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SEE AT L .... THE EVIL PLACE------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------Lyrics for "DOWNHILL" " here is some info on the los gattos new release WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE DEE DEE RAMONES IMPUT ON A FEW PARTS OF THIS SONG TO MAKE IT COMPLETE. HE CONTRIBUTED SOME LYRIC ADVICE THAT WE USED IN PLACE OF THE ONES WE ORIGINALLY HAD . AS WELL AS THE GUITAR SOLO PART .. .... WE ASKED DEE DEE IF IT WAS OK TO CREDIT HIM FOR THIS AND HE TOLD US IT WOULD BE FINE . HE ALSO ADDED " I DONT KNOW IF IT WILL HELP YOU OUT OR, NOT.. BUT,, YOU CAN TRY" 4 YEARS AFTER DEE DEEs DEATH, WE MADE SEVERAL TRIPS UP TO NEW YORK CITY TO RECORD W/ ARTIST/MUSICIAN AND CLOSE FRIEND TO DEE DEE,, ENA PAUL KOSTABI. THE CD WAS STARTED IN SOME STUDIO ON 2 OND AVE AND THEN RE DONE OVER AT PIERMONT STUDIOS NYC .. TONY MANN SHOWED ALOT OF INTEREST IN ALL OF OUR SONGS THAT, WE ENDED UP USING HIM ON ALL THE DRUM TRACKS IN PLACE OF OUR DRUMMER WHO WAS UNAVAILABLE AT THE TIME OF RECORDING. THIS IS PAULS ROUGH MIX OF THE FIRST RECORDING OF THE SONG... IT WAS LATER RE DONE AND THIS VERSION WAS SCRATCHED .. MICHEL SOLIS LATER, RE MIXED AND MASTERED THE ENTIRE CD AND WANKER RECORDS IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE .. YOU CAN STILL ORDER THE CD THROUGH ARTMONKEY RECORDS ONLINE EVEN THOUGH WE ARE NO LONGER AFFILIATED W/ THE LABEL. THANKS DEE DEE THE MEMORIES YOU LEFT US WITH WILL LAST OUR LIFETIMES LOS GATTOS 2008-HERE IS SOME WRITINGS BY NIGHT OWL FROM HOLLYWOODS KAOS 13 PUNK GANG FROM 1983 . WITH THESE WRITINGS HE RECOUNTS SOME OF THE OLD STORIES OF BEING IN A PUNK GANG IN LOS ANGELES SUCH AS KAOS 13 OR THE LADS AKA THE LOS ANGLES DEATH SQUAD OR SXR SACRED RIECH IN THE EARLY 1980S. NIGHT OWLS WRITING IS REALY GREAT AND HE TELLS WITH GREAT DETAIL AND RECALECTION ABOUT THE OLD PUNK DAYS IN LA AND ABOUT THE OLD PUNK GANG SCEEN IN LA.... Kaos 13 started in 1983. The founders were Flaco, Shady, and myself. I heard Payaso (who later joined LADS) claimed that he started Kaos and that is not true. Payaso wasn't even a first recruit and he asked us if he could join. The first recruits were Driver, Raper, Ripper and a skinhead chick named Skinner. Driver had a bad twitching problem. His twitching consisted of slapping his arm whenever he felt excited and twitching his head whenever he felt nervous. We recruited Driver because he was the only person we knew who had a car. Raper and Ripper were street punx who we met at the Cathay de Grande. Skinner was a short, chubby chick with a bald head who used to beat up every trendy chick she saw. We thought it was funny at first but then we realized we could have been scamming on those trendy girls. We finally kicked Skinner out of the gang when some trendy chicks wanted to get with us and we were going for them but then Skinner tried to spray them with a fire extinguisher but it wouldn't work so she hit one of them with it and the girls ran off. We had enough of Skinner and drove her back to SFV.
