J-What led to the break up of the band?
J.M.-Well, even though Dtoys never broke up, we sorta took a long hiatus for the
regular reasons, work, life, it all happens, after " the rtist 4merly known as
dtoys" came out in 95, we sorta had no deal (the label folded, we drained them!)
and just started writing, but mostly seemed to be heavier things I was leaning
towards, just naturally. Not that Dtoys wasn't heavy, but there are some dark
songs Paul and I were writing in 95-96 that are real cool, but no one else
seemed to get it, isn't that always the case. So there were a couple of years of
downtime after the 4th studio release, and then, we did this new live cd for
Deadline/Cleopatra records,. so, there's a little activity, as well as open for
Alice Cooper in Oct. 99 as a reunion show for us, since we hadn't played live in
almost 3 years til then. and this year,2001 we just did three shows in Tokyo
Japan, with a warm up show in Texas that was quite successful, alot of fun...so,
you just don't know what lies ahead for us as Dtoys.
J-After the Toys.. you were in Broken Teeth..tell us
how that came about.
J.M.-A friend of ours has a small label here in Texas, he and a producer
friend of ours were talking about new projects, and me and Paul Lidel from Dtoys/Dirty
Looks/Broken Teeth, were also scheming, they wanted a sort of AC/DC style
tribute thing, well, long story short, Paul and I wrote an albums worth of
material in a week, and recorded it all in a week with a drummer friend of ours,
I played bass, sang, wrote all the words, and even did a little bit of guitar,
Paul did all the guitar work, and Bruce Rivers is the drummer. the cd came out
so cool, and started to sell at a fast pace, we hadn't planned on doing live
shows at all, ,but, we almost had to now!! so, I called up Dangerous Toys
bassist Mike Watson, and friend Jared Tuten from Pariah/SSIK, for the second
guitar spot, and BOOM, we had a killer live band. the cd has sold almost 3,000
copies worldwide, and we are working on the new cd as we speak.
J-Do they have any cd's out?
J.M.-Yes, a self titled, BROKEN TEETH. on
Perris
Records (www.perrisrecords.com, or
www.brokenteeth.com)
J-How is that band now? still together?
J.M.-Hell yes, rockin the south, AC/DC style,
its so much fun, please check out the website.
J-What
led to you putting the Toys back together? and what members are in the
band?
J.M.-As far as I am concerned I tell people that it is all original, and it
is, but technically, Paul Lidel joined in 94, Danny Aaron too original
guitarists, Tim Trembleys, place in 89, when Danny left in 92, Kevin Fowler
joined for about 9 months, and Paul joined in Jan. 94, so, Paul has been in
the band longer in years combined of all three of his predecessors. Confused??
J-Any recording plans?
J.M.-None. but who knows, people keep bringing that one up.