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00:00:02:21 I think that most people are like a lineage
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00:00:36:08 Actually, a lot of family is from here.
00:00:37:28 A lot of... I spent just about every Christmas since
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00:00:43:08 My uncle Edward Matika, the Late Edward Matika,
00:00:47:08 he played hockey for Michigan University.
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00:00:54:00 Welland Sports Wall of fame at that Seaway Mall.
00:00:57:10 So, we are here in Welland,
00:00:59:06 stopped by the Sports Wall of Fame.
00:01:00:29 Look up Ed Matika.
00:01:02:28 Great man and a great hockey player.
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00:01:08:08 I want to go back in this town.
00:01:10:16 My grandfather, he had a house here
00:01:13:23 and my father grew up in Welland, Ontario as well.
00:01:16:19 I am kind of biased towards liking people I meet from
00:01:20:10 Welland because I share a sort of kinship with them.
00:01:23:06 I spend enough time around this place,
00:01:25:03 the small town in Southern Ontario.
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00:01:29:21 from the rest of the country.
00:01:31:10 In the mind of people, you know, they have certain
00:01:32:28 stereotypical thoughts about what they think Canadians are.
00:01:36:10 I think Welland is probably a picturesque Canadian town.
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00:01:45:28 Well, we are way to the Rex Hotel,
00:01:49:06 which is kind of an Italian eatery.
00:01:51:13 It's a hotel.
00:01:52:12 It's an off-track bedding facility.
00:01:54:29 If you want to get a nice slice of pizza, this is where you go.
00:01:58:17 And the guys of Attack in Black are just whom we meet here.
00:02:01:23 That's coming up right here a lot.
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00:02:49:08 How old were you when you moved here?
00:02:51:06 I think I was, it's late like almost 18 may be.
00:02:55:08 Okay, cool.
00:02:56:23 I was long here. Late in the game.
00:02:57:28 Yeah.
00:02:59:18 There was also coincidently,
00:03:01:20 this time I started drinking was when I was moved here.
00:03:04:21 The first time alcohol touched my lips was when I am...
00:03:07:04 -Well, corrupting a fact -Yeah,
00:03:08:09 Spencer and I met, basically
00:03:10:07 the first time we met was at a show in Fonthill
00:03:13:22 actually at the region, where you may have been before.
00:03:16:28 But anyways, it was just a local show and it was a classic
00:03:21:24 dispute as to who was going to open the show.
00:03:24:14 Someone from, one of the bands who offered to open the show,
00:03:28:06 when he get someone to play drums with us,
00:03:31:08 and asked me to play drums with Spencer.
00:03:35:12 Never met before.
00:03:36:14 I think I may be, some around time once.
00:03:38:06 Wow!
00:03:38:25 But I don't even know if you told me
00:03:40:10 what the song was going to sound like - song
00:03:43:01 I am pretty sure, started the band thereafter as a two-piece.
00:03:46:16 That takes a massive amount of balls, just like walk to a show.
00:03:52:03 Walking in a show, it's be like, yeah, I need a drummer.
00:03:55:28 I am going to entertain you.
00:03:57:15 Well, we had a show and like everyone is like arguing,
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00:04:01:24 someone came up to me like, listen, you can play guitar.
00:04:03:28 Do you want to open the show?
00:04:04:29 I mean I am like, yeah, I'll open the show.
00:04:06:14 And like this is an - keep plays drums and like,
00:04:09:10 let's do this.
00:04:09:28 Yeah, let's play the song.
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00:04:41:04 What was like the intention at first?
00:04:43:20 Did anybody have an idea as to
00:04:44:16 what it was going to sound like
00:04:45:25 or you just get together and you want to play Punk music or what?
00:04:48:10 It kind of almost started as, like the earlier stuff that like
00:04:52:01 kind of what turn into Attack in Black was like hit some songs
00:04:55:05 that he just wrote for his upper band,
00:04:57:02 and that was before Spencer was even in the band too.
00:04:59:18 We tried to have some guitar plays
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00:05:03:22 A couple of bass players later, Ian joined.
00:05:05:19 Yeah, a couple of bass player later.
00:05:07:27 So when you joined, would that be the catalyst as far as
00:05:11:06 that kind of change the way the music sounded or
00:05:12:08 was it just like everybody is kind of like...
00:05:15:07 things have obviously progressed and like you know with the
00:05:17:15 Widows EP, I think there is a lot of difference between
00:05:20:02 now and the first record, obviously.
00:05:21:08 You are after those Widow songs.
00:05:22:28 When I joined the band, the first songs that
00:05:25:18 I learned to play were the songs from the Skate Ahead EP.
00:05:29:23 So, there were songs that we had written that were like kind of
00:05:32:01 even more in between Punk and whatever we did after that,
00:05:36:19 But I don't really know if when I join the band,
00:05:38:18 if that was why or when.
00:05:40:28 People want to talk about that, when they talk about you guys is
00:05:43:18 -they talk about how you guys have become what you are now. -Yeah.
00:05:46:25 And it's not necessarily, you are there at the beginning.
00:05:48:26 It's like you know, which I find very interesting and then
00:05:50:28 all bands I love have these long careers; 13 records and
00:05:54:28 the first record sounds nothing like the last record.
00:05:58:04 And I don't know that's exciting.
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