Kaos needed more recruits so we decided to get former members from the Sadistic Exploits gang that Shady and I were in. However, most of the former members joined HRP and LADS but Shady called Big Larry (RIP) from the North Side to see if he wanted to join. Larry was interested and he recruited punx from his area who were Greg aka Damian, Monkey, Tiny, a skinhead named Vandal and a mod named Sir Doc. Those were the original North Siders in Kaos. We also recruited some of our buddies such as Gary Davis, Wank Stain, and George who were also former SxE members. We tried to recruit Tony Wolf (RIP) and Adam Mendoza but they were not interested. Around that time is when Payaso joined along with Brian Jughead.The first Kaos meeting was going to be at the Beverly Center Mall. I don't why it was going to be there. It was Payaso's idea. I wondered why we couldn't meet somewhere else cooler like the Cathay or Pan Pacific Park? Nonetheless, it was still cool because we scared the shit out of the Beverly Center crowd and they didn't know what to think of us punx mobbing the place. We met a few trendy chicks who wanted to join Kaos and Payaso told them if they wanted to join they had to . . . well you know? So we took them to Pan Pacific Park. Flaco, Payaso, Shady and the girls drove in Driver's car while the rest of us walked. I was beginning to sense that Payaso was trying to take over Kaos.As I walked to Pan Pacific Park with the rest of Kaos. Two drunk college football jocks were in a car and making fun of us. They both looked like defensive linemen and as they were driving off, Big Larry ran up to their car and punched out their window. The car stopped and the jocks sat there in shock while Larry walked away nonchalantly. Some of the Kaos members were afraid that the cops might show up so they took off. I did too but then I realized Larry was still back there so I went back for him. Larry asked why everyone ran and he was pissed and then the jocks in the car were driving up and waving their baseball bats and yelling "Come back you motherfuckers!" Since they had baseball bats we took off and ran to 3rd Street. Larry told me to ask a women in a parked car if she could give us a ride. The lady was in a Mercedes Benz and she looked very wealthy. I tapped on her window and asked if she could give us a ride and she gave me the most frightened look I ever saw on someone. She did not answer and locked her door. I tried to explain that some jocks were chasing us and she pushed the button on her lock again to make sure it was locked and then drove off. I didn't blame her though. If I were in her shoes and saw a skinhead and a big black punk rocker approaching me, I'd do the same.
We got to the park, got stoned, drunk and tagged Kaos everywhere. The next night we were crossed out by a gang called The Drunx.We were in Driver's car when we drove in the parking lot. Flaco was in the passenger seat, Shady, Johnny (HRP), and me were in the backseat. We saw that our hit ups were crossed out by the Drunx and we were like "What the fuck?" Flaco was furious and he didn't like the Drunx anyway. We noticed some heads getting drunk at a picnic table. It was five black dudes, one white dude, and a few white chicks. It was the Drunx. One of the black dudes name was Todd aka Joker and the white dude was Damon aka Demon who was with his girlfriend Ms KK or whatever she called herself. Damon lived down the street from me but I never talked to him. Flaco yelled "There they are! Let's drive down there and run 'em the fuck over!" Driver was twitching rapidly and refused to do it. It was good he didn't because we probably would have crashed into the picnic table and looked like a bunch of dumbasses.
The next evening, Flaco arranged for Kaos to meet up at Brian Jughead's house on Fuller Street, because his parents were out of town. Brian's house would later be known as The Infamous Fuller Pad. The one's who showed up were Flaco, Shady, Payaso, Big Larry, Damian, Driver, and myself. Brian handed us each a baseball bat that he got from somewhere and then we piled in Driver's car and drove to the park. Contrary to our expectation, the Drunx were not there and we searched the whole park. We drove back to Brian's house and got stoned off some red hair bud that I scored off some stoner dude.The Drunx started crossing out the SR's (Sacred Reich) and it was an uproar. Payaso was communicating with an SR/LADS member named Cyco II and arranged that Kaos would back them up against the Drunx. Payaso said it was a good move for Kaos to back up SR because it would give us good relations with the LADS. Kaos was gonna meet up with SR and LADS at Fairfax High School and jump the Drunx as soon as school got out.
