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Interview with Dead Silence

The following interview was in a
local Boulder/Denver zine called Arche-Type Morality

Yes, it’s a reals type interview with...
DEAD SILENCE
The following is an interview with DEAD SILENCE (from Boulder, CO).
Members include: Vulture 20(vocals), Adam, 18(guitar), Lorn, 18
going on 19(Bass), and Ted, 19(Drums). This monumental feat
occured on a cold wet night dated October 10, 1984...

Arche-type Morality: Gee, Adam, in this light your eyes turn red.

Adam: I know, it's a little demonic, one of my ancestors made it
with a demon, and that’s why-

Vulture and Lorn: BULLshit!(laughter).

ATM: OK, since this is your first interview, I get to ask you a couple of lame, standard questions. Can you name me some bands
that have influenced the band and you as individuals?

Adam: I don’t know. I listen to Green on Red, all kinds of bands.

Vulture: Well, I like Rudimentary Peni, Crass, uh-oh, relax here it comes...No, just basically Crass-type, Flux. One band
that effects my attitude is Iconoclast. I haven’t met ‘em,
but when Amy got back from CA, she told me all that stuff they do,
it sounds really cool. Peace Punks.

Adam: Can I say something? One thing that influences my attitude is social institutions and the way people and other assholes conform to them. Just the government, you know? The Reagan dick-head administration. Nuclear fear.

ALL:(clapping) good answer, good answer.

Vulture: This is like one of those “Family Feuds”.

Lorn: Influences- Flux of Pink Indians, Exploited, quit making faces, the Monkeys.

ATM: OK. Dead Silence evolved out of the zine (if you wanna call it that- it was in no way a mag sucking up to the local bands, it
instead familiarized us with what was going on politically and morally with strong, intelligent essays). Do you carry on the ideologies, political issues, etc. that that paper spoke of? If so, can you give me an example of a song, and the importantance of that song?

Vulture: Well, it’s not like we wrote any of the songs from any one particular story, I mean the newspaper and the band are kinda the same thing, politically.

ATM: So are you gonna continue putting out the newsletter, or are you pretty much expressing what you have to say through the band now?

Vulture: I’m gonna try to put out flyers at shows now and stuff, with little stories and more. So it won’t really be a
newspaper anymore because I can’t really afford that anymore.

ATM: So why do you have a band?

Adam: I for one have always loved music. I always wanted to play. You know ( in growly voice) the feeling, the power, the stamina
and the adrenalin... Just playing your own music, like in 7th grade, playing air guitar to Led Zepplin. I also needed a way to express shit.

ATM: Do you write the lyrics, too?

Adam: We all do, except Ted.

Vulture: Ted just plays.

Lorn: I like to state what’s on my mind.

Vulture: We all do, it’s nice. Basically, I wanted to be in a band so we could say the same thing that the paper did, except reach a different group of people. Some people read the paper and
some people don’t.

ATM: So, so far, how’s the response been?

Adam: So far, it’s been fairly positive response. I guess, yuou know, they seem to dig us. 7 Seconds seemed to like us.

ATM: What got you interested in hardcore, or punk, how did it develop, and do you think you’ll ever burn out?

Adam: No. I mean to your second question. No because I think there’s never any end to creativity or being progressive. You can allways keep getting more and more different. So as long as it doesn’t stagnate, and people keep on progressing, than
I don’t think I’ll ever burn out.

ATM: What do you mean #147;progressive”?

Adam: Progressive ideas; ideas that aren’t lame or that don’t hide in the shadows of the past, like some bands, like heavy metal...

Vulture: I think it will be interesting to see if hardcore, I mean not really saying it’s popular, but it kinda is, if it kinda dries out like the 60’s and 70’s music did. Then
to see how hardcore bands stay the same. ‘Cause there’s still some hippie bands that play the same thing, and real hippies like ‘em.

ATM: Do you think of Black Flag as #145;progressive’?

ALL: No, no, They just sold out. No Shit.

Vulture: They got slower, and play “Feyline”- type $1200 shows.

ATM: Do you know what I think is funny? I think it’s funny how X sold out and nobody’s heard about them. Have you heard about them lately?

Adam: I haven’t.

Vulture: I saw an ad for an X show in LA. They were charging thirteen bucks for a show.

ALL: SHIIIIIIIITTT, no way, etc.

ATM: So back to the question, how’d you first get interested in punk?

Vulture: At school this one guy, he used to work in a little radio thing in high school. This guy used to always play stuff like the Clash, and the Sex Pistols( even tho he was actually an asshole).

Adam: I liked the idea when I first heard about it. I read about it or something, and liked the idea, and then a couple of different people turned me onto it. This one guy in my junior year, he had all this new stuff. The idea really said something.

Lorn: I got into punk ‘cause I was into heavy metal, but then I got really bummed out on it.

ATM: Which local bands do you like the best? Can you compare yourselves to any of them?

Adam: I really like Happy World alot. I just like them a lot. You can’t really compare us with them: there’s too much of a contrast in our styles.

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Here, my ancient xerox copy of this interview ends.