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Dezinfekce is a really good Czech hardcoreband.
This interview was done in march -2022
Maxeek and Puffy answered the questions ...
Please tell me a little bit history of the
group?
Maxeek:
It all started in 1991, when 3 young freshly cut
punx (sedli - g, sueczek - dr, maxeek - bg, voc)
met and after a few weeks and many plans and
beers they formed a band in the Fall of that
year.
The first non-public gig was my 18th
birthday in December 1992 and the first official
gig was on 12.4.1993 in Budejovice in Gerbera
club.
Puffy joined the band in 1993 and this
line-up (Sedli - g, Sueczek - dr, Maxeek - bg,
voc, Pufffy - g) worked for about a year, then
Sedli left and shortly after that Sueczek left
too. In 1995 we drafted Flash-K - dr (now P.S.,
The OwnRoadies) from local band Prase, who
stayed with us until 2011. There were a few
other people in the band, but the basic line-up
was (Flash-k-dr; Pufffy -g, voc; Maxeek - bg,
voc). Together we played a few hundred gigs
(Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Poland,
Germany, Balkans, Greece) and made a few
recordings: demo tape "Někdo jinej" 1996;
cassette "1650 secs" on PH records; split 7'EP
se Svině! and LP/CD "Stačí najít důvod " on
Pohoda Records and CD "Psi" on PH Records +
various compilations. Lou.kaz - dr has been
playing with us since early 2012 and since 2015
Hans von Jirkowski - g. In 2015 we released LP
"Interval jistot" and this year LP "Předstírat
štěstí chce trochu cviku” - both on PH records.
Pufffy:
The history of the band started at the end of
1991, but I've been in the band since the
beginning of 1993, the only founding member is
Maxeek, so he could answer this responsibly.
Please tell me a little about every member in
the group right now, age, family, work,
interests and something bad about everyone?
Earlier bands? Other bands on the side?
Maxeek:
Maxeek bass vocs - 47 yrs; wife and two kids;
working at the university; hobby - band, beer,
bicycling, history, books, used to play a bass
for Gride in 2004 - 2010.
...You wanna something nasty for
everyone? …well I am the angriest one – I get
angry really fast, but I usually get over it
quickly and it is my eternal struggle with it.
Lou.kaz is able to take up maximum space with a
minimum of stuff, the contents of his small
backpack are enough to take up an entire
rehearsal room. Pufffy has a lot of guitar
equipment so he's always moving stuff around
(and driving over Lukas' stuff) and they both
love Alexander Marcus, and that's really pretty
horrible. ...H. von Jirkowski - while the rest
of the band drinks or drank almost exclusively
Budvar he quite illogically prefers Branik and
sometimes sneakily plays his father's favourite
songs without warning in the car.
Pufffy:
I play the guitar in the band since 1993. I am
43 years old, married, two daughters.
I work as an air conditioning designer. I have
played in many bands, sometimes as a regular
member, sometimes only as a stand-in. For
example in bands Gride, Svině!, PBJP, TBC,
Ingrowing, But, Crippled, Slaves of system. Now
I have one more band at the same time with
Dezinfekce. This band called Idiocracy and we
play more fast and extreme music.
I can hear much different influences but mostly
punk and some hardcore ? Favorites from the
past?
Maxeek:
At the very beginning it was definitely Czech
punk classics VZ, Telex, Šanov, HNF, locally
supplemented by bands from Budějovice like Třetí
doba or DDT - because they had lyrics in Czech,
because it wasn't metal. From abroad it was
probably mainly Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols,
Exploited and Clash - the very first musical
definition of "my" punk/hardcore.
Nowadays I'm more interested in what makes a
band stand out from the HC punk box (what's
there in addition) - of course, the music come
first (various interesting crossovers into other
genres), lyrics, graphics, network of friends,
DIY ethics, support of various NGOs etc. Plus I
have a lot of friends in bands and that counts
too.
