The Presidents still tour and play regularly, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve found that I like to do the loud thing less frequently.
Read the rest of the interview:
Little One Books Interviews Chris Ballew
107.9 THE ALTERNATIVE live at the Hard Rock Cafe on the Las Vegas Strip. Dennis Huff and Gonzo interview the Presidents of the United States of America. February 18, 2010.
Great two song semi-acoustic performance. Chris plays an electric basitar, and Andrew plays an acoustic guitbass… sound mix is pretty bad. Let’s not talk about the audience (never seen such a hostile group in my life. I was 99% sure that the bottles and rocks would start to fly…) Oh, and Jason makes and appearance too…
Fun stuff as always:
Interview & Ladybug
The Presidents of the United States of America – 101x In Studio (SXSW) Part 1
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Interview & Mixed Up SOB
The Presidents of the United States of America – 101x In Studio (SXSW) Part 2
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There are tons of other performances from other bands too. Too bad the site sucks donkey balls, and it’s superslow. One of the reasons why pusabase is such a light site (let’s not talk about my limited html-skill. I do most of the stuff using notepad anyway. Best tool that Microsoft has ever released)
…Well, It might take a bit longer than that. Anyway, head down to Monkeytail and Wellington to read Caspar Babypants interview.
Sometimes you can find old files from the Internet…that still exists!
Found this old gem from NPR’s (National Public Radio) website. It’s a Subset interview by Marcie Sillman (KUOW). Original airdate was November 06, 1999. It was in whopping 8kbps Real Audio 2.0 format… Oh, the 90′s, when Real Audio was shit (not the shit)… Now the latest version is Real Player 11, and it appears that the Real Player/Audio is still the same piece of shit. Luckily i managed to save the stream to MP3 format. (I have the original as FLAC too, but i doubt it’s worth sharing)
Enjoy listening
Subset – Interview MP3
Thanks to 8kbps stream, It sounds like the original broadcast was from the 50′s, and it doesn’t help that the broadcast starts out about talking 50′s hit Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley.
It’s all about technology and business. No questions about the presidents…which is pretty rare, I think. 
First ever pusabase.com interview….short, but sweet!:
Pusabase: Is the new track “This Is a Blitz” planned to be played on future PUSA shows?
CB: We might play it if all goes well with the game performance on thursday. Although it did take us 14 years to get around to playing Cleveland Rocks live (which we are doing now) so dont hod our breath!
Pusabase: I’ve read from your blog that a new Caspar Babypants album is coming out mid November? What can we expect, and does it have any old PUSA songs reworked?
CB: The new Caspar album will not have any pusa tracks on it simple because I have SO many new songs written for it that I have no room! But we do a cool little version of Kitty live and have plans to add Ladybug and Dune Buggy in there in the future. I am thinking about a whole album of Caspar doing PUSA eventually…but later down the road.
Pusabase: What is the story behind The Young Fresh Fellows album “I Think This Is”? You are credited on three tracks: “Used to Think All Things Could Happen”, “Your Mexican Restaurant”, and “Shake Your Magazines”
CB: All of those YFF songs are songs I wrote with Tad (the drummer in YFF) as Chris and Tad. When it came time for the Fellows to record Tad brought in a bunch of C and T songs and some of them worked! I cant tell you how proud I am to contribute to a YFF record and especially one that Robyn Hitchcock produced…they are all my heros.
Pusabase: Any plans on re-releasing PUSA – II album with a bonus material?
CB: There are no plans to release II with bonus stuff because we dont own that record SONY does. Too legally complicated at this point. We have considered rerecording that whole record so we can own it but thats too hard!
Pusabase: Alrighteous… Although the II album could have an additional CD, like: “II the missing CD”, which only contains the bonus material. =)
CB: that is something to consider…but really there are not that many B-sides from that era because we used alot of the songs from the debut era for the record itself…so there just isnt really anything except demos of the tracks on the record…
…and hopefully more to come.
Singingbassist.com is the only one-stop source of first-hand how-to material for pop-rock musicians who want to sing and play the bass-guitar
And they started the interviews with our very own Chris Ballew, and i suggest heading out to Singing Bassist to read the Chris Ballew Interview
2009-07-31 – Grog Shop, Cleveland
I’m convinced that band founder and frontman Chris Ballew hasn’t lost a step in the band’s sixteen years together. For the record, original drummer Jason Finn had his set under full control and guitbass master Andrew McKeag (with whom I recently conducted this interview) has crazy chops.
Read rest of the review from Cleveland Bachelor
Same blog also has an interview with Andrew, and you can read it here
Command Performance:
“Bandmembers of the Presidents of the United States of America talk about their music and touring — and show off Ninja moves — during a conversation with the Pentagon Channel.”
