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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT BRASCH of The Wonder Years !!
These are good men.
Ap.net interview with Transit:
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Jerry@RRR: Do you have any particular events or experiences inspired the lyrics?
Joe Boynton: That’s tough. No, not really. I would say a lot of it is family members in my life who have really impacted my life and made me who I am today. I put everything I have into it. I don’t really hold back. One hundred percent of what is on the album is my life. If it’s too much, that’s what it is; I’m just giving one hundred percent of who I am. I can’t really talk about it individually. I don’t really like to tell people too much about the songs. I feel like everyone has their own idea about what the songs are about and I should let them have that and not take that away from them by telling them exactly what it’s about. You know what I mean?
Jerry@RRR: Yeah.
Joe Boynton: That’s how I feel about it.
Jerry@RRR: With your writing, how did you keep the lyrics fresh in a sense and not be cliché about things?
Joe Boynton: I listen to a lot of random bands. I listen to a lot of 90’s hip-hop. One of my favorite bands for lyrics is Pig Destroyer. I listen to a lot of obscure music to keep what we do fresh and read a lot of poetry, comic books, stuff like that. Just like everyone else. I’m not doing anything different than what everyone else is doing.
Jerry@RRR: Would you say there is revolving theme that you are trying to convey in Keep This To Yourself?
Joe Boynton: No. It’s really just things that I’ve gone through. This is what I’ve gone through, maybe you can relate. Besides the letter theme and the light concept, nothing really. A lot of it has to do with being from Massachusetts and growing up there. When I read the lyrics, I’ve learned more about who I am as a person. But that’s really what it is all about for me. Trying to find myself: self discovery. That’s what it’s about for Tim. That’s what it is about for everyone in the band, musically and lyrically. It’s just about self-discovery.
Jerry@RRR: You touched on it earlier. Music is about relating things and teaching people. For those listening to your album, what would you consider the most important lesson to be learned and internalized?
Joe Boynton: Oh my God…[Laughs]
Tim Landers: Damn! [Laughs]
Joe Boynton: That’s intense. Most important lesson? I would say be who you are. Embrace what you’re about. Don’t listen to anyone, but yourself. With Stay Home, I wrote a lot about that. Do whatever you want to do. You only live one time. Listen to yourself. Even if it’s your close friends, if you’re not one hundred percent about what they’re telling you is what you should be doing, don’t listen to them. You only live one time and that’s it.
Jerry@RRR: Recently, there has been some fabricated controversy regarding you and The Wonder Years…
[All laugh]
Joe Boynton: I knew it! I knew this was going to come up!
Tim Landers: [Laughs] When you started the sentence, I knew where this was going. There’s nothing.
Joe Boynton: There’s no beef between us and The Wonder Years. It was a joke song title. They’re our friends. They’re great dudes.
Tim Landers: They hit us up when they were here. We’re like, “that’s funny.” The rumors are so absurd. It’s like we got some band in Boston to beat them up.
Joe Boynton: That didn’t happen! Whoever made up the rumor that we had them beat up by some band in Boston, please e-mail us and let us know who you are because you are a very creative person and could definitely help us with future…beef. Do not be our PR agent. [All Laugh] Don’t ever be a PR agent; you’re terrible.
Tim Landers: There’s nothing.
Joe Boynton: There’s no beef with us and The Wonder Years. I think—I have a bad memory— we were going to name the song “This Side Down” for a package idea and we changed it to “The Downsides”. I don’t know.
Tim Landers: We thought it would be funny to name a song “The Downsides” because The Upsides is such an influential pop-punk album now and we’re kind of in the same genre, but they have very uplifting songs. At the same time, we do, but that song is not very uplifting at all.
Joe Boynton: Yeah. If you read the lyrics, it has nothing to do with The Wonder Years. It’s about me in past relationships. That’s really it. Soupy texted me a week ago dying laughing. Kids on message boards love to feed the fire.
Jerry@RRR: Yeah. I’ve read some kids saying, “Yeah the lyrics mean this!” I know the song very well and I’m like, “It doesn’t have any sort of correlation…”
Joe Boynton: Not even close! I think it was worth naming it. I think it’s hilarious.
Tim Landers: I think it’s funny.
Jerry@RRR: People like to place Transit in pop punk. But when you listen to your songs, it’s more of a mix of things. How would you personally describe your music?
Tim Landers: Just over the past few weeks, we’ve been called a pop-punk band and Keep This To Yourself has been called a pop-punk album so many times. It’s kind of frustrating.
Joe Boynton: We don’t really try to be anything. We just listen to a bunch of bands and try to write songs that we collectively like. We’re not trying to be a pop-punk band. We’re not trying to be a punk band. We’re just being ourselves.
Tim Landers: We don’t consider ourselves to be a pop-punk band, but if someone asked me what type of band we are, I’m just like “Uh….”
Joe Boynton: I always tell them Green Day because you know the person only listens to Green Day. We go into a gas station and some guy goes, “Oh, you’re in a band. What do you sound like?” I look at them and think, “You probably only listen to Green Day but I’m going to say that just so you have some idea of what we sound like.”
Tim Landers: A lot of the bands we tour with are pop-punk bands, like we’re grouped in with them a lot. We definitely have a lot of pop-punk influence like we’ve all played in pop-punk bands and there are definitely pop-punk elements to our songs. I don’t really know how many more times I can say pop-punk in one sentence…
Joe Boynton: Pop-punk, pop-punk…We love pop-punk so that’s probably why it comes off in more of our songs.
Tim Landers: I think we have different elements to our stuff.
Joe Boynton: Oh, definitely.
Jerry@RRR: Who else would you consider your other influences?
Tim Landers: It’s a lot of hardcore, pop-punk, indie…
Joe Boynton: Midwestern emo. A lot of 90’s influence. For me, influence from 90s hip-hop because that’s all I listen to. If you look at my iPod, it’s either 90s hip-hop, Midwestern emo, 90s emo and then pop-punk.
Tim Landers: We’re all into our own bands.
Joe Boynton: Yeah. We listen to different stuff.
Tim Landers: We listen to similar stuff, but everyone has got their own thing going on.
Joe Boynton: Yeah. It keeps it fresh.
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Jerry@RRR: So essentially are you guys are going to turn into Portugal. The Man and releasing albums twice a year?
Joe Boynton: We have a lot to say.
Tim Landers: We never really stop.
Joe Boynton: No one should ever stop. I feel like when bands have their breakthrough CD and just tour for a long time and then decide to record again, it falls apart.
Tim Landers: We recorded Keep This To Yourself in April and since then we’ve played music pretty much every night. We’ve already grown though that and I’m already anxious to record a new album.
Jerry@RRR: So something next year wouldn’t be out of the question at all?
Joe Boynton: No way.
Tim Landers: I would definitely expect it.
Jerry@RRR: Well I’m out of questions! Thanks for taking the time to do this interview. Any final thoughts?
Tim Landers: You’re really good at asking questions [Laughs].
Joe Boynton: We’re going to be touring a lot. If you’ve seen us once, you’re going to see us again hopefully.
Tim Landers: Unless you thought it sucked…[Laughs]
Joe Boynton: Unless you thought it sucked, then that’s cool. We respect that. This is always what we wanted to do. This is what we love so we’re going to keep doing it for as long as we can.
Tim Landers: Thank you for having us.
Joe Boynton: Thank you for having us.
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