Here's an incomplete list of top of tops without
order. I think it should be heard we are
influenced at least a little bit by bands listed
below
Gorilla Biscuits - NYC,
Paint it Black from Philly - melodic
hardcore punk and of course some 80's and 90's
NYHC; Coliseum to know how to mix punk and metal
properly; DK - surf guitar and hardcore punk -
melodic, scathing, ironic, classic; Black flag -
old and bloody good; JR Ewing, Swing Kids - a
little chaos and emo never hurt anyone;
Michael's uncle - Czech noise hardcore,
poisonous psycho lyrics, even more psycho music;
Entombed, Doomriders - my favourite metal bands;
Converge - almost always brings surprise,
amazing commitment and ideas; Voivod, Nomeansno
- 'cause in Canada everything is a bit different
in metal and punk and Motörhead - because
sometimes you don't have to change anything at
all.
Pufffy:
There are too many favorites. For example Dead
Kennedys, Dayglo Abortions, Black Flag, Bad
Brains, Circle Jerks, Spermbirds, So Much Hate,
No Means No ….. and I could write a lot more.
Dezinfekce are you satisfied with the
name? How did it came up? What does it mean?
You weren’t afraid that some other band would be
named like this? Which is the best bandname you
know?
Maxeek:
Dezinfekce is the Czech word for disinfection,
as far as I know, there is no band with this
name and Czech pronunciation. I found that there
were bands called Disinfect from the 80's in
former Yugoslavia and Dezynfekcja in Poland in
90’s and of course a lot of "infections" used as
the band's name all over the world. We were even
supposed to play with Polish Infekcja some three
years ago – imagine Disinfection and Infection
on one stage😊,
but for some reason they didn't come to the gig.
This name (Dezinfekce) was the only one
we all managed to agree on shortly after the
band was formed. As far as I can tell, this is
not a bad result when I compare it with other
names we have suggested. I don’t think about if
this name satisfies me, now the name looks
little bit old fashioned and silly – but is like
a brand and link to the past and means also some
reputation for us and I think the people here
know us and know what to expect. And the best
bandname? ...maybe Smiling Beasts - name for
Czech people used by Reinhard Heydrich - Reich
protector during the WWII or maybe Complicité
Candide/ Genuine Complicity
(band from Rožnov pod Radhoštěm) or Kurvy
Češi/ Czechs - the Cunts (band from Prague).
Pufffy:
No I am not satisfied with the name. The name is
from the prehistoric time we have played true
punk and lately we decided not to change the
name because the people already knew us. But it
is so looong time ago, that I don’t care about
it anymore. It means Disinfection in English.
And no I was always sure that nobody want’s to
have the band with name like this
😊
The best bandname ……. maybe Svině! (Svine in
English).
What´s the best thing with playing live? Have
you done any since the covid came? What´s your
strength as a live band
Maxeek:
To me live playing is like an energy charger -
one of the best things that I’m looking forward
to and moreover it brings me something like soul
cleanup ‘cause it is useful output for my
aggression and anger. We have played 14 gigs
since the covid begun (Jan 2020 – Feb 2022).
Hard to say if it is few or lot. Normally we
play around 20-25 gigs annually. I think our
strength is that we bring a lot of energy on the
stage but usually we take much more back as I
have already said.
Pufffy:
I love playing live. It’s all in there. Yes, we
have played some shows during the covid time,
mainly in summer time, when the open air
festival could be.
What’s our strenght? That’s the question for the
fans, not for us, I think.
And where is best to play? And the worst place?
Maxeek:
Generally, the best gig is anywhere where the
people are really interested – the worst one is
where the band don’t interest anyone at all. But
you probably want to hear some places and names…
the first one has to be Festa de la Pohoda
annual punk parade of old friends, bands and
families ran in Vodňany by Brožík from the band
Svině! this year it will be Festa Nr. 24. What
we all are surprised is the fact that we are
quite popular in North Moravia (Rožnov – former
club Vrah, Vrátnice club, Vsetín - Vesmír,
Valmez – Přístav) – great gigs and amazing
audience on the another end of the country. We
have also great memories on shows in Prague
(former club Buben, Cross club, 007, Futurum) or
Brno (in Yacht club organized by United Crusties).
In my opinion some of our best shows we played
in Tábor (booked mostly by R-DIY booking in
former club Orion or pub U lva) - a town close
to our hometown Budějovice - by the way the
proverb that no prophet is welcome in his
hometown also applies to us – the gigs here are
not so intensive and crowded as we want to.
