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brick mower ° shitty parade

album: teenage graceland, director: anthony palma, label: don giovanni, web: http://brickmower.blogspot.it

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Brick Mower Cranks It!

ALRIGHT! Paul Stanley's back with another rockin addition to the official KISS indie rock blog. I met up with Brick Mower at the Olympics in Sochi. I was there to support the US curling team but Eric, Kitsin, and Steve are avid animal lovers and went to save the stray dogs. Eric was kind enough to set aside a few minutes and have a chat for the blog. 

PAUL: Brick Mower seems like one of those bands that takes pride in coming up with titles that leave your listeners completely puzzled while you sit back and laugh. So fill us in! We wanna laugh too!

ERIC: Yes, there's plenty of bewilderment going on in the Brick Mower universe, and most of the times we are laughing however not always in the reclined position as you had indicated. Here's a breakdown of the flowing.

We were originally going to be called Mower, but we found some nu-metal looking band that had that name already on the West Coast that looked like they already had a CD or two at Best Buy!!! To avoid any future crap, Kit, our bass player said "How about put 'brick' in front of it." Why not? The name stuck.

Parades are almost always terrible, and everyone's been to at least one, right? In honor of the human condition...

This is named after a tuxedo cat, Maisy, and a play on David Bowie's song "Queen Bitch." No offense should be taken at any time, unless you hate cats. Then you have offended us, perhaps.

While there are a few semi-famous Touchdown J.C.s in America, including Notre Dame's end zone Jesus, this was named after the mammoth Jesus statue in Ohio that was struck by lightning and burned down. The original intent was to include a before photo of the Jesus roadside attraction with his arms raised to the sky on the front cover of a 7''. The back of the cover would include the smoldering rods of the aftermath. Unfortunately, that release never took shape.

Hmmmm? I don't know. I have a turtle named Crispy though. Maybe that did it. Think I liked the way it sounded. Boy, that was real interesting.

We literally took pictures of ourselves at the house used to film exterior shots (and a few interiors) of the A Christmas Story movie in Cleveland. Some of these pictures included us sitting under the sink like Randy does in the movie, a mildly popular tourist spot from a wildly popular film! We thought "Under the Sink" sounded good, and included the grainy pictures of the band in the liner notes, like tourists.

Thanks to Eric, Kitsin, and Steve for being such fabulous rockers! With the power invested in me, I, Paul "The Starchild" Stanley, deem you FAMOUS! Now go off and get simultaneously drunk and high and make regrettable decisions. You've fucking earned it!

LISTEN TO A SONG OFF THE UPCOMING LP Teenage Graceland

- Paul

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If you still pine for the era of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtracks, check out Brick Mower's anthemic single, "Shitty Parade."