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Ask the Promise Ring anything!

Posted by scott on Wednesday, July 31, 2002 at 12:29 AM (EDT)

I'm interviewing Dan Didier from the Promise Ring this Sunday. Post any questions you may have for the band below. Rock.

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

Ask them why they only played for an hour monday nite at their headling show in Pittsburgh. The hour they did play was awesome...but an hour as the headlner? disapointing

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blotto (July 31, 2002)

dude, an hour as a headliner isn't enough? Wha?

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blotto (July 31, 2002)

You clearly can't spell so how can we trust you to know how to count?

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

yeah you told him!

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

You must be the kinda guy that goes to Pink Floyd shows that last for about 8 straight hours and everybody wonder if they're dead on the scene or they're just takin' their pills.

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seek (July 31, 2002)

Pink Floyd shows don't exist, nor were they ever that long. Are you the kind of guy to complain that you get a long show after spending 25 bucks to see it?

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

I would be totally satisfied with an hour. I mean 45 minutes is pretty customary, anything over that is great. Longest I saw was Bad Religion, they had to play an hour and a half, at least. But PR is not Bad Religion.

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

Yeah, the show monday night was weak as hell...not so much because they only played for an hour, but because we all paid 12 dollars to watch a band sleep on stage for said hour. With the exception of a few songs it was all new stuff, which isn't bad, but it's been done before, and it's been done better. Definitely wasn't worth the two hour drive.

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HandsDown313 (July 31, 2002)

ask them what happened @ the boston show, when davey got clocked in the face with someones CD

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

1st Question: Hey Dan, Could you tell me what has 9 arms and sucks??? A- Def Leppard. Looking forward to see my question asked. Thanx

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lockdown59 (July 31, 2002)

That's classic!

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

How do they feel about being on the urban outfitters soundtrack, and in light of that appearance and the recent popularity of bands like jimmy eat world and new found glory are they moving in a more mainstream direction?

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

when are they going to tour again? i missed them with jommy eat world(sold out show) and i'm hoping for them to do a tour in support of wood/water and come by massachusetts, and not play an 18+ show? and: what are their favorite records at the moment?

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

I want to know when or if he'll be releasing to DJ stuff that he did under the name "DJ Moose".I heard him spin it once and it was rad. later Threace

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

how does it feel to be a part of the next doomed trend like ska? do you have that sinking feeling yet?

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

Hey Dan, How does it feel to have the best album out of 2002?

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

when i asked davy to play electric ping at their oslo show, he declined saying "we're not that drunk!" what the hell did that mean? tell him they're a great band as well, and their new disc is top notch.

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

Ask him why they go through so many bass players and why Scott Schoenbeck is no longer in the band. thanks

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

Ask him how the hell they all got to be so damn cute! Also ask them if he would rather be tickled or teased and why.

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

-How cool is it that Jimmy Eat World are in a position to return a favor and take the Promise Ring on tour, instead of them opening for you. Many bands who achieve big burst of popularity usually leave their ex touring mates behind. follow up: -How does it make you feel to know that a band you carried on tour for so long has just exploded on a mainstream level and has achieved much of what you were once looking for? Seeing that happen, does that reaffirm the Promise Ring's drive towards mainstream or does it allow you to remain a solid, big "indie" band?

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

Why did they NOT play "why did we ever meet".. :(

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

I saw this band called Adrenalin O.D. do a reunion show and they played for nearly 3 hours. They had their original bass player Jack Steeples playing that show. He's the greatest bass player I've ever seen.

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

First off, I was at the Pittsburgh show this past Monday, I was that tall kid in the front on the right side of the stage, although I can't say I timed the concert, TPR put on one hell of a show! They played 10 songs off the new disc (Size of Your Life, Stop Playing Guitar, Become One Anything One Time, Wake Up April, Get on the Floor, Half Year Sun, My Life is At Home, Letters to the Far Reaches, Bread and Cofee, Feed the Night) which was awesome as hell, they also threw in 4 of their older songs. "My Life is at Home" stole the show in my opinion. I highly doubt that their set was "just" an hour. They also didn't do an encore. I respect that. Some bands do an encore no matter what. That is cheap as hell. It was obvious that the Pittsburgh crowd wasnt feeling them, you could hear a pin drop inbetween songs, so they didnt do an encore, good for them.

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

Ask them what they think about The Getaway joining up onto their label(Epitaph)? Have they even heard of them?

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

Here's a couple: What provoked them to move from Jade Tree to Anti-? Also, any chance they're going to play Milky Christmas again up at the Miramar Theatre?

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

or better yet, why do they think anti wanted them? Its generally a label for older artists already established in the mainstream, so how comfortable do they feel, being a relatively "new" band?

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Someone (July 31, 2002)

Do they think counting crows are ripping them off on that american girls song?