Collect Call From: Gym Class Heroes
Each month, one lucky band phones Blender HQ for seven days straight, just to, you know, share. Now on the line: sample-happy alt-rappers Gym Class Heroes.
Mark Yarm
Blender July 28 2008
DAY 1
June 22, 11:36 a.m.
Frontman Travis McCoy rings us from the bus at the Ventura, California, stop on the Warped Tour.
“Today is a very, very crazy day. We’re playing early because we have a video shoot with Busta Rhymes for our song ‘Peace Sign/Index Down’ later. I planned on getting up early and doing yoga, but guess who didn’t do that? Me.
“I took up yoga in rehab. I went about four months ago, because I had a problem with painkillers. Now I can connect with the crowd and not just be a fucking drug addict onstage, wandering around trying to remember the lyrics. I recently started drinking again, though. The only reason I drank before was to make the pills kick in quicker, but now I just have a beer to mellow out and kick it.
“My girlfriend [Katy Perry] is touring with us for the whole Warped Tour. She has a big, crazy bus with a huge picture of herself on it. It’s a little obnoxious, but when she’s parked next to me, it’s cute to wake up and see a huge picture of her face. It’s like, Awww.”
DAY 2
June 23, 12:57 p.m.
Drummer Matt McGinley calls from the L.A. set of the video for “Cookie Jar,” the first single off the new album, The Quilt.
“Yesterday’s video was for the Internet community. It went really well. Busta Rhymes was like, ‘Thanks for letting me do this.’ And we were like, ‘Are you kidding?!’ I grew up watching his videos. I’m still kind of pinching myself.
“The ‘Cookie Jar’ video has more of a story line. Travis is going to be sitting on a therapist’s couch talking about why he can’t keep his hand out of the cookie jar. Cookies is kind of a metaphor for chicks. I haven’t met the chicks in the video yet, because they intimidate me with their exceedingly high level of hotness.”
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