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"I used Spiked Out," said Chris Hill, 18, bass player.
"I use Ice," said Justin McKee, 20, lead singer.
"I go with hair glue," said Craig Szewczyk, 26, drummer. His day-job look is the same as his on-stage look. "I spike it. Not this much separated, but I always wear my hair at work. I'm a City of Memphis employee. Vehicle maintenance. Parts manager."
Lucien Scott Croy, 20, guitarist, usually wears his hair in a mohawk. "Dude, I wake up every morning looking like this," he said. "I work in a metal-working factory and my hair always gets really nasty. There's chemicals and things that get all in my hair. That's why my hair turns green. It's like 2,000 degrees, so, you get hot and sweaty and those chemicals get on it, it turns your hair to wire."
Like their hair, their shows are designed to create a mood. "I want people to imagine they're at a rock concert, not a local show," Szewczyk said. "Not just some garage band playing up on a plywood stage."
As for stage attire, Szewczyk joked, "Personally, it's leopard skin Speedos. But, hey, that's just me."
"I usually just wear my favorite pair of socks," McKee added.
One Bullet Booth was a finalist in the first round of the recent Battle of the Bands at Isaac Hayes Night Club and Restaurant.
Collectively, members of the group were in about 20 bands before One Bullet Booth. "We finally worked out all the problems that made the other bands break up, so now this one's really bad ass," McKee said.
"He (McKee) stole my drummer to become his bassist," Croy said. "I didn't care at the time. The band I was in was cool and we never practiced and I was like, 'eeehhh.'".
"A lot of problems back then," McKee said. "We'd take stuff way too personally. And now everybody realizes it's kind of like a business thing."
"It's like a marriage," Szewczyk said. "You gotta learn how to argue."
One Bullet Booth formed a year ago.
"The band kept me out of trouble," Hill said. "I ain't been arrested since."
All the band members work on the songs. "Amends," said McKee, who wrote the lyrics, is "basically talking to your own worst enemy. Like yourself or something."
"Cocaine Lullaby" is "about the ups and downs of life. Like cocaine takes you up and down," Hill said.
"I can honestly say we've got an in-your-face-kick-your-ass-strong, full set," Szewczyk said.
"Every song. I don't think there's a weak song in the set," Sszewcqyk said. "The weak ones have been dropped off."
Thursday January 13 @ Hi-tone : 930pm
Justin McKee 21 lokakuuta 2004 12.00