If anything, young musicians should probably give ME advice on what to do these days. Otherwise, there’s a lot of things you just learn through experience, and you either develop the right social skills to deal with it or not. Being in a band is like being in a marriage, and every band gets “divorced” at some point. Wayne: Since you’re still very much involved in the “powerviolence” scene today with acts like Despise You/Low Threat Profile, do any current bands stick out to you or do you think the time has passed and people are missing the point? Chris: I don’t think anyone’s missing the point, but the music is noticeably different now. That’s neither a good nor bad thing. It just “is”. And considering how much time has passed, it’s natural for any type of music or definition of music to morph into something a bit different. I have to say, being involved with the earlier bands, there is a lot of respect given by the newer bands, which is very humbling & flattering. Wayne: What can we expect from Chris Dodge in 2012 and beyond? Will the rest of the Low Threat Profile (including the Joe D tracks) see the light of day? Chris: I dunno. I didn’t really think I’d be playing hardcore at this age, yet somehow I’m more active than I’ve ever been. I’m not sure how much LTP stuff Joe will do vocals on. There’s some songs that Matt & I did vocals on, and I think that will come out as a 7”. That said, there are still a good 30-40 or more songs that are recorded & sitting in the vaults. Aside from possible release of recordings, I think LTP is mostly dead. We’ll see. We played live twice, but I doubt we’ll ever play again, even with Joe. However, I’ll probably be playing some shows with another not-so-secret “top secret” band which involves Joe as well. In the near future, I think most of my musical output will be with To The Point. We’re recording a lot of songs on our own at Bob’s house, and Bob is releasing a series of limited one-sided 7”ers on Deep Six. I actually just stepped down from by duties in Despise You. They want to do stuff like tour Europe, and I’d rather spend that time at home with my family. I still love going out & playing shows, but I just don’t like to do it that often. I have a wife & 8 year old boy & I value time with them a lot more. Not that I’ll never play another out of town show again, because I will, but family time takes priority over band time.