Cap'n Jazz

Interesting.

Also, it says here, and again, I know nothing about these guys, but I do see spinoff of Cap'n Jazz.

And I have heard of that band, Cap'n Jazz.

It's like C-A-P apostrophe N, like Captain Jazz.

For some reason, I've seen that name before.

that has been blowing my mind you know i look at him like you're 16 years old how do you know all the lyrics to all of these songs like they're older than you like what like how how how did you how did you hear about this you know like how do you know all these songs i mean i know the answer but it's just it's still so like mind-blowing

yeah yeah well a friend of mine went to excuse me that band american football and Which, I don't know, do you know Cap'n Jazz?

Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

No, we played shows with Joan Clark, but yes, I do.

Okay, yeah, so...

Mike Kinsella, the drummer for Cap'n Jazz...

His band in college was called American Football, was a three-piece.

It was Los Crudos.

It was Cap'n Jazz.

Like, all these bands that were happening around that time.

So known those guys for, um, a long time.

Yeah

... for me.

Chicago was, like, like, that Midwest emo sound that's big now was, like, really, really actually happening, like, the mid-'90s in Chicago with, like, Cap'n Jazz, and American Football, and stuff like that.

Yeah.

And I remember back like on LimeWire trying to download Scary Kids songs.

And then you get a Cap'n Jazz song.

and jazz song and I was like the fuck is the

fuck is this I know and I'm

And then when you're talking about mid to late 90s jade tree emo shit...

The through line in all of that stuff is that all of the vocalists of those major bands, like The Promise Ring, Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz, even Blake from Jawbreaker in Jets to Brazil, all of those dudes were guys with incredibly unique vocal approaches, none of which were sort of like traditionally good sing-songy voices.

And that was one of the things that I think really made those bands stand out for me personally, Is it ran the gamut from like a really gravelly sort of very non-traditionally good voice like Blake Schwarzenbach to like just the straight up like babbling of what's his fucking the Kinsella brother that sang for Cap'n Jazz who sounded just like a babbling lunatic.

And in every instance, they also sounded like crying wimps.

According to you, yes.

What? Yeah, you mentioned like bands like Sunday Day Real Estate, Mineral, as you know, a couple of these types of bands that really influence that sound for you all.

What's interesting, and we can dive more into this later on, but I would imagine the fact that you guys were in the Chicago area at that time, knowing that a lot of those bands were popping up out of Chicago, you know, Cap'n Jazz, obviously eventually American Football, sort of the Chicago area.

And generally just a lot of emo bands coming out of that scene.

Like I think if I remember right, Plain White Tease might be from the Chicago area.

Every now and then, we, we play bigger shows, um, and-

Yeah, I think once the, uh, Captain Jazz show was pretty big.

That was a-

Which one?

Okay

...

the Captain Jazz, right? Those were bigger.

The Captain Jazz show was pretty huge, and, and, and we did really well there.

And then I got into indie rock and then a friend of mine in high school heard me listening to the Strokes and was like, okay, you think that's good, but here's something else.

And I got Fugazi Repeater, Captain Jazz and Alphabeta Polythology and Drea Lejihu self-titled All in One Day.

and my life was changed forever, and I had to make music.

That would change someone's life.