Words with John Porcelly

 

Hi John, let's go :

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Young Republicans :

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My first attempt at a band, little did I know that being in punk bands would be my full time occupation for the next 15 years!

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Youth Of Today :

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Still love this band and am very proud and humbled with everything we accomplished.

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Project X :

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We wrote and recorded that EP in about two days, not even thinking that anyone outside of NYC would ever hear it. Funny to think that 20 years later kids are still into the band, I guess Straight Edge Revenge hit some sort of chord with people.

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Bold :

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My friends, it's always great to play music with those guys.

Photo Mike Brooklyn.

Judge :

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Judge was a great band that kind of self-destructed way before our time. One big regret of mine is not putting out a 2nd Judge LP because it would've been awesome.
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Shelter :

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Punk monks on a mission, one of the greatest times of my life, Hare Krishna.

 

 

Never Surrender :

We only played 5 shows but they were fun.

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Last Of The Famous :

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I remember Carson Daley from MTV shaking my hand and telling me "You guys are gonna be the biggest band in the world".

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War On Illusion :

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My attempt to preach Krishna Consciousness in a way that a hardcore kid could understand.
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Schism :

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I wish I kept it going, who knows, we might've been a huge label by now.
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Fight Fire With Fire :
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I loved doing record labels because it's a way to give back to a scene that gave me so much. The Bones Brigade CD "I Hate Myself When I'm Not Skateboarding" was incredible.
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True Till Death :

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Where my love of graphic design and straight edge meet.
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Henry Rollins :
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Last time I was in NY backstage at one of his shows, he came up to me and Harley from the Cro Mags and said "Hey Harley and Porcell, good to see you guys again." I was flattered that he even remembered who I was. A huge influence on me, musically and personally.

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Ian McKaye :
 

Besides the Evens, never put out a bad record. .

Ray Cappo :
 

Now a yoga instructor in NYC.
 

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Walter Schreifels :
 

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A good guy. Youth of Today really started taking off when he joined the band.
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Morrissey :
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Best lyricist ever.

Krishna :

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The Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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Bad Religion :

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Great band, love all their records.
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Revelation Records :

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They were a great label, I hope they become relevant again.
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Out of step :

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I'll always be.

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Flame still burns :


Always feeling it.


Vegetarian :


In this day and age with Global Warming and devastation to the environment, becoming vegetarian is the best single most thing you can do to help save the planet. Avoid karmic destruction!

Skateboarding :


I used to love it, I just gave my son a Danny Way board.


France :


Freedom fries dude! (just kidding, I love France, George Bush sucks)


Yoga :


Do it every day, great for the body inside and out.


Straight-edge :


True Till Death.

Attaining the supreme :


My ultimate aspiration.

Obama :


Hope.


Porcell :


A servant of the servant.

Words with Gentry Densley

 

Hi Gentry, why the name Iceburn ?


 

I liked the extremes it represents and the seeming contradiction. It also reflects our environment, being from Utah, a mountainous desert where we get tons of snow in winter and it can get up to sorching hot temps in the summer.

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Have you got a favorite release ?

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Hepheastus - I don't necessarily think its the best recording but it has a whole concept and we put a lot in to it.

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Why did you choose to be on Revelation Records ?

They chose us, just over here you have who knows who and then there's favoritism.

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What are you greatest memories with that band ?

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Rolling the van into a ditch on our way to Florida... the reunion show we did a couple years ago was a great time as well.

Have you ever played in Europe ?

Yeah we (Iceburn) toured Germany England Austria Czech maybe more in 2001 with a German band called Zann. Crazy times, sleeping in the clubs, eating vegan feasts every night.

Have you ever been straight-edge ?

Yeah, but I distanced myself from it before it all went crazy violent around here. It was more about music for me. I'm still vegetarian though.

Can you talk a bit about this release with ZU ?

It was recorded right before we toured Europe. It was going to be a 7" for Southern Lord but it didn't come out for a few reasons, the label stopped doing them because 7"s are expensive to make and so aren't very economically viable. Anyway ZU dudes were friends of the drummer for Iceburn Chad Popple and he gave them a copy. A few years down the line it still hadn't come out so they proposed a split 10".

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What is your current musical project ?

Eagle Twin - a new album will be out this summer (2009) on Southern Lord Records.

Ascend - is another project on the same label with Greg from Sunn 0))) the first record is doing well and we've started a second one.

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What is the meaning of music for you ?

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Music is all meaning, its a deep part of me and is something that is always there in my brain.

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What are your views about the world we live in ?

Its a nice planet, very diverse, very resilient. It will be here long after we kill each other off.

Who are the people or bands that have the biggest impact in your life ?

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These days anything from Wino or Daniel Higgs...

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