Gavin Bain

So Bill would play a version of Joey and I would play a version of Ross or Chandler.

Because those are likeable characters, you know?

So we knew that when we're around people, don't be banging around.

And also, those characters are actually closer to our personalities.

You know, every artist I've ever met has been one person on stage and off stage a completely different person.

I had seen loads of interviews with members of Slipknot and members of Korn and all these kind of dangerous kind of rock bands, but actually they were like real sweethearts when the masks were off, you know?

Now that we're American, he was selling himself to us.

So it was a big change, you know?

And so he was like, tell me everything about you guys.

And that's a different question from where you're from or what do you do or, you know, because you kind of feel like you're being examined.

So Bill and I just started telling the story like, look, we're from this kind of cookie cutter neighborhood in Hemet.

And you know, we met each other at the San Diego Vans tour because we had known a lot about that tour specifically because the bands that played, we were really interested that we had the DVD about it.

So we actually knew some things that happened and we knew that there was a battle rap competition that happened in the parking lot.

And so then we kind of incorporated that.

And I said that, yeah, we met that at the San Diego work tour and then we moved to Huntington Beach, slept on the beach under the pier.

You know, like, this is just like versions of Chili Peppers songs now coming out, you know?

And then we got this job in this skate store, and then, you know, we became a rap group, came over here, ran out of money, and now you're going to give us a record deal and let the fun continue.

And the way it just flowed off the tongue, us cutting each other off, it was like we were rapping.

And he was like, you've got to do that thing that you did the other night, you know, because basically we had this thing that if anyone heckled us from our audience, we would just like pick that person out and then we would, you know, just tear into that person with freestyles.

So he called all the A&Rs into the main kind of open area and he was like, all right, do that thing now.