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Bowling For Soup: Every Frame Is a Beer FrameTexas punks head to the Grammys, come home empty-handed and happy. The Soup talk drunk dancing, guitar aphrodisiacs, and runaway exclamation points! by Gil Kaufman |
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Lots of artists wax jubilant about simply being nominated for a Grammy. But thats mere lip service, right? Not in the case of Bowling for Soup. When they say it, they mean it. Earlier this year, when the band's name appeared alongside that
Gwen and the guys won, of course. But that didnt stop the humble Soup boys from having plenty of fun at the ceremony. Singer Jaret Reddick, guitarist Chris Burney, bassist Erik Chandler and drummer Gary Wiseman hit New York in cheesy matching tuxedos, and sat right up in the fourth row. When their song Girl All the Bad Guys Want failed to claim victory, they shrugged and went back to business as usual, returning to a string of European tour dates that very evening. "I have no idea how it happened," said Reddick, who learned out about the nomination as his wife was about to deliver their first child. "Once I had time to think about it, I was sure it must be a Mini-Grammy or Grammy Jr. banquet where the girl from the TV Guide channel would be presenting." One suspects that would suit Bowling for Soup fine. Judging from the title of last years Drunk Enough to Dance and ditties like "Ass Man," the group likes to have fun ... lots of it. Reddick says the Grammy moment didnt change things for the band - although they have since rubbed elbows with Nelly, LL Cool J and Kelly Clarkson. He also says that meeting TVs Alex P. Keaton was the most thrilling turn of all. Roll up a burrito and chow down as Reddick explains the power of exclamation points, why the guitar is an aphrodisiac, and how he rather be a six-year-old kid than an adult punk dude. VH1: What did you do when heard you were nominated for a Grammy? Jaret Reddick: The very first thing I did was help my wife squeeze out a kid. We were in the delivery room when we got the call from my manager. The nurse was literally getting the epidural needle ready to shove into my wife's spine when the phone rang. The nurse picked it up and said, Hey, Jaret, it's for you. You could see the look on my wife's face, like, What the hell is going on? I said, I'll have to call you back, I'm in the middle of some serious sh*t. My manager said, You're nominated for a Grammy! I said, Thanks and hung up. The nurses started scurrying around when they heard and I was like, People, let's focus. We got a kid to get out here! VH1: Who is the coolest person you met that night? Reddick: I thought we'd be stuck up in the balcony. I didn't know we'd be in the fourth row behind Mary J. Blige and Jimmy Fallon. Robin Williams ran up to us and gave Chris a big hug, and said, Thank God for the tuxedo rental industry! I walked by B.B. King and flipped out, but you'd expect to see him there. What really made me say, "Holy sh*t!" was Michael J. Fox. I instantly thought "I just met Alex P. Keaton! What the hell am I doing here? VH1: How did it change things for you? Reddick: It didn't. It got our name in places it had obviously never been and won't be again. We were in Entertainment Weekly for a month. First they picked us to win, which blew us away, then they talked about our outfits. VH1: Was there a second there where you thought they might actually read your name? Reddick: If there was, it was a split second. Our award was up first in a part that you didn't see on TV. Dustin Hoffman walks out and a huge curtain goes up - No Doubt is there getting ready to play. I said, That pretty much decides that. If you were playing that night, you were getting a trophy ... except Bruce. Jimmy Fallon kept turning around and saying, You sure you don't have any booze? We lost and then he [Fallon] lost and when Bruce lost he turned around and said, At least we're in the same club as him. VH1: Does being a Grammy nominee get you laid? Reddick: Just being in a band gets you laid. There something about being able to look like you know what you're doing when you pick up a guitar that people love. VH1: What's the strangest place the nomination got you? Reddick: We just did two months of radio shows with Nelly, LL Cool J, Fabolous, and Kelly Clarkson - the only rock band on a lot of those bills. The weirdest place, though, was Regis & Kelly. VH1: How many times have you used the line, "Well, when we were at the Grammys ..." Reddick: Not very many, because I take pride in not being a name-dropper. However, if I get into a name dropping contest just to f*ck with someone, I can win. We flew in from our tour in Europe for the Grammys and flew back the next day, and on the plane I made a two-page list of everyone famous that we met or saw up close. The person that I actually met and talked to that flipped me out the most was Joan Jett. I told her, "Light of Day is one of the top five music movies ever.' She said, Don't you think it was a little depressing? I said, You're welcome. VH1: What the hell do you do for fun growing up in Wichita Falls.? Reddick: The usual kid stuff, we shot BB guns and sling shots and fished for crawdads, lit sh*t on fire. VH1: You guys seem to have a problem with exclamation points. Many of your songs and albums have them. What's up with that? Reddick: The Dallas paper, the Observer, hates everyone except three bands. Our review of Rock on Honorable Ones!! didnt talk about the music, but about how fat Chris is and how we put exclamation points after our titles. We thought , F*ck em. Were going to keep doing it, and Chris, you keep eatin! Well show em. VH1: I'm sure it's tiresome, but what's up with the name? Reddick: Steve Martins Wild and Crazy Guy album has a bit where he talks about a fake show called "Bowling for Sh*t." Me and the original drummer - weve been best friends since we were three - thought that was funny and we decided to milk it for everything it was worth, so we were constantly bowling for something. When our original band was breaking up, he said at our last show, Come see our new band in a month, Bowling for Soup. It was totally fictional, but it worked and stuck. VH1: Just how drunk are you when youre drunk enough to dance? Reddick: When youre at your cousin's wedding and you don't usually drink champagne but youve had three, and for some reason you get to your fourth and you're out there doing the Electric Slide with your aunt. VH1: What's the meanest thing anyone's said about your music? Reddick: The funniest was a review of "The Bitch Song" from this publication in the UK. The first line of the song is, Is it okay if I speak to you today? So the review said, "Is it okay if I speak with you today? No. F*ck off." End of review. It was the most poetic, greatest review I've ever read. VH1: What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you on stage? Reddick: We always mess with each other and when we were younger we were more violent, not Slipknot violent, but we'd push each other down and do wacky sh*t. Ive always had really bad knees and at our first show in Dallas where people actually came to see us, I jumped up and my knee was done, so I ended up on my back. Eric thought I was joking around, so he starts kicking me in the stomach. I'm like, Dude, I'm really hurt. We still kept playing the song, and he kept kicking me. It was humiliating to have your best friend kicking the sh*t out of you onstage when you cant get away. VH1: Okay, not to be rude, but what's with young punk bands having a fat guy, usually the bass player? Reddick: We didn't plan this. We're from Wichita Falls, we didn't have a buffet of people to chose from. This is who could pull it off. Who else has a fat guy? New Found Glory? Hes a fat guy, but hes so comfortable with his fatness, which I think is great. VH1: If you could be someone else for a day, who would it be? Reddick: I met this six-year-old kid the other day and his parents are loaded. He has a movie theater in his house with a DVD player and a 16-foot movie screen and full theater sound and video games hooked up to it. I think I'd want to be that kid for a day and sit in that room. |
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