Since it was short notice, the whole Kaos gang wasn't there. The only one's who showed up were Flaco, Shady, Driver, Payaso, and myself. The whole SR gang was there and only a few LADS showed up. Henry (RIP) from LADS introduced himself to me and I met a few skinheads named Chunky and Jimbo from a skinhead gang called North Side Firm. Cyco II greeted us and thanked us for showing up. He was Cyco II because Doper had the name first. Doper was the founder and Leader of SR.Anyway, I saw that most of the SR's were stoners or stoner cholos and the one who stood out the most was Doper. He was dressed like a full on cholo with a hairnet, kakie pants, and buttoned up flannel. I thought at first Doper was Mexican but Shady told me later he was half black and half white.We watched as the students exited Fairfax High and then we saw a few members from the Drunx, it was Joker and some other black dude who was tall and wore a derby hat. We mobbed across the street and surrounded them. Cyco II got up in Joker's face and asked why he crossed out SR. Joker told him that he didn't and explained it was a few members he recently kicked out and who started a gang called the Winos. That was the first time anyone had heard of the Winos and they would make themselves known later in the months. SR believed them and decided not to jump them. Flaco approached Joker and asked him why he crossed out Kaos and Joker gave him the same story. Joker was full of shit, because he crossed out Kaos and SR. For one it was his writing and he left his name. I felt like I wasted my time showing up there.As soon as the crowd cleared, I spotted a punk chick sitting outside Second Time Around. She was half black and half white with purple hair, plaid bondage pants, suspenders, and docs. She looked pretty and I adored her. She was talking to another punk chick who was black with a mohawk. I asked Payaso who the purple haired chick was and he told me her name was Jennifer and the other chick was Dana. I stared at Jennifer for a bit and then left with my Kaos homeboys.I was at Brian's house in the evening and told him about Jennifer. He told me he knew her and had her number. He gave it to me and I called her. I felt sort of awkward calling a chick who didn't know me and when she asked who I was, I said something like "This is Skinhead" and her response was "Oh, were you the one at Fairfax High today?" I was surprised because I thought she didn't notice me and I knew I was gonna score when she told me I looked cute. We talked for a bit and she told me she recently broke up with Henry from LADS. We were boyfriend and girlfriend for about a month and then we parted ways. It was fun while it lasted.Westwood Village was the place where every trendy and asshole jock hung out. Most of the punks who hung out were poseurs and their main spot was McDonalds. The only real and cool punks were two Suis named Mooch (ex-Beer Nuts) and Chuckwagon and two black punks named J-Bird and RJ. J-Bird became a member of Suis in '85 and I heard a member from Graveyard Crips threw him through a store window. He done that because Suis were allies with Venice Shoreline Crips who were rivals with Graveyard Crips. All I knew, that Crip had to have been one bad motherfucker because J-Bird was a big dude. Anyway, Kaos and SR got into a beef with some trendy gang called the Westwood Locals and their leader was a half black and half white dude who was starting all the shit. I don't remember the dude's name so I'll call him "Pinche Leva". This was how the beef got started.Shady and I were hanging out in Westwood Village one night to scam on trendy chicks and we were hanging out at some bar and grill called Designer Buns where Chuckwagon worked as a bouncer. We were upstairs hanging out with the regular Westwood heads and I remembered some stoner dude was playing Suicidal Tendencies on a boombox, this was their first record before "Join The Army" which came out a few years later. Pinche Leva walked in with his trendy buddies and said to the stoner "What are you playing that shit for?" but the stoner dude ignored him. Pinche Leva was a tall dude and looked to be around 17 or 18. I started looking at Pinche Leva and since I was hammered and near sighted, I thought he was a skinhead and then I realized his docs were really monkey boots and his flight jacket was just a regular jacket and his buzzed head was actually a flat top or some shit. Pinche Leva noticed me staring at him and said "Hey you with the skinhead!" He