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Socialburn

		Fri. March 07.2003 3:26 PM EST
		Socialburn: Slippery When Quenched   Loud-ass Florida rockers challenge Seether to a showdown, try to forget their high school homecoming, and praise mom's CD burner.   by C. Bottomley and Jim Macnie
			Socialburn (Photo: Danny Morrow)

It's not easy being a rocker from Florida. You either have to deal with the massive legacy of the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd, or you have people wondering if you were ever a member of the Mickey Mouse Club, like Britney, Justin and Sign up to receive FREE UPDATES for Socialburn! E-Mail this story to a friend Add RSS Headlines Add VH1 News to My Yahoo Christina. As Socialburn's singer/guitarist Neil Alday sighs, "Everybody thinks Florida is Orlando and Miami." In fact, Florida has been the cradle of some butt-kicking modern rock, including Creed and Marilyn Manson. Socialburn first came into being when high school pals Alday, bassist Dusty Price, and drummer Brandon Bittner were "sucker fishing" one night in a river outside their hometown of Blountsville. After tiring of trying to nab dinner with their hands, they sat around the campfire, got the guitars out, and realized they should start a band. With the addition of Chris Cobb on guitar, Socialburn became a homegrown operation. Their first rehearsal space was in Alday's bedroom, and though it was loud, no one particularly complained: "We got neighbors, but they're far enough away that they don't hear anything." The band honed their live skills in a club called Floyd's Music Store in nearby Tallahassee, and Alday's mom burned CDs on her computer to further the cause. According to Alday, "There isn't a man, woman or child in Blountsville that don't have a Socialburn single." Rock fans outside the burgh are now hearing about Socialburn courtesy of their debut Where You Are, a roiling mixture of Nirvana meets Creed tune-craft with some truly catchy choruses. This self-effacing quartet of Southern gents aren't big and scary rockers yet, though - they're still dudes, pure and simple. They spoke to VH1 about pranking it up with tour-mates Seether, the pros and cons of castration, and riding the road in Bon Jovi's old tour bus. VH1: You guys are in the middle of a tour with Seether. How do you know when the music is truly rocking onstage? Dusty Price: When it's happening I'll usually look over at Chris and go, "Aw yeah." Or I'll lean up on the drum riser and I'll be nodding [makes a typical heavy metal face]. Brandon Bittner: The nodding of the head signifies that we're having a good time. Chris Cobb: I usually urinate on myself. VH1: You've just started the media game. What do people want to know about when you're doing interviews? Neil Alday: They want to know why three of us were homecoming kings. Chris: And who the hell farted. Brandon: We're a very gaseous band. VH1: You guys were homecoming kings at Blountsville High. What does that mean? Neil: It was high school stuff. The students vote on it. It's like you're the one that's going to be escorting the queen that night. We're not handsome at all. We just got voted in somehow. Brandon: It was written up in one of our bios and it's haunted us for a while now. These guys are like - "Argh! We're too cool to be homecoming kings." But actually I'm pretty proud of it. Dusty: I wasn't a homecoming king. All these non-handsome guys get to be homecoming king, and the only handsome guy in the band didn't get it. VH1: So Dusty, it's a known rock 'n' roll fact that after Socialburn's recent gig in Killington, Vt., you threatened to cut your penis off. Dusty: It was sexual frustration. My penis was making me miserable so I figured I would just rather not have it at all that day. Brandon: How did you find out about that? VH1: Your tour-mates Seether told us. Brandon: Okay, that's it, the band wars are on! We were onstage in Vermont, and there was an upper level to the club. Across the street they sell these crawdads, and Seether hooked them to fishing lines and dangled them from the balcony while we were playing our last song. They were hitting us in the face with these raw crawfish. You can't do anything about it because you're in the middle of the song. So the war is on. We have a plan for Seether. It's gonna be a good one. VH1: Does being on tour encourage you to screw with each other, or does it build an even bigger bond? Brandon: We now know what each other's farts smell like. Neil: We have to be family now, because that's all we got, so we take care of each other. Dusty: Eventually you know what pisses each other off and what buttons to push. You know how to deal with things. If you piss someone off you know to just walk away - or run away and hide in your bunk so he doesn't kill you or anything! We're all like brothers. Neil: I'm the daddy. Dusty: I'm the mom. Brandon: I'm the dog. [Watch Clip] VH1: And you're using Bon Jovi's tour bus? Brandon: Yeah! It's Bon Jovi's from the Slippery When Wet tour! It's got a really pretty picture of a beach on the side of it. Neil: I think it's all a big lie. I bet someday we'll be in a meeting with Bon Jovi and he'll say "That's not the bus I took." Then we'll be like, "Right on. We knew it wasn't." [Watch Clip] VH1: Do you play any Bon Jovi stuff at the sound check? Neil: No. We're not good enough musicians to do anything like that. Brandon: We suck as a cover band. VH1: You never played any covers when you were playing bars in Blountstown? Neil: We did Radiohead's "Creep" and Steve Miller Band's "The Joker." But we didn't do a great job. Dusty: By that time of night, people were way too drunk enough to care. Just hearing "The Joker" was great enough for them. VH1: You like to stay close to home and consider yourself a family. What's that born of? Being in families where things work, or being simply pals? Neil: Blountsville is just a fun place to grow up. You don't have to get caught up in any bullsh*t. Live life and enjoy it. Go swimming if you want to go swimming. There's always a weekend party; there's always somewhere to hang out. Brandon: And everybody knows everything about everybody! Neil: That's the only drawback. Everybody is in your business. But you ain't got any business to have, so it really doesn't matter. It's just fun. Slow living. I like it. [Watch Clip] VH1: What does it sound like in the house when a loud rock group is playing in the bedroom? Dusty: The crazy thing about it is his parents love the noise. Neil: My mom sits at her computer right next door to the room. Dusty: And she still listens to the CD everyday! And if we're not playing, they're fighting and making their own noise! They're a noisy family. They got like four dogs running around outside the house. Brandon: Six cats and four dogs. VH1: How is it for your head when you're in a rebellious rock band and your parents are on your side? Neil: It's definitely cool. I'm a fan of my parents. They've always supported me no matter what. I turned down scholarships to start this music thing and they're all about it. It's worked out so far and they supported that 100%. They put a lot of money in it and we were just glad the day we got to pay them back.

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