A night with Catch 22
By Jen Stevenson
Issue date: 12/4/03 Section: Film & Music
The Strand: Do you have any kind of message you’re trying to give your fans or do you play more for fun?
Catch 22: Not necessarily. Each of us in the band… [has a] different message. We just try to make good music and write songs and… they have to relate to our lives.
The Strand: What’s the best part about touring?
Catch 22: We’ve haven’t been touring for the past year, but it’s really good to be back out again. I don’t know, it’s…getting together with a bunch of bands, a bunch of guys and girls… and just making friends. That’s a really good part of it: making connections. There’s a lot of good people.
The Strand: Do you have any crazy stories from the tour so far?
Catch 22: Well, last night we got attacked by a hooker! She… dropped her phone and our base player Mingus tried picking it up for her and she wigged out on him… He has long hair so she just grabbed at him and started ripping at his hair. We all tried getting her off, at first just trying to break them up, but she wouldn’t let off and she started biting people! She bit Calvin, our guitar player, in the finger and ripped the tip of his finger off. He’s going to the hospital for blood tests now. She bit me right here on my arm, through my coat, twice [here he lifts up his sleeve and shows me his battle wound]. She was just crazy man, ‘cause there were a couple of us trying to get her off, but she was doped up.
The Strand: Where was this?
Catch 22: This was in Detroit… just after the show.
The Strand: How does the song-writing process work?
Catch 22: I wrote most of the lyrics for the album, but it’s an overall group effort. I bring a song to the band and once it’s done it’s totally a Catch 22 song. But Ian [on trombone] is very musically inclined… he knows a lot about chord progressions. So he’ll write the stuff, bring it to the band and he’ll make song out of it.
Catch 22: Not necessarily. Each of us in the band… [has a] different message. We just try to make good music and write songs and… they have to relate to our lives.
The Strand: What’s the best part about touring?
Catch 22: We’ve haven’t been touring for the past year, but it’s really good to be back out again. I don’t know, it’s…getting together with a bunch of bands, a bunch of guys and girls… and just making friends. That’s a really good part of it: making connections. There’s a lot of good people.
The Strand: Do you have any crazy stories from the tour so far?
Catch 22: Well, last night we got attacked by a hooker! She… dropped her phone and our base player Mingus tried picking it up for her and she wigged out on him… He has long hair so she just grabbed at him and started ripping at his hair. We all tried getting her off, at first just trying to break them up, but she wouldn’t let off and she started biting people! She bit Calvin, our guitar player, in the finger and ripped the tip of his finger off. He’s going to the hospital for blood tests now. She bit me right here on my arm, through my coat, twice [here he lifts up his sleeve and shows me his battle wound]. She was just crazy man, ‘cause there were a couple of us trying to get her off, but she was doped up.
The Strand: Where was this?
Catch 22: This was in Detroit… just after the show.
The Strand: How does the song-writing process work?
Catch 22: I wrote most of the lyrics for the album, but it’s an overall group effort. I bring a song to the band and once it’s done it’s totally a Catch 22 song. But Ian [on trombone] is very musically inclined… he knows a lot about chord progressions. So he’ll write the stuff, bring it to the band and he’ll make song out of it.
