Real cute, Leo. But at least they still got into a fight.

Aaron? Peter?: I can talk in a high voice. [straining in falsetto]
Yeah, that feels pretty natural.

Miles Britton: It's weird, I feel like I can tell the difference between your voices when you're singing.
AM?PM?: Sing, Aaron.

MB: Wait, that was just Peter talking?
AM?PM?: How about we say our names each time before we talk?

MB: So anyway, you all played you first show in New Orleans a little more than a month ago. Did you have a good time?
AM?PM?: We did. Peter. [laughter]
AM?PM?: Aaron. Yes. A lot. But we both had colds, so we couldn't enjoy it as much as we'd have liked.
AM?PM?: Opening up for Of Montreal was pretty fun. But, yeah, we were both sick. We hit some pretty bum notes. But it was a good show. A good turn out.

MB: And that was the Teeth's first national tour?
AM?PM?: Well, this...
AM?PM?: Technically that was our first one. Just down South and over to Texas. but this is our first real, across-the-country tour.
AM?PM?: ...right

MB: Where are you all now?
AM?PM?: We're in...
AM?PM?: Nevada.
AM?PM?: ...Elko, Nevada. [aggravated] Stop!
AM?PM?: What?
AM?PM?: Just stop.
AM?PM?: Fine.

MB: Umm... So, how's the response to the Carry the Wood EP been so far?
AM?PM?: It's been...
AM?PM?: Good, really good, People...
AM?PM?: ... Stop jumping over all the questions!
AM?PM?: ... seem to be liking it a lot. But the one thing they keep mentioning is the difference between the live show and the album.

MB: I was just about to bring that up. I love the album, but it's really laid back compared to the live show. There's a lot more subtlety. The live show is just balls out energy.
AM?PM?: A lot of that has to do with the limited technology we've got. We recorded the whole ting ourselves in a friend's basement slash garage. All we had was a little Fostex digital 16 track that we got off e-bay for $300. We had cheap equipment, so it sounds a little home-made, a little lo-fi. So something we're working on is capturing the energy with the limited equipment we've got.

MB: You recorded that yourselves? It sounds great for a home recording.
AM?PM?: Thanks. Yeah, we took our time with it. It might be a little lo-fi, but it's better than going into a sudio, where you pay all this money and always feel rushed or have an engineer who doesn't really know what you're going for.

MB: So which do you like better, recording or playing live shows?
AM?PM?: I don't know. With each one you've got different tools at your disposal. When we play live, we use the fact that we're physically there. We jump around, run across the stage and sing in each other's microphones. Just playing off the energy of the moment. But when we're recording, it's more about the music and the subtleties of it. The music on the record is the music that we're actually trying to make. That's usually more what we're interested in.

MB: You all included two versions of the song "Wake" on the album, a slow, acoustic version and the fast rocking version you all play live. Peter, which version did you originally intend?
Aaron: [Pause] I think Pete went outside, actually. He walked off a little while ago.

MB: Oh. Okay. I guess that little gimmick didn't last too long. I thought I would've gotten a few more questions in before you pissed each other off.
AM: [laughs] Yeah, well, that's what happens when you're stuck in a van with the same people for weeks on end. Especially when one of those people is your twin brother.

MB: I read somewhere that you and Peter used to fight a lot on stage. Supposedly there were even a couple of fist fights.
AM: [laughs] I don't remember that. Did we have one? Maybe we did. yeah, we used to fight a lot. We've been together about four years now, and the first two years were kind of...there was a lot of clashing. There were definitely some pretty tense moments on stage. I don't know how many actual fist fights we got into, but I remember a couple times getting really pissed off at Pete at the beginning of a show, and forcing myself to play through a two hour set, the whole time acting really bitter and generally just trying to ruin the show. All to get back at the other guy [laughs]. But those days are gone. Me and Pete have calmed down a lot. And I used to be a lot more tightly wound about trying to control everything, which I'm not as much anymore.

MB: How about when you were growing up? Was it constant fighting?
AM: Not really. Not at all actually. We've always gotten along pretty well, just not when we're living in the same box.

MB: I guess that means that you two don't share an apartment back in Philadelphia?
AM: No. Pete and [guitarist] Brian [Ahsby] live together, though in a little basement apartment. And I live close by. I sleep on a couch across the street.

MB: Speaking of apartments, I watched the DVD about you, and there's that great part about your drummer [Jonas Oesterle] living in a DIY storage basement with a huge box of croutons. But I heard the space is now infested with millipedes.
AM: [laughing] Yeah. That was pretty recent. We're hoping to add an epilogue ot the DVD. Get a good close-up of the millipedes. Yeah, I don't think he's living there anymore. I mean, imagine every time you're lying in bed at night, you think you're hearing bugs. It's got to be excruciating.

MB: I know Jonas joined the band within the last year or so. but you Peter, and Brian have been playing together since high school, right?
AM: Yeah, the three of us have been playing together since we were thirteen, fourteen. You know, the usual band you make when you're in high school. You play a show, get a new drummer, call it a different band, play another show, break up, repeat.

MB: What type of music were you playing?
AM: Mostly shitting original music. Just figuring it all out. And we were doing shitty covers, too. I remember once we played this punk space when we were real young, and we played some disco song. Not the best space for it. [laughs] I don't even think we realized the meaning of what we were doing. Everybody hated it. We ended up getting in a fist fight with one of the kids.

MB: So, as rock stars, you all must have been hot shit in high school.
AM: Actually, we were pretty popular in middle school, when it was cool to play guitar. But in high school, it wasn't cool to play guitar. So we kind of missed out.

MB: So who's the main songwriter, you or Pete? All the songs are just accredited to MoDavis...
AM: It's split pretty much 50/50 between me and Pete.

MB: Do you write songs together, or does the brother who writes the song have veto power?
AM: Both, to varying degrees. When Peter or I introduce a song, a lot of times it's at a pretty basic level, just the chords, melody, and lyrics. But the whole arrangement of the song, that's what the band has more input into. Though sometimes whoever wrote the song will have a clear idea about those things already. And as far as a vetoing process, it's basically whoever wrote the song gets the last say. I think there was a part on the DVD of that, when we were practicing one of Pete's new songs and he stopped me and was, like, "What are you doing? Do you even know what you're doing?" So I came up with a new part, even though I kind of liked the first one, but...that's the rule. The golden rule.

MB: How would you describe the differences in you and Peter's songwriting?
AM: Uhm... I don't know if I'd be able to tell you. I think I might be too close to it all, you know? Let me think. I guess Pete's a little bit more straightforward. His vision about the song is more straighforward, and what he's saying, too. I usually have less of an idea about what I'm saying.

MB: That makes sense. YOu can't get much more straightforward than his song "I Love You." It's got that "Why Don't We Do it in the Road" sort of directness to it.
AM: Right, right. That's probably the example. Me, I think I get caught up in going for something musically. I'll go for a specific sound, you know, like an old tin Pan Alley thing or something. Pete just writes them. So his are more direct in a lot of ways. But it all balances out.

MB: Any plans for a new album yet?
AM: I think we're shooting for March for having an LP. We're excited to get back to recording, though we're not really sure where we're going to do it this time. We're definitely going to do it ourselves again. Buy some more equipment, just keep building our little homemade studio.

MB: And one last thing before we end. My girlfriend caught the last couple minutes of the DVD, and she kept saying how you and Pete reminded her of Uncle Joey and Uncle Jess from Full House...
AM: Oh, nice! [laughs] Which one am I? I'm Joey, aren't I?

MB: Yeah, you're Joey.
AM: All right, cool.