told the stoner to turn the music off which he did. The room fell quiet."You smoking the cigarette, I'm talking to you!" said Pinche Leva."What's up?" I replied, taking a drag off my smoke."You were giving me hard looks, you got a problem with me?""I wasn't giving you hard looks, you looked like someone I knew."His trendy buddies chuckled at me as if I were backing down from him and then Pinche Leva looked at me and Shady."Where you two from?""We're from Kaos" I replied."Kaos? What the fuck is that, Get Smart or some shit?" He asked and his buddies chucked again."No, we ain't no Get Smart." I replied with an angry tone."Yeah, well this is Westwood Locals territory and I'm the leader and you two need to go back to wherever the fuck you came from!" He yelled."We ain't going nowhere." I snapped back.Hearing the yelling, Chuckwagon ran upstairs and told Pinche Leva to back off us. Before Pinche Leva left with his Westwood Local buddies, he said he was gonna wait for us outside. Shady looked at me and said "Hey Adam, you were giving him hard looks, you gave him you're evil eye." My "evil eye" was something I had no control over and a lot of times I didn't mean to give people my "evil eye". I finished the rest of my cigarette and then grabbed an empty beer bottle and put it in my green flight jacket. We went outside but Pinche Leva and his buddies were not there. "Fucking pussies! I was hoping to hit one of them with my lion ring." Shady said. He wore a lion ring that represented his Leo sign. It was a gift from his father who got killed in a drug deal gone bad when he was around 9 years old.Later that night, we ran into Mike Burkett (NOFX), Jordan (RIP) from FFF and a few other punks. Shady recognized Jordan and he told me he was the one who called him a nigger at the Cathay de Grande. It happened at Sin 34's final show in '84. Shady and I were out front and we had just finished a few 40's of Oldie on top of the bowling alley nearby. We were joking and laughing and FFF was across the street giving us dirty looks. I didn't recognize any of them but knew they were from SFV. One of them said to Shady "What are you smiling about you fucking nigger." Shady was shocked and said to me "He just called me a nigger, what the fuck?" I replied "Yeah he did but there's too many of them, maybe we'll catch him by himself". We found out his name was Jordan who lived in Beverly Hills and he was one of the original members in Flaco's band called False Alarm.So there was Jordan without his FFF homeboys and I was still pissed off about that Pinche Leva dude so I approached Jordan and confronted him "You remember us that night at the Cathay?" I asked him. He said it did and then I got up in his face and said "That was fucking bullshit you calling my homeboy Dee here a nigger, what's up with that!" Jordan backed down and said very timidly "I was drunk that night, didn't know what I was saying, I'm sorry about that." I backed off him and took the bus home with Shady. I had a lot of balls to confront Jordan like that since he was from FFF and he was bigger than me but I guessed that's why I was called "Crazy Niteowl".A few nights later, Flaco called me and told me he just got jumped by the Westwood Locals. He explained he was hanging out in Westwood with Tim Cimiskey aka Lonely Boy from SR. They were gonna go inside Designer Buns but Pinche Leva and his Westwood Locals blocked the entrance and asked where they were from. Flaco told him he was from Kaos and then they rushed Flaco and Lonely Boy. Chuckwagon ran outside and broke it up. As Flaco and Lonely walked away, Pinche Leva yelled "I don't wanna see anymore Kaos in Westwood!" Flaco told me to get a hold of every Kaos member I could find because we were gonna mob Westwood with SR and LADS.Kaos met up at Brian Jughead's house but Larry and the north siders couldn't make it. The rest of the Kaos members who were street punks were either in jail or getting loaded somewhere in Hollywood, so me, Flaco, Payaso, Brian, Johnny (HRP), and Shady piled in Driver's car and drove to Westwood. We were instructed by Kenny aka Puppet from LADS and SR to keep it quiet before everyone met up so we could surprise the Westwood crowd. However, when Kaos arrived at McDonald's where all the trendies and poseur punks hung out, Driver wanted to be like Paul Revere and yelled "Hey everyone! The LADS are gonna be here! The LADS are gonna be here!" He was twitching his head and slapping his elbow at the same time which I'd never seen