Despite of this it should be mentioned NAAB -
Noise Assualt Agency Budweis that runs lot of
alternative shows here and several places to
play as Fabrika club and our favorite old pub
Paluba close to the bus station. We have also
organized dozens of punk and hardcore shows here
in town in several different places.
Pufffy:
There are many cool places to play in Czech.
Festa de la Pohoda – summer time open air
festival in Vodňany, the small town close to our
hometown, with the best, almost family
atmosphere. To play there is like a law for us.
I can named many other places, but I think it is
not so important. Worst place …… hmmm well I
can’t remember right now.
How is to play this sort of music in Czech
republic right now? Which types of bands do you
have concerts together with?
Maxeek:
There are quite a lot of bands here and the
scene (although I don't like that word much)
works quite well. We also have the advantage of
a would-be legend that has been around since
practically forever, so we usually have quite a
lot of gig offers. But it's also a question of
what branch of punk or HC is in vogue at the
moment. Mostly we play with bands of similar
genre, i.e. Hardcore, punk, thrash/death metal,
grindcore... We are more careful not to play
with bands we don't agree in our opinions on
(for us) important topics
Pufffy:
You know, we play hard core punk, so for punkers
we are too hard and for HC kids we are too much
punky. In our hometown when you are listen to
HC, it means that you are listen to metal core
or hard core metal. This style is quite popular
here. But I don’t like it at all. For us, it's
almost always better to play somewhere else than
in our hometown. Yeah, it's not always like
that.
We play gigs with bands of all styles from punk
to grind core, we don't care about it. We don't
play with any nazi bands, that makes sense for
sure.
How would you describe your music in three
words?
Maxeek:
Angry, loud and sweaty
Pufffy:
Hard Core Punk
What does punk mean to you, is it only a word or
is it a lifestyle?
Maxeek:
…a better and also already longer part of my
life? But honestly - punk will be what you
wanted it to be. It probably should not be such
tabooed and guarded word – I met people with
100% punk attitude without any visible relations
to punk but also dozens of well styled fashion
punx without any "own punk" inside their head.
But there’s something what is important in your
teen age contrary to something else when you’re
adult and it probably should be respected.
Now who is better, bigger, true punk? I
don’t want to decide
Pufffy:
I try to make it a lifestyle. Of course I'm not
the one who's been drinking and smoking weed all
morning. I'm not wearing clear on my head, or
bullet belts, or anything like that. I mean the
attitude as such, I just try not to live like a
total consumer.
Which song/album or group was it who took you
into punk/hardcore?
Maxeek:
Well, it could be 1987, my uncle listened to
Pražský výběr and they have on the album "Straka
v hrsti" such a punk burner track "Na václavským
Václaváku" and then recordings of live concerts
of Visací Zámek on various fizzy-sound
cassettes, I'm sure it was tracks like Traktor,
Cigára... then I started to search for demo
tapes quite purposefully, so today I have a
whole collection
Pufffy:
I'm not sure ......... probably one of those old
Czech punk bands. A lot of the credit goes to my
brother Maxeek, who is a few years older and
brought home a lot of new music in the 90s and
I, still a young sucker at the time, had the
perfect access to it.
What shall a young guy do today to shock their
parents as the way we did when we were young?
They have already seen everything ;-)?
Maxeek:
I am on the another side of the barricade – I am
already a parent – I’m pretty sure that my kids
will find a way
Pufffy:
That's a tough question, I guess I'm too old for
that, so ask some teenager. Maybe I'll find out
when my daughters will be older.
How is it to live in Czech republic right now?
Politically? Fascists? Antivaxxers?
Maxeek:
...I will not disappoint you – I am afraid we
have a little bit of every sort...
In the October elections has lost populist
premier and billionaire Babiš (who is
unfortunately well known in the whole Europe)
and his party. The whole election was about if
you accept Babiš and his style of politics
(similar to Orbán's politics in Hungary) or not.
He was defeated by very fragile and non
consistent coalition of different parties, which
should be seen as an emergency solution.
