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Marcellus: Yeah.
S: [in italic font] And just found out that she was a drummer?
Marcellus: Well, yeah. She was asking us if she could drum with us, and we were kind of reluctant,and then we gave her a try and it turned out great. But it's funny, I didn't pick her up - it wasn't legitimate because she was so drunk that she didn't even know who I was or where she was when she woke up. She didn't know where she was, and I told her where she was, and she started calling me Richard.
S: [in italic font] Did you pick up Dave in a bar?
Marcellus: That didn't happen. He tried to pick me up.
S: [in italic font] Why did she leave?
Marcellus: Uhh....
Tony: She moved to Germany to start a T-shirt company. She quit the band at that point, and when she didn't like what she did, she came back to New York and we had already found another drummer.
M:{S?] [in italic font] How did the rest of you meet?
Tony: Me and Marce met at the same time that he picked up Jez in the bar, and then we went through a few miscellaneous drummers and guitar players.
Marcellus: Bill Berger recommended Alec to us.
Tony: He played on Raise the Plow. And a guy named Tom Greenwood played on that, and they both did like one live show each. At that point we were just in flux.
Marcellus: That's when we had tension.
S:[in italic font] So what was all this tension stemming from?
Marcellus: Uh, the flux
Tony: Yeah. Youthful angst.
Marcellus: You know how we met Dave? We were searching kind of desperately for adrummer and we asked somebody at Matador - it was Dan (Varenka) - he said, My brother."
Tony: He has Walt Records. That was about two and a half years ago, when Dave got into the band. Alec was about three years ago. We were so incredibly lucky. When we were searching for new guitar players before the second guitar player came into the band, we put an ad out and we sifted through all these people. We put in the ad, "Influences: Robert Johnson, the Fall, must not have looks." For Dave, we just had
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