Hey Up N’ Comin Fans! We’re here with our first feature – The Green Bullets! Headed out from Dover, New Hampshire, this three man “Garage-Punk-Blues-Psychedelic Pop-Noise” band is on their way to making it big! With a gig coming up on April 6th in their hometown and another April 15th in Plaistow, we decided to meet up online with two of the members, JW and Harry, for some quality interview time!
What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?
JW recalled their difficulties moving on from his and Harry’s old band, “Queen Anne’s Revenge.” He says, “I speak for the group when I say the hardest thing we’ve ever done is overcome the bad reputation of Harry and I’s former band” One of their shows didn’t go very well, and the guys struggled to convince the viewers that it was just bad luck! Meanwhile, Harry admitted that simply balancing time with the band and other commitments to be a struggle and comments, “We’ve poured all of our blood into this band and I think generally that makes keeping up with any outside obligations difficult. ”
If you could learn to do anything, what would it be?
JW says, “I’d totally love to be able to play ragtime piano,” while Harry just wants to learn how to whistle!
If you could meet anyone, living or dead, who would you meet?
Harry instantly narrowed it down to Jack White and John Dillinger, commenting, “I can imagine they’d both be pretty intimidating.” JW on the other hand, had a more difficult time deciding sayings, “That’s a tough one. I think Paul McCartney, because he really changed everything for me and I couldn’t be anything without him or The Beatles. Same thing goes for Jack White.
What’s your style?
Both Harry and JW agreed that they didn’t fall under any specific style – they create a style all their own. Harry adds, “We tend to throw whatever influences we have at eachother and see what sort of sound they’ll create.” They both came to the conclusion that their final sound typically came out like the Blues. “In terms of music, we’re like punk-blues-60’s pop-psychedelic-rock,” said JW. Harry kept it simple with “It all tends to come back to the blues, though.”
If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?
We told the boys to take this either for themselves, or for the entire band. JW came up with, “Bloody Fingers, Gilded Livers” and Harry invented “Loud, Apathetic, And Green”.
JW and Harry also came up with some interesting answers to our non-band questions that we’d like to share!
Where’s Waldo? Harry: “He’s safe, don’t worry.”
It’s your last hour on Earth. What are you going to do? JW: “Go to Dos Amigos Burritos and get one last taco. I don’t know what else I’d do, but that’s one thing, for sure.”
Did Noah have woodpeckers on the ark? Harry: “I’m sure he had all kinds of peckers.”
How do you say “hello”? JW: “‘Sup?’ Then a creepy grin.”
Summer Or Winter? Both boys agreed that summer was much better than winter!
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