ficial, but it has slowly evolved,
along with ourselves, and the new
songs we’ll be releasing soon
definitely identity with our present
self.
ter band and use AP as a starting
point. Luckily, The Saint hosted
us every Sunday for the first three
months that we were in town,
which helped us become better
performers. Other bands would
When you first got to Asbury,
play with us too, so we met a
were you called Deal Casino or
bunch of people during that first
did you change the name inspired residency.
by the nearby beach club?
Well, we knew it would be a
What do you thing the biggest
gamble to make music a career
factors have been in the develop-
and move to Asbury, but we said, ment of your sound and your au-
‘What the heck,’ and put all our
dience?
money on the music. We’re hop-
The Wallflowers, the tonic, the
ing one day we’ll hit the jackpot.
lyric, the beedles, the U2.
Will you take a risk?
How did you meet your manager,
When you first moved to AP, did Pergo, and what has he done for
you have confidence that you
the band that wouldn’t have hap-
would become one of the biggest pened without him?
local bands in the scene or did
We actually haven’t even met
that take time to develop?
Pergo before. He’s basically our
When we first moved to AP, we
‘virtual’ manager. For all we know,
were pretty terrible. We didn’t as- ‘he’ could actually be a ‘she.’ Let
pire to be the biggest AP band,
us know what he looks like if you
we just wanted to become a bet-
end up meeting the guy.
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