photo by: Tracy Nixon

BSD-"Take it Sleazy" was influenced and co-written with Johnny Lima and now this latest album is solely done by DP – how is this album different? Did you feel that you were confident enough as artists to tackle this album all on your own? 

DP - We did work with Johnny Lima on this album, and he did produce it.  So he was definitely there - he was less part of the writing process, but still a producer in that aspect.  So we still had him there.  The songs are a lot about life experiences and fun stories and us just writing about shit. 

BSD - Who does most of the writing? Do you all do it as a collaborative effort?

DP - We all do.  Lyrically, it's usually like someone will bring a theme of a song and a chorus to the table, then we all work together and it just happens. 

BSD-The song "Dead at 16" was obviously influenced by some serious situations.  Did any of you truly feel like you might be Dead at 16? 

DP - That song is written about life experiences that we have had and other people's lives that we have seen and it became a mixture.  Dead at 16 is about as "preachy" as Dirty Penny gets.

What about 25?   Maybe by 30?

DP - (Laughter) - Spanky replied to this one, "Who knows? "I'll be the first one to die anyway -The drummer is always the first to go". 

                                              

                                                                                      photo by: Tracy Nixon
 
BSD-Another song that really is catching is "If I were you, I’d hate me too?"  Do you guys feel like there are any big artists or influential people that do HATE you?

DP - (Laughter)- Wherever we go and whenever we walk into a place, we get eyeballed - just because of the way that we look.  They don't even know us, they haven't said one word to us and they have an opinion - based soley on what we look like.  Looking at it from their perspective...If I were you I'd probably hate me too... It's kind of like sticking your tongue out at society.  Screw you, this is what I do and I'm sorry you do what you do and are miserable.  We have dealt with this since the first Rocklahoma, it's been about 50/50 of cool fuckin' people that treat you like a person and people that have a little resentment and think they are better and maybe they are jealous - or it's whatever they are fuckin' going through.  We're just doing what they did like fuckin' 10-15 years ago, trying to come up when you don't have everything yet and for some reason they treat you like shit.  We can't wait to treat younger bands like shit....(laughter) just kiddin'.


BSD-It is awesome to hear that you are jumping out on a headlining tour with Vains of Jenna, who happen to sound quite similar to you.  How do you guys stand out and stay unique?  Do you think the similarities could hurt DP? 

DP-We are different enough to where it is like how Crue and Guns N Roses are lumped together - but they are not the same at all.  Like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, and you say they're like the same band.  If you do know the music and you get to know the personalities of the two bands and that makes them even better and you know who is who as far as being different.  With the new album out, it's very different from the first and our stage show is very different and we feel like we are playing with a really cool mix of bands and it's only gonna work with this style of music.  Other band's fans will see us and might think we are sick and our fans might see them for the first time and think these guys are sick too.  We'll just share fans (laughter).  Obviously some are gonna like us more and some are gonna like the band that they are used to seeing but we hope that this gives us a chance to grow our fan base.