GAD! Zine

The Mostly Harmless? : Adam, Ansel, and Kevin (Ash)   In 1998, while I was goofing around in college, I finally convinced other idiots to start a band with me. We did not know how to play. Literally. WE. DID. NOT. KNOW. HOW. TO. PLAY. But the allure of D.I.Y. and a need to express ourselves were intoxicating. We called ourselves The Mostly Harmless? (not to be confused with another band from the time simply called Mostly Harmless). My friend Kevin, recently rechristened Ash Nagasaki, and I would spend hours in our dorm rooms or driving around concocting different artistic schemes. It wasn’t long before the idea of a zine came up. Both Ash and Ansel “Oister” (the drummer) had gone to the same high school as me, so were very familiar with my zine from that time, “Teenage Lobotomy”. So I guess the idea of our new zine was to be like a bigger “real world” version of TL. We would mix social commentary and politics (this time bitching about politicians rather than teachers) with exc...

Genki Genki Panic! Carlos Satana: guitar Bionic Vapor Boy: drums Photo by Phil Thach Photography Davey Snakes: bass GAD!: You guys have a sound that is truly its own. How would you describe it? Carlos Satana: When people ask I generally just tell them that it's kind of like what would happen if Gwar and Fantomas wrote the soundtrack for a Hanna Barbera cartoon, with lot's of exotica and noise rock thrown in. Davey Snakes: We usually tell folks Exotic Horror Surf but we’ve been known to at times describe to ourselves as Spookzotic, Chudrock, Tribal Surf, and occasionally we delve into some Noise Rock, Postpunk, and Sludge. Bionic Vapor Boy: It’s kinda like an alien transmission, received in the future from Jupiter’s melted moon Io. where the wave’s are sick and the alien babes are lookin hot as hell in their 16 cup bikini’s. it naturally inspired them to incidentally invent surf music. meanwhile there’s a party in a spooky, tricked out, blinged u...

An Interview with Molly Mess conducted by Charlie Fuchs I was granted the privilege of being able to interview the amazing, talented and inspiring woman Molly Mess from Some Kind of Nightmare; my former band Punge was lucky enough to open for them in 2015 at Copper Top Dive-N- Dine in Huntsville, Alabama. In this interview Molly shares with us the story of how Some Kind of Nightmare was formed, the ups and downs that they have gone through, including her truly inspiring battle with Breast Cancer. I'm extremely proud to say she kicked cancer's ass! I'm so very grateful to Molly and the band for allowing me to interview them and want to thank them for such a great opportunity! I asked some pretty personal questions, Molly gracefully answered them all and this is what she had to say: "Some Kind of Nightmare started in 2006. I was in need of starting a punk band. I found a bass player and we were in search of a guitarist and...