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with no hidden agenda. Phillip: We're the geek band of Austin. Will: We're afraid too many audience members in Austin are too selfconscious of how they look, like they're always thinking about how the other people in the audience are looking at them. It's like a junior high school dance or something. It's really nervous and awkward. Phillip: We also think that Austin rock is way too macho. GW: How's the record been selling? Phillip: We made two hundred and we sold all of them, and we made another hundred and we haven't sold all of them. GW: All of that in Texas? Phillip" Just in Austin and San Antonio. GW: Any reviews outside of Texas? Phillip: Travis and I sent one to Maximum Rock'n'Roll, and I sent the sissiest, girliest cover, so hopefully they'll dis it really hard next month (It acutally ended up of half a dozen top ten lists). GW: What was that La Zona Rosa gig like for you? Watching it was the most painful thing. Will: Oh, that was the greatest. That was so cool. Phillip: Why was it painful? Were we that awful? GW: No! You were great, but it was just this huge room and twenty kids up front and a horde of old hippies in the back. I kept looking over my shoulder, scared out of my mind. Will: I would love to play more places like that, 'cause that was just so fucking ridiculous that - I mean, it's like we're almost in our element at the Blue Flamingo, it's almost like we belong there. But we so much did not belong at La Zona Rosa. Everything we said just hit a wall. We'd say something and people would just be like - just staring. And I just thought that was so fucking funny. And we were up on this huge stage that has all of Brave Combo's fifteen million instruments. We're in this one tiny area of the stage, flopping around like fish, ti was so bizarre, It was like a lab experiment. Phillip: It was cool, 'cause we'd be dancing around but we had to watch really carefully that we didn't break anything. Cause it cost more than our college educations. GW: Did you stay and watch Brave Combo? Anna: Yeah! They were really fun. I got to dance. Phillip: I think they're cool 'cause everybody dances at their shows,

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and they get up and they have a great time. No one's self-conscious, they all just rush the dance floor and have fun. Nobody's like, "I'm really cool, and you're not cool."

GW: But they were acting like that during your set.

Phillip: That's 'cause they didn't understand us. It's Brave Combo, and their music appeals to all generations, and I don't think our music appeals to those people at all. Even though we're really silly and goofy, they probably think that we're really emberassing to them. We're like their children that ended up embarrassing their parents. I was in the rest room and I heard this guy say, "Brave Combo got a teenage grunge band to open for them."

GW: Gotten to play with any other famous people besides Brave Combo?

Will: I really like to play with the Inhalants.

GW: What does the Inhalants audience think of you guys?

Anna: They show up after we play.

Philip: The Inhalants are geeks. They understand us.

Travis: I don't think the Inhalants audience understands the Inhalants. They transcend garage rock. The last time I saw them at Emo's, Dave

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was making these jokes that I thought were really funny, but they were just really random, and obviously grad0student type jokes, and the audience was just like (motionless( and then they started playing and they go (spastic). GW: Will, do you realize that a while ago you started referring to the Teen Titans as "we"? Will: I'm sure if you rewind the tape and listen to it, there will be no mention of me referring to myself as a member of the Teen Titans. I think maybe that was just some sort of aural illusion. GW: I'd like to think so. Will: No, I'm not in the Teen Titans, I hate the Teen Titans. I've never been to one of their shows. Anna: He refuses. Travis: No, there was that one time that El Diablo Robo couldn't make it, and you had to play drums. GW: So, you two (Dean and Anna) got bored with the Teen TitansAnd found two pawns to carry out your vision. Dean: It was me and Gavin's joke to be in the 1, 4, 5s. Gavin was in the legendary Crapeteria. Anna: They only played on show. Gavin: It was so horrible. It was the worst experience of my life. Anna: I started crying. Will: They made the Teen Titans and the 1,4,5s look like rank amateurs. They were so good. Gavin: It was me and my old roommate Jason and the guy Darren that Phillip was saying was too incompetent. And then, speaking of incompetent, we had Phillip playing drums. At the last minute, we were supposed to play this party Saturday night, and, I forget what happened, but whoever was going to play drums ditched out on us and we were gonna try to have Dean's drum machin, but then Phillip showed up with two pieces of wood and said, "I'll play drums for you!" Will: And then you would play on one song, and then you would go sit in the corner. You would be sitting on the wall, like being really nervous. You were so scared and embarrassed to be there that you were wearing a child-sized wrestling mask over your face. It covered half of your face.