Personally I am glad that Babiš finished but it
was a very close victory. After some time the
winner parties are starting to fight against
each other which is very dangerous now. The
official politics is divided into so-called
democratic block represented by the election
winners and the rest which is ex-premier's
populistic party plus far right assholes headed
by one half-Japanese pretending to defend
traditional Czech values. The winner coalition
has several common points but the final
direction of each party is very different. The
ex-premier’s party is popular mostly among
elderly and less educated people - he and his
government in fact bribed these groups of people
in exchange for their election votes. But there
are also next important things which divide the
people - growing conflict between vaccinated
people and antivaxers movement and relationship
to EU and Russia with current situation in
Ukraine....
Moreover ex-premier Babiš will candidate
in presidential election in the Fall of 2023...
you have to wish us a good luck we will
need it...
Pufffy:
Well, shit, like everywhere else.
Is there any good bands from Czech republic
right now? Is the punkscene/metalscene/hardcorescene
big? How is it in your hometown?
Maxeek:
From the relatively newer Czech bands I like
Vole, Decultivate, Skiplife and Wilderness from
Slovakia. Long-term favorites will be our
eternal co-travellers Svině!, already mentioned
Michael's Uncle; Innoxia Corpora; See You In
Hell; Slut; Adacta; Tummö; Morkhimmel; Lucifer
Efekt; Facan; Autonoé; Commodore 64....
Pufffy:
There are a lot of good bands in the Czech
Republic. I won't go into each of them here.
There is some kind of scene in the Czech
Republic, I think it's a bit better now than it
was like ten years ago.
But it's not and probably never will be
as great as it was in the 90s. That was really
great. In our hometown there is popular a bit
different style of hard core and punk than we
like. Most of the young people here listen to
hard core mixed with metal or NYHC, but as far
as punk goes, the softer, more moderate stuff is
more in.
Budweis has never been a centre of crust
or disbeat. There used to be a lot of grind core
bands in the past, but now there's not much of
that.
What do you know about Sweden? Have you been
here sometime? What is typical Swedish?
Maxeek:
Very briefly - Steel; Death metal; Umea HC;
Monarchy; Nobel prize; Astrid Lindgren - Six
Bullerby Children; Bengtsson – Röde Orm; Runer
Jonsson - Viking Vick; Bergmann - The Seventh
Seal; neo-noir crime series; meat balls from
IKEA that I don't eat. Unfortunately I have
never been there.
Pufffy:
I don't know much about Sweden, I've never been
there, but I'd like to check it out. Something
typical ...... Surströmming
😊
Have you heard any good bands from Sweden?
Maxeek:
Yep man for sure …DS13, Outlast, Separation,
Victims, Raised Fist, Genocide SS, Totalt Jävla
Mörker, Martyrdöd, Entombed, At the Gates, Edge
of Sanity, Refused, Randy, AC4, Uncurbed,
Wolfpack, Disfear, Driller Killer, M:40…. And of
course Abba &Europe
Pufffy:
Man, are you kidding me? There are so many great
bands from Sweden. I like Swedish death metal
and hard core punk. So some names: Entombed, At
The Gates, Edge Of Sanity, Dismember, Uncurbed,
Refused, DS-13, Separation, AC4, Randy, God
Mother …………
Your lyrics, who does them and what influences
you? Never in english? Please tell me a little
about the following songs
Maxeek:
I did several lyrics written in English a years
ago just to have a proof that I am able to do
that,
so it is not that bad like ”never ever” -
but I
miss in English a knowledge
of hidden
meanings, overtones, proverbs
and ambiguities that I use in Czech. The
emphasize in singing is often linked tightly to
lyrics and I am not sure I would be able to do
the same in another language. Moreover the
audience is tuned on Czech language so it seems
to be natural…
-Vitej doma
Welcome home - the biggest competition is the
intra-species one - where you least expect it,
you have the same needs as the others do, and
that sense of security inside the crowd is
pretty tricky and double-edged. We all know each
other, we all like each other but .... there's a
complex system of acquaintances, favours and
contra-favours but it's always quid pro quo - it
always takes something from you and gets you
where you don't want to go. It's a kind of
blackmail circle where the blackmailed actively
blackmail, the abused ones abuse, everyone owes
someone something and no one is clean, no one
knows how to get out of it and maybe don't even
want to.
Ukryt
Shelter - The song is about of how comfortable
is (a very common) opinion that rather than do
only a few is better to do nothing. There are
different hideouts for conscience such as
would-be trusted values, beliefs, threats or
worries – but there is always a hook – you have
or should to share responsibility, guilt, fear
or danger – but this burden is unwanted so it is
rather easier to pretend or choose the complete
passivity – safety of hopelessness.
