Some sites ask the same shit ques�ons all the �me, and some magazines have a set of really banal ques�ons they ask… well, I’m stealing both of those ideas to make… 6 Dumb Ques�ons Many thanks to Eddie LaFlash of Decent News for agreeing to be the first vic�m… sorry, par�cipant. I think we spoke about the band name and earlier incarna�ons in a previous interview. So we’ll begin with your own family name… LaFlash is such a cool guitar player name... where does the name originate? And hopefully not from a family of flashers…. So my whole life, everyone has thought that my last name is made up, but truth is it's just horribly Americanized. In the 1600's one of my ancestors traveled to Quebec and changed his last name from Richer to the name of the town he was from in France called LeFlesche. Then somehow it just became LaFlash. Who was your famous teenage crush and looking back, how good or bad was your taste in said person? I really can't remember. I guess I could say Natalie Portman ONLY because she was Padme and when I was in 6th grade I went over to a friends house and he said "Yo, we have to watch Black Swan cause there’s this lesbian scene and it's hella dope" (I'm paraphrasing). Looking back, eh. What album, song or musician made you first want to pick up an instrument? It's funny because I remember being 10 years old and wan�ng to be in a band despite not knowing anything. I made a band with my friends in the 4th grade regardless of whether or not they've ever touched an instrument and we obviously never did anything. When I first started playing guitar like one or two years later, I really idolized Dave Mustaine. A lot of the Nu Metal and Screamo that was popular at the �me didn’t really click with me so I just gravitated towards Megadeth. When you first started Decent News and you added a Facebook page etc… do you remember when you got a like or a comment from someone you didn’t know? And how was your reac�on? I'm almost 100% sure our first comment was literally just "gay". It made me giggle. As a band we've never taken ourselves too seriously so whenever we get any nega�ve feedback we have fun with it. Your adverts and li�le movie clips are excellent. Aren’t you worried that people might think that they are actually be�er than the music you make? Not at all, they are be�er than the doo doo that we release. They're a blast to make and we can take a way different route with our promos then we can with the music we write. Fun fact: We were failed comedy writers before we were failed musicians. If you could open for any band, whose fans would you like to boo you off stage? Sinead O'Connor. If we ever made it on the bill it would be one hell of a fever dream Decent News Facebook: h�ps://www.facebook.com/decentnews/ Bandcamp: h�ps://decentnews.bandcamp.com/
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