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FHM interview w/ Gabe of Cobra Starship (By Shallon Lester)
I posted my fav questions. Link to the full article at the end.
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You’ve been with Midtown for a long time. How did you end up forming Cobra Starship?
It’s really corny, but I went out on a spiritual retreat and when I came back, I wanted to have fun and stop being so serious about everything, so I started Cobra Starship. I formed this new band in honor of a cobra I found in the desert. That cobra bit me and I believe, in some ways, it came back from the future to find me.
Decaydance is a fairly new label. How is Pete Wentz [of Fall Out Boy] doing as a bigwig in the music industry?
He has a top hat and a cane he walks around with—a cane encrusted in jewels. I’m just kidding. If you’re a punk-rock kid and you grow up having to do shit for yourself, you’re basically running your own little label. We’ve all called clubs and pretended to be booking agencies to get a show. Even with the success that Fall Out Boy has had, Pete still has that same hardcore work ethic.
Did you get to meet Samuel L. Jackson while shooting your video?
Yes. We did the video shoot and everyone was having a good time. Someone snuck in a bottle of vodka and we got smashed in the cockpit of the plane and all of a sudden the director was like, “Samuel Jackson is coming! We got Samuel Jackson coming!” Everything got super tense and the director says, “No personal stuff for Mr. Jackson. Do not approach him. Stay in your starting positions. No one talk to him.” Basically, telling us not to look him in the eye because he only had a half an hour and we needed to shoot one scene. You could hear a pin drop. So, we shoot the scene and as soon as the director yells, “Cut!” I go right up to Samuel and I yell, “What’s up, man? Thanks for coming, you’re awesome!” And the whole fucking crew, their jaws just dropped. They were on the verge of freaking out. But he was totally cool. Now I think of him as my mentor.
And what's your worst in-flight fiasco?
This is really bad. When I was like 6 or 8, I was coming back from visiting my family in Uruguay. I was sitting by the wing and my mom said she saw a fire on the wing. Obviously, I started fucking crying and she didn’t say anything—she just let me sit there and cry. That’s really fucked up, isn’t it? I have this theory that she never really saw anything—she just said it to me to see how I would react because she was that fucked up. It’s stayed with me forever.
Link to the FULL article here
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You’ve been with Midtown for a long time. How did you end up forming Cobra Starship?
It’s really corny, but I went out on a spiritual retreat and when I came back, I wanted to have fun and stop being so serious about everything, so I started Cobra Starship. I formed this new band in honor of a cobra I found in the desert. That cobra bit me and I believe, in some ways, it came back from the future to find me.
Decaydance is a fairly new label. How is Pete Wentz [of Fall Out Boy] doing as a bigwig in the music industry?
He has a top hat and a cane he walks around with—a cane encrusted in jewels. I’m just kidding. If you’re a punk-rock kid and you grow up having to do shit for yourself, you’re basically running your own little label. We’ve all called clubs and pretended to be booking agencies to get a show. Even with the success that Fall Out Boy has had, Pete still has that same hardcore work ethic.
Did you get to meet Samuel L. Jackson while shooting your video?
Yes. We did the video shoot and everyone was having a good time. Someone snuck in a bottle of vodka and we got smashed in the cockpit of the plane and all of a sudden the director was like, “Samuel Jackson is coming! We got Samuel Jackson coming!” Everything got super tense and the director says, “No personal stuff for Mr. Jackson. Do not approach him. Stay in your starting positions. No one talk to him.” Basically, telling us not to look him in the eye because he only had a half an hour and we needed to shoot one scene. You could hear a pin drop. So, we shoot the scene and as soon as the director yells, “Cut!” I go right up to Samuel and I yell, “What’s up, man? Thanks for coming, you’re awesome!” And the whole fucking crew, their jaws just dropped. They were on the verge of freaking out. But he was totally cool. Now I think of him as my mentor.
And what's your worst in-flight fiasco?
This is really bad. When I was like 6 or 8, I was coming back from visiting my family in Uruguay. I was sitting by the wing and my mom said she saw a fire on the wing. Obviously, I started fucking crying and she didn’t say anything—she just let me sit there and cry. That’s really fucked up, isn’t it? I have this theory that she never really saw anything—she just said it to me to see how I would react because she was that fucked up. It’s stayed with me forever.
Link to the FULL article here
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