-Neptej se proc
Don’t ask why - the last two sentences of the
text are the most important, “when I betray you
again it will be for your own good, I'll do
everything I can to make you learn to be afraid
in time”.
You're worried about your kids, so you
force your compromises and your fears on them
just to protect them somehow, even if you know
it's bad
Is there any subject that you never will write
anything about? Or isn´t anything sacred?
Maxeek:
I probably wouldn't want to write a beer anthem
or some celebratory song about how great we
punks are and how much we love each other, I'm
too angry and too cynical for that
Politic and music, does it goes hand in
hand? Which is your most political song? Is it
important to get out your opinions in music? Or
is it OK to play music and not sing about
politics?
Maxeek:
I think that politics will be somehow natural
part of (especially punk and hardcore) music
however I do not use to write truly political
lyrics - simply I cannot do that. Our most
political song is definitely Sea it is about
migrant crisis – about people we pretend we
cannot see them, people of second class. About
our fight for not to share a bit of our
comfortable life with someone who is from "the
outside". The impulse was the famous picture of
drowned 3 years old boy – I have kids so I tried
to realize all the horror...and our reaction?
all those TV spots, big hype and fear ...it
seems to me it is suddenly like in the Colloseum
- in fact it is you or me who can decide who
will survive and it makes me sick...
Pufffy:
For me, it's not that important to sing about
politics. We don’t play political songs.
Best political band/artist?
Maxeek:
…Jello Biafra, Banksy, Resist, Oi Polloi, old
Atari Teenage Riot, old Asian Dub Foundation,
maybe also some reggae stuff…
Pufffy:
Dead Kennedys and Jello Biafra.
Do you think that music (lyrics and so on) can
change anyones life, I mean people who listens
to music?
Maxeek:
It sounds noble, but if I may speak for myself,
I guess so. It has for sure some influence on
most of the activities in my life …and I would
be glad if I can help to make needed little step
(show a different point of view) for someone
else ...
Pufffy:
Yes, definitely.
Your favorite recordcover alltime? Who does
your recordcovers? And do you have any good
recordstores in your hometown?
Maxeek:
My favorite one is undoubtedly - Michael’s Uncle
LP "The end of the dark psychedelia" from 1990 –
provokes and perfectly represents what you can
expect from this album – the cover is black and
white photo of home slaughter of a pig. I also
like the works of John Yates for Alternative
Tentacles and classic Dischord LP covers and
generally I like comic and cut’n’paste works….
The first two demo tapes was mostly homemade and
handmade. The second one with help of our friend
Lenka who was able to work with PC graphics. The
split seveninch and first LP
“stačí najít důvod “ was made by Lukáš
Páral from Pohoda Records; LP “Psi” - main
motive was made by tattoo master Gisbern (ex
bass for thrash band Lahar) the rest of graphic
work by Rob Hopeye (drummer of Kusumam);
minimalistic cover of
LP “interval jistot” is from Honza Arndt
and the last one record cover for LP “předstírat
štěstí chce trochu cviku (pretending to be lucky
needs some training)” is inspired by the name of
the record - the idea is ours and the artwork
was made by Víťan (guitarist of Entrapped) and
finalized by Flatv5 (member of tons of bands).
There are official record stores in our town but
if you want something special it is better to
contact some distro.
Pufffy:
Ufff, tough question, there are a lot of good
covers as well as crappy ones. I like the Voivod
covers, for example. The cover of our last
record was drawn by our friend Víťan, for which
we thank him. The idea for the cover is from
Maxeek. The graphics were put together by
another friend of ours, Flatus. Anyway, there
are no good music stores in our fucking
hometown.
Is it important to get out physical records of
your stuff? Why or why not? Vinyl, CD, cassette,
what do you prefer if you could choose whatever?
Is Papagujev Hlasatel a good label? If you only
would release digital music, can you have the
feeling that you haven´t done an album then?
