Lucky Boys Confusion brings Suburban Curse Tour to Tea Room

The Suburban Curse Tour made a stop at The Gypsy Tea RoomTuesday with The American Freshmen, Dynamite Boy and Lucky BoysConfusion. The Daily Campus had a chance to interview JasonShultejann the bass player of Lucky Boys Confusion.

LBC came together five years ago in Chicago and hasn’tstopped rocking since. They have two albums out on Elektra Records,Throwing the Game and Commitment, which can be foundat either Best Buy or Virgin Mega Store.

Daily Campus: A couple weeks ago you all were in awreck in Chicago. Has it affected the tour any?

Jason: Yeah, it was in the middle of September. Two days beforewe left for the tour, a drunk driver hit our new van and brand newtrailer. It totaled the van and our trailer except our equipmentand us. We’re all okay. No, it didn’t affect the tour.We’re traveling a lot more uncomfortably because we need twovans and two drivers. The loading sucks but we’re all OK andthat’s the main thing that matters.

DC: How’s the Suburban Curse Tour going so far?

J: It’s going awesome because we haven’t done aheadlining tour in three or four years, and that was when we werewith a label and they were giving us a push at radio and stuff andthis is way better than that, you know, because we’ve gottento tour around for a few years and really establish ourselves.

DC: What’s your favorite city to play in?

J: Um — well besides Chicago a lot of random places.Omaha, Dallas is pretty good. We haven’t gotten to play herein a few years, but we’ll see how it is tonight.

DC: Who is someone you would want to perform with?

J: Ah man … um — that’s an awesome questioncan we go back to that? If it’s my favorite CD or who’smy favorite band I have trouble with it.

DC: This is another one in kind of the same vein. Who hasbeen your favorite band to play with?

J: This summer, the RX Bandits, I watched them 40 out of 50nights that we played with them. They were so cool.

DC: Your last album, Commitment, came out about a yearago. Are you all planning your next record yet?

J: Yeah, last October [Commitment was released]. Rightwhen we get home from this tour we’re taking about three orfour months off to record a new album.

DC: And you all are still going to be on ElektraRecords?

J: No, we haven’t been on Elektra since April sothat’s also another thing we’ll be looking at moreafter we write more songs.

DC: Do you feel you’ve had to compromise for the recordlabel on any of your records?

J: More on the first album because they could push our buttonsbecause they could push us around a little bit more. We were verygreen and didn’t know what we could get away with and thingslike that. On our second album we worked with Miguel [Hippoldt] whowould really just made us realize that this was the music we werewriting and we don’t have to take s— from them. Take s—from anybody if you can and get your job done. You try to work withthem a little bit, but also you’re the one’s writingthe songs and if they don’t like it, then don’t put itout.

DC: Do you feel there’s been progression or growthbetween records?

J: Definitely. We’ve focused a lot more, you know, westill like all the styles of music that were on our first record.We were trying to do anything possible that all of our interests ofmusic were in such different worlds. We thought we could do all ofthat on a record, and we still can. But we’re trying to bemore of a rock band.

DC: Does the Chicago scene embrace y’all?

J: Yes, very much. It’s the s—. It’s our home. Wealways sell out the House of Blues and the Metro, and we’vegot two shows in December that are both going to be sold out.

DC: What about your annual show in Chicago?

J: Yeah. It’s called Songs From a Scene. We’ve beendoing bigger venues in Chicago for a few years now and have beenlucky enough to have as many people come out as do. So we arealways, during the year, picking bands for this show whohaven’t played in front of that many people and getting thema new audience and stuff.

DC: What is something you can’t live without on theroad?

J: Um— A cell phone? [pause] A cell phone, beer, women andthat’s about it. Taco Bell, Taco Bell is a must.