One night I went to Rotolo’s and met with Dustin, Lyle, Spooner, Aaron, and Geoff of the band 6 Pack Deep (6pd). We started talking about their new EP, Just the Tip.

Dustin said, “It was recorded February 22 and 23.”

Spooner added, “I thought it was October?”

Aaron cleared things up. “It was finished around March.”

6 Pack Deep was one of the bands that practiced and played in the building that housed The Caterie, which burned on the first of January. This was a problem for a lot of reasons, but one in particular was 6pd’s commitment to an April 30 full-length album release. 

So the band got the idea to release a short EP, and they moved into Lyle’s room to practice.

“How did you decide what songs to put on the EP?” I asked.

“They were the only ones we had,” Geoff said.

Aaron added, “We just started writing them on the wall in chalk in the practice room.”

Spooner said, “We also made chalk outlines on the wall of our bodies.”

“Swell,” I commented. “How will the full-length be different from the EP?”

“It will be twelve completely different new songs,” said the band. “But the B sides of the current EP will go on a live album.”

The guys also commented about what we can expect on their upcoming full-length. There will be a song about Bonnie and Clyde and also some Marvin Gaye-type sound … sweet influence!

6pd’s next Baton Rouge live show is September 17.

What 6pd Is NOT Writing

1. •Acoustic ballads about locking yourself in the closet because your girlfriend broke up with you.
   

2. •Christian songs about getting bit by a water moccasin.
   

I asked 6pd about their touring.

“We’re on the road every weekend,” said Lyle. “Eleven days throughout Florida, Georgia, and we accidentally went to South Carolina.”

This accident may or may not have been due to a drunken iPhone hotel booking, but anyway … The venue was in Georgia, and the hotel was in South Carolina, in a small area with two (2) strip clubs between the bar and hotel. 

But Dustin said good things about it. “We did play with a really, really great heavy metal band … that had no bass player…”

Geoff said, “They had the best drummers in Savannah.”

Aaron said, “I don’t want to hear the worst drummers in Savannah.”

Then Lyle tried: “The town had … lots of historical information…”

Dustin gave up. “Lyle’s been to prom two times since high school!”

What can we say? Lyle loves prom…

Aaron stopped the guys from making fun of other bands before it went too far. “We just want to practice every day,” he said. “It keeps the hate away,” he joked.

I looked down at my laptop.

“Are you on your Facebook?” accused Dustin. “Or Match.com?”

Not insulting at all, Dustin, I thought. Then I closed Facebook really fast.

“So where’s your next stop?” I asked.

“Alleyfest. Longview, Texas,” said Lyle. “I think it has something to do with skaters.”

“I thought it was about a chick named Allie,” said Dustin.

Aaron said, “I heard that Alley fests are awesome…”

We talked a bit about venues and places 6pd does and doesn’t like to play.

Dustin wasn’t crazy about hipsters. He told me, “You have to wonder about those places where the guys look better in jeans than you.”

Strike two, Dustin.

Overall, the band 6pd will always do well and be safe if they stay away from my own favorite band, No Fuego.

No Fuego is a punk band with a bagpiper. They’re also some of my best friends.

On one road trip, No Fuego was borrowing 6pd’s former bass player’s Ford Excursion. No Fuego also took a dump in a partially filled container of tuna and left it in the Excursion…

This was nothing 6pd couldn’t avenge with some bottles of piss…

No Fuego had also kidnapped 6pd’s ex-sax player. No Fuego (with 6pd’s sax player) beat 6pd to the bar where they all were playing, but 6pd’s sax player was already passed out. Ah, good times.

Be on the lookout for 6pd’s EP Just the Tip and pending full-length album. I wish the band great things. But not Dustin.