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MH: Hey Jesse and company. Thank you for JB: (con’t) of our first day writing songs together, but
this quick interview and thank you for an he asked me to send it to him to work on. There
awesome show. Ok, I got to ask the most wasn't enough time to get it done for that Christmas,
important question of this new year, and I think but last year, good ole' Robby Lochner remembered
I know the answer. Tell me, if anything, what the song and started work on it without telling
does your band name mean? anyone. Out of the blue one day, the song I wrote as
a gift to my family 5 years earlier, was suddenly done
Jesse Blaze: Dedicated. Involved. Loving. Fathers. and sitting in my inbox… or mostly done. We'd had
United States of Argentina. it mastered just a few weeks later. Shout out to
Robby for seeing it through and making it sound so
MH: I've known Robby since the beginning of damn amazing!
time, and we've worked on a solo interview
several ION Indie Magazine issues ago. I MH: Who are your biggest influences as a band?
recently learned quite a bit about and you and
your other job...as a producer/writer/actor. JB: There's a lot of different influences that we have.
Please share with our readers who the We like to hit fast and hard like our favorite punk and
members of D.I.L.F. USA are and the metal bands. But we also just live to make our
instruments they play. audience smile. When we began crafting our live
shows, we chose covers that we felt were real
JB: I sing. Robby Lochner rips on guitar and showstoppers, something we like to call ‘encores
produces the fuck out of our original material. Dan only.’ Feeling that stuff out led us to a lot of different
McNay is our gloriously sexy bass player/song influences like Blur and the Beastie Boys. I can do a
masher. And our most recent addition is Mr. Tony lot of different kinds of things vocally, so it's def given
Snow, slamming them drums. us some versatility that very few bands have. I'm as
comfortable growling, as I am rapping, as I am sing
MH: How did you all connect to form D.I.L.F. up high, but if I had to define us as anything, it's an
USA? edgy pop punk/hard rock band. We try to make
music that everyone can understand and get behind.
JB: Basically, Robby and Dan backed-up Jack I really believe that there are some songs that are
Russell on tour and needed someone to fill-in on just undeniable to all who listen, and we strive to
vocals for two shows. They called me up and it make every song we produce into that kinda song --
went so well, the rest is rock history. something that's hard not to like.
MH: I really enjoyed the Christmas tune the MH: Does the band have a songwriting process,
band released late last year. The video was or does everyone bring riffs and create music in
also fun to watch. I would put it up with Bing the studio?
Crosby and Mariah Carey's Christmas songs.
Ok, maybe not so way up there. Who came up JB: I can't stop writing. Songs are constantly falling
with the idea to write a Christmas song and out of my face, and if it's a good enough premise, I'll
what is the inspiration behind it? make a recording on my phone and hold on to it until
I have a use. In doing so, I've amassed well over a
JB: My family (my mom in particular) loves to make thousand bangers of all varieties that I've just been
a really big show of Christmas. Christmas in my sitting on for the right time. When we put this band
house growing up tended to be all December long! together, I showed up loaded for bear and have been
I remember the first time I heard the ‘12 Days of offering ideas until we found the things that most
Christmas.’ I was struck by how many days they spoke to us as a group. Once I got a handle on our
were missing. 12 days?! Don't you mean 25?! One musical direction, I started writing things for D.I.L.F.
day, the words ‘on the first day of December’ came and we've been slowly bringing them all to life. Then
out of my mouth, and therest of the song just kinda Robby gets cracking in the studio and it ain't long
followed as a tribute to the Christmas I grew up before we're tweaking and finishing things up. Also,
celebrating. It was just a throw-away thing that I Dan has a great ear for mashups. We do a cover of
mentioned to Robby at the very end of our (con’t) 2 Live Crew's ‘We Want Some Pussy’ to the tune of
AC/DC's T.N.T. that brings the house down!