him do before, because he usually did one or the other. All the trendies and poseur punks panicked and cleared out of McDonald's as if it were a fire and then we looked at Driver very angrily and Flaco said to him "What the fuck you do that for? You fucking blew it!"A little later, SR and LADS showed up. Kenny walked up to us and thanked us for showing up. Kenny was the second leader in the LADS and the leader of SR or co-leader since Doper started SR. I remembered when Kenny worked at Poseurs in '83 and I'm not for sure if he was in LADS then. I remembered he sold me my first pair of bondage pants and studded belt. I think Boxer made Kenny second leader because he was a smart guy and knew how to organize stuff. Kenny could also hold his own and stood around 6'1 or 6'2.Kaos, SR, and LADS mobbed the streets of Westwood and everyone got out of our way, including the asshole jocks. Tim Cimiskey spotted a few of the Westwood Locals who jumped him and they ran from us. When we arrived at Designer Buns, someone must have informed Pinche Leva that we were looking for him, because he tried to make his getaway in some alley and we caught up to him. Kenny slammed Pinche Leva against the wall. Pinche Leva pleaded with Kenny not to beat him up and that he was sorry for what he done. He saw me, Shady, Flaco, and Tim and saw the whole picture and realized he fucked up. Pinche Leva begged Kenny for forgiveness and Kenny decided to give him a chance and told him that if he ever fucked with anyone from Hollywood that he was gonna come back and put him in the hospital. Pinche Leva gave him his word and then he apologized to me, Flaco, Shady, and Tim. We accepted it and Pinche Leva kept his word and never fucked with us again.After that, we stuck around Designer Buns and Mooch (ex-Beer Nuts) from Suis showed up. He was wearing his Suicidal cap. Shady and I were cool with him and Chuckwagon and would talk to them at the Olympic gigs. Shady warned Mooch to not hang around because the LADS were hanging out. Mooch wouldn't listen and stuck around. He a lot of Sui pride I suppose. Kenny approached him and told him to take the fucking hat off. Mooch wouldn't do it so Kenny snatched it off and hit him in the ribs with his cane.Karma can be a bitch because a month later at the Olympic, Shady and I were talking to Mooch and he spotted Kenny and told Mike Muir who happened to be around and told him Kenny was the one who took his Suicidal cap. Mike Muir went up to Kenny and slightly slapped him across the face like some mafia dude and then knocked off his fedora hat. Kenny was a little surprised by that but said to him "OK, you wanna throw down? Let's do it!" Suddenly, Mike's Sui homeboys popped up and one of them was that huge black Sui named Tiny. Kenny picked up his fedora hat and wisely ran off. I heard that black Sui Tiny died some years later.Next up, Kaos, SR, LADS, FFF, and HRP meet up in Pan Pacific Park to fight a gang called the Winos.'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' '''HEAR IS AN INTERVIW WITH JULIE LANFELD OF SIN 34(ONE OF THE EARLY GREAT PUNK BANDS FROM LOS ANGELES )( the only hardcore punk band with a female singer who was just as hardcore )( FOUNDED IN 1980 )JULIE LANFELD / SIN 34 ......................................................Brent ( 1 ) Julie what year did Sin 34 first start? How did it happen ? Julie ( 1 ) I had met a girl from my high school that was doing a benifit for a cookbook she had written to raise money for kids with termanal cancer and she asked me if we would play. So i had been in a band prior to SIN34 called Urban Anarchy but we had just broken up so i decided to start a new band.I saw phil(Bass) walking the halls of my school and he looked cool enough to ask and he told me he played bass,then i meet Dave(Drummer) he was taking a film class at my school and he and i became friends although he didn't play a insturment he had really good names for bands and i told him i knew of a drum set in an alley in a garage,so we decieded to borrow it,and Dave became the drummer, And from there we played a couple of party's with different guitar player's then someone at Dave school told him about Mike(Guitar)and we interviewed him to see if he was punk enough and after a few session's he was in. And SIN34 was now a full on band. That was in 1980. And even today we are still all the original members. And Dave had the name before we were ever a band,it was either that or "The Upset Jews"......So we decieded on SIN34...
