Eric Wood from Man is the Bastard interview for Vice Magazine

By Derek Neuland

12 November 2008 No Comment

It’s not everyday you see and interview with Eric Wood of Man is the Bastard, Bastard Noise, and Pillsbury Hardcore fame. Vice Magazine recently posted an interview with the power violence pioneer. Here is an excerpt:

How’d you end up playing in Neanderthal with Matt Domino from Infest?

We had played shows together and just knew each other. You have to remember that at that time there was a very small group of people involved in that kind of music. The night Pissed Happy Children and Infest played Gilman Street in San Francisco to record the split flexi-disc for Slap a Ham Records, there were nine people in the room.

Is it true that you guys actually coined the term “powerviolence”?

Matt did. We were practicing one day and talking about how we had to give what we were doing an identity and Matt came up with it on the spot. He was really good at that: great, quick, perfect ideas.

You can check out the rest of the interview here.

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