| Interview by Burt Wolf with Ishay, guitarist for the band USELESS I.D. Interview done November 27th, 2002. |
| I'M NEW TO USELESS I.D., SO CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF THE BANDS HISTORY? USELESS I.D. started in '94, sucked, played local shows in Israel for a few years. We went on a U.S. tour for the first time '96. Since then we had another 5 tours in the U.S., got to tour Europe like 5 times as well, played some shows in japan, got some records out, got signed to KUNG FU RECORDS & pretty much had a lot of fun. We have many records out & our new one will come out on KUNG FU RECORDS in January & it's called "No Vacation From The World". Our best shit yet, we're really happy with this record. WHY WAS THE NAME USELESS I.D. CHOSEN FOR THE BAND? We came up with the name a long time ago & to be honest, the name isn't something very interesting & I don't have anything funny to say about it anymore, so we should just move on, I guess. WHO OR WHAT ARE SOME OF THE INFLUENCES IN YOUR LIFE & IN CREATING YOUR MUSIC? Of course growing up in the Punk Rock scene, we idolised just about every Punk band, so I guess most Punk bands that that stayed around & kept kicking ass like BAD RELIGION, NOFX, THE VANDALS & such have influenced us a lot, but musically it's hard to say if we are influenced by anyone anymore, as we all listen to a lot of different types of music for so long now & everyone got his own influence that it's really diverse & crazy. HOW WOULD YOU BEST DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE & SOUND? I find it hard to describe it, but as for our new record, I can say that the song writing is much better than on anything we did before & that we got some heavier sounds going on now that we never had before on our records aswell & while it's still Punk & fast & catchy as hell, it's also much more experimental & new then most Pop Punk records that I buy lately. HOW DID YOUR DEAL WITH KUNG FU RECORDS COME TO BE? Before we were on KUNG FU we released a split CD with THE ATARIS on the label & since that one did really well & KUNG FU kept hearing from people that they want to hear more from our band. I think they figured it will be a good idea to have us on the label. I ONLY HAVE ONE OF YOUR RELEASES, SO COULD YOU TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT EACH OF YOUR RELEASES? We release our first 7 inch record in '95 on a small label from California & since then we released many 7 inches & splits & stuff, so I won't talk about these & none of them is really good any way. Our first record is called "Dead's Not Punk" & we recorded & produced it & then released it on our own, so it's not really the one record you'll wanna hera, but for some reason a lot of people like it & wanna get it so we let some labels of freinds of ours re-release it soon. So if you think it's a good idea (I don't), get it. After that we had a split with THE ATARIS & it's called "Let It Burn" & it's just 8 songs from each band, so it's not very long or anything & it's pretty good. Our first record on KUNG FU is called "Bad Story, Happy Ending" & it's the one USELESS I.D. record that you should get cuz it's got 15 punky fast songs & it's just fun & I like it a lot. We have the new record coming out soon & I'm sure we'll keep on putting out records & stuff, but that's all we've done so far. |
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