Telephone Conversation - Goldfinger

Hello?

Hello, Abby Normal looking for male, female drummer?

Right

Is that you?

Yep

What’s this Abby Normal shit?

Name of the band

Oh, is it really?

Yeah

It’s the name of the group, huh?

Yep

Yeah, what kind of music you guys play?

Uh, it’s like a cross between all different styles

What’s your name?

Tim-Dog

Yeah, wait

My name’s Tim, but they call me Tim-Dog

So, what, are you originally from Seattle or something?

No, I’m originally from Buffalo

I lived in Seattle for a while

But, I was just doing junk

Hanging out, just fucking around

Yeah, yeah

Just doing the scene and stuff, so

You, uh, played any like, uh, Buffalo bands before?

Like, before you moved up to Seattle?

I was in a grime metal band

Uh, huh

Called Ripping Hammer

Yeah

It was pretty cool, we were doing that for a while

Then I was in this, like, weird-

Weird, like, techno band

Mhm, mhm

Really fucked up techno, that’s when I was into drugs

Like, getting all kinds of fucked up diseases and shit

I’m ok now though

It’s good to wear condoms

It’s good to wear condoms, yeah, but you know

Won’t protect you from crabs

Well, yeah, you get crabs?

Big deal

Totally

Haha

Just fucking scrub 'em

So, uh, what’ve you got, the bass-

The bass drum?

Uh, the toms, the floor, a kick… and a snare

Can you, uh, play like-

See some of the stuff-

I can play anything, dude

It’s like real-

Crunchy

It’s mellow, man

Mellow?

Like, mellow funk?

Um, yeah, like a couple funk tunes-

Do you guys play fast tempos with odd time signatures?

Uh, huh

Cool

Some of the stuff is like-

Have you ever heard of a band called Napalm Death?

Yeah

You have?

Yeah

See that’s kinda cool, I’m into that too

Yeah

They’re- they’re awesome

You know, we’ve got some songs that are, like, heavy

And you can mosh

That’s cool, I love moshing

It’s- it’s such a good thing to do

Especially when you’re on heroin

Moshing while you’re on heroin is the fucking jam

'Cause everybodys moving, but you’re not!

Uh, huh

You’re just getting so loud

Yeah, yeah

It’s really weird, I mean moshing on like-

Twelve hits of acid

Haha

Dude

Never did it

Fuck that, fuck that

People were melting

Alright, you wanna get together?

Yeah, yeah what’s your name?

Uh, they call me Nigel

Nigel, they call ya'?

Yeah

That’s cool, my name’s Tim-Dog

I’ll call you back tomorrow, dude

Alright

Maybe we could get together tomorrow or something?

Alright, that might be cool

Alright, Tim

Alright

Bye

I’ll talk to you, bye