Interview: Rob Aston of Transplants
Published July 25, 2005
Oh, it's all good! Because that's him, you know what I'm saying? He's the same dude on MTV as he is in everyday life. I like it for the fact that it shows that he's a really good father. That's my favorite part of it. I love watching him interacting with his kids. A lot of dads can get some pointers from that dude, you know what I'm saying?
What kinds of personalities and influences do the three of you guys bring to the band to make is a whole?
All three of us lead three different lives and come from three different places, you know what I'm saying? So I think it's just the combination of all of us, we're all just honest with it.
I'm for sure going to tell you some honest shit when I'm spitting. And you know, it's not going to always be everyone's favorite subject or topic or language used in it, but I'm just going to be honest with you and tell you how I feel and tell you how it is.
Is that what you guys do with the music? Do you just try and keep it honest and keep it real, as opposed to saying, "Hey, we're gonna give a message on this kind of topic in a song"?
Yeah, because when we record shit, we'll go in there and depending on how we're feeling that day, we'll make a song about it, you know what I'm saying?
If I got into some fucked up shit the night before, I might want to talk about it. To a certain extent. I mean, I can't talk about things and incriminate myself, but it's a good way to get shit off my chest and it's a good way for Tim to get shit off his chest. It's like therapy.
Do you guys try and push punk rock to a new place, or is it more like, "This is just music - this is us."
It's just music, you know what I'm saying? There's no label for it. We've always had trouble since the beginning when we started this band of people always asking, "How do you label you guys? What category do you fall into?" We don't really fall into any category. It's Transplants music. It's not anything else because it's everything and then some, you know what I'm saying? We do it because we love this shit.
How was it working with Paul Wall, who "chopped and screwed" your record?
That's my homeboy right there! He chopped and screwed our whole record, and it sounds crazy. Ain't nobody done that with a record, besides hip hop records or R&B on a mix tape or something. So a chopped and screwed record on a rock record or a punk rock record or whatever, doing it the right way and putting that shit out? That's literally making some history right here.
- Interview: Rob Aston of Transplants
- Published: July 25, 2005
- Type: Interview
- Section: Music
- Filed Under: Interviews, Music: Hip-hop, Music: Punk Rock, Music: Rock
- Writer: Eric Berlin
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Thanks Duke, and I agree, though I don't think it's quite as good as the debut record.
Look for my review soon...
looking forward to it!
i've yet to hear the debut record, although i hope to do so sometime in the near-future.
"Down in Oakland" is a great, great song. Having lived in and around Oak-town, I especially dig it.
Off the new record, I'm very partial to "Doomsday," which I picture playing in the background of an apocalyptic jazz/dive bar.
Hit The Fence is a sick song, my favorites are probably that one, Madness, American Guns, and Killafornia
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fantastic interview, Eric, you know what i'm sayin?
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truly great stuff here. i'm listenin to the new Transplants record at this moment in time. a wonderfully eclectic broth, it turns out.