With two new releases under its belt, the next gap that Stuntdoubles hopes to bridge is the one between part-time and full-time band.
"This is what we want to do for the rest of our lives," Dailey asserts. "We don't want to get rich or anything. We just want to get by doing what we love. And we want to keep moving. One thing that me and Mike have been talking about lately is that the better we get technically, the more toward heavy metal we want to go. Pretty much all most of us listen to right now is Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Megadeth."
The daredevils you know: Kevin Lomax (from left),
Darryl Dailey, Mike Matney and Seth Bennett are
Stuntdoubles.
The daredevils you know: Kevin Lomax (from left),
Darryl Dailey, Mike Matney and Seth Bennett are
Stuntdoubles.
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With the Ataris and Vendetta
Red
8 p.m. Monday, October
27
Fox Theatre, 1135 13th
Street, Boulder
$15,
303-443-3399
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"Punk rock used to be all we could play," discloses Matney. "I think now we're starting to expand, starting to get more technical and having bigger goals and aspirations with what our music could be."
But one thing you won't have to worry about Stuntdoubles dabbling in is the punk-by-numbers pop that's smeared all over MTV and the Billboard charts these days.
"It makes me mad when I hear that stuff," Dailey says. "But it's a good influence. It's good to be influenced by bands that you don't want to sound like."
"I don't really consider those bands to be punk rock at all," remarks Bennett. "I like to call them 'blink-blink' -- you've got your bling-bling rap and your blink-blink punk."
Matney, however, sees the bright side of Blink-182 and its ilk: "It's almost good that that shit's mainstream. A resurgence of more hardcore stuff is kind of inevitable now."
But for Lomax, who would just as soon listen to the Stooges as he would any retro hardcore band, the first and most important goal of Stuntdoubles is to stay true to its roots: four friends with different tastes and ideas who come together to tear shit apart.
"We're four different heads. We're four different brains. We're four different lifestyles," he points out. "It's just so fucking cool to sit there and pound out these songs with these guys. I just like creating music that totally kicks our ass. When we write a song at practice and we all know it's real good, we stop and look at each other and go, 'Oh, shit.' Every one of us is sweating real bad and breathing real heavy. That's when it feels good, when we know we're pushing, and it's so close to being destruction and the wheels are falling off and the whole thing's collapsing. I can either hate myself every day or go out there and destroy myself every night. I picked the latter.
"This is just what we want to do," he sums up with a shrug. "It's synergy; it's symbiotic in nature. We're out there to do it. We don't have a backup plan."
Or, apparently, even a safety net.
