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Saturday, 8 January 2011

Monkey Junkie's Interview 100 Monkeys

Monkey Junkie Carsyn — What can fans expect from your upcoming album “Liquid Zoo”?

Jackson–More Monkey Music! It’s an album where the entire piece tells a story. We are excited about all the songs that are on it. A lot of them have been demanded by the fans, so we are really excited to get the song across and really out there…just to have a whole bunch of new content. We have some really really exciting surprises for people, songs that noone has ever heard before. Even a special guest star on the album which we’ll never tell who it is. You will have to wait to find out.

MJ–How did you come up with the album title?

Jerad–It has to do with the type of music, it is free flowing. Our styles and genres always change and so us being Monkeys and we live in a zoo just makes sense to have the liquid sound of our music mixed with the place where we live. Plus there is a bar right where we recorded the album called Liquid Zoo that we would go to after we recorded the album.

MJ–What were your impressions of each other when you each met for the first time?

Jackson–When I first met Ben Graupner he had an eyebrow ring, that was kinda ridiculous. When I first met Ben Johnson he was a break dancer. I got him to show me six step, which I have probably forgotten how to do. First time I met Uncle he walked in and was playing the flute and I was playing some guitar in the backroom. First time I met Jerad was with my old roommate back in LA. He was dating Jerad’s sister and we both didn’t like my roommate, so we bonded over hatred for that kid. Also cause we both liked playing guitars. First time we met each other I saw he had a guitar and I said let’s jam!

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