Who better to start out our new 5 Questions Series than Black Bryson’s band Arnold Jackson, which sounds like a 64 count box of post-punk and soul Crayolas melting in the hot sun.  They have a cd out and it’s good…listen to a few tunes and then buy it.

 1. When historians listen to your most recent CD 1000 years from now, what will they say?
“Wow, a cd. They must have meant to put Michael Jackson’s thriller in this museum of outdated technology, but chose these guys instead. Let’s get out of here and plug our brains into the wall.”

2. If you could play a show with any band/musician living or dead, who would you pick?
“Teenager-era Frank Black. Archers of Loaf. Modest Mouse. Nirvana. All starring in Zombie-palooza this twenty-eighth of November with yours truly the only one in attendance because all these bands are out of vogue. I think.”

3. What is the strangest band-related dream you have had?
“I was playing Budokan with the Banana Splits as my backing band and the show ended in a fistfight between
Bingo and Fleegle, who cried. The whole time Snorky was backstage doing lines with Sly Stone, and I think one of them died. I woke up in a pool of sweat and my pajamas were sticky.”

4. What do your fans look like?
“They look a lot like my mom, oddly. And my girlfriend. And my friend Russ from high school. And me sometimes. They don’t look like Paris Hilton or anyone you think you want to meet. But they’re better.”

5. What bullshit do you run into at most every show that makes you think “man, this bullshit again?”
“We don’t play shows, but when we did I think it was the absent crowd and the flyering/littering. When I go to other local shows it’s usually the music.”

Bonus question: why won’t you forget to tip your bartender?
“A bartender is a person in your neighborhood. And they’re filthy.”

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