Good Times with Monty Are I

Well last night was amazing. I got to see Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Monty Are I, and Lorene Drive. Each band put on an amazing show, but I'm more partial to Monty Are I, I really dig their latest cd "Wall of People", and highly recommend anyone to pick it up. Monty Are I put on an insane show. They were everywhere. So much so, it was very hard for me to get a good picture of them in focus with my crap ass camera, but I put up some anyways. Red Jump Suit was good, but they didn't have the energy and pressence Monty Are I were emmitting. I really went to the show to see Monty, but I enjoy each bands set.

Lorene drive, the opening act was really good. Their sound had this Motley Crue type thing going on. Alot of songs about making sweet love and lusting over womens bodies. They are great party music. Sadly they had no CDs for sale. NONE. The lead singer told me they are having some dispute with their record label and are not being provided Cds or maybe they just werent selling the Cds at their shows. That really sucks since a whole shit load of kids were asking for them. He said you can still find them in stores though so I'll be sure to go pick one up.


I got the chance to talk to Steve, the lead singer and guitar player for Monty Are I, and got to talk about a few of their songs, and he filled me in on a couple of things I had been pondering about their new album. Steve was a real cool guy and easy to talk to. First I asked him about the song "Castle Bound" which they played last night. When Steve introduced the song he said "Has anyone ever played the Legend of Zelda?" to a roaring response (who hasn't?), "This song is about the princess". NICE. Well the song starts off with a midi sound 8-bit musical clicks just like music from NES games. Everytime I heard that song, I kept thinking it was an actual song I remembered hearing in a game. Steve filled me in. They composed the intro using the 8-bit sounds from nintendo, but its completely original and is the same chorus from the song. Finally I won't keep trying to remember which game that was from. Also I asked him if he drew any inspiration from the band Survivor for the final track "Only the Weak". Steve raised his hands double fisted saying "YES!" looking to his buds at the merch table. "No one really ever tells me that, how old are you?", "Im 25" I tell him. He said the kids out at these shows never really catch on to that type of stuff. He told me he was listening to some Survivor and drew some inspiration to write that song. Unfortunately they didnt play it that night, he told me it wasn't of the songs they had rehearsed for the tour. BAH! Maybe next time.

If you ever get the chance to see these guys live, you need to jump on it. MONTY ARE I WILL ROCK YOUR FACE OFF.


Ashley wheels and deals her way to a ten dollar shirt.


Ash with either the drummer or the other singer of Monty Are I (I think they are twins).