brent / 2 /so julie i heard you just played live for the first time in years i wanted to go but i was in the hospital unfortanently but how did it go and aRE You going to keep on playing ?julie / 2 / yes we are back for good and we are having shirts made now, and you can check out the show on the SIN34 MYSPACE page.hope you are feeling better and all our next shows will be posted as well.. Brent /##3/ julie what year was it you played the pear 82 or 83 that was my second gig i went too , how many shows did you play after that ? julie /3 / Damn, i have no idea!!! the date should be somewhere on our SIN34 space...and i would say after that show we toured US and played 200 shows,at least....................................................... ............................................. THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH DESPO , STEVE AND RUDE FROM LOS GATTOS /1 / BRENT /1/ .. my friend keeps fliping out . he keeps telling me there are nazis everywere that the corparations are natzis. thats there trying to inslave everyone like they do in china. i told him that its ok that hes safe here in america but he said i dont understand . he says that the corpartions are realiseing they can make more monny by inslving us hear in america by lobying to change laws and giving monnie to polititions and that they dont care how many people die in the world or anything ells. i told him not careing is not the same thing as being a natzi wich was the word he kept useing . i told him no one in the world cares about what your thinking half the time and that there was things he could do to make things better . i told him he buys things from the slave labor in china and he wouldent consider himself a natzi. he said he was being forced to buy those products because the compitition was to expensive and that that was what he was talking about the corprit natzis forcing evil on the society. and he even thought soon they might take away are freedom hear in america. we went to a coffie shop that is a chain that compeets with starbucks. i saw a coffie mug for sale i looked on the bottem and it was made in mexico the brand name was maria like a spanish ladys name i showed him i said look maria brand , and i said even if its a fake corperation pretending to be maria it is because the people want that and those kinda things sell alot still in are society and there is no law that stops him from doing something like that if he could quit smoking 20 dallers of pot every single day. they want a cup made by a maria that looks nice and was artistic. i said that doesnt sound like natzis. he finaly said yea that was true but that there was some horrible problem. with that i can agree. what do you guys think is going on ide like to know. maybe you have some advice for my friend ide like to show it to him.His name is Jakob he is from russia what do you have to say. were are the problems in the world coming from ?Rude / 1/ well, I can't say I have the answers to the worlds problems ,but, I think alot of them stem from the microwave oven, people are to lazy to cook or do anything that requires more than 2 min to do including me .. the corperations capitolize on that bcause they know this.Like those jeans that already have holes in them what is that ,we can't even take the time to wear out or own jeans and will pay 80 daollars for them ?Also the 44 ounce fountain drink from your local convienent store my 11 year old son is hooked on dr pepper!!and we are getting fatter day by day(for me it's the 40 ounce malt beverage) somtimes I think if we were back in time things could be better but, than i rethink and say oh shit I would not be able to drink from the same water fountain as my friends because of my ethnic backround.. It's easy to complain about how society and the corperate world is so screwed up but , what good does complaining do although ,it has inspired many songs for me and our generation ...My advice to jakob would be to just be as good of a person as he could be and say fuck everyone else ,and to use his anger and frustration towards the "nazi"to write some good ole punk rock songs !!!RUDE.. LOS GATTOSBrent / 2 /How have you been Despo? Tell me about Los Gattos? When are you going to send me the new cd? I’ve heard all the songs, but I want to have my own cd ‘cus it’s some of my favorite new stuff around. What year did you guys get started?DESPO /2 / Hey!!! I’ve been doin’ great!! I know I owe you a cd, and I will get one out to you sometime after December. We just got picked up by WANKER RECORDS!!! And the cd won’t be released until then.Los Gattos started in 1996 . We toured w/ DEE DEE RAMONE in 2000-01 . We also played some shows w/ MARKY RAMONE’S different bands. It’s funny that you say LOS GATTOS is (one of your) fav new stuff around cause, that’s how I feel about the FALSE ALARM cd you sent me. It’s my favorite new cd !!! I turn everyone I know onto it!!!! It’s really a great fuckin’ cd!!! It’s an honor for me to be a part of this magazine and I wish you all the best w/ it!!! ROCK N ROLL!!!!!!!
