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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Wikipedia Current Events At least 7 killed in Wisconsin Australia suffers its first combat monasteries have accepted shooting rampage casualty in Afghanistan following US$8000 as well as food and the explosion of a bomb in the medicine from its soldiers to southern province of Orūzgān. signify the armed forces have not left the faith. •Air crews conduct search and rescue missions for an airplane carrying 10 passengers that is Four killed as helicopter believed to have crashed in a escorting Pakistani President mountainous area of the U.S. Pervez Musharraf crashes state of Washington 45 miles At least four people have died after west of Yakima. one of three military escort helicopters accompanying •The Prime Minister of the United Pakistani President Pervez Scientists: appendix has Kingdom Gordon Brown Musharraf crashed in Kashmir. purpose announces that Britain will cut its A new troop commitment in Iraq by half The medium-lift Super Puma theory, to 2,500 troops. helicopter was shadowing one published in carrying the president when the the Journal •H D Kumaraswamy resigns as rear of the rotorcraft burst into of Chief Minister of the Indian state flame, forcing an emergency crash Theoretical of Karnataka. Governor landing. An army brigadier, two Biology this Rameshwar Thakur is likely to soldiers and a PTV cameraman week, shows recommend presidential rule till were killed, and four more were that the appendix creates and further elections. injured, including presidential protects helpful microorganisms •Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver spokesman Major General Rashid for a person's digestive system. Smithies, and Sir Martin J. Evans Qureshi. The injured are being are awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize treated at a hospital in Featured story in Medicine for their work on Muzaffarabad. The pilot walked stem cells. away unharmed. Alex Necochea and Bryn Bennett: the 'Guitar Heroes' •A helicopter escorting the It is thought to be an accident of Bang Camaro helicopter of President Pervez caused by a technical fault. Wikinews caught up with the two Musharraf crashes in Pakistan- founding administered Kashmir, killing four The helicopters were visiting the members security officials and injuring his scene of a devastating 2005 of Bang spokesman. earthquake to mark the Camaro at •Forty five Pakistani soldiers and anniversary of the disaster. The the Bowery 130 pro-Taliban militants have president ultimately reached his Ballroom died in two days of fierce fighting destination. and spoke in North Waziristan, the Pakistani with army says. Alex Necochea and Bryn guitarist Alex Necochea about Bennett: the 'Guitar Heroes' of touring, musical influences, •2007 Burmese anti-government Bang Camaro politics and more. protests: Burma's junta announces that Buddhist When a fan connects with a band,

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Wikinews Page 2 it's often during moments like a across us on MySpace. That sort of grabbing. drive down a highway at night thing. But for the most part a lot AN: [Laughs] Yeah, a little bit of reflecting on some aspect of his or of the kids we meet are anywhere macho posturing. I tell you man, her life; sitting at home after a between...well, I guess at a club it's a really big thrill, just to go out fight with a girlfriend; singing in like that they have to be over 18, and play in towns we've never the shower; or celebrating at a but usually they are just much been to. Kids come out and they party with her friends. Music younger kids who are video game know all the songs. We've had becomes a soundtrack to an fans, who have heard about us situations where we've played New individual's life, and a connection through Guitar Hero II. York and girls are in the front row with the musician forms when the singing along to our guitar solos. listener is able to peg a perfect DS: What's that like to have a fan Like, wow...we're on stage playing moment or feeling to a song. base that comes from primarily and we can hear them singing Boston-based mega-member rock video games? Have you noticed a back at us. Something else Bryn group Bang Camaro's fan base difference between being known as and I have noticed is at larger claims a different level of a local band playing in your city festival shows when we get to the interaction: they often have and being known through video end of our shows we play Push learned to play their music before games? How would you compare Push Lady Lightning, the kids they ever had a moment the audience? would just light up and start air associated with it. Bang Camaro AN: It's different. In our guitaring! But not actually playing found fame on the video game hometown it started off as just a air guitar, but playing air guitar Guitar Hero II, where an aspiring big word of mouth thing. We had hero--like, they knew where all the rock god uses a guitar-shaped twenty guys in the band, so notes were! peripheral to play rock music as everybody had friends-of-friends. notes scroll towards him on the We started a groundswell that way. DS: Which is a lot different for screen. But when we get out of town, not audiences of many bands. in New York so much, but when we AN: Absolutely! I can't imagine David Shankbone journeyed to the go to Chicago and Milwaukee and other bands having the same Bowery Ballroom to talk to the two places like that they generally tend experience, because we come from founding members of Bang to be much younger people. It's a such a unique perspective that a Camaro, Alex Necochea and Bryn really big thrill for Bryn and I in large part of our music is driven by Bennett. But when MTV.com shows that we are meeting kids who are the instrumentals, and that sort of up at the same time as Wikinews just like us: young video game thing. to do an interview, the band must fans, aspiring musicians, usually split up. Below is our conversation males who picked up guitars. They DS: Your fans are so engaged with with Necochea about touring, come to us and say, 'Nobody plays your music, far more than most influence, politics, throwing his guitar anymore like you guys do!' bands have. Most bands they have corpse