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Gavin: And besides being terrible, we were completely out of tune. It was so horrible. We had songs called "Little Snail" and "Rat King." Travis: "Dead Mommy" was their best song. Gavin: It got really scary towards the end there because Jason kept wanting to play more and more frightening songs like "Dead Mommy" and "Satan" and really frightening heavy metal. GW: So, there's no competition between the Teen Titans and the 1,4,5s? Travis: Just for practice time. Gavin: The Teen Titans barely ever practice, and we never practice. We should talk about that last recording session. We were gonna record these two songs for this Unclean thing and also the song for Travis's bicycle thing. Travis: So we wrote these two songs, one for the bicycle record and two for Roger's record, and we hadn't ever practiced them or learned them, we just knew a little bit about how to play them. I asked Dean if we could practice and record, and he was like, "Well, okay, why don't you rent an hour at the practice space?" Gavin: And we'll learn these songs and record them in an hour! Travis: All of us are fifteen minutes late, and we practiced for fifteen minutes, and then we tried recording - no, we practiced for thirty minutes - Dean: We recorded for the last ten minutes or something. Travis: And then Dean comes come and mixes it and is like - Dean: "Yeah-hey! Sounds great, guys!" And then of course they're unhappy. Sounds good to me. Dean: Me and Anna think of it as a joke, and they want to rock out more than we do. Travis: Well, we think of it as a parody too, but we think of it as a rockin' parody. I love garage rock a lot, but I would never want to be in a generic garage rock band. Dean: You'd rather be the generic garage rock band. Travis: When the 1,4,5s break up, I wouldn't want to be in another band that's just a garage rock band. I think it's really cool to be the most generic garage rock band, that it, like so generic that it's not generic, it's the only - GW: Garage rock parody band! Travis: Yeah! That's about the only reason to be in the 1,4,5s, I think.

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Extra! Extra! Keg Fly Returns!

Last Saturday, I'd just gotten home from work when I heard one knock on the door. It was none other than Travis Higdon, the most famous name in Garage Rock so far this decade. Travis came in and explained (over four vodka tonics, of course) that he missed doing a fanzine and he especially missey his Keg Fly feature which used to appear in each issue of Peek-A-Boo fanzine and was eventually picked up by the Associated Press for worldwide syndication. He said that his only regret about the demise of Peek-A-Boo and his subsequent career change (he is now a record producer) is that he feels like, in writing the Keg Fly feature he was really close to a revolutionary breakthrough in the fields of communication and sociology. Well, I decided to help out. "I have a fanzine." I told him. "I'd be honored to publish your column." Travis accepted and we drank five toasts (five is a very auspicious number where Travis comes from). So, kids, here it is, the incredible return of the incomparable writing of Mr. Travis Higdon, Esq...

Graphic: the triumphant return of the Keg Fly by Travis Higdon

Friday, Feb 15 I go word of this great bash of BeBop Lane and I planned to go after I got back from studying in the library since I am a student, but when I got home. I found that the stress of UT was too much for me to handle without the aid of my old pal, the demon alcohol. Around 11:30, I decided to head out for the party, but I only made it as far as the corridor of my apartment complex before I passed out.

Saturday, Feb 16 I woke up at about 3pm and had a couple shots of tequila and some beer. I felt good. Then I passed out.

Sunday, Feb 17 Mom called today and I passed out.

Monday, Feb 18 Sat in class this morning wondering if I could be an alcohloic. Figured I probably could. Went home and tried it.

Two weeks later... I don't go out any more. I just drink. This is the last Keg Fly column. Sorry if you put your faith in this zine and thought we could keep it up for any period of time. We're just a bunch of kids, jeez. Fuck you, sucker.

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