What's up everyone still trying to adjust to my work schedule. been weird but I think release the interviews on Wednesday should work. Anything this week I interview Stan from Terminal Nation he talks little bout his old band Jungle Juice and talks bout Terminal Nation hope you guys like it enjoy .
State your name and what band are in?
Stan: Yo it’s Stan and I play in the band Terminal Nation.
How you doing Stan??
Stan: I’m good, dude. Trying to stay sane until this COVID stuff starts to dissipate.
How did you get into punk?
Stan: I think like a lot of people, I was introduced to punk in the early 2000s through Epitaph and Fat style skate pop punk bands and kind of spinning off from there. Bands like Pennywise, Rancid, NOFX were kind of gateway bands to me and once I found those I would dig deeper online and in the liner notes of their CDs to try to find other bands and it kind of spiraled from there. When I discovered Grind, crust, and power violence, I really gravitated towards that shit because it embodied everything I loved about punk but was sonically way more brutal and punishing.
How Jungle Juice start as a band?
Stan: I think Jungle Juice started out of boredom and necessity in our area. There were no hardcore bands here in Little Rock and when hardcore tours would come through there were no bands to play with them. So we started the band to have something to do and to fill in that local band gap.
What was the line up?
When we started off it was just a 3 peice with me and my buddy at the time Jake on drums and Ted on guitar.
How long was JJ as a band?
We were entirely active through out, but we existed for about 8 years. I think from 2008 to 2016.
How did you guys get the split with Fedup?
I think it came about after playing some shows with them on a West Coast tour. I really loved those dudes and it was great hanging out with them. We talked about doing a split on that tour and made it happen the next year.
How did JJ end as a band?
We really weren’t doing too much for a year or two and decided to go out with a bog bang and have a final show in our hometown of Little Rock. It was a pretty spectacular end to thing.
How did you get the name for JJ?
Funny story. We came up with the name of the band when we attended some shitty frat party and the dudes there were trying to beef with us and our friends. They were all drinkin a mixed alcoholic drink out of a big cooler that they called Jungle Juice, so right before we left that whack ass party a couple of us took a piss in their jungle juice cooler and when we laughed on the drive home we were like “let’s start a band called Jungle Juice”.
Then you started Terminal Nation?
Yeah I started Terminal Nation in 2014 with our bass player Chase T.
What was the line up how when you guys started?
The OG Terminal Nation lineup was me, Chase T, Tommy on guitar, Chase D on Drums and Ted from Jungle Juice played guitar for a little bit.
Ice Watch is a really sick song and tell people the struggles that some of the Raza dealing with ICE.
Yeah man, that shit sucks. There a large Latino population here in Arkansas and it’s just upsetting to see people living in fear while striving to obtain a better quality of life. The whole process with the current administration’s xenophobic way is just so unnecessarily cruel and heinous. Things don’t have to be this way.
Whats the Influences for both bands?
I think with both bands I wanted something that was hardcore but more rooted in the grittiness of punk or crust type of shit. TN has evolved more to lean a lot more metallic but I still think we embody a lot of the crust and PV influences that we had early on. Just heavier now.
Any awesome shows you guys played?
Yeah, we have played a lot of cool shows. I really love the last LA show we played at Perez Tires. Everyone was so fuckin cool and welcoming at that show. If not for COVID, we planned to play LA again this year.
Any releases coming out?
We dropped our first LP back in August, we’re already writing for the second. I’m not sure how I feel about the idea of two LPs worth of material dropping without the opportunity to play the songs live but we may do like a split or an EP or something to kind of split those releases up yet still give people new music this year. That all remains to be seen.
Any shoutout you want to give?
Here’s some cool, lesser known shit I’ve been vining with lately: Phobophillic, Fleshrot, Bones of the Earth, Knoll, Gravesend, Internal, Shackled, and World Peace.
