For any hot-headed noise addict or plain old punkrocker looking for a drunken sing-a-long, Hades Drug-Gun offer a dose of ecstacy. Lisa Kourvek on vocals, followed up by Tim Bos on guitar, Josiah Christian on drums, and Robin Waldrip on bass are the foundation for this drug-gun. As the four unite, a kaleidoscope of sounds escapes their instruments along with Lisa's high-pitched chants which cover narrations of her personal heart-rending swoon over Michael J. Fox, as well as ballads to Nazi Fonzi. They recently accomplished their number one goal when they played the Vista on July 29th for the first time. The Top Forty charts are next in line for this band's rock'n'roll blaze as they set your limbs flamin'.

Michelle: Ok, now get in a circle.
Tim: This is a sacred circle.
Michelle: Ok, introduce yourselves, and tell the readers of Panache where they could commonly find you, because after this interview, they'll definitely be looking for you.
Tim: I'm Tim. They call me Mr. Alphabet, and you can find me...this is pretty hard. I can't think of where I usually am or even of something funny.
(laughter)
Michelle: Well, you could just say your house.
Tim: Yeah, that's pretty funny. I'm usually at my house.
Lisa: Making weird little sculptures.
Tim: I don't know. I don't know what I usually do. This is really hard. If I can just lie. I can't even think of a lie though. Alright, your turn, Lisa.
Lisa: My name's Lisa Kourvek, and you can usually find me in my room, listening to my grandparent's records. Is that clever? But, it's the truth.
Tim: (Whispers) Because the truth is far more dubious.
Josiah: My name's Josiah.
Tim: This is going to be funny, watch out!
Josiah: I'm usually around.
Robin: My name's Robin. I'm usually working the streets of Old Town, hustling and whatever.
Michelle: So is there any one mastermind behind the band or is it all a group effort?
Tim: Jesus.
Lisa: I think it's the lack of a mastermind.
Michelle: In your interview for the Arcata Eye, you were proclaimed the worst band in Arcata. But, you are also self-proclaimed the "best band in Humboldt County"?
Tim: Well, they kind of go hand in hand. It's our bad qualities that make us so good. It depends on what perspective people look at us from. If you compare us to other bands then obviously we aren't that good.
Michelle: Does everything on stage pretty much come from inside your own head at that moment?
Lisa: Yeah. Everything I sing comes from inside my head.
Michelle: So rumour has it that odd behavior has been provoked at Hades Drug-Gun shows, correct?
Lisa: Yeah. Canadians cavorting in a wild way.
Tim: Yeah, Canadians really like us. Lisa was on the ground screaming into the mike with me. He said we were "mosheriffic."
Robin: I don't even remember that at all.
Tim: Some people just look at us mildly amused.
Josiah: Jesse of the Sin Men was all smug about us.
Michelle: Would you say the band is musically inclined or purely destructive?
Tim: We're purely creative. (laughter)
Michelle: If anyone approached you with doubt about your ability to play instruments, what would be your reaction?
Tim: I'd say that they could be right. I'm not a very good guitar player. I'll admit that. Technically, I'm not good, but there's a lot of other stuff you can do.
Lisa: I can't play any instruments.
Josiah: I can count to four.
Robin: I can sort of keep a steady beat.
Michelle: What do each of you bring to the band?
Tim: Spiritually or something?
Michelle: Whichever you think is important.
Tim: We've talked about this before. Lisa is the mischief in the band. I'm the instigator. Robin is the dreamer, and Josiah is the rebel.
Michelle: So how would the spirit of the band be defined?
Tim: Pure raw energy from the depths of hell.
Josiah: Be dramatic.
Tim: I'm trying to be.
Michelle: So Hades Drug-Gun has a political stance- would you like to delve into that further?
Robin: We're sort of political straight-edge whatever.
Michelle: After a show, how do you typically unwind?
Tim: Well, we usually do the drinking before the show.
Lisa: Then more after the show.
Tim: I usually just go to sleep.
Michelle: Ok, so what arouses the "pagan" in each of you?
Tim: I don't know. Pagans go to hell, so I don't try to arouse my pagan, my little pagan.
Robin: I think the pagan for me is provoked by music.
Michelle: Have there been any certain things that keep on reoccurring at shows?
Lisa: Yeah, Tim is always really loud.
Tim: I try not to be. I can never set up my effect pedals. I'm always too hung over.
