The Yayhoos
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What band did you listen to most during the eighties? Do you still like them?
Dan Baird: The Replacements, and yep.
What is your worst memory of elementary school? Of high school?
Dan Baird: Being the dud in the "Mystery Date" game.
You're about to -- ahem -- get lucky. What album is playing in the background? Why'd you choose it?
Dan Baird: Stevie Wonder's Innervisions. Because I wanted to get laid. Try it -- it still works.
What was the first thing you ever shoplifted? Why did you take it?
Dan Baird: Smokes -- for smoking.
If you could beat up anyone in the world and get away without the usual annoying real-world consequences -- jail time, lawsuits, bad press, etc. -- who would it be, and why?
Dan Baird: I'd dig up Kurt Cobain and knock him around. He let hell bitch drive him over the edge. He coulda bought a machine gun and an old Motel 6 in Montana and shot the thing down one bullet at a time. Woulda taken 3-4 days and maybe the mood would have passed, he would have written another great rock record, and held off the poo-poo that came in next.
What's the biggest risk you've ever taken? Why did you take it?
Dan Baird: Quitting a successful band. I had to.
It's better to regret something you have done than it is to regret something you haven't done. What do you regret doing (other than agreeing to answer these questions)? Why did you do it?
Dan Baird: Now, that's just too damn personal to answer.
Did you go to your high school prom? If so, who did you go with?
Dan Baird: No, didn't graduate from high school. Adult ed GED.
What movie would you recommend to absolutely anyone? Why?
Dan Baird: Gotta go with Pulp Fiction. Totally moral in an immoral world. Plus the shot in the heart scene, and the "No man, I'm a long way from okay right now."
For reasons we won't bother going into right now, you're going to be locked in the back of a truck for a sixteen hour drive between gigs. If you could have any musician, past or present, back there to keep you company, who would it be?
Dan Baird: Ian McLagan -- he tells the best stories on everybody. I mean everybody.
What is your strongest, most unshakeable belief?
Dan Baird: To do anything worth doing, as it would be the last time you'll ever have the opportunity to do it.
What's the worst band you've ever heard? Why do they suck?
Dan Baird: Grim Reaper. Beavis and Butthead already said it.
If you were a porn star, what would your "porn name" be?
Dan Baird: Cocoa Undrewood. Like you're supposed to do it. First pet's name and your elementary school.
You're on your way to a show, and all of a sudden you find yourself in the middle of a huge four-way battle between pirates, ninjas, robots and intelligent apes from the future. Your only hope of getting to your gig is to pick a side. Who do you join, and why?
Dan Baird: Pirates -- we go "arrrgh matey!"
If you could sponsor any beverage -- appear in their ads, receive a lifetime supply and never be seen drinking a competing product -- what beverage would it be?
Dan Baird: Decent coffee, don't care about the brand. So, say, Starbucks -- really, any decent brand.
What's the best venue you've ever played? What's the worst? Why?
Dan Baird: I like 12th and Porter in Nashville a lot. I can hear everything on that stage, no matter where I am on it. Just about any corner stage. They all suck.
What's wrong with Rolling Stone these days?
Dan Baird: It's not 68-72.
Why are frogs amusing?
Dan Baird: They jump when you poke 'em.
You've traveled back in time and met yourself, age sixteen. What do you think?
Dan Baird: Cheer up, daddy-o. It's your only life.
Which would be worse: three hours on a bus full of four year-olds, or three hours on a bus full of eighty year-olds? Why?
Dan Baird: Three year-olds, definitely. Kids? Eeeuwww!
The US government is considering far more aggressive regulation of leather pants. Under the new rules, who should or shouldn't be allowed to wear them?
Dan Baird: People who own and ride motorcycles.
What, in your opinion, is the best porn?
Dan Baird: Nasty.
What food item could you eat every day for the rest of your life without getting bored of it? What's so good about it?
Dan Baird: I'm afraid it's gonna be a good burger. If you don't know what's so great about a burger, I am truly sorry for you.
Will the next Star Wars movie suck? Why or why not?
Dan Baird: Betcha it does. It's just not the cowboy and indian movie with great toys the first ones were.
How many roads must a man walk down before they call him a man?
Dan Baird: 314.
Everyone's replacing their least-favorite body parts with cybernetic ones. Which part(s) of your body would you replace?
Dan Baird: Unfortunately, I need a new everything.
What topics or statements would inspire you to call in to a talk radio program?
Dan Baird: Nothing. I don't need to. I've already got a forum. You.
What album(s) should everyone be given on their eighteenth birthday?
Dan Baird: Everything by The Beatles from '62-'66.
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Dan Baird used to be in Georgia Satellites. Now he's in the Yayhoos. Here's a bit about them, from Bloodshot's official Yayhoos bio: "Many Fridays have found the Bloodshot staff drinking beer and rocking out. A one-hitter may or may not have appeared. At any rate, the Yayhoos provided the soundtrack. Now, thankfully, everyday is Friday. We're overjoyed to finally be the label of record for this bona-fide, genuine, supergroup of southern-rock and alt.country heavyweights. Of course you remember Dan Baird from the Georgia Satellites (c'mon, "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" a guilty pleasure? Hell no, nothing guilty about it) and may even know of his two criminally underappreciated solo records. Fans of the roots-rock know Eric Ambel from the Del-Lords and his ongoing stint as part of Steve Earle's band. Drummer Terry Anderson has played with the Backsliders and bassist Keith Christopher has backed Shaver and currently tours with Kenny Wayne Shepard. "Big Deal." you say, "They can all play their instruments." But it is a big deal. We started this stupid label becuase there was a shortage of bands that inspired us to turn the knob to eleven. They are also one of those bands that rightfully recognizes that all rock music is derived from the ONE riff that crawled out of the sludge on Chuck Berry's right hand. The Yayhoos will have you creasing that ballcap right down the middle and cranking their riff-a-licious sound."
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