out of a plane and flatulent or 'My parents used to listen to fans who feel their music speaks to women. music like that!' It's just a big thrill them, but your fans can say, 'I for us to meet young kids like that learned to play guitar on your shit DS: How's the tour going? who remind us of ourselves when and not on Eleanor Rigby!' AN: The tours is going great! We we were kids. AN: It's an honor. It's still just played in Poughkeepsie last unbelievable to me. I had a night with the OCC house band. DS: How does it feel to be looked- message from a friend of mine up to by the kids, by America's who was at Guitar Center and he DS: Poughkeepsie, huh? future? heard one of the kids cranking out AN: Yeah! [Laughs] Poughkeepsie, AN: [Laughs] It's terrifying! one of our songs when he was it's kind of a dark town. Not much [Laughs] trying out the guitar. To me, it's of a built-in crowd there. like we made it. DS: Do you see parents at the DS: What kind of crowd is there? show? DS: At this point of your career, AN: From what I could tell, we AN: Oh, yeah, oh yeah. Parents you're not playing stadiums, but played for a lot of Guitar Hero fans with their kids— you're also not playing Otto's Tiki and people who heard about us Lounge on a Tuesday night. When through friends of friends, or came DS: That must reduce the crotch you reflect upon it, what do you

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Wikinews Page 3 think about? like Mark Linkous of . AN: In the past two years, since Those guys made honest sort of DS: If you could choose your own Bryn and I started this project, rock n' roll, for lack of a better death, how would you die? we've both been playing in bands comparison, the way people like AN: [Laughs] I would want to steal locally in Boston for years. We had John Lennon or Bob Dylan would. what I heard a mutual friend of some mixed success, we played To me those are the artists of my ours said. He said when he died-- large venues in and around generation. It would be my dream it's not how he died, but this is Boston. We got to the point where one just to meet those guys and what I heard--he said when he's we said fuck it, we just want to two just to work with them on dead, he wants his corpse to be have some fun and we'd laugh a some level. I'd also be lying to say dressed up like Superman and lot going over old Ozzy Osbourne that it would just be my dream to thrown out of an airplane. I stuff we listened to as kids, just take this project with twenty of my thought that would be fitting. But giggle about it. Bang Camaro best friends and take it as far as I'm not ready to think about started that way, something for us we can take it. So far in my life it's death, not just yet. to do and invite our friends to been the most rewarding thing. come sing on it. Now, just two DS: I heard you guys described years later, it's amazing what DS: In the creative process it's so yourselves as Metal and Glam happens when you stop trying. It's difficult to be original today. rock. What would you describe something not contrived or born of Everything has been done. Do you your sound as? any desire to reach an audience. ever let that trip you up, the AN: I would call us anthem rock. We just did it for fun, and that Simpsons Did It problem? We're really not heavy metal. I spoke to people more than AN: No, not really. I found I would think our focus is more on writing anything else we worked on. end up falling into that cycle great singles, as best as we can playing in bands, just make them. Pop music. That's just DS: Do you have other areas of trying to come up with the next something Bryn and I grew up on. your life where you've been able to thing, like they stopped We're big fans of melody and big apply that? using guitars and things like that. driving hooks, that sort of thing. AN: [Laughs] You mean as an Trying to kick the ball forward a ethos? Don't try? [Laughs] You little bit instead of kicking it side to DS: Would you say anthem rock know, not really. I have found the side. With this band we don't get more in the Mötley Crüe vane or greatest success in the things I hung up on that. We originally just more in the T. Rex vane? have put most of my effort into. started it as a celebration of the AN: I would say half and half. Our This band has been a complete things we loved when we were influences don't just stop with hair unique experience in that respect, kids. We're not out here trying to metal and things like that. We at least in terms of trying to forge reinvent the wheel. We're draw on things like Thin Lizzy, a 'career in music.' Bryn and I had fortunate in that when we were Boston, bands like that. Not gotten to the point where we putting the project together we necessarily virtuosic sort of thought maybe this wasn't the way wanted that big vocal sound. What musicianship, but things that are to go. Bryn was going to go back set us apart was how we went put together. We like to spend the to his career as a video game about doing that. We just invited time when we are writing our programmer and I was just going all of our friends because we didn't songs that we are taking all the to find something else to do. So want to multi track everything extraneous crap out of it. We just not really, I don't really apply that ourselves. Soon after we had to want to make good, hook-drive in any other portion of my life. figure out how to pull it off live, pop music. and people would approach and DS: What are some dream say 'we heard you have this crazy DS: Does the war in Iraq affect projects you'd like to work on? project with all these people.' The you artistically at all? AN: As a musician, obviously for project grew into the live monster AN: [Laughs] No, not at all. No, me it would be to meet and work it is out of necessity. We're not rich you could say I'm just like with some heroes of mine since I people, we don't have refrigerators everybody else. I read the paper was a kid. Like Mutt Lang; he and the big tour bus. Speaking of and blogs, and I'm just as horrified always made my favorite records. dreams, maybe one day we'll have as everybody else. I'm definitely At the same time, it has also been a tour bus. For now, we travel in not a fan of this war. a dream of mine to meet people two very smelly vans.

