I never heard the term before, and thought it was kind of funny. He was talking about how he was on an airplane, and was getting harassed by some guy and was touching his "front bottoms".
I got it from a movie called 'Sexy Beast,' with Ben Kingsley.
I think, from the first show, we thought ‘this is something we should keep doing.’ Also, for my birthday, we got recording time at a studio, so that was another reason why I wanted to start a band because to record, I had to be in a band, and The Front Bottoms had just become what it is.īrian: We get a lot of shit for that name. We played our first show to no one and it was still awesome. He found a keyboard in the attic and said, 'I want to play this, and if I do, can I be in your band?' and I was like, 'Hell yeah, man!' He couldn't play guitar, because that's what I'm playing, and I didn't want him to play bass because that's so standard. His brother started hanging around more and said he wanted to be in the band. We then would jam in his attic it'd be 130 degrees, sweating our asses off. I wanted to make it a bit more official, so I thought of a name, and said: “I'm going to start a band called The Front Bottoms ” and then I called Matt, and asked if he wanted to play drums, and he said definitely. Matt (Uychich) was always my favorite person to jam with and was the best drummer I knew. I'd been playing with a couple of different bands, and just jamming for fun. Despite this day and age, where social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have almost become fundamental to a band's success, the power of word of mouth should not go underestimated or even ignored especially as this is the tool that has greatly contributed to the underground success of the Saddlebrook, NJ, three piece, The Front Bottoms.Īlter The Press recently caught up with Brian Sella and Matt Uychich of New Jersey's finest, and spoke to them about: how the band originated, their influences, the story behind the name 'The Front Bottoms' and more.Īlter The Press: How did The Front Bottoms originate?īrian Sella (vocals/guitar): Freshman year in college was coming to a close, and I wanted to start a band really bad.
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