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Can you give us a brief history of the Bouncing Souls?

Greg Attonito (vocals): In 1987 we got together in Brian’s basement and wrote a song called “Brain Dead.” We were all in high school together, doing covers of Iron Maiden, Sabbath, Billy Idol, U2, Ramones, The Who, whatever. We did everything ourselves, no help, just did it and kept going. People would get jobs or whatever, but we would keep gravitating back to this. We realized this is what we were good at, it’s what we like, and so whatever money we would make we would just put back into the band and try to keep it going.

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Brian Kienlen (bass and vocals): Basically we just started as a high school band and everything that came afterwards has been done to facilitate playing music together. Pete Steinkopf (guitar and vocals): There was never really a plan. The only plan was to not do what everyone else was doing. We didn’t want to go to college. We just didn’t give a shit about that. We just wanted to be a band and that’s it. I guess it’s just a matter of priorities in life.