Few people know the origins of BlogsNRoses.com and it's creative team: The Wettners. In honor of our upcoming two year anniversary we will delve into the origins of our "Family Name". In a twisted way it all began with the Wheatus song "Teenage Dirtbag".

We have to start this interview with a little story:

It was the Winter of 2002, a few of us were doing what underage dudes do in Delaware....minus the drinks, drugs, and girls. The topic turned to movies and eventually music and then the insanely catchy song "Teenage Dirtbag". We were trying to recall the name of the band that performed it but were at a loss. It kind of resembled the scene from Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd can't remember Mary Swanson's last name. We were tossing out all kinds of names and finally settled that the name of the band was Wettner. Knowing full well that we were wrong we decided that Wettner would be the name of our band....Unfortunately our musical talents limited us to only covering Tommy Tutone's "Jenny".

 

Vowing to not let the name go to waste we came up with the idea for our music website. That is why we named ourselves similar to the Ramones, Wettner, because of Wheatus! Thanks!

And now an interview with Brendan Brown of Wheatus:


BNR: Don't you feel proud to be to have been involved in the conception of our name?

Brendan: Proud enough to throw Palpatine off a fucking balcony, mmMy ssSon.

BNR: What has Wheatus been up to since the infectious song "Teenage Dirtbag"?

Brendan: 2002 recorded Hand Over Your Loved Ones 10 % in Australia 95% in My apartment in NY.

2003 Delivered it to Sony...they said, "no singles, we are not releasing this" We said, can we have it back? They said "yes" (EXPLETIVES DELETED)

BNR: Is the new material just as catchy?

Brendan: Sometimes... especially if you worship the Devil, whom we contend, does not in fact exist with a series of subliminal messages and missives secretly embedded in the r ecordings.

BNR: Have you actually seen the movie "Loser"? Wasn't it terrible?

Brendan: Hands down the worst movie that Amy Heckerling has ever made....Very out of character for her, as she is an undeniable movie making genius, to do something that terrible....I suspect a heavy dose of producer meddling derailed it....But we got a helicopter fly-in shot of the Twin Towers during their last year....that counts for something to me, personally.

BNR: You guys seem to have been through a lot with bandmate's coming and going and label issues. Have you found it difficult to keep things going?

Brendan: Financially things are sometimes very stressful....we hock gear on ebay to survive sometimes. The personnel changes have never been acrimonious. Wheatus is a revolving door of musicians and I'm like the door man. The musicians keep getting better but I keep staying the same. The label on the other hand....that's a book about disembowelment and dick slicing that I'll be writing until I'm dead....If you want to know about that and exactly what went down it's a very long phone conversation....which I am indeed open to....just say the word....but it's a more serious blog subject that examines the legend of the baby boomers and the death of youth culture in our time...old people eating their young and all that Sunday morning talk show stuff.

BNR: If you were a character from the sitcom "Happy Days", which would you be? Why?

Brendan: Well...that's complicated...Sometimes I see myself as Richie, for the whole producer/director thing...but since his film, directorial and production career developed after the show was canceled then I am forced to deffer to how others in my band and in our fan realm see me and that's likely to be Ralph Malph....I think I know what's going on, and I have designed a diligent life around what I think is going on, but I really have no clue and I'm harmless so the people in my life are comfortable with my illusions.

BNR: It is our strong belief that Nickelback may be the worst band ever. Agree/Disagree?

Brendan: No, Creed is.

BNR: Who would be your ideal band to tour with?

Brendan: The Fountains Of Wayne, Dashboard Confessional, They Might Be Giants, Rush, Phish, Primus, White Lion, The Beatles.

BNR: What has been your favorite live performance moment?

Brendan: You have to know, that is a very difficult question to answer and very complicated........ We opened for James Brown In Belgium in the Summer of 2001........AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH......WHAT!!!!!??????

BNR: Does fast food give you the immediate shits or is it a generally long and slow process like the recording of Chinese Democracy?

Brendan: It's a process. And it differs with the seasons and with the type of fast food you are ingesting. Usually it's a 36 hour gestation period and then your ass begins to piss uncontrollably....but that's much, much better than what happened to that Kane in Alien, damn.

 
BNR: Are you a Mac or PC?...Metaphorically speaking of course.

Brendan: My passion is for the MAC, which is a near perfect machine that works. BUT our new and remarkable SONOMA DSD Analog Computer 1 bit Recording System only works on PC....so I have to type on both all day, back and forth....it's like being bilingual.

BNR: Do you have anything coming up in the near future?

Brendan: Well since the AC/DC show there isn't anything that needs plugging, but I did tell you about that dragon genome mapping project that Sarah Palin's church is sponsoring for us...so there's that.


We'd like to thank Brendan B. Brown for answering our questions and for not being a supreme douche. What he failed to mention though is that Wheatus' entire catalog is available on itunes and the band will be playing the Blender Theater in NYC January 16th. It's a Friday night! Check them out!