If you spend too much of your time fuming about all the shitty gimmick acts flooding the city and the comparative dearth of regular-(read: maybe not so good)looking guys riffing on Government Issue, you can finally stop being angry and start being that other kind of angry. Golden Error are playing tonight at Cake Shop and again tomorrow at Glasslands with the often-mistaken-for-them Golden Triangle, who we admit are a teensy bit schticky, but whatever, they’re good. At least they don’t act like they’re fucking “goin’ steady.”
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Vice: Do you guys get confused with that band the Golden Triangle a lot?
Eric (vocals): Yes. They’re friends of ours. I think we chose our name first but all of a sudden there are a ton of “golden” bands. That shit always work in cycles.
It’s like when all those kids movies about bugs were coming out. Or the big asteroid cycle.
Jordan (bass): I came up with the name. Sam McPheeters used to have a zine called Error. I have a Southern accent though, so no one understands it. We’ve been mislisted about ten times as Golden Arrow and Golden Era. We haven’t been Golden Earring yet but that day is coming.
You guys are doing Pop Montreal at the end of the month. Have you played up there before?
Eric: We had a great time the last time we played it. I got in a fight which these guys think is hilarious. Some guy was fucking with our equipment outside of L’Escogriffe and said fuck you when I asked him to move.
Jordan: Everybody’s nicer than hell up there but at the same time they’re all really shady. Didn’t Iggy Pop get his shit stolen there a couple weeks ago?
Yes, Mike Watt too.
Eric: So I was loading stuff into the van and the guy said, “You should get punched.” He had a pony tail and a wind breaker on. I grabbed him by the ponytail and the windbreaker and held him in this Royce Gracie position. I pulled his windbreaker over his head and kept reminding him that I wasn’t punching him although I could be and that he should submit. I was trying to be rational in an irrational situation.
Jordan: I left to try to talk to some French Canadian girl.
Eric: He threw me back into this fence which had a bunch of spikes on the top and I almost threw his head onto the spikes but I’m glad I didn’t. The guy that put on the show came over and broke it up. Afterward the kids at the show gave him a bunch of shit about it. One was like, “I can’t believe you bring these American bands here and they just start shit.”
Do people fuck with you a lot on tour?
Eric: People fuck with me a lot all the time.
I think it’s because you have angry eyebrows. I’ve got them too.
Keith (guitar): There was this one time that someone snuck up behind Jordan and Jordan’s got a notorious butt crack that always shows. Jordan was bent over in this rock bass master stance and someone snuck up behind him and emptied a full beer into his crack.
Jordan: Everything that’s bad about swamp ass mixed with everything that’s bad about warm Coors Light.
Sometimes it sounds like you’re playing your bass finger-style a la Flea. Is he a hero of yours?
Jordan: It’s funny you say that because when I was 13 I learned Bloodsugarsexmagic front to back. That’s real talk. I like his acting career though. I thought he was awesome in Suburbia.
Eric: He was also in Fear.
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Is that why you guys cover “Scar Tissue”?
Eric: It’s not a cover of the Red Hot Chili Peppers song.
Jordan: Look, I don’t pop or slap my bass. I don’t even like playing without a pick.
What’s “Reverse the Curse” about?
Eric: Witchcraft. Ask that guy.
Kieth: Why are you asking me? I don’t know. I just know it’s got a cool guitar part.
Eric: Ask us about “Sad, Sad Zelda.” That’s the song that people like.
What’s “Sad, Sad Zelda” about?
It refers to The Dobie Gillis Show. It’s a song about a girl who’s complaining about how she can’t find the right guy and she hates the town she lives in.
That is like my dad’s all-time favorite TV show. Oh, that and JAG.
NICK GAZIN
Sad, Sad Zelda
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