3 / BRENT / Yea, it is a great CD you guys made. What were the 90s like for the band ? What did you guys do in the beginning? What other bands were you guys in?
DESPO /3/ The 90s were a blur. ha ha. 10 years went by so fast!!! And now another 10 years is going by in a blur as well. Me, Rude and Dave, were all friends playing in other bands. I played w/ the Bastards, the U 100s. Rude was in Execration, and Cheese. And Dave was in the Fabulous Disasters. We decided to start jamming together just for fun. We’d hang out together, do drugs and jam. We started calling ourselves "Slophouse." Then, once we started getting more serious we changed the name to “Los Gattos.” Rude was working doing insulation at some housing development called Los Gatos and that’s how we got the name. I added the extra “t” cause I thought it looked cooler. ha ha ha. Rude told me what the name meant in Spanish, I had no idea it was "the cats." But when he told me, I thought that was cool too. So, we kept the name ever since!!!4 / BRENT / Paul Kostabi produced the new cd. Tell me about that? How long did it take to finish? Were do you guys all live now? How does that work?DESPO /4 Yes, Mr.Paul Kostabi did in fact record and produce the new cd. We first started recording in some studio in the city somewhere around 10th and 2nd?? We did just the bass and drums there. Paul was in the middle of purchasing a home in upstate NYC at the time and making the basement into a recording studio. After listening to the original studio tracks, we all decided that it would be better to just scrap the 1st tracks and re-do the whole thing in Paul’s home studio. So, we went back up to NYC and recorded the cd w/ Tony Mann on drums in Paul’s basement studio . We watched fireworks on the 4th of July from Paul’s NYC apartment, and the next day we rode up to Piermont Studios to start the cd.. We recorded it all pretty fast!!! 3 trips to NYC over a 3 month period. We also caused Paul a lot of trouble while we were there too. I think he’s still pissed off at us ....????? Anyway, that’s a whole other story. Michel Solis did all the mixing and additional touches on the cd and all the packaging, and the cd was originally released on the Artmonkey Records label. But then we decided to re-release the cd on Wanker Records because Wanker was willing to do more w/ it promo wise. So now, the cd will be available on Wanker Records. I believe in early 2008 w/ all new design.5 / BRENT / What about drug use? I’ve been smoking a lot of pot lately , which might be a bad thing for me? A lot of bands have those kinda problems? What will you say about that? Yea drugs are tricky ‘cus sometimes I get depressed and the pot seems to help. But everyone tells me don’t do it. Not with all the problems I’ve had. But I like to go home and have a little pot with my block buster movie so it will be interesting. Anything you’ve seen interesting lately, Despo? Did you see the new Germs movie that Rodger Grossman made? I did an interview with him too.DESPO /5 No, not yet. But I’d like to!! Darby was a true punk and I’d like to see the movie. Pot should be legal man. I’m another one who believes in pot to the fullest extent!!! I’ve smoked weed since I was 13, and will never stop!!!! All praise mary jane!!!! I’d really like to see the new Halloween movie by Rob Zombie. I‘ve heard it’s really good. Tonight it’s Mel Brooks, The Beginning of the World, pt. 1. Team America was good. With some good weed, I’d recommend it!!!!!6 / BRENT / My physc doctor, she told me to quit mota or I’d have serious consequences in the future. But I haven’t quit yet, and she made me so nervous, I felt like getting some coke (so I wouldn’t get depressed). But I’m not gonna do that. Tell me about your painting, Despo?DESPO / 6 I’ve been painting a lot lately. I’ve been talkin’ w/ Steve D of the Glass Heroes about doing some collaborations. He’s just starting out but, his paintings are really good!!! I may do an exhibit in Germany managed by Nick Winker in 2008 too.Brent / 7 / what about the war in iraq , or the twin towers or something like that ?the war in iraq huh????? well,, its been going on for a fucking long time now hasnt it???? i dont know too much about it... except what i hear from everyone else. im sure were there for a