Maxeek:
I'm pretty old school about this, so I like
something tangible, preferably an LP, even
though it's not very practical, but it looks
nice graphically and it's kind of the "highest
level" of what you can release. Other types of
media (even digital ones) are fine too - I
usually listen to some samples online and that
decides if I buy LP. As for PH records, we are
friends with Pavel and in fact all our records
were released by our friends and if you have a
friend who will release a record for you, you
are a lucky person...
Pufffy:
I speak for myself. Yes it is very important for
me to have a record released on a physical
medium like vinyl, which I mostly prefer. I
think CDs are history. I've noticed a sort of
recession of audio cassettes now, but personally
I don't have anything to play them on anymore.
Vinyl is the most for me.
We've
known Pavel from Papagájův Hlasatel for 25 years
and we've released basically all of our records
there except for the first demo and the album
Stačí najít důvod from 2004. I don't think we
have any need to look for another label.
Please tell me a funny thing which have happened
during your career and under some gig?
Pufffy:
There were so many ridiculous situations, it's
hard to pick just one. For example, at concerts
in Germany, for some unknown reason, I was often
the target of drunks and their need to urinate.
Fortunately, they never managed to follow
through.
How does your audience look like? Which people
do you miss on your concerts? Which is the
biggest band you ever have played together
with?
Maxeek:
Mostly older audience these days, aged 25+.
There are definitely less of younger
ones, but it's a question if we as a band can
offer them something they really want, because
in terms of lyrics and music we're already a bit
different cup of tea. Over the years we've
played with lot of bands- most famous ones - the
Exploited, the Casualties, Restarts, Total
Chaos, GBH, Turbonegro....
Pufffy:
I don't really tease people who come to our
concerts. But it's true that the concerts of
bands like us are mostly attended by older fans,
our age. Young HC kids listen to different music
than we do, I've mentioned it a few times. So I
would like to see a younger audience at our
concerts. The biggest or rather the most famous
band we played with was definitely The
Exploited.
Please rank your five favoriterecords, five
favoriteconcerts and five most important things
in life?
Maxeek:
You pushed me in the corner with the
order...order is just for orientation
1.
Gorilla biscuits - Start today/ Beastie Boys -
Ill communication
2.
Paint it Black - CVA/ So Much Hate - Lies/
Outlast – Positive Hardcore Positive Youth/
Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come/ SOIA – Just
Look Around & Build to Last
3.
Michael’s Uncle - The end of the dark
psychedelia/ NomeansNo – Wrong
4.
Doomriders - Black Thunder/ Converge - You fail
me/ Entombed – To ride shoot straight and speak
the truth
5.
Voivod – Phobos & Negatron
Shows
1.
SOIA, Snapcase in České Budějovice in 1993 or
1994
2.
Converge at Maryland Death Fest 2010 (Baltimore)
3.
Esgmeq & Kevorkian at Hardcore café mondo České
Budějovice 1998
4.
Reunion of Michaels Uncle - Skrýchov u Opařan
2006
5.
Gorilla Biscuits – Futurum Prague 2007/
Doomriders, Disfear -
– Futurum Prague 2008
Most important things
1.
Family/ Kids
2.
Health
3.
Band
4.
Friends
5.
Forget my age
Pufffy:
All in no particular order:
Records
Neurosis-The times of grace
Refused – The shape of punk to come
Entombed – Wolverine blues
No Means No – Wrong
Voivod – Phobos
Concerts –
Sick Of It All + Snapcase in Budweis 1994
Neurosis – Prague Akropolis 20??
Entombed – Maryland Death Fest Baltimore 2010
Carcass – Maryland Death Fest Baltimore 2013
Melt Banana – Obscene Extreme
Important things in life:
Family,
Health
Friendship
Music
Beer
😊
First, last and most expensive record ever
bought?
Maxeek:
First record that I bought was probably Pražský
výběr LP “Straka v hrsti”, last one Innoxia
Corpora – “je stále těžší otočit prst proti sobě”,
most expensive one - I’m not quite sure probably
it was in early 90’s double LP “The story of the
Clash” – cost about 250 CZK almost all my cash
for one month.
Pufffy:
First record …. I can’t remember, but I think
that it was some stupid east german band in
Berlin in 1987 or 1988 when I was on the road to
vacation on Rujana.
Last record I bought is the LP from Czech band
Contrastic. Really cool stuff.
