SCAD Radio’s music director, Hailey Feller, interviewed Poop on October 30th at a show located at the Diner on Abercorn. Here’s the conversation she had with the band:
Q: What made you guys want to create a band?
A: Satan came to him one night. Noah comes out of the f****** toilet and is like, “Yo! I really like how you’re sounding, let’s do this!” That’s just how it happened. I’m a piece of s*** and now I can hang out at the cool toilets with my cool homies. We got Real Shaggy, Big Leg, Papa Moat, we assemble like Voltron.
Q: What are your musical inspirations?
A: I’ll speak for everyone here when I say, “Kurt Cobain.” Kurt Cobain, 100 Gecs, Slasher, and Black Flag. [Fredrick] “Toots” Hibbert is one of my biggest inspirations, he got taken out by covid. Also, John Coltrane, we’re really into jazz. Before anyone joins Poop they actually have to buy a 12 gauge shotgun, a pigeon hunting firearm. We can’t cut anyone from the band, they have to cut themselves off, that’s part of the discipline in being in the group. That’s why we have 15 people. If anyone kills themselves we just replace them, because that’s how the real world works. On a good night it’s 15, on a bad night it’s 10.
Q: What’s your favorite part about performing?
A: I’m a huge narcissist and like when everyone’s looking at me. I like to be the lead singer of my own band where I can tell all my bandmates exactly how I want them to play, and I have a lot of power. I’m like the Steve Jobs of music. Normally a band has a lead guitarist, we have a bassist, and he makes us sound good. My job is to stand, I don’t play guitar, I hold it. He’s vocals, he screeches, I can sometimes provide a solid wall of sound. A big wall, and he’s going to make Mexico pay for it. If you’re curious, we all voted today.
Q: What’s next for you all? Any upcoming songs or shows?
A: We have an album coming out soon. It’s literally s***. It’s going to come out December 32nd, 2020, aka January 1st, but no hard deadlines.
“I love all my homies, I love everyone. Eat broccoli. Respect women.”
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