This is Pete with X-Records and we are here with?

Steve: I'm Steve, singer for the Cherry Poppin' Daddies.

Pete: Looks like we have a little accident here.

Steve: Yeah we had a six-car pile up in Detroit. This is the remains of that. The other van hit. We have two vans, they hit us in the back and we hit an old man.

Pete: These little twist ties look like they're holding a very important purpose.

Steve: Yeah, it's all held together with smoke and rubber bands.

Pete: Ok let's look at this, wow, that seat's been crawled in and out of a few times.

Steve: You don't wanna put your hand on that seat, it's probably a bad idea.

Pete: Wow, you got signatures and things, who signs that?

Steve: I think mine are mostly the quotes here, mostly me, 'cause I say the stupidest things, so they just write them down.

Pete: Do you think it might be kinda valuable to have an autographed van, by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and actually we are looking to sell it so hey! Who rides shotgun?

Steve: Oh well it's pretty much, whoever the hell wants to. Everybody wants to sleep, it's never ending rotations.

Pete: Lisa get over here and start asking the real questions, I'm just asking the fake ones. And what do you gotta say for yourself? I know you got passed up on the last interview. Where's your seat in this van?

Tim: Actually I ride in the other van.

Pete: That makes good sense.

Lisa: Ok, give the readers a brief history of the band, original members? How long you've been together?

Steve: No, we're not all original members. We started in 1989, and put out our first record in 1990. We were kinda a local band for a long time, kinda playing you know, our hometown, Portland, and Seattle occasionally. We did that for a number of years. Although we did put out a record. About 1993 or '94 we started touring nationally. We put it out ourselves on our own label, Space Age Bachelor Pad, we were on that for years.

Lisa: I didn't know that was your own label.

Steve: We put out three records on that label. There were two other bands on that label, that are now broken up, that's how old the label is.

Lisa: Are you gonna keep that label going?

Steve: Oh yeah, the problem is we haven't been doing it as much because we've been on the road, and now that Mojo is taking care of the new record, I think we are actually gonna do some more with bands, we're actually looking at a few bands right now. Thank God! It's been a few years. We've really been concentrating on just us.

Lisa: Who influences you, and what do you like to listen to?

Tim: Elvis Costello and The Attractions.

Chris: Oh anything from old jazz to classic rock.

Steve: That's hard, all I've been listening to is Beethoven for the last couple weeks, and I probably shouldn't be, I should be listening to current music right now. But that's inspiring to me, it gets me going. I have two CD's I listen to before we play and one is Beethoven, I got all the symphonies, and the other CD is this Tango, which is awesome. I listen to that and I'm ready to punch my way through the walls after that.

Lisa: Are there any certain rituals or something special that you do before each show?

Steve: I like to listen to my Beethoven or Tango, I don't do it every night, but I like it.

Lisa: Who writes all your lyrics?

Steve: I do that.

Lisa: Are any of them from life experiences, for instance Drunk Daddy?

Steve: No, I'm not much of a certain kind of lyric writer. I'm not very interesting. Lifewise. Like I've taken songs out of the paper. Little things from my life slipped in there but not much. Mostly just social realism.

Lisa: So what's your favorite 70's disco song?

Pete: This guy's got his hand up, I'm gonna have to let him answer first.

Tim: Um, Brick House.

Dustin: "I love the night life, I like to Boogie, well haay!"

Steve: Um, what's my favorite, that's a good one. Maybe "Burn Rubber," by the Gap Band. I just love that little drum break thing. [Steve is now imitating the drum beat.] I went to high school in 1981, so that drum beat left a deep impression in my brain.

Pete: With that burning rubber sound in the background?

Steve: Oh yeah! One time I was on the track team. The whole team had their Jock Straps and we ran around the whole school, wiggling around.

Dustin: "Burning Rubber"!!!

Pete: Burning Rubber or Burning Rubbers? Who's this guy?

Sean: I'm Sean.

Pete: What do you do?

Sean: Pretty good, how are you? I just ate a four-foot slarvy burrito that was totally disgusting.

Pete: What do you do in this group?

Sean: I play sax.

Pete: Say hi to Lisa.

Sean: Lisa, ask me a question, NOW!!

Lisa: Ok, who do you most admire and why?

Sean: That's a multifaceted question, and that's the biggest word I know. I'm a musician. George Patton!!

Pete: Who's George Patton?

Sean: No actually, I most admire Air Supply.

Steve: I could only think of cheesy things to say. Who do I admire, oh my God, I don't know. I admire Beethoven. God, I love Beethoven.

Tim: I admire Bjork, and my mom. It's not related at all.

Ian: My names Ian, and I play in the Daddies too! Alto and baritone sax. Who do I most admire, wow, well that's tough, like anyone? A musician? I guess my grandpa, 'cause he did the same thing I'm doing now, when he was my age.

Dana: My name's Dana and I play trumpet. Who I admire? I'd have to say it's Dicky Barett of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. And that is because of his absolute perseverance, besides just being a great guy, he had to stick to it. It's this that took him and his band a long way.

Steve: We toured with them at a time when we were kinda down, and were thinking about packing it in, and Dickie was our cheerleader. "You guys just gotta hang in there man." Good answer, Dana.

Pete: You win, you get the door prize.

Dana: Cool, does that mean a date?

Lisa: If you were offered the job of President of the U. S. would you take it? If you would take it what would be the first issue you would address?

Steve: I would never, never, never, take it! No way. Not interested.

Dustin: I would say no.

Ian: I'd never win.

Pete: No you wouldn't even have to run, the job is yours.

Sean: I'd do it! Fuck it! Everybody has to be in a band!!

Dana: I refuse to take the job, on the grounds that my life would not hold up to any scrutiny whatsoever.

Lisa: What's the best advice you ever received?

Steve: Oh man, you got real tough questions.

Dan: Get the fuck out of my way.

Pete: Who are you?

Dan: I'm the bass player Dan.

Dana: The best advice I ever received was my father when he said, "It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Sean: Best advice I ever received was, "Shut up you're annoying me."

Ian: Best advice I ever received was, "Learn to swim."

Pete: Is that before or after they threw you in?

Ian: Um, after!

Dustin: The best advice I ever received was, "Son, the family dog can't take it anymore."

Pete: The best advice I ever got was my dad who said, "Son stop doing that or you're gonna go blind. I said, "Dad, I'm over here."

Lisa: Where do you see CPD a year from now?

Steve: What month is it?

Ian: At the MTV Beach House.

Tim: The best advice I ever received was, "Stop playing with yourself. Play with others."

Pete: Any last words before we end this?

Dustin: Well haaaay!

Jason: That's it honey, a little to the left.

Dana: The end of the world is postponed another millennium for shortage of trumpet players.

Dustin: How about this, don't touch yourselves near other guys.