And most expensive record I ever bought was
multi LP Negatron/Phobos of the band Voivod.
Is it boring with interviews? Is it much
interviews?
Maxeek:
Fortunately, we don't do so many interviews, so
only readers can be bored, we are quite
satisfied...it's more a battle with memory and
rather unsuccessful attempt to be concise and
hopefully somewhat readable.
Pufffy:
I quite enjoy doing interviews when they have
interesting questions. It happens quite often
that the questions are always the same and it's
a bit annoying. If I answer for myself, I've
written a lot of interviews. Not just for the
band Dezinfekce, but in general.
Do you care about reviews? Which is the most
peculiar you ever had, with this band or any
other band you have been to? Have you ever
changed anything after a bad review?
Maxeek:
Of course you're curious to hear what people
have to say, especially those who should
actually understand it. It's kind of funny
sometimes. For example, about the last record I
read in one review that my lyrics "don't disturb
when listening, but have its limits when
reading", then it's interesting how some of the
reviewers characterize their strengths, e.g.
"metal trained ears". And the most interesting
thing was when we got the Angel for the previous
album Interval jistot - which we didn't accept
anyway – it is the official award of the Academy
of Popular Music. So from this moment started to
rate us highly even those who might prefer not
to know about us. Finally, I guess we're lucky
that only those who like us write reviews of our
releases, but we wouldn't change anything
anyway.
Pufffy:
I like reviews, I like to read someone else's
opinion on the music I play. I haven't read a
downright bad review of our music in a long
time, so no, I haven't changed anything after a
review.
Which bands do people compare you to, is it
boring that people compare you to other bands or
is it understandable? Which is the most odd band
you have been compared to?
Maxeek:
Well we have quite an advantage that it said
about us that we have our own sound and approach
to things. That's nice to hear and hopefully we
won't get cocky. On the other hand a lot of
people are clear and would rather go for a copy
of famous band or some perfect representative of
the genre. I guess I also can understand and
survive that.
And finally about the odd bands - I guess
I wouldn't like it if we were compared to some
"agro punk" bands, of which there are quite a
lot of here.
Pufffy:
At one time we were compared to Poison Idea.
Well, at the time, maybe it was a bit fitting.
Otherwise, now they don't usually compare us to
any other band, or at least I haven't noticed
it. We were compared to Unbroken on a poster a
long time ago, I think it was a bit of a weird
comparison.
If you could choose five bands from the past and
the history and nowadays and both dead and
living bands to have a concert together with
your band. Which five have you been chosen?
Maxeek:
DK, Gorilla Biscuits, Paint It Black, Colliseum,
SOIA…
Is music a good way to get out frustration and
become a nicer person outside the music??
Maxeek:
I hope for that and try hard but the results
stay very unsure and unstable
J
Pufffy:
Hehe, I guess it depends on when and who. It
might work for me, but that's for someone else
to judge.
Which is the most odd question you ever have got
in an interview?(Except this one)
Maxeek:
Except this one – none
Pufffy:
What is typical Swedish?
😊
Which is the question you want to have but you
never get. Please ask it and answer it?
Maxeek:
What time you will finally quit with a band?
Dunno, I still don’t want to
Pufffy:
Who is one of the two best guitarists in the
band Dezinfekce?
Me.
Futureplans for the band?
Maxeek:
As always - these plans are unchanging - travel,
play, new songs, new ideas and lots of fun
Pufffy:
Playing and touring as long as possible. Record
as much quality music as possible.
For yourself?
Maxeek:
Try to survive the futureplans
Pufffy:
Staying healthy with my family and friends for a
long time to come.
Wisdomword?
Maxeek:
I'd rather not, I already ate
Pufffy:
I'm not very wise. I hope that time will come
someday.
Something to add?
Maxeek:
Thanx for interest, thanx for asking and hope to
see you on the gig
Pufffy:
Don't act like assholes, think with your head
and listen to good music.
Last question…. Beerfavorite
sort? If you did a beer which sort would it be
and what have it been called?
Maxeek:
No doubt the best one
Budvar “ring” yeast lager
Pufffy:
For me Budweiser Budvar is the best. I don't
know under what name it is sold in Sweden. Maybe
Czechvar like in US.
I don't know anything about brewing beer, so I'd
leave it to the experts.
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