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Supagroup - “Woulda Been Nice”

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Supagroup - "Hail! Hail!" Foodchain Records

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Rock history is littered with sibling bands and Supagroup is led by the Lee brothers, who, if fuzzy memory serves, are native Alaskan twins who own a bar in New Orleans. Just like the Gallagher brothers, they know a good riff when they steal one, and Supagroup owes a debt to the musical oeuvres of MORE brothers acts: AC/DC and Van Halen. The band’s music has the suitable bombast and unchallenging hooks of good-time party rock, but what makes the music so much fun are the lyrics. As a genre, testosterone-fueled hard rock is usually pretty stupid, and for every classic like “You Shook Me All Night Long,” there’s a wince-inducing track like Warrant’s “Cherry Pie.” Supagroup, to their credit, leans in so that you know they’re in on the joke—if they’re going to be limited by the expected tropes of a genre (women, drinking and generic hellraising), they’re going to have fun with it. So you wind up with songs like this one from 2001, “When In Rome,” which may theoretically be a call to arms for everyone to loosen up, but which also casually name-drops Dionysus, the god of winemaking, insanity and ritual madness. Just including that in the lyrics is a huge wink at the listener, not merely drawing a laugh from being so out of place, but also signaling “we’re smarter than this—and you are too.” Time and time again, Supagroup’s lyrical excesses are perfectly tempered by a big dollop of comedy and sense of remove. This is a band that uses punctuation as a gag in song titles—“Let’s Go (Get Wasted)” is a favorite example—and almost always makes itself the butt of the joke (in the aforementioned song, the Lees joyfully sing together in unison, “I’m high! Are you high? So am I!”) While the same joke told over and over across an album can wear thin (though “Rules” is their best CD out of the ones I’ve heard), a 7” vinyl single is the perfect format for this stuff—a fast double-shot of comedic hard rock crunch.

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Shameless?  Yeah, so?  It rocks.

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Supagroup - "Hail! Hail!" (2011)

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Interview with Pavillion 666 (France)

  1.Hi Supagroup ! Could you please present your band ?

  We are Supagroup from New Orleans, Louisiana.  We have been a band since 1996, and have been a touring band since 1998.   We consider ourselves a hard rock band that plays songs with a pop structure and guitar solos.  Supagroup consists of me, Chris Lee, on vocals and rhythm, Benji Lee, my brother, on lead guitar, Leon Touzet on drums and Brian Broussard on bass.  Our first tour was with the Supersuckers, who we were very influenced by.  We are veterans of the American underground rock and roll scene, which includes Supersuckers, Nashville Pussy, Unband, Syrup, Honky, Streetwalking Cheetas, Zeke, Danko Jones (Canadian),  Upper Crust, The Griaffes, and the godfathers of the scene, Rev. Horton Heat.   We have also played with many other bands such as Alice Cooper, QUOTSA, Eagles of Death Metal, Drive By Truckers, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Ted Nugent, Deep Purple and Whitesnake, to name a few.

  2. What are you main influences ? 

AC/DC, Devo, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Beatles,  70’s pop, i.e. Bee Gees, ELO, Abba, Paul McCartney, 50’s rock and roll e.g. Chuck Berry, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard. 

  3. What is the concept of this new record?

  Thirteen songs that take the listener on a musical journey.  And when it’s over, you want to take the trip again. On that journey you get high, drunk, beat up, and eaten, you also kill, win the Superbowl (World Cup to you), and get laid –several times.

  4. How was the recording of the album? Do you think it was different of the others ? 

  Yes.  We made Rock and Roll Tried To Ruin My Life (2001- Produced by Jack Endino) in 7 days.  Supagroup (2003 -  Prd Trina Shoemaker/Benji Lee), we made in 12 days,   Rules (2005 – Prd Kevin Shirley) we had 11 days, and Fire For Hire (2007 – Prd Kevin Shirley) another 11 days.  When we made Hail! Hail!, we built our own studio and took nearly a year, on and off, to make it.   It was a vastly different process, and I think the album is very different because of it.  It’s a lot more layered. 

  5. Benji and Chris you are brothers, you don’t have any difficulties to play together?

  Yes sometimes it is difficult.  We are both very stubborn and often don’t agree.  Arguments are measured in years rather than minutes.  But we do work well and play well together. 

  6. You are going to play in November in France, did you play in our country before ? 

  We played Paris with the Backyard Babies in 2006.  It was an amazing show.  Great crowd!

  7. What do you think about France and Rock n’roll? Do you have some French Rock band that you like ? 

  I don’t know much about the French rock and roll scene, honestly.  I love Serge Ginsberg.  The new movie about him is great.  He had a very rock and roll/punk spirit and life.  Air is a cool band, not exactly rock and roll but I like what they are doing. 

  8. Do you guys feel engaged about the lyrics that you write? Do you have any message to communicate through them? 

  Yes, we always something to say in every single song.  We try to leave the meanings of the message open to interpretation.

  9. Do you have other projects?

  We made a TV pilot about being in a rock band called Amped!.  You can see it as six webisodes on youtube.  We are hoping to get a network to buy the show soon.   We also are planning  to produce a concert film of this European tour.  It will be out in Spring 2012. 

  Do you play in other bands? No.

  10. You are making some films/episodes that we can see on YouTube, can you talk about it? Is it a strategy for the band or is it just to have fun?

  We are well known in America – two top forty hits on the radio and over a thousand shows here – yet we can not make a living doing what we love, playing music.  We all have day jobs.   We saw all these idiots on the giant Karaoke contest known as American Idol having incredible success because of the power of television.  Television forces shit sandwiches down the throats of Americans too lazy to change the channel or too stupid to know they are being force fed garbage.    Amped! is our attempt to hijack this medium and force feed some good music down their fat gullets.  It’s really for their own good.   And it is pretty fun too!

  11. You are on Tour this winter in Europe, do you feel worried about the reaction of the public for this new record?

  Why would we worry?  If people like it, great.  Welcome to our world, stay awhile, enjoy the view.  But you don’t like it, go jerk off to Lady Gaga’s balls.  Also, go fuck yourself.  We don’t make music for the public.  We make it for us.  WE are happy with the new album.  Anyone else liking it is just a bonus.

  12. Thanks you very much for having answered to these questions, I let you tell something to end up this interview : 

  We look forward very much to rocking France!