Bark Bark Bark is an indie rock band from Tucson, Arizona.
It has only one member, Jacob Alonzo Cooper or "Jacob Safari".
Bark Bark Bark is signed to the label Retard Disco.
Jacob also designs clothing for Forever Clothing, manages and helped produce work for Milk:Blood, a designer on Retard Disco, founded Castle of Sound(an independent record label), designs fliers for Modified Arts, and has a booking agency and tape label "All My Friends Are Gold."
Bark Bark Bark has played with bands such as
Architecture in Helsinki,
Ratatat,
I Am The World Trade Center,
Polysics,
Grand Buffet,
The Apes,
Les Georges Leningrad,
Helio Sequence,
XBXRX,
Barr,
Of Montreal, and
Swing&go=Go Dada Swing.
Members
Jacob Alonzo Cooper
Live Members
Johnnie Francis Munger II
<br>Lisa Marie Warman
<br>Michael Sanger Texas
<br>Abraham Cooper
Interviews
aznightbuzz.com Interview
You started out in music at an age where most boys were still playing with G.I.
Joes.
What inspired you to get into music so early?
What band did you tour with at 14?Granted I still played with toys and was a pretty active child, I was constantly surrounded by music.
It was a pretty usual thing around the Cooper house.
My dad got me into jazz drummers like Buddy Rich and Sandy Nelson, so I took up the snare drum in my elementary school band.
I liked learning about different instruments and I toyed a lot with different sounds as I learned to record things together on a 4 track that I got for Christmas one year.
There really wasn't a limit to what I played with; I even broke a lot of my mom's pots and pans and my dad's stereo equipment because of it.
My older brother was also into music so we started playing in some makeshift bands together.
This led to future bands and I toured when I was 14 with this garage-rock 'n' roll thing I did with three of my friends called the Harps.
It was really fun and we actually ended up being out for almost a month while my parents checked up on me every day.
My parents were really cool about all of it, surprisingly.
Are you a Carrie, a Samantha, a Charlotte or a Miranda?
Don't pretend you don't know what I mean.I recently watched the "Sex and the City" box DVD while I was in Albuquerque before some show.
I always thought I'd hate it, but it was so captivated by it and couldn't get take my attention from it.
It was just so goddamn dramatic and intense.
I think I am a Samantha because she is hot, if that makes sense.
It really doesn't, but she is still hot.
Sometimes she wears goofy outfits, though.
You say you named your act Bark!
Bark!
Bark! instead of something like, say the Jacob Cooper Experience, so people wouldn't confuse your music with that of the singer-songwriter ilk.
Do you choose to tour with a live band because you think it's more boring to watch a guy push buttons and twiddle knobs?I think I am finally just getting comfortable with the current lineup because a) I know everyone and am very comfortable with them, b) everyone brings great ideas to the table and is really enthusiastic, and c) if I played alone I'd get really nervous on stage.
Recording in a room by yourself and letting loose is one thing, but being on a stage alone trying to compensate for everything you did in production is not only confusing to the audience, its just so fucking boring.
I've done it, and have been forced to at times, and I utterly hate it.
Come on though, who wants to watch that?
I can understand some hip-hop-solo-type thing, or even a type of comedic element to it like Grand Buffet does, but its just so boring trying to watch something like that.
This is why I don't go to acoustic shows; I just fall asleep.
Why do we "have to stick together?"
If you are "the one that haunts" me would you do so with sheets and moans or eggbeaters and ping pong balls?Would it be funny to say that my record was actually just a 9-11 rebuttal or an anti-war protest?
Here come the P.C. police.
So you spend a lot of time going on quickie tours.
Are you working on building a regional fan base and going on from there?
What's the long term plan tour-wise?Touring is fun and a lot of work.
These weekend trips and month tours are good for me right now because I think a lot of bands want to rush out and throw themselves to the road without thinking of over-saturating the same cities in a small period of time.
I'm trying to see how the record does for a couple months while we still play here and there.
What do I know, though?
I might just be missing out on that magical mystery tour fun.
I've found my niche in the Los Angeles, Texas and other city scenes so I like to consider these trips as "visiting friends and family" type deals.
We have great support all over the West Coast and Southwest region, but definite tours are being planned for a full U.S. gig and even talks about Europe soon, now that I have distribution there.
Greeks write great reviews.
If you could be any TV dinner, what would it be and why?I am so terrible at poetry, but maybe that one with the penguin on it?
Kid's Cuisine?
Fuck, this is hard and I can't be funny on this question.
I hate you, Adrienne.
You can do all of the recording yourself, but play live with a full band which, of course, brings a more raw feel to your shows.
What do you want to create for an audience when you play live?
I want them to feel the force behind the music rather than me just pressing play and singing.
I've done that before and it's so awkward.
I never felt like they really "got" what I was trying to do until recently.
Having a backing band helps promote the sound and communal feel behind the music that I make at home.
It feels so great to project an idea through four extra people backing you up on stage.
Would you rather make out with Carrot Top or George W.
Bush?That's
gay.
Type gay in italics though, so it looks sarcastic on print.
Then people won't think I'm homophobic or anything.
You know, like gay as in, "Dude, that's so gay", not like, "I am gay and I like men".
Gay, not GAY GAY.
Word.
How did you end up joining forces with Retard Disco and how have they dealt with the issue of your "borrowed sounds?"I met Andy and Alex a few years back after they asked me to send them this CD-R that I had been touring around with.
We actually became really great friends and I spent a lot of time asking them for advice throughout that time about band members, labels, and music in general.
We didn't really start talking business until early last year (2006), after I had toured with some of their bands.
All the music on this record is original, and anything I've "borrowed" was manipulated and altered in some shape or another.
I don't want trouble and neither does the label.
If I had it my way, borrowing sounds would be legal.
Kanye can back this up.
Say The Man has a gun to your head and says if you want to be able to keep making music you would either have to tap dance to "The Wind Beneath My Wings" wearing only an adult diaper and blades sunglasses in front of your former senior class or live in a completely empty room for three days.
What would you choose?Probably the first option because that shit sounds so funny.
Oh, and I hated my senior class, so they can think I am even more gay now.
GAY GAY, not sarcastic gay.
So your album is out now.
What's the plan?College radio is picking up on it quite a bit.
Henry Rollins loves the record and is currently playing it in rotation on his LA radio show.
But I'll just overdose on heroin because I am famous now.
Discography
"Hott Summer Traxx" Released Novemver 22, 2006 (only released on the internet)
1.
All the Days Plans
<br>2.
Brand New Shoes
<br>3.
Circle, Circle, Dot, Dot
<br>4.
Did You Know I'm 100 years old?
<br>5.
Half-Full
<br>6.
My Song Love
<br>7.
Ridiculous Day
<br>8.
After Hours
<br>9.
Womb Raider
<br>10.
Peace Out Dudes
<br>"Haunts" LP Released May 22, 2007
<br>1.
Brand New Shoes
<br>2.
Haunts
<br>3.
Some Time
<br>4.
One Thing Stands
<br>5.
Tattoos
<br>6.
New Kids On The Block
<br>7.
I'm Needy
<br>8.
GTFO
<br>9.
Pluto Never Forget
<br>10.
I Love You But I Don't
<br>11.
Heart
<br>12.
How To Save A Whale
<br>13.
Dead Ghost
<br>14.
You Could Swim
Links
Offical Website<br>
MySpace<br>
Retard Disco
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