reason and im sure we will win it .. i just hope its soon!!! lets put this fucking iraq war behind us like the rest of them... as far as 9 11 goes.... its a shame man... fuckin terrible i mean whats next????? maybe we should just blow up the whole fuckin world and get it all over with.... make a huge party out of it ,, the last horrah,, then BOOM!!!!!! its all fucking over with!!!! no more planet earth!!!! FUCK EM ALL WEVE ALREADY NOW WON!!!!!!!!!! HA HA HABrent /8/ yes the war . is hard to say. to bad there has to be wars. but somehow they have raisd the gas prices and done a few things to chainge the whole echonomy. with the new hirer gas prices there defently getting more mony from the general population and sending it somewere ells. maybe with this and all the new travel restrictions people will get around less. because of all the expense. maybe that will be an affect. does it even matter i dont know. i cant draw an analogy to putting sheeps in a cage , maybe someone ells could though. im still planning to travel . so far ive been to most the states in the usa and canada and mexico. im planning to see some stuff in the next few years though now that im getting older maybe asia or europe , and a few other places. are you going to germany if there is going to be an art exibit with your stuff , you were talking about? were ells do you wanna go? do you have any plans to travel? maybe with los gattos, some were far?steve /8 hey there man,, this is steve, los gattos drummer,,, yeah we d like to go play in europe but for now after the cd is released by wanker rec. we just plan on hittin as many us states as possible..... i think were gonna start out this time on the west and head east???? thats what despo is planning anyway.... he usually does all the dealing w/ setting up the tours . i just go w/ them and play drums or record w/ them. i wasnt able to make it out to nyc at the time they were recording w/ paul untill the very end . i was there for some of the added percussion thats it. ohhh well they still got the cd finished and thats all that counts.. right???? anyway.... nice talking w/ youbrent / 9 / what about the 70s and 80s ? how long have you guys known each other ? what about bands back then like blue oyster cult ? i realy like stuff like that as well as punk and old 50s rock n roll and other stuff what you think?Rude /9 lets see 70's and 80's huh! well i was just a kid in the 70's and my parents were listening to motown and jesus christ superstar and smoking pot! 80's I tried break dancing and just could wasn't very good at it so i started playing drums,and listening to heavy metal and skate punk and smoking dried up grapefruit tree leaves .. ..Despo and I have known eachother since early grade school ,although we did not start jamming together untill after highschool ,I remember going to house partys and watching him play bass for the bastards and we would break windows and trash every house they played ,, I was busy playing drums for a death metal band called exacration,,, soon after I started a cheap punk band called cheese as the front man guitar/vocals ,. Despo sought me out after we both played the same house party at the bottom of a pool a major success that went on for a couple of years,and we decided to form a group called slophouse and it then turned into gattos the street name gave me the idea for dos'gattos since we were the main two and then it changed to los gattos .. and well now we are what we are !! ....I never realy liked blue oyster cult as a kid but have a new respect for them now that i'm older ..oldies were always a major influence on me and still are today nothing is better than good ole honest rock and roll..THANKS FOR ASKING I WAS STARTING TO FEEL LEFT OUT !!!talk to you soon"adios amigo"!!Brent / 10 / do you guys have any last thing to say , or anything?Despo / 10 /id just like to say thanks to you brent and to all the gattos fans out there for showing some support!!!! check out wanker records for info on getting our new cd and also check out the false alarm cd . its truley the best stuff thats out there... hopefully sometime next year we ll meet up and go to mexico for a fiesta, and hang out and write some songs etc.. ohh yeah,, tell cheetah to fuckin reply back to me too ha ha ha!!!!