Big D and the Kid’s Table
Several Racketeers ran amok around Warped Tour, fondling celebrities and asking all the pertinent questions about the tour, the heat, and swedish death rockers. I ran into Dave and Sean of ska-punks Big D and The Kids Table. Here’s how that went:
Racket: You guys haved toured all over; Where do you find the girls to be hottest?
Dave: I’d like to answer this. Austria and Denmark. You know how in the middle school, you think all the high school girls are hot, and in high school, all the college chicks are hot? Well, in Austria, all the fourty year old women are hot! Just amazing.
Sean: I disagree. Phoenix, Arizona. The hotter it is, the more skin’s showing, and that’s awesome.
Racket: Going back to Austria, Denmark and that area of Europe, when I think of that area and it’s music scene, I think of the most evil, band member body part eating Black Metal. How does that bode for a Ska Punk band from America?
Dave: Man, you see those huge men in black, but they’re just the nicest guys. They’ll talk to you for four hours after the show and are all “We make party now?” Yes. We make party now.
Racket: What’s your favorite beer?
Dave: When I can afford it, Guinness.
Racket: Damn fine answer.
Sean: While I’m a fan of Miller Genuine Draft, I’d say my favorite beer is free beer.
Dave: I agree!
Racket: Have you gotten a lot of free beer at Warped Tour?
(At this point, both David and Sean look sad and disapointed.)
Dave: No. Not us, anyways. Some of the bigger bands, their guys will go through a case of beer a day.
Racket: Are there any questions you’ve never been asked, but would like to be?
(Dave and Sean ponder for a second…)
Sean: Wait. I’m confused. Try that again.
Racket: Are there any questions that you wish someone would ask, but hasn’t?
Dave: I don’t think so.
Sean: Yeah, I think we’ve been asked just about everything.
Racket: That’s a lot of material to cover… I was curious if you get down to your own music?
Dave: (eyes brighten) Like dance to our own music!?
Racket: If the dance is the horizontal hula, then yes.
Dave: (looks confused, then suddenly…) OH!
(All of a sudden, the shame seems to wash over him and his shoulders drop.)
Racket: (pointing) You have! You sick bastard!
Dave: Wait, wait! This is what happened… I had the multi-cd thing on, and our cd came on. I had to stop. It’s like getting a picture of your best friend in your mind.
Racket: Sicko. So i take it you boogie to your own jams?
Sean: Yeah, man. We like the music we make.
Racket: Where did you first first hear traditional ska?
Dave: We had this bus driver in Europe, and he was playing one of the Trojan box sets, and we were all like “What is this gold you have here!?” That guy was awesome!
Racket: Rockin’. Thanks, guys. I have to go off on some misadventure now.
Dave: No prob.
Sean: Catch you later.
By Jonathan Yost