to go home and get as far away from each other as we can get (laughs) I'm just kidding. We won't get much of a break. Next Friday, we will actually be playing in Ft. Worth for the 9th or 10th annual “Ride for Dime”. We have been doing that since its infancy. If we haven't been able to play, we send items to auction off. In fact, we will be auctioning the hat on my head. I have worn it through the whole Mayhem tour, so its got a lot of DNA in it. Big Dad Ritch: We wear the state of Texas on our backs wherever we go and when we travel abroad, it's never we are from America, or the USA. It's always been we are from Texas Timmy: Everyone likes DDR: If you guys could go back in time, and talk to your Texas (laughs) younger selves, what would you say? Big Dad Ritch: It's a lot easier to get laid than you think DDR: Thank you guys for it is (laughs) an awesome show and Timmy: I knew what I wanted to do at a pretty young your time. I’m sure we age, so I would tell myself that I was making the right will be seeing you again. decision Big Dad Ritch: Thank you Cord: Don't go to college (laughs) doll, it was a pleasure. Big Dad Ritch: I think we all knew at a young age what we wanted to do, it was just finding our own path. I think we are all happy that our paths led to each other and led all of us to this. DDR: Being a band from Texas, how important is it to get out there and represent your state being that we are a proud bunch?