{"id":5966,"date":"2020-11-05T23:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T23:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2020-11-05T23:05:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T23:05:25","slug":"interview-with-self-proclaimed-savannahs-worst-la-chonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/2020\/11\/05\/interview-with-self-proclaimed-savannahs-worst-la-chonk\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Self-Proclaimed “Savannah’s Worst” – La Chonk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCAD Radio’s music director<\/a> Hailey Feller interviewed SCAD band La Chonk at a show on October 30th. It took place at the beloved Diner on Abercorn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: What made you guys want to start a band? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: Initially we were in our dorm room and it was the beginning of college, we didn\u2019t know how to get any female attention. So we thought, well maybe we should start playing some instruments. We realized that if you just play instruments s***** then girls will still come after you. I didn\u2019t play bass until I started the band.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t think we\u2019d get this far, if I\u2019ll be honest with you.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: Who are your musical inspirations? Who have you been obsessing over lately? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: Fred Durst. Big fans of Fred Durst. I\u2019ve seen his new movie \u201cThe Fanatic,\u201d it was fantastic, John Travolta freaking killed it. In addition to Fred Durst, Rob Zombie, we\u2019re just trying to do that. Suicidal Tendencies and J. Cole as well. Shoutout to the new \u201cYear of the Knife\u201d album, he recorded it in our dorm room. To be honest, really, we were just chilling with Jimi Hendrix one day and Tom Petty, and they were like, \u201cY\u2019all are the most talented people we\u2019ve ever met\u201d and it was just a few days after learning our instruments. They told us that the world needs more music about the issues that really matter, so that\u2019s what we\u2019re out here trying to do. Not enough people are talking about homosexual stuff, big issue right now, and cars. That\u2019s what we\u2019re out here for. We\u2019re just about bringing people together and having a good time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: You guys got pretty popular after performing at the talent show, are you guys grateful for what Paula Wallace has given you guys? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0<\/strong>A: I wasn\u2019t a member of the band at the point of the talent show, so I went up to the guys and was like, \u201cI\u2019m gonna mosh, I\u2019m gonna do it, I\u2019m gonna mosh.\u201d They were like, \u201c For legal safety reasons, we do not suggest that you mosh.\u201d But I did it anyway, I moshed, jumped off the stage, and getting second place in the People\u2019s Choice Awards, I really think that helped us give a boost. Really we\u2019re just out here trying to spread the gospel about how freaking good Denny\u2019s chili is (and ice cream). If you check out our Instagram, we had a lovely conversation with Paula Wallace, herself, and Miss Wallace, we would love to collaborate on a music video with you. Also, we are looking for an official declaration that we are officially the worst band in Savannah, and we would like you [Paula Wallace] to arrange that. If not that\u2019s okay, we\u2019ll keep studying for our midterms [which passed].\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: What\u2019s next for La Chonk? Any new music? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: Our album was halted by a big event that happened recently, there was a fire in our apartment, it burned all of our instruments. We had to build them together with brick and mortar. We were all heartbroken. The bass is actually made out of ramen noodles. You know those videos where people repair everything with ramen, that\u2019s what we had to do with all our instruments. Good as new. We actually have a 5 song Christmas EP coming out. Titles may include: \u201cTraditional Christmas,\u201d \u201cDeck the Halls,\u201d \u201cNog Season,\u201d \u201cQuarantine for Christmas,\u201d and \u201cOpen on Christmas.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out their music on Spotify<\/a> & Apple Music<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow them on Instagram @la_chonk<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCAD Radio’s music director Hailey Feller interviewed SCAD band La Chonk at a show on October 30th. It took place at the beloved Diner on Abercorn Q: What made you guys want to start a band?  A: Initially we were in our dorm room and it was the beginning of college, we didn\u2019t know how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":5967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,530,48],"tags":[50,983,504,130,129,982,498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5968,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions\/5968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}