How's the tour going so far?
Seth: Yeah, it's been cool. Our van broke down in Munich for a few days but we made the most of it. We met lots of cool people and it's been pretty awesome
Daniel: I don't think we've had any problems that most people don't have on tour. We fight, the van breaks down, we fight some more. Normal tour shit. Then everything goes fine.
Has there been a highlight?
Seth: There's been a few. In Sweden the sun never went down. We played on a medieval estate in Holland in basically what was originally a chicken coop. It was very tiny and there was about 60 people packed in there. There was free alcohol for everyone. It was just a party. We played with Insomnio and Brat Pack. That was our last show on mainland Europe. We had a blast. Everywhere's been a blast so far though.
Cameron: We played the biggest show of our career in Prague I think. With Limp Wrist. There were hundreds of people, it was insane. People were naked. We saw a lot of penises. That was the highlight of the tour right there.
Where are you guys based?
Nick: Raleigh, North Carolina.
Are there any underrated bands you'd big up from Raleigh?
Seth: Shards, Plague, Devour, Double Negative.
Nick: Double Negative seem really underrated in Europe compared to the US but they're like the best band I've ever seen.
Cameron: As far as hardcore they're the biggest band in Raleigh. Whatever Brains are fucking amazing too.
Seth: We have a lot of bands and they're pretty different so that makes it a lot of fun.
Cameron: And it's always like the same 10 people.
How did the band get started?
Seth: Me and Nick started it. We lived together for a while and we kinda wanted to do something different from everything else in the town we lived in. Everybody listened to Bridge Nine kinda bands. Nobody listened to faster hardcore. They listened to slow, chuggy hardcore. We were kinda sick of it so we started that. Then I moved for college up to Raleigh and we met Daniel through the internet.
Daniel: No, I met you at shows. They'd made a practice tape of songs that they'd written together and I thought it was awesome. My old band was breaking up at the time so it was just sorta good timing. Then I suggested Cameron as the singer just cuz he's like obviously a rockstar. He's born to do it.
Cameron: Yeah, they found the biggest drunk in town. The rest is history.
Did it take a while to get going?
Nick: Yeah, cuz I live 3 hours away. We don't practice very often so it took a while to get the wheels rolling.
Seth: I dunno. It felt like once we started it went pretty quick. Within the first couple of months we recorded a demo tape.
Daniel: We had a demo before we'd even played any shows. I think we'd been practicing for about 3 months. Then we recorded a 7" after we'd been a band for 6 months.
Cameron: You can definitely tell with the demo that they had all these songs and gave them to me and I just like wrote them all in one night. I think the lyrics are pretty horrible but they worked for the time.
What do your lyrics tend to be about?
Cameron: I think we've got into a groove of our music and lyrics and how they go together. We don't have typical punk songs like "fuck the cops" and shit.
Daniel: On the LP I started writing lyrics. Before it was all Cameron. I think the reason I started writing lyrics was because I thought his were so good. He was developing this sort of aesthetic where I think he was dealing with lots of different topics but he was always approaching it from the perspective of how it affects human beings psychologically or epistemologically so I just started trying to write lyrics in the same vein. So if a topic interests me then I just start to think about how it impacts your brain on a fundamental level. I feel like the aesthetic of our band is psychology.
Cameron: I think the name Logic Problem and the lyrics definitely go together. It makes sense. When I first started writing lyrics that I liked I'd just be reading something then pick out lines that I liked and construct something around that. I wouldn't say I was ripping things of from books or stealing things, but having something I liked and then working out everything else from that.
Daniel: Yeah, he kinda taught me to write that way too so when I realise there's something that I'm interested in I'll start to research it and usually a line will stick out. Then it's just like putting the rest of the puzzle together.
What kinda stuff do you have going on aside from Logic Problem?
Daniel: We all play in other bands except for Nick. I do another band called Devour. It's kinda more of a crust punk or Japanese hardcore band. I also do a label called Sorry State and I put out a lot of stuff from North Carolina and all around the world, including Cameron's bands which are fucking awesome, Shards and Plague.
Is it hard to balance the time between projects?
Cameron: Yeah it sucks. Like I work full time and do all three bands so like I have to go to practice every night and I get out of work really late and that's my night. I sleep all day or write songs. My girlfriend dumped me cause I was doing too much music stuff. Sucks but it's good song writing fuel.
Are you the singer in those other bands too?
Cameron: No. I play drums in Plague and I play drums in Shards. Me and Seth kinda have a band that I play bass in. Then I play bass in a Misfits tribute band.
What are they called?
Cameron: The Misfits.
Thanks to Seth, Daniel, Cameron, and Nick. Check out Logic Problem.