Robin: People are always a little bit sick after we play.
Michelle: Other than beer, what item would the band be interested in promoting?
Tim: First of all, we don't promote beer. I don't drink.
Michelle: That's right, it would contradict the band's message, you're straight-edge.
Tim: Yeah.
Lisa: I'd like to promote those hair things with the little balls that the girls wear.
Tim: I'd like to promote those big balls that you used to have in elementary school with the handle, and you can sit on them.
Lisa: Pogo-balls?
Tim: Yeah, is that what they are?
Lisa: I would also like to promote stop-motion animation.
Michelle: Have you observed anybody picking up habits or qualities from Hades Drug-Gun after seeing you perform?
Josiah: There was that one show where everybody was making noise with the band. The Jackson Brothers, I think.
Michelle: I remember that show, at the Plaza Grill. So is the band planning on sticking around in Humboldt County for a while? What pulled you to this place?
Josiah: (Whispers) The killer reefer. (Laughter) Not school.
Lisa: There was no where else to go.
Tim: Yeah, we'll probably stay together if we're all still here.
Robin: As long as people still want to see us play.
Tim: Oh, we'll still play.
Michelle: What have people classified you as?
Tim: What was that? We're the Blink182 of noise?
Lisa: Yeah. Except we are not that naked all the time.
Tim: There is really no underlying message. We drink a little bit, then we play whatever the hell we want to play. For some reason we get shows.
Michelle: Is there any one particular place in Humboldt County that bands may not be playing at, where you would want to set up your equipment and just start making noise?
Josiah: KFC.
Lisa: The Arcata Speedwash.
Josiah: The plaza.
Tim: That mental place, Semper Virens.
Robin: Or a pre-school.
Tim: We could let the kids play.
Lisa: They could be playing percussion instruments. We could film a video like that.
Michelle: Ok, back to when you were children, what or who did you aspire to be?
Lisa: Cyndi Lauper.
Josiah: It all goes back to Jesus again.
Tim: I think what inspired me to be a rockstar, was that movie Young Einstein.
Robin: So true.
Tim: I loved that movie.
Michelle: Well, you mentioned the word, so what do you think qualifies someone as reaching "rock stardom."
Lisa: When you pull up to a stoplight, and the person across the way is mouthing the words to one of your songs. Now that's rock stardom.
Michelle: What's your favorite line from one of your songs?
Tim: Well, the lines change all the time.
Lisa: Well, not all the time.
Michelle: Lisa, I guess this question can be directed to you.
Lisa: No one can really understand me anyway. I like singing about my affections for Michael J. Fox even though he has that horrible disease where he twitches.
Josiah: Parkinsons.
Tim: Come on, say the line.
Lisa: "Even though you twitch, I'll still be your bitch." There, I said it. I really like Michael J. Fox, though. I'll never forget that episode where he starts taking speed to keep up with school. His mom has this conference with him, and he had his whole breakdown. He was too much of an over-achiever. It really inspired me to drop out of my honors classes and become an art loser.
Michelle: Ok, so what's the ultimate goal for Hades Drug-Gun?
Josiah: Top Forty.
Tim: We will reach that.
Lisa: I think we've already reached our goal. We met, and we played.
Tim: Well, realistically we all want to play the Vista.
Josiah: We just want to embarass ourselves about as much as we can.
Lisa: Worldwide embarassment, that would be our goal.
Robin: I think playing the Vista is our short-term goal though.
Michelle: So what's one thing you want to leave Humboldt County with to close this interview up?
Lisa: We should talk about our movie. We're going to have a movie called "When You Come Back From the Dead, You Don't Need No Amp."
Tim: We're going to show up in different places and rock.
Lisa: We're going to go to Safeway and grab a microphone and say "Attention shoppers, it's time to rock!" or "Class dismissed, let's rock!"
Josiah: People will be gagged and tied.
Lisa: Then we're going to end in the cemetary and say, "Let's rock the dead!"
Michelle: Ok, anything else?
Tim: I'm the alphabet man.
Lisa: I just don't want anyone to think I'm a dork.
(Laughter)
Josiah: I just want hippies to accept.
Tim: I'm the alphabet man.
Robin: I don't have anything else to say.
Tim: Are you also the alphabet man? NO, because I'm the alphabet man. A-B-C-D-E-F-G...
Come on everyone one. H-I-J-K.
I forgot how it goes. L-M-N-O-P....