Did that revelation come from playing out? Or was it from you guys sitting down together, privately, and coming up with these ideas.

We had a month off. I went and worked on some music. Duddy [Dustin Bushnell] went and worked on some music. Everybody just kind of went off and we took some time away from everything. We’ve been playing together for ten, thirteen years. I think just going off and creatively doing different things, when we got back together and started rehearsing, I don’t know it was really weird but everyone was kind of on the same page. It wasn’t like we sat down and discussed it. Or somebody was against it and then we had to talk them into it. Everybody’s like, “I think we should try to get into some reggae and just strictly reggae hip-hop.”

I guess you probably haven’t really recorded anything or worked on it?

No, we’ve just been thinking about it, now. It’s not in the works yet. Our main focus is the Slightly Stoopid tour. If you’re going out with Slightly Stoopid, we’ve got to step our game up. In general, we’re always trying to improve. But, if you’re going out with Slightly Stoopid on tour – they’re such an amazing band and every single member is so talented that I think for us, we’re really just concentrating on making our show the best that we can make it, so we can hold up against those guys.

Are you guys going to add some instrumental breakdown sections to get the crowd warmed up?

We’ve talked about it yeah, it’s funny. Stoopid can jam, and do whatever they want. They’re really, really good. Should we take a page out of their book or should we stick to what we do? We have a really cool cover that we did with Daryl Hall that everybody was really jazzed about – we did “Rich Girl” on Live from Daryl’s House. I think we’re going to get that back into it. I think we’re going to bring some old stuff back into the show. On this last tour that we did before, last summer, we realized that we had fans that started coming to multiple shows. Like “we’re going to follow the Dirty Heads around this summer. We’re going to see five or six shows.” We were always the band that makes a set at the beginning of the tour and we just play that set because we like it. We think it’s the strongest. Now, we’re thinking oh, well there’s people coming to see us multiple nights, we’ve got to start switching it up, so we’re not just playing the same thing every night.

You mentioned looking up to Slightly Stoopid as you guys grew up and started touring more, who are your other influences?

When me and Dustin met and we were writing music, I think Beastie Boys and Sublime were our biggest influences, because they blended genres. I think bands like that really connected with us, because we were huge into hip hop and Wu-Tang and Tribe Called Quest. And then a lot of reggae. So Beastie Boys and Sublime were the first two bands for us, personally, that were like, oh, you can take more than one genre and blend it in and make it sound good, rather than making it sound confusing or all over the place. I think those two bands really were the biggest ones that influenced us when we started writing.

How have you seen those influences change over the years, as you’ve started touring?

Being a musician, you just start listening to other music with more of an open mind just from being a fan. Because when you’re a fan sometimes, you just get locked down in that hate –“I hate country, I hate this and I hate that. I only listen to reggae, or I only listen to hip hop”. I was definitely that kid that was like, “I only listen to underground hip-hop, I’m too cool.” Or a song that’s huge and I’m like, “I’m so against this huge pop song,” but now I look at it and I’m like, “Damn, that’s a really well-written chorus.” [laughs]. So, your whole mindset changes over the years of writing music and respecting other music and knowing when something is good. If it’s good, it’s good.

Looking back, I also wonder if you can talk about how your name came to be?

We didn’t have a name. We were just writing music and we actually wrote a song where Dirty Heads was the main hook of this chorus. And, we started playing it with Dustin’s older brother’s band. And, then people were like, yo “are you going to play with Dustin’s brother’s band, that Dirty Heads song, that Dirty Heads song, that Dirty Heads song.” And then, Dirty Heads was kind of like this little clique that we had of kids that we would skate and surf with. And it just kind of became our name.

Usually in every interview we just lie about our name. Like we would just make up shit. We would just pick movie plots and say that’s how we did it, like Step Brothers or something. But, I actually gave you the real one.

That’s all the ground I have to cover. Is there anything else you want to add?

I have a small boutique clothing line that I do with my wife called TgrShrk. All organic clothing, sweatshop-free, only American made. We do that. I have a podcast that I do with my brother and a friend of mine that’s all about video games. I’m a huge gamer. It’s called WorthlessGameReview.com. We’ve got episodes up on iTunes.

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