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DS: If you had to fight in Iraq or could think of. We put them AN: That's a good question. Afghanistan, where would you together and they roll off the Probably my cat. I love my cat fight? tongue. Bang Camaro. It says a lot more than anything. AN: Oh, the fight was definitely in more than it means. Afghanistan. Iraq was a much DS: What's your cat's name? different animal. DS: What sort of qualities do you AN: Sadie. look for in a woman? DS: Are you more inspired by AN: I need a girl who is going to DS: Like Sexy Sadie? things in nature or things that are make me laugh. I need a woman AN: Yeah, like Sexy Sadie. That's man made? who is smarter than I am. A exactly what I named her after. AN: I would probably have to go woman who will always keep me Big John Lennon fan, so I couldn't with nature. I'm a student of guessing. Absolutely. Calling me resist. science. I have a degree in out for my own jerky bullshit. I like environmental geology. When I a girl who is fiercely independent, DS: What trait do you deplore was 19/20 years old I went knows what she wants, and most in other people? through all the regular existential doesn't need me. AN: I'm a lover, not a fighter. questions people that age go Jealousy, greed. But I try to look through: why am I here and my DS: Hillary Clinton or Barack for the best in everybody. Who place in the universe, that sort of Obama? knows. thing. AN: Oh, man, I'm going to get in a lot of trouble for saying Obama. I DS: What do you think are the DS: Did you answer any of them? would probably go with Obama. greatest threats to humanity? AN: Oh, God! I play rock guitar in There's just something in his AN: Humanity itself. You can a twenty man band! rhetoric and his oratory that is a typically read anywhere that lot more inspiring than Hillary. humanity is a virus, a plague, on DS: That's important for a lot of Hillary, to me, represents not Mother Earth. I really think the people - you see your audience. much of a changing of the guard. greatest threat to humanity is not You're giving a lot of inspiration to a meteor or comet hurtling toward a lot of people. You don't know DS: What would be the greatest of the planet, it's us. We'll be our who you might be inspiring to misfortunes to befall you? own undoing. Bad politics, the pursue music. AN: [Chuckles] Oh, if I were to die spread of...oh, man, I could get in AN: [Laughs] Oh, kids, don't be alone. No, probably one of my trouble... like me! I would definitely go with greatest fears is injuring or nature over man made. maiming any of my appendages, DS: Who would you get in trouble to be honest. with? DS: What's your favorite curse AN: No, I don't know who I could word? DS: Do you have any special get in trouble with. But I definitely AN: Fuck. things you do to make sure you think that capitalism is something don't injure or lose an appendage? that having gone unchecked for so DS: What's your favorite AN: [Chuckles] I don't keep my long isn't doing right in delivering euphemism for breasts? hands in my pockets when I am civil freedom. It's not delivering on AN: Big guns. running down stairs. its promises. Then again, I play in a rock band and people come pay DS: Have you used that recently? DS: That's a conscious choice? to see me. I understand it works AN: Actually, I think I did use that AN: Yes, that's a conscious choice. on both levels. in the last week, and no comment. DS: What if you are just walking DS: What would be a bigger turn- DS: I read that you named the down stairs? off in bed: a woman who spoke in band after fast women and fast AN: [Chuckles] You can't realign a baby voice, or someone who was cars. the stars, man. Shit will happen, overly flatulent? AN: [Laughs] Who told you that? shit will happen. AN: Oh God! I'd go with the baby No, Bang Camaro were two words talk, man. out of the English language that DS: What possession do you were the two sexiest words we treasure most? DS: You'd prefer the baby talk?

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