Jason: It’s got to be good to be on a label that doesn’t say OK your time is up. Your CD has to be out here?
Tony: Ohh they did. They did for a long time. That’s exactly what they said. As a matter of fact, in 2001 we came off the road and they said you are going to New York to record these two songs which we think are your next singles and then we are going to rush to release it in fall this year. That would have been suicide for us. We had to kinda put our foot down and say, ‘No we want to do it our way and do it with a producer we like to really have a creative experience.’ So we got a lot of pressure for a long time and now all the sudden the bubble burst and Jay records bought out RCA, so there was a lot of pressure. They were good enough to listen to us and understand we needed more time.

Jason: You had mentioned growing up, not too much, but a little bit. Have you noticed your approach is any different to a live show or to the daily work of being in a band. A lot of people think you just wake up at 6:00 pm , walk out to the stage at 9:00 pm and then party until 2:00 am. They don't realize the intense work involved.
Tony: We are still getting used to it. We've only had five shows, which we are starting the Six Dollar tour. We are rechristening why you have got to be harsh on an Eve 6 tour 2K3. That’s not really what we are calling it but that is what we like to joke about. It would be a pretty nice existence to live the classic 60's model of rock star. Life is just different now. You have radio stations to go to and play, and interviews to do. Luckily we all really like doing all those things. I truly don't think our mode of operation is any different on this tour compared to any others, we just keep doing what we always have done. It’s the shows they are what keeps us going every show is packed and awesome and the fans that have been with us for a long time are really responsive to the new stuff. Just giving us all their energy along with the new fans it’s really a perfect life.

Jason: When you came off tour you had mentioned the label said come and record these two singles. So obviously you were writing on the road, but before that was most of the material written on the touring cycle?
Tony: Not at all. That is why we needed to take that time. When we came off the road with Horrorscope, we had a couple of ideas here and there. We were going to jump back into the studio with our original producer Don Gilmore and just crank one out while we had momentum. Then we realized we didn't have any material. We had not let life go through our filter and come back out in music form. All of the fall of 2001 and spring of 2002 we had been writing in L.A, living and writing we came up with about 30 songs and cut half of them.

Jason: When it comes to writing is it a full band effort where you sit down and all get together?
Tony: It kinda starts that way. Max Collins is our singer and lyricist the emotion comes from him initially its all his words. If he has an idea of a verse or chorus that he plays on an acoustic guitar and he comes to my house, we bring John over and just work on the acoustic first. Once we punch it out to a full song we talk about the scope of the song and how we want it to build dramatically. We are very into dramatic songs that start down low and end up high. Then we all go rock it in a full-band setting and see how we can make it sound. So it starts with Max but it is very democratic after that.

Jason: You just said you have done about 5 shows so far and that the fans have been very responsive. Were you able to tour practice any of the songs before hand just doing local gigs to try it out to see how it looked or was it a they are on the CD lets see how it goes kinda thing?
Tony: We absolutely did some warm up shows. We spent about two months doing some shows in LA. Small little shows in our favorite haunting grounds The Garage and The Gig and little tiny places like that. We tried some different songs here and there. We actually had a rehearsal room booked out through a fabulous guy named Tristen. God Bless you Trsiten I hope you are doing well. Yeah, so we had a chance to practice some of that stuff. There are a few songs on the new album we are not even attempting yet until the record comes out and is alittle more familiar. We have tried a good portion of them and they all have turned out well.

Jason: Spending two years or almost two years of your life on this record it is finally down and there is nothing else you can do about it there has to be not only relief but over all how do you feel about the end product?
Tony: There is definitely no part of this record that we would look back and regret, because we took so long with it and we are perfectionists, thinking about every aspect of it from the first chord to the mastering job the last step of the process. We are completely ready to let the bird fly the coop and enter the world.

Jason: After taking two years, you can listen to a lot of bands that take that long and the end product is so over produced because they spend so much time on that. What I like about this record was there was a lot of time between them it wasn’t in the production it was in the writing and there is a big difference there.
Tony: You can easily wipe the character and the charm out of it, and in the beginning that was very important to us. We felt that on Horrorscope we are very proud of that record and it did very well for us. We definitely went crazy in the studio and spent a lot of time on the production things, auto tuners and all that stuff. We really wanted to move away from that, because at a certain degree it starts to take away from the honesty of the songs. And the songs Max was bringing and that we were coming up with for this album were to precious for us to over produce it. So we took care to not let it get that way. We would rather spend twenty takes playing the verse right and making it feel right rather then all the technical stuff. We wanted that vibe and feel of a hiped up band playing in a room.