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Official Site: www.chiba-ken.net
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“It was a cold December morning when
I awoke from my alcoholic blackout…” said
lead singer and founder of Chiba-Ken, George William Freund. “Someone stirred in the bed next to me.I grabbed my knife…”
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
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“It was a cold December morning when
I awoke from my alcoholic blackout…” said
lead singer and founder of Chiba-Ken, George William Freund. “Someone stirred in the bed next to me.I grabbed my knife…”
George rambled through the rest of his
experience in Tokyo, Japan with unparalleled
enthusiasm. However my phone kept vibrating
in my pocket, distracting me from his sprawling
point. Should I see who’s calling? Should I
interrupt him? These thoughts raced through my
head. What set him off on this rant? What had
I asked him? Then I remembered, I asked him
the same question that I have asked countless
bands. Why start a band? Here, in short form, is
the band’s response.
George Freund (lead singer): It turned out that
the person next to me was a blonde-haired
female, 5’6”, Caucasian, which was odd, me
being in Japan. I asked her where I was, her
simple hyphenated reply was the name of a
town, a town that would change my life forever.
That town was “Chiba-Ken.”
Justin M. D’Amelio (bass): Chiba-Ken is actually
a prefecture in Tokyo, not a town. It’s known as
Japan’s leading exporter of spiny lobster. The
name derives from the Chiba family, who once
was the ruling family of the region.
Jason D’Amelio (drummer): I like lobster.
GF: Thank you Jason, we all do.
(At this point Elias Dionysus Tannous, the
passionate Mediterranean, answers his
cell phone, yelling instructions in Greek to some
poor soul on the opposite end of the line. He
hangs up and apologizes.)
Elias Tannous (guitar, piano): Chiba-Ken
is a hard rock band that has been together
for 4 years. In that time we have put out
a demo, an EP, and the full length album
“Are We Innocent?”
We are sponsored by Sam Ash, Vic Firth,
Jägermeister, LoveNico Clothing, Little Paw
skateboards…
JD: Basically, we’re fucking good.
GF: I can sit
here and tell you that we’re gonna be the biggest
thing since “The Rabbit” dildo, but how do you
know? I’ve seen band bios, that are obviously
written by the band themselves, that say shit
like “if Metallica and Beethoven had a child, it
would be Nut Sex.” Then you see the band play
and they suck, and I’m like, “Are you serious?
Did you actually use your band’s name and
Beethoven in the same sentence?”
ET: I love when bands call themselves “Pink
Floyd-esque.”
GF: Yeah, that’s another widely used term. What
can I say? Put us onstage and let us do our
thing. We’re a good band.
ET: We paid our dues playing the NYC scene for
2 years straight. It’s such a tough city, but if you
can make it there…
GF: We did a mid-west tour in 2005 and found
that we were huge in Kansas. They were
spinning our EP “Faces of the Moment” in
Wichita and it was getting a huge response. That
show was awesome. We had women throwing
themselves at us and offering up their houses for
us to stay at.
JD: Rock n’ Roll, man.
ET: We got our album “Are We Innocent?”
distributed nationally by Koch Distribution and
Sony Red Online. We’ve been playing tons of
shows to promote the album.
JD: We all moved into a house together last
year that also serves as our rehearsal space.
It’s great, we practice there and we also throw
parties and everybody gets fucked up. We have
kids come out to the house that are underage,
and we consider it our duty to make sure that
they have an amazing experience.
GF: For some of them, it’s their first time getting drunk or seeing a woman’s bare breasts. There’s
no better feeling in the world then watching a
child’s face light up when he sees an amazing
pair of tits for the first time. It’s at those moments
where I know we are doing something right and
are making a difference in these kids’ lives.
In closing I asked the band what their goals are,
what they wanted to achieve…
ET: Everybody wants to be a rock star. When you
see a band on TV you see 1% of what it means
to be in a band. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever
done. We see so much talent out there, but talent
alone won’t make you a success.
GF: Music has always spoken to me. I can’t
get away from it. I tried once and it kept calling
me and found me again. I gave up everything
I had to do this and I’ve been happier since. I
can die tomorrow and be content with having
achieved something that a lot of people don’t get
to experience, which is, giving yourself fully to
something you believe in.
JD: Of course it would be nice to be rich and not
have to worry about the consequences of your
actions.
GF: That would be cool too. I would like to trash
at least one hotel room and not have to worry
about paying for it.
JD: Yeah, and do some drugs off of a
prostitute’s body, but not have to worry about if
she’s clean or not, because she’s a high class
call girl and your roadie checked her out before
hand…that kind of piece of mind is priceless.
(There is a brief moment of silence after Jason’s response.)
GF: Yeah I want to be rich.
ET: I just noticed that my initials were ET. That’s
kinda funny.
Band: Great movie.
Great movie indeed. Chiba-Ken. A great band
and a great group of people to be around. May all of us got to Hell except for these guys. |
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| Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
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Hey thanks to everyone who came out to our show with From Autumn to Ashes and BoySetsFire! It was an awesome show and you guys were great. Sign up on our mailing list so we can keep you up to date with new show, new recordings, and other band info. See you